Hi Swistle,
I enjoy your babynaming blog and thought it would be fun to hear all about your readers’ “names that got away” – the great names they thought of but never used. This idea comes to you from the name Octavia.
Thanks,
Megan
Oh, this feels like the PERFECT weekend discussion! And I love Octavia: a former classmate used that name for a daughter, and I felt some jealousy. See also: former classmate who named a daughter Emerald. EMERALD!!
Well, but neither of those are on my Names that Got Away list. And the list does change with time: I once actually WEPT at the thought that I was never going to get to use the name Anastasia—but if I had another chance, I don’t know if Anastasia would even make the short list. And there are names I wish I HAD USED, and would still use if we were talking about going back in time and doing things over; but that doesn’t mean I would necessarily use them NOW, years later: for example, using Oliver in 2007 when it was #140 is an entirely different thing than using it now when it’s #3.
We can all play this game however we like; the way I’m going to play it is I’m not going to consult old lists, I’m just going to see what names spring to my mind as names I still pine for in one way or another, and I will come back and add more if I think of more:
Annabel
Claudia
Eliza
Eloise
Eva
Florence
Genevieve
Jane
Josephine
Margaret
Millicent
Winifred
Elliot
George
Louis
Oliver
I don’t feel anywhere NEAR as strongly about the boy names, and in fact almost left them out—but it felt more fun to include them.
I had a boy and girl name picked out for Baby 2, who never materialized. I’d also planned for this child to honor my mom or dad through middle names, so that got away from me as well. (At least my dad got honored through my nephew, I suppose).
Asher Charles
Avery Lee
Julian
Oliver
August
Esme
Aoife
Spencer Elliott
I did find some happiness when my young daughters let me name their dolls. I got to use quite a few favorites from my naming lists. :)
Does it count if you DID use a name and then the child changed it? Because it’s been almost five and a half years and I think I’ll be mourning the loss of the name June for the rest of my life.
Yes! I still miss my little Bram.
Evangeline June would have been our girl name. We would have pronounced it with a long “i” as in “mine”. My personal girl names that got away are
Johanna, nn Josie
Clara
Mary Margaret
Boy names:
Silas
Benson (it’s a family surname but otherwise I would have gone with Benjamin)
Otto
I have 2 boys and their names are my very favorite of all time, so I’m not too sad about the ones that got away. Plus, while I like the idea of naming a girl, I am a boy mom through and through so they weren’t meant for me.
Eliza (cousin has too-similar name)
Nicola (didn’t think of it in time)
I didn’t have any boys, but:
Everett (husband inexplicably hates it)
Leif
Beau
I don’t have kids and I don’t want to have a baby (I do foster older kids, but they come already named!). If I were to name kids, though, they would be:
Jesse Patrick (family names)
Margaret Ruth or Margaret Claire
For YEARS I loved the name Felicity Kate (and still do love it), but I don’t know whether I would use it. “Felicity” seems like a lot of pressure to put on someone…
Fortunately for me, I have named pets and am joyfully dreaming of the next puppy’s name.
Leona Yvaine was my girl name choice for my second.
For my first, I really loved Tabitha but did not like Tabby as a nickname. Nathaniel has been a favorite name since high school but I have a first cousin with the name so I didn’t use it for my second. So now I wish I had use Tabitha and Nathaniel as 2nd middle names.
Girls:
Beatrice, Viola, and Katherine—my favorite Shakespearean heroines
Sabine—a very close contender for our daughter but she felt much more like the name we gave her
Wendy—a name I grew to really love after our daughter was already named
Boys:
Jack—my favorite boy name of all time, but my married name starts with “Hoff” and the teasing possibilities were too high
My biggest one would be Ruby (nn Rue) . It was locked in for my first had he been a girl, but when I got pregnant the second time we had somebody close to us name their dog Ruby and a best friend name their daughter Rowe. It just felt like the moment for Ruby had passed. We used it for my daughter’s middle, but I still feel sad that it was never put in the first name spot, and I think Rue would have suited her!
Edgar
Alby
Bernadette
Poe
Laurel
Simon, Spencer, Lewis or Ellis for boys
Margaret (nicknamed Greta) for a girl. I’m still sad about this one. Or Twill (my great grandmother’s name).
Hugo
Bennett
Calvin
Harvey (my youngest would have made an EXCELLENT Harvey, but my older son and my mom came home from the park a couple of days before I went into labor raving about the puppy named Harvey they met. “HARVEY THE DOG! HARVEY THE DOG!” It turned out to be just before the hurricane Harvey and the Harvey Weinstein news cycle, so it turned out just fine)
Magnolia Ruth
Maeve
Tessa
I’d have used my maternal grandmother’s maiden name, Sightler, if I’d had a boy, but I do not remotely mourn not birthing a boy. I just think it’s a shame to have a babyless name.
And, one I almost left out because it’s weird and ridiculous, but if not here, then where? My most beloved girl name- one I simply could not bring myself to use, because it comes from a silly little cartoon from the 90s: Pepper Ann. I can’t explain it; it’s just the spunkiest name I ever heard. And her little cartoon best friend was Milo. And her bizarre androgynous little sister named Moose?! Whoever came up with those names really brought their A game.
I’ve never had kids but the boy/girl names I picked out in my later years for funsies were Alistair Joseph and Josephine Alice, namesakes are my mom’s parents and my boyfriend’s mom’s maiden name (McAllister). Nicknames could have been Al, Ally & AJ or Josie, Joey & Jo.
I didn’t get as far as picking out good backup names if I had both a girl and a boy but boy/girl twins might’ve worked with the matchyness.
Fare thee well Ali-bear and Josie (and the Pussycats! Long tails and EARS FOR HATS!).
If our third had been a girl, she would have been Beatrix Pearl, nn Trixie (I loved Trixie Belden books growing up). But our third was a boy so we finally got to use the boy name we’d picked out from the beginning if #1 or #2 had been boys.
I have a Beatrix! Who I planned to call Trixie. She and my husband had other plans, though, and as a high schooler she goes by Bea (pronounced “Bee-uh). While her current nickname totally works, she does use forms of Trixie on social media, and I don’t think it’s impossible she’ll use it for real some day.
Oh, I could have named a dozen children, but sadly I have only two, both girls.
Boy names that got away: Eamonn (nn Ace) , Archer (nn Archie), Avalon, Cedar, Salem, Carroll, Auden.
Girls: Wells (for Ida B.!), Orlaith (pronounced Orla,nn Goldie), Mireille, Afton, Ailish, Sparrow (nn Birdie).
For me they were
Valentina
Ingrid Elowen
Iva Sofia (pronounced with a soft I – “ee-va”). In hubby’s culture Eva is “eh-va”)
Victor
August (nn if required Otto for the 8th month and because it is close to Augusto – I detest Auggie and Gus.)
Cedric
This post makes me smile. All three of my children’s names are on here!! (Plus many more I wished I was able to use.) So glad I got to use them and delighted to kow that I’m in great company!
Calvin
Walter
Carter
Reece
Diane/Diana
Maxine
Ramona
Betty
Rachel
Ahhh this is almost exclusively a girl name list for me ;)
Blythe
Tess
Nina
Rosa
Nell
Sylvie/Sylvia
All vetoed by my husband!
And Henry is a family name that hasn’t made it down to our generation yet (my sister has 2 girls) – I’m not fussed about it ‘dying out’ or anything, but I do imagine what it would be like if we had another son and we called him Henry (Hal for short).
Blythe! – I don’t think I would have actually used it for any of mine but I love it and get the thrill of happiness with it.
I love it so much! And we have a *lot* of double-barrelled last name so a nice short snappy first name works so well. Ah well. We have a M@rgot and I love that too.
I love this name! For me, it would be in honor of Gilbert Blythe. Never even mentioned it to my husband as I know he’d veto and it wouldn’t work with our kids’ last name. But love Blythe!
Margaret was going to be my son’s name if he was a girl (already had 1 girl) and 12 years later and ship long sailed for more, I’m still enthralled with it. All those cute nickname possibilities, but a baby named Margie just seemed perfect.
Girls: Sonya, Celeste,
Boys: Sullivan
I guess I have “S” sounds that I wish I had used! In reality, my kids have “A” and “J” initials.
Malcolm was our alternate boy name. I still like it, but now it doesn’t feel like it goes with my other children.
I might still have another kid, but I think we’ve sort of locked ourselves into pretty obscure names (the only name we could agree on for our older kid was used for only 29 babies that year), so when it came time to name #2, we thought we’d probably better stick to names with under 250 or so babies so there wouldn’t be too big a difference in popularity between them.
More popular names that I’m sad we won’t use:
Edith
Sylvie
Jasper
Noah
Oooh Jasper is one I forgot about! A cousin of mine used it, but I would have used it boy or girl in a heartbeat!
Oh, so many names!!
If we’d had another baby, I’m sure he would’ve been Graham. When I imagine the “what ifs” it is always a Graham.
I mourn not naming a girl after my mom, Kathryn. I’d always said I would. But when I was pregnant with a girl, it just didn’t feel right. And now, I can’t imagine my daughter as a Kathryn. But I am saddened to not have honored my mom and used such a great name!
Names I wish we’d considered more:
Spencer
Porter
Tucker
Names I wish I was the type of person to use:
Blaise
Blythe
Jett
Phoenix
Orion
Greer
Names I love but just didn’t have enough babies to name
Elliot
Seth
Russell
Claire
Miriam
Laurel
Daphne
I never had a girl but wanted to use the name Sara Rose. I also wanted to use the name Josephine but didn’t get a chance.
As a teenager I imagined sons named Rory, Alex and Shaun.
As a married mum to be I then couldn’t use Alex and Shaun because they were terrible with our surname. Ironically I now have B’sIL with those names
Rory I struggled to say correctly so didn’t use it, but 25 years later my eldest named his daughter Rory 😀
There are a lot of Margarets on these lists, and that’s mine too. If I’d had a second girl she would have been Margaret, perhaps Margaret Rose or Margaret My Surname.
The one that got away that didn’t HAVE to get away and I’m taking steps even now not to let it, is Marie. There is a generations-long tradition in my family that the oldest daughter has the middle name Marie or Mary. My daughter is adopted from China, though, and I wanted her middle name to be her Chinese name, so she is Miranda Chinese Name. It literally did not occur to me until over a decade later that we could have used TWO middle names. Marie AND Chinese Name. People do that! There’s no law! So with my daughter’s enthusiastic consent, we are actually adding Marie and everyone is happy, the end.
Yay for adding Marie!
Jane!
Oliver!
Amelia!
Maia Ilana was our girl name; then we decided on Maia [my grandma’s maiden name, because it would have made my mom so happy].
Had a boy so that wasn’t used.
When we started discussing possible #2, I was moving towards Miranda instead of Maia (partly because friend had a Maya, partly because I love a Shakesperean name – I think they’re equally pretty names).
Ended up deciding to just have the one kid (which was the right decision for our family circumstances, no regrets).
So I’m delighted to see a Miranda in the post above.
Oooh my list is:
Ruth
Hannah
Nora
Nelson
Ira
Sylvia
I wanted Sophia for my first, but it had just shot up the charts, and fortunately I found something I liked better anyway. But if my second had been a girl, I would have pushed for Sylvia. Husband said no at the time, but I bet he could’ve come around if we’d actually had a 2nd girl to name.
Frederick (my younger son would have been a great Freddie)
Hamish
Tavish
Dean
Lee
Asa
I had boys but my perfect girl’s name was Elizabeth Ellen with the nickname of Betty, all honor names. I still feel bummed out that I didn’t get to use it!
Molly Victoria and Lucy Giustina after our grandmother’s. And I’ve always wanted an Annie for some reason.
Boys – Sebastian, James, Hugh
For a pair of girls…Alice and Lucy! For me they match perfectly in style and have storybook connotations.
I was 50/50 on my son’s name, right up to the birth. In the end I had to just choose one, and live with not choosing the other. The name that got away from him was Leo. I’m still 50/50 to this day! Either name would have worked well.
Eliza Christine was my 3rd baby name. I love the sound and feel of it, and it would have honoured both grandmothers. But we stopped at 2 kids, so they’ll never know.
Abigail — before we had kids we foolishly named a cat Abby.
Caroline — I pronounce “line” in the name just like the word line, but everyone we mentioned the name to said, “Oh, you mean Carolyn.” No, we mean Caroline. I love the nickname Caro, but the line vs lyn battle was too much.
Charlotte — Our first daughter’s first name was my maternal great-grandmother’s middle name, a happy coincidence. When we announced her name, my paternal grandmother asked if she was named for anyone and I honestly said she wasn’t. My maternal grandmother’s middle name was a variant of Charlotte (different vowel ending) and I would have definitely used the name to honor her, BUT, my other grandmother’s sort of prying question from two years before bothered me and I was afraid her feelings would have been hurt. So we settled for a similar, Queen of England name that was just okay.
Francesca — this would have been an honor name for my husbands family, and nicknames would have been Chessa, Chessie, or Ceska.
Tatiana — I had loved this name since high school. My husband’s last name originated in central Europe, and, with more consonants than vowels, Tatiana would have paired nicely. Sadly, I wasn’t bold enough to take that leap.
Therese Isabel — nicknames would have been Tessa, Tess, and Tibby (our last name starts with B). If we had had one more daughter, this definitely would have been her name.
As far as boy names, only Andrew James and Thomas.
So many names! But the only two I have real heartache regret over are:
James – my favorite name forever, but then I married into a family with a few James, and one married into my family. And I didn’t want to honor those people.
Dewey – a family name (nickname, actually). I wanted to use it as a middle, but it didn’t fit my son’s first name, and our second child was a daughter.
I do have mild regret over not being brave enough to name my daughter Murphy.
Helen.
It would have been an honor name for a dear old woman who was my friend when I was a kid. She was so lovely that the name was the most beautiful name ever to me for years. Sadly, my husband hated the name. Also by the time we had kids, I loved other names too.
Therese – middle name, after my mother
Silas
Those last two got used though – I have a niece with the middle name of Therese and a nephew named Silas. That makes me happy since I couldn’t use them for various reasons.
Annabel
Eliza
Thea
Vivienne
Nora
Catherine
Gemma
Ivy
Penelope
Rosalie
Julian
Callum
Calvin
Graham
Thomas
Emmett
Georgiana – I used George for one of my boys so I got the honor in, just not the name I wanted
Lorelei
Leona.
We couldn’t agree on anything for my 2nd son until my husband got attached to the name Lee. I told myself it was OK because we weren’t going to have any more kids 😉.
Well now we have 2 more,one being a daughter who I did not get to name Leona.
Imogen (I am devastated I won’t be able to use this)
Hazel
Tabitha
All such spunky names!
My youngest was going to be named Kingsley until about two weeks before he was born and my husband got cold feet. We ended up using Archer and while it suits him, I mourn my little Kingsley. We also play a game where we tell my kids what we would name them if we were naming them something different based on the people they are today (vs an unknown baby). My eldest is Pacey and I would name him Graham, middle is Brighton and I’d name her Waverly, and youngest is Archer but I would name him Calvin. I do love all their names though and wish I could name infinite babies that didn’t have to live at my house.
Meredith.
When I was pregnant with our oldest, who’s now 41, I suggested the name Meredith. Hubby went to school with a girl whose last name was Meredith so to him it was a “last name” not a “first name”. This was way before last names became cool to use. I still love Meredith every time I hear it, which isn’t near enough, IMO!
I’m a 40 year old Meredith and I definitely haven’t run into many! My last name can also be a first name (Leigh), so people call me Leigh Meredith all the time…
I loved the name Emory for a girl and didn’t get the chance to use it. I did have a daughter, but my husband liked my other name because it was more international. I secretly hope my daughter will get to use this name someday and I will get my Emory after all.
My great grandmother’s name was Eleanor, and I always wanted to name a daughter after her. I never ended up having any daughters, so it didn’t get used. I’m not having any more kids, so it doesn’t matter, but we have a Theodore, so I couldn’t use it anyway: too rhymey together, and too Roosevelt-ey.
Elinora was one of mine! I had forgotten until I read your comment.
I know a Eleanor/Theodore sibset, and that family has another sister/brother set who also rhyme. It’s a thing.
Elliott is definitely mine!
Girl names were harder, but I really liked Zada, which my husband was never sold on.
My husband’s regrets not being able to use Elisabeth and Robin (for a girl.)
If our Susan Rae had a girl twin, Susan would have been Susan Elisabeth and her sister Lucinda Rae and I’m a little sad about it. If Susan had a boy twin, his name would’ve been Andrew Lewis and I’m a little sad about that too. (All but one of these are honor names). Oddly, we stopped liking the potential twin names with our eldest in favor of new ones for Susan, except for Susan itself. That was my late mother’s name; she died 3yrs before eldest was born.
My other main regret is not being able to use Gerald nn Gerry after my favorite grandparent. Between also wanting to use Kerry (no rhyming ty) and a bad association for Spouse, (not my grandparent, who’s his favorite, too) it just wouldn’t work.
In high school I dreamed of the name Logan for a future boy. It didn’t make the list when babies were being named. I can hardly remember what was on the list for other boy names whe n we named Kieran. Girl names at that time were Kiera and Sienna. Neither of which I like anymore. When naming our second, the boys names I was pushing hard for were Julian and Brennan and sadly, did not get to use either of them. For girl names, we debated Calla, Alexa (nn Lexi), and Jemma. We went with Alexa (ex-husband’s strong preference) but I still pine for Calla.
Luna would have been a good one too. I also like Marina.
(Reading this back, I have clear preferences, don’t I? 🤣)
Oh, I love Calla. My own list would be
Calla
Simone
Remy (for a boy)
Hugo
Our third would have been Hugo if she was a boy, but I love her name even more so I am not that sad about it. The others are names my husband vetoed. It’s interesting because my husband and I landed on much more common names through compromise than either of us would have chosen on our own.
I only got to name boys and have two girl names that I loved that never got to be named; Sonia and Wren.
My favorite boy name Eugene was not usable for us for a number of reasons, but I do still love it.
Oh I have so many! I am 100% done with having babies though, so must content myself with suggesting them to others over and over LOL
Vera (got used by an ex)
Sophie (NOT Sophia, which was a top 5 name when we had my daughter)
Claire
Margot
Cora
Amelia
Fern (I adore this name soooo much but was vetoed by hubby both pregnancies)
Lyra (we loved the His Dark Materials series, but thought the name sounded too much like Liar)
Mae (I was OBSESSED with this name. I wanted to use it as a first, but it didn’t sound right with our hyphenated surname)
Elliot (we had a cat named this, plus it has since been used on two baby girls in my friend group)
Asher (sounds odd with our surname)
Oaken (hubby’s choice)
Leo
Walden (named after Thoreau’s pond)
Graham (such a sweet teddy bear name!)
Wilder
I have daughters named Anna and Lydia. I adore both names, but sometimes I imagine a parallel universe in which they are named Alice and Clara and I feel wistful.
Also Eleanor was on our list for both girls, so it is the one that got away.
I loved the name Evelyn before I had my older daughter (born 2014), but I couldn’t get over how fast it was rising in popularity- in fact a post about Evelyn was how I found Swistle! Then when I was pregnant with her, I considered Theresa nn Tess, or really I should have named her Tess, which I love. Tess seems to be a popular name that got away among commenters- I wonder why we are all considering but not using?
For a boy, I like Chance, but it kind of seems like a dog name. In fact if we get a boy dog we might name him Chance.
Girls:
Betsy
Bonnie
Josephine nn Josie
Piper
Boys:
Gabriel
Gerard
@Anna – Tess is also on my got-away list, but it’s because the surname starts with S and it would’ve really sounded awkward.
The surname also made Holly (my all-time favourite since childhood) unusable (but we may get to name a girl kitten soon and you can be sure a variation of Holly is on my list.) Pearl, Fleur, Edie deserve a mention too.
For fun I do think about what I’d rename my girls in different styles (they are classic family name tweaks) and I love Delilah & Imogen, Louise & Frances, Hazel & Olive, Dot & Pearl, Clementine & Dolores (Cleo & Dolly!!), Friday & Juno.
I didn’t get to name boys, and both my husband and I are sad about Oscar (Ozzy) and Rupert.
Fun!
Hazel
Maisie
Millie
Charis
Frannie (not sure which full name I would’ve used)
Greta
Winston
Colton
George!
Smith!
Daphne
children were ultimately named: Alfred, Louise, and Josephine
We did use the boy name I first dreamed of 11 years before his birth, and the girl name I proposed by wailing “and we can’t use X favorite because you dated tooo maaany of them!”, and the honor names I swore to myself I’d use at the age of twelve. So I have nothing to complain about. Still–
Anne
Theodora
Mae
Mary Rose
Cecile
Matthias
Octavia for me too! I’m fact, my husband convinced me to have a 4th baby by promising Octavia (which he wasn’t the biggest fan of), so we had another baby…a boy, named Carlisle/Cal. Ha!
I also mourn the loss of so many names I didn’t even consider because they weren’t family names…Margot, Simone, Arden, Florence, Vera…
Phyllida
Sylvie
Esme (honor name)
Jean (honor name)
Theresa (honor name)
Sometimes I think I might change my own middle name to Esme Jean to incorporate these honor names I mourn not using.
Frederick nn Fritz
Julien
Adrian
George
Vincent (honor name)
Also I wish I’d given someone my first name, darn it. My husband is a junior and he hates it so our son isn’t the third. Third child has my middle but it’s not the same.
Alma
Geraldine
Gwendolyn
Imogen
Inez
Karen (if not for the current associations….)
Nora
Calvin
Ezra
Gordon
Malachi
Naftali
Girls: Winifred, Rosemary, Vera
Boys: Arnold, Edmund, Ernest, Sylvan
Interesting that it showed up several times here but I have pretty serious regret that I didn’t name my son Graham. I think it suits him more than his (perfectly fine) name, and I’d never change it. But I realllllly wish he was a Graham.
Saoirse
Zinnia
Laurel
Gemma
Esme
Viveca
Lennon
Avalon
Sloane
Janae
Caspian
Ford
Callum
Reeve
Ephraim
Rainier
Mariel and Melina
I regret not giving a kid my maiden name as a last name if I’m really honest about it.
Ione for a girl and Kiva for a boy. My grandfather was named Kiva….
My first, a girl, was named perfectly (although she changed the spelling (but not the name) later), so no regrets there [Lucy/Lucie Catherine Cecilia]. Second, a boy, has an awesome name; no regrets [Benedict Michael John]. Third kid, a boy… his name is Fine [Oliver George Nicholas], but I wish he was a girl because… we had chosen Genevieve for a girl. GENEVIEVE! I wish I’d had a Genevieve nn Jenny (my grandmother’s nn).
And later, I wished I’d named kids after my parents and grandparents, but I had kids too soon and they were “old people names” when I had kids, so
Winifred
Ruth
Arthur
Frederick
My hoped for brood of children wasn’t in the cards so I have several names that I would have loved to use.
Waverley
Bannon
Hyacinth
Kermit
Margaret is also mine! My husband just couldn’t do it, with a bad Marge association (though the full name in that case was Marjorie…). I do think my daughter’s actual name suits her a bit more. But I would have loved Margaret with her sibling’s names.
Also (lots of repeats!):
Therese/Tess
Blythe
Ingrid
Jane
Annie
Cecily
Rose
Peter (always my favorite boys’ name as a child. It just wasn’t meant to be with so many other Peters in the family.)
Ambrose
Frederick
Clement
Lyle
Jesse
Benjamin
Sometimes I sit and feel sad about not getting to use the name Jasper…and I haven’t even had my children yet! But my partner has a boy’s name he adores and I have agreed to for the reasons he’s laid out, and he does NOT care for Jasper for pop culture reasons. I’m hoping to have an opportunity, haha, but I’m getting my mourning out of the way early just in case. XD
Oh this is fun. I’ve been a baby name nerd for many years just waiting for my chance to name my own babies, but thanks to a really rough infertility journey we never got any kids. So here, you all get my names I wish I’d been able to use! (I’ve had fun naming dogs since but I prefer much different names for pups!!)
For girls:
Maryse Lane – my favourite Dutch name with a middle to honour my mother’s heritage
Mabel
Linden
Chailyn
Antonia
Chloe
Elise
For boys:
Arie John – to honour my husband’s Dutch background and my dad
Desmond
Miles
Cyrus
Samuel
Julian
Nico
This is fun! We are hoping to have one more child and I think his/her name is likely below…but we’ll see!
Girl names:
– Louise
– Eloise
– Lila
– June
– Madeline
– Margot
Boy names:
– Shepherd
– Field
– Wells
– Theodore
SO many.
I only have girls, so I never got to use the boy names we had agreed on:
Tom
James
Sam
Or the ones I liked but my husband didn’t:
Toby
Angus
The girls I couldn’t use because of close relatives:
Eliza
Alexandra
Or because my husband hated them:
Edwina
Annabel
Phoebe
Harriet
Tabitha
Or because they just didn’t go with our surname:
Emma
Ella
Tessa
Holly
Leonie
Susanna
Ruthie
I chose not to have children, but have loved these names since childhood. (I do have a cat named Wilhelmina, though. ;))
Verity
Cressida
Persephone
Honor
Isolde
Cordelia
Poppy (as a mn)
Eugénie