Ok, what erm, unsual, name did you secretly want to call your LO?

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I'll go first: DD was very nearly Sapphire.

I also really wanted Twm for a boy (Welsh for Tom), but I am not Welsh! I just thought it was fab to have a name with no vowels!

Ahem. Long before we had children, my husband and I both had a fancy for the name Pelham. I think I'd read it in a Georgette Heyer novel.

Ds2 was v nearly Dexter (still love that name) and if he'd been a girl he would have been Xanthe.

Some of these names are fabulous. I particularly like Dorcas and Rufus. Nowt wrong with them.

SOH did you used to be showof hands from a thread i was part of duemay07????

I know an Elvis. His brother is Van

Yes I am ShowOfHands but in a festive incarnation.

I remember you!

lol how cool - where do i catch up with all the ladies from the thread ?? how is the lilone?

Hortensia. DH vetoed it for DD!

He also vetoed Aloysius for DS.

He has no taste.

Perdita
Verity

my SIL wanted to call her first son Xavier

lovely name but maybe not in glasgow

Nettle for a girl, I also liked Lysander for a boy.

Bruno or Kiki

DD was almost an Eliza, a Ruby or a Scarlett..

She ended up a Grace.

We're expecting a boy and I LOVE Cassius but DF wont hear of it so its probably George

Oh I've thought of another one, Andrina, Drina for short, from the Drina Ballerina books.

Nothing wrong with George, it's a great name.

I really wanted to call DS2 Indiana
LOVE the name and so does DH but we just werent daring enough in the end!

the whole time ds was 'cooking' dh called him Archimedes, and he wanted to call him this, Archie for short (or Rudolf ffs - is part Germanic tho!) ended up with Jonah Gideon.

DH wanted Sabian for a boy. luckily we had a girl

re T'Panga - that was from boy meets world?

I wanted Ethel, I think it is so pretty, but dh put his food down!

Missy, and she is a little missy!.

We were going to have an Ezra, but ds2 turned out to be dd. My father is called Marius, I think it's a pretty cool name.

Temujin, the real name of my all-time hero Genghis Khan. Was touted as a middle name, but we decided that his 1st name was uber-mega-alpha-male enough - and that naming him after the dude whose Y-chromosome is in 1 in 200 men alive today was fraught with trouble!

DS2 I wanted Otis. DP said no as its the name of a brand of lifts. I had never seen that in a lift before. Since he told me, every bloody lift I go in (and you go in a lot when you have a pram grin) has a big plate on saying 'OTIS'.

yes its a name of a brand of lifts.. it was named such because of the first name of the Uncle of the man whom invented the lift.. (watch Kate and Leopold with Meg Ryan it is actually mentioned in there lol) and I LOVE it I think it is beautiful but dh vetooed

for a girl with my oldest I wanted Lakme' or Aida (both Operah) but dh said no blooming way (spoil sport)

I wanted Magnus or Gustav for a boy (dh vetoed)

We discussed Seraphina for dd3 and it got to the top 3 list but she didnt look like a Seraphina at all when she was born..

We had Amabel (old name) for all of the girls but neither felt right and there was also a concern that everyone would say Annabelle? (no aMabel)

for dd2 we discussed Bastian for a boy I love Sebastian but dh wont hear of it but He had no issue with Bastian..

Oh and dh (I am Danish before I tell this) always said if we had a boy he wanted to name him Lars Johannes Bjorn.. (I dont think so dear)

I still would have loved Aida or Lakme' I think they are beautiful names.. I also love Persephone