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!

piper or coco for dd2

Ohh Just saw Conrad was on here.. dh also said no to begin with but I won him round and our one ds is Conrad.. (and yes its a strong name and yes its unusual but EVERYONE has heard of it you do not get He is called WHAT>??) the one thing about it that REALLY irritates me is people think you say Connor and I LOATHE that name so much (BAD BAD BAD associations)

but I wanted Noah for a boy when we were expecting dd2 and dh said no way (I think because he was a bit worried about my crush on Noah Wyle lol)

Fab thread. Am bumping it a bit
Savannah - was my potential name for DS 13 years ago (if he was a girl) and still like it although everyone else seems to hate it
Likewise Claudia which I still love

Whoever said the name Patience I love it

However when pg with DS (did not know sex) I said to DH if a boy I wanted to call him Corey

DH said no way so he got to choose name instead!!

oohh Zebraa, I wanted Willow too, or Miranda. DH vetoed both. I also wanted Ngaire, but there is another Ngaire in our (tiny) village. We had Isobel instead.

Irish friends of ours have a Tiernan.

He looks like a six-year-old James Blunt. The first time I saw him I thought man, in ten years you will be beating the girls off with a shitty stick.

I considered Aida, but thought naming DD after a slave wasn't the best start in life I could give her. DH actually suggested Persephone but I think it must have been one morning when he'd woken up from eight hours of breathing in the fog of my pregnancy hormones.

Wanted Celia for DD, but DH wouldn't have it. Went with Felicity instead.

naturalbornmum - Talullah, Coco, Ophelia ARE ALL on my shortlist... Though only Ophelia is agreed with DD and DH. I have a funny story about why Imay not choose it.. why didn't you?

I had a dream that they made a hip hop version of Hamlet and all of a sudden there were millions of gum chewing girls with side pony tails and make up called Ophelia!!! I stil love the name though.

Also wanted Coco! Dh wanted Pixie.

Calypso (not after that bint in the Camomile Lawn, more after the Suzanne Vega song).

actually still liking the look of it...

dd wants peter, petunia or george
dh wants amea, hugo, krisanti, emile or lucien
I want tulasi, bruce, ophelia or Nanda

HELP!!!

I fell in love with the name Lila aged about 10 when I very first heard it - sadly Kate Moss beat me to it and I quickly fell out of love with it...

Then wanted to call ds Charlie but dh (works in advertising sweetie...) said everyone would think we had a child named after cocaine....

Liberty

Percy. Why is it that all the other cool, old fashioned names have come back but people still howl with laughter when I say that? I love it.

bogey- might be something to do with pointing percy at the porcelain, no? The howls of laughter I mean. Percival is lovely, and I can't believe it's not still used. It may just be the shortened version that makes the ignorant people laugh.

i love percy... it was on my list .. what a long list.

I think anything that isn't totally obscure is in danger of being "kate mossed" or hip hopped or something. risk we all take.

my name's margaret... i don't think that's in danger of coming back... i wonder why!

Seamus - but he became James out of compromise

Also really liked Aoife

I'm not irish, but really like a lot of Irish names

You're probably right. DH vetoed it from the start and I am still in a grump about it some time later...

I wanted...well and still want...Amethyst. Dh has always said no and deliberately says it "Am-a-fist" just to annoy me.

I fell in love with Auralie a few days ago until I said it out loud and it sounds like Orally.

Aston is on my boys short list but several people have said it just reminds them of Aston Martin.

Not usual but very 80's names.

Either Lynne or Gillian but dh was having none of it.

Wanted Campbell for a boy again dh wasn't keen

I wanted Mario or Milo for ds.

Dd has the name I wanted.