Baby names you liked, but won't be using. Might give others inspiration.

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Girls names:

Soraya
Gaia
Ariyah
Camille

Boys

Gabriel
Niko
Nikolai
Gideon

I love but can’t use:

Holly (DH has vetoed it as there was a girl down his street growing up called Holly and she was vile)
Betsy (wouldn’t go with our surname)
Daisy (cousins name)
Freya (cousins name)
Ivy (cousins name)
Alice (cousins name)

Ooo mine are (can't use due to family members/friends)
Annie
Sydney (for a girl)
George
Freddie

Names my partner doesn't like but I do
Margot
Blair
Maggie
Archie

Naomi
Rivkeh

(I had 2 boys)

Theo
Toby
Horatio

Naomi
Halle
Erin
Esther
Ffion
Maggie
Tallulah
Tabitha

I had boys

Idris
Alfred
James

Astrid
Heidi
Seren

Annie
Alice
Anna
Scarlett
Sophia
Mia
Amelie
Meadow
Willow
Charlotte / Lottie
Mya

Jude
Ellis
Jacob
Ryan
Oscar

Eloise
Genevieve
Audrey
Adora

Prudence
Constance
Henrietta
Sibyl
Olive

Rufus
Ezra
Tobias

Alyssia
River
Meadow
Wynter
Ocean (name we have picked)

Phoenix
Oakley
Oliver

Eleanor, Edmund, Rosamund, Arthur, Jules, Zoe, Faye, Xavier, Rosalind, Erin, Milicent, Molly, Evelyn, Gaylord, Mungo (everyone vétoed the last two).

Oh and Pearl. I loved Pearl!

Girl:
Alexandra (cousins name)
Millie (husband said no)
Amelia (too common now)
Frances

Boy (we're expecting a girl so all not needed)
Alexander
Thomas
Francis

Oh we also had

Amelia
Tahmina
Caesar

Partner wanted Ragnor or bjorn too.

Jessica
Georgia

Oscar
Dougal
Hampshire
Feargal

Haha, obviously NOT Hampshire...predictive text.

Though I was considering leaving it and checking the names list 2021 to see how many baby Hampshire's there are.😉😂😂

Hamish

Alexander (nephews name)
Autumn (doesn't go with our surname)
Benedict (same as Autumn)
Beatrix (nieces name)

Ingrid, Benedict, Otto and Freya

Ds1 was a twin (vts) and I loved the names Angus and Archie. Really wanted to still name him Angus but his dad said no because HE is English 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’ve also LOVED Freya for years, always said I’d name my daughter it. Anyway I had two boys and didn’t think I’d be having any more and so I told my brother to name his daughter Freya.... and guess what, I’m expecting a girl now 😂

Posy
Tabitha
Joan
Clover
Lettice

DP vetoed them all (his were worse)

Girls -

Constance
Petra
Clementine
Annie

Boys -
Sebastian
Xavier

The names I loved but didn't get to use:
Alistair
Adam
Summer
Tess
Clara
Iris

Names I really liked but didn’t use are:

Jasmine
Saffron
Xanthe
Charlotte
Larissa
Marisa

Joel
Malachi
Rio
Emmanuel
Louis