Names you loved but were vetoed by your SO

[kristi14]

I have had it good with the girls names in that DH hasnt had much objection to any of them but the boys far out!! Good job we have 2 boys 5 girls ratio cos for our boys we have only ever had 5 names make it to the shortlist and we have used 4 of them as first and middle names on our boys. Boys names i LOVE but DH doesnt are:

Oliver (i did get this as our ds middle name but if i had my way it would have been his first name)
Samuel
William
Joshua
Noah
Matthew

They were the main ones, there were more but i cant think of them right now

[Tuesday's Child]

DH vetoed Elizabeth for DD1 because he had a crush on a girl called Eliza at school who wouldn't give him the time of day. Seriously, get over it .

This time he has said no to Susannah after my mum (who died last year). He says he doesn't want any expectations or basis for comparisons if we name our children after someone close. He also said no to Gary and Wayne after my dad (also deceased). I guess he has a point, but he won't even consider them as middle names.

Any name I suggest gets an automatic no so I'm refusing to discuss names this time. DD2 may well go through life as Baby D*.

[Astrid]

Astrid so I ended up using it as my username. Can't remember now if he truly hated it, or if it was a just don't like. First time he said no to Evelyn, but was happy with it second time around.

If we had a boy, I would have loved to have used Jeremy with the nickname Jez, but DH said the boy would get beaten up.

[NaeNae]

DH has vetoed just about all my suggestions for this baby, but then funnily I have vetoed ALL of his suggestions as his are all "too common".

I have thrown a new name at him and he is thinking about it, I don't think he will like it but if we get to the hospital and we still have not agreed on a name then she will be called what I want and I will put my foot down (just as he did with naming DD before I was 12 weeks pregnant with her LOL)

Nae x

[Pandora]

Obviously we didn't need to use girls names but these were still vetoed

Averlie
Allira
Pandora
Elodie
Romany

Boys
Gabriel
Aden
Louis-Francois
Levi
Taliesin

[BeautifulMadness]

my Dh would not let me use, Thomas or Zachary
and with out 2nd DS, i finally got My name of Andrew lol

me 1 Dh 1 lol

[Sunny Love]

I desperately wanted Chaos (loves me a different kinda name!) for my DS, and am ever so grateful DP argued until blue in the face that this was NOT a suitable name under any circumstance. Turns out DS is rather quiet and a bit of a mummy's boy.......definately NOT compatible.
Great thread!

[onthefly]

Fidel - he can't get past the communist dictator thing
Myles - he knew a little snot called Myles at school

[Pandora]

Fidel - he can't get past the communist dictator thing

DH wanted Che for a boy.
Vlad also got vetoed.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Matthias for a boy. I still love that name. Also Patrick. And Jareth, but that one wasn't a serious suggestion.

For girls, there was a list longer than my arm. Pretty much every nice name bar 3 were vetoed (still in the running for the future). He even wanted to veto the middle name Zaidie, which ain't happening. And then of all the names in the world, he liked on that was OK (Tamsin) and he liked Sophie. Which isn't a bad name unless you sound like my mother's family and I am not having people torture, maul and otherwise distress my daughter's name with their awful accent. Although I would have compromised on Sophia and called her Phia, great name! But he wouldn't.

eta - my choice of girl's names that I love!
This included - Tyra, Amelia, Eleanor, Xanthe, Naomi, Bethan, Caitlyn, Leah, Allisa, Joanna, Imogene, Adelaide (after the Queen, not the state - we're not in Australia), Eliana, Cielle, Ellisa... the list goes on.

[AnyDream]

The Scrabble Board Rule disallowed: Daisy, Rose, Pearl, Ruby, Iris, Basil, Fletcher, Eve and Hazel

I really liked Rusty for a boy. Technically the SBR applies, but not if the birth certificate says Russell

The scrabble board rule? Can't be used if it's also a noun? WHY???!

[LionsandBears]

I was bitterly disapponted to discover men have a thing about baby names. I really wanted to name a girl Aurora Rose. He thinks Aurora is too hippy. I still love it. Also vetoed were:
Audrey - too old fashioned
Imogen
Heather
Phoebe
Genevieve
India

We had a tough time with boys names. DH doesnt like long version of names, so he wanted Joe, not Joseph, Tom, not Thomas. Didnt like biblical names. Vetoed Reuben for DS2, which I loved. Atticus wasnt even considered, Jeremy was too upper class English apparently and involved much role playing. I couldn't get a look in on Raffaele, no matter how many ways I brought it up.

It works both ways. Apparently he always wanted to name a son Joshua. That's the name of a disaster I got involved with years ago, so definately not.

Rather than me getting upset with him saying no to names I loved, I had him come up with a list as well. Then we compared lists to create a shortlist and we each weighted the remaining names. DS1 got a name ranked 3 or 4 but really suited him. DS2 chose his name when I played him "hey jude"

[indie24]

DH and I had many a heated conversation over names when I was pregnant with DD.
He vetoed Katherine, Georgia, Elizabeth and Ella (although I kind of agree on that one. It is just so popular now except that I have loved it since I was small. My fave Aunt is Ella). He wouldn't even consider Ella for a middle name even though I relented and DD's middle name is Charlotte (his fave name)

[bellabee84]

for a boy i had oliver,dezi,levi, tate all were vetoed
and for girls i had eden,savannah,amali,isla,evie,annabella he hated them all he wantes
chloe or cailin ,and a boy we agree on lucas now

[luna moth]

The scrabble board rule? Can't be used if it's also a noun? WHY???!

If it plays on a Scrabble Board, it's not allowed on a birth certificate I almost converted him with Olive. Almost. By next time I might have him cornered.

I don't know why. Because he's a dorkwad, that's why.

[AnyDream]

I luuuuuuuuurve noun names! However, since my baby-makin days are over, I'm saving em all up for my 2nd-half-of-life career as a best-selling novelist

Guess what, you've got the ultimate Scrabble Board Rule trump card (read this)...looks like Scrabble 2.0 will now allow proper names! Ergo, it's either NO NAME...or Olive .

[*TripleJ*]

DH didnt like any biblical names the only name for a boy i got him to agree to was Lucas im lucky she was a girl coz i dont really like that either

Summer, Abigail, Violet any names i liked lol so i made him pick DDs name coz i was sick of him saying no

[onthefly]

yes! now I just need scrabble 3.mad where made up words are ok.