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I have accepted that my two names I have always wanted to use will never happen, DH wont budge at all.
My girls name is Audrey, love it. DH thinks of the daughter from National Lampoons and can't get past that.
My boys name is Corban, I watched 5th element and that was it, I loved the name. DH laughs at me everytime I bring it up again.
What are the names you always thought you would/will use but could not get your LO to come to the party on?
Liam for a boy. We have a nephew William and DH thought it too similar.
I would have liked Alice for a first name for DD, it made it to second name. DH couldn't get the nightclub version of Living Next Door to Alice out of his head.
Lots of girls names actually, I love Stella, Ruby, Scarlett and Grace...various reasons why DH didn't like them.
I loved Everleigh for a girl. DP says it sounds like Beverly.
I really really wanted DS to be Elliot. But he couldn't get past Elliot from Law and Order (who I love!!)
I have so many girls names, favourites were Morgan, Iris, Ruby, Alice and Annie. Other boys names I adored were Sam, John, Victor and George. Getting a puppy in the new year so will use one then!
Bonny.. I love that girls name, but no girls for me.. Maybe if I have a dog I'll call her Bonny :)
Miranda for a girl. DP didn't like it this time around and with choosing DD2's name, too many of the same sounds.
Henry for a boy. My sister used it for her dog. :/
Charlie, we used it for our dog! Never realised how much we would like it.
Baxter, Lily, Gretel
Very old names in comparison to my kids names but I still love them. I have called DD's dolls alot of the names that I like but wont get use
Both DH and I both love Theodore. Can't use it because of our surname :(
Maggie and Grace were both names I wanted that DH hated. He wouldn't even let me call the dog Maggie lol. When DS was born we were tossing up between calling him Jay and the name we called him, we were going to use Jay for our next boy but had 2 girls so never got to use it.
I LOVED Dashiell (nn Dash) but DP swayed me into another name for our baby boy. I got so close with Dash!
I would love a Clementine for a girl but DP just laughed :(
I love Camilla for a girl, which is my great grandmother's name, but as DH is a Pom, he won't use it because of Camilla Parker Bowles, how ridiculous.
I love Leon for a boy but no go from Dh so it will be my next cat's name
There were many that DH vetoed, more b/c he didn't like them and I vetoed many of his. We were lucky to agree on the two girls names in the end.
Some of mine were - Caleb, Callum, Elise, Elyssa, Alicia
One of DH's that I would NEVER use was - Yannick
I always wanted to name my daughter Halle, DH hates it. I also love Emily (but too close to DD's name and the name of DH's cousin) and Amy (but two people in DH's family already have that name).
I would love to name a boy Spike Danger but alas my childbearing days are gone. DH wanted road name a boy Vinnie but I overruled him. He also wanted to name a boy Mcgilveray but again I said no. I only ever loved one girl's name and we only got one girl so no difficulties there.
Gees, I have a list a mile long. DH hates all of them. Heaven only knows how we actually named 3 children.
I name I had loved for all eternity was Maeve. It means fairy princess. When I was in my drug-induced-unable-to-verbalise phase after we had DD1 (we didn't know her gender until she arrived) and they asked what her name was, I was desperately willing DH to say Maeve...he said Darcy (the top of his list)...lol she's nothing but a Darcy and I love it....now.
ETA Trav, I only ever loved 3 boys names - two are my Dad and DH's and one is DS'...does that mean I get another girl? I hope so. I have plenty left in the girls name tank lol.
Owen, Noah, Callum, Annaliese, Annabelle, Amelia....my list could go on for a while!
DH and I have very different views on what constitutes a suitable name! I'm surprised our children got named in a timely fashion!
Willow and Piper were favourites for me this time, but DH hated them. Luckily in the end we found a unique girls name we both loved (Annika).
Zara was our girls name when we had DS, but by the time we did have our girl we'd outgrown it.
I have loads. Who knew men were allowed a say! ;)
i really loved Aurora, Audrey, Imogen but all nay sayed by DH. I cant remember the names I wanted for DS1 because the name we ended up with suited him perfectly. We both wanted a J name for DS2, so that wasnt too hard.
i have a new favourite boy's name but I'm too scared to tell DH until we need it because I know he'll hate it
our other names were:
Girl: Anja and Helena
Boy: Nico and Dante
Audrey and Ellekah for girls. DH loathes them :(
DH & I clashed on pretty much all our names. I had names picked from 1998 lol. I had picked Cooper & Amelia. He flat out refused to budge on both :( I did a deal with DS, and he agreed to choose a name from my list & have Cooper as the middle name. Other names he vetoed: Reuben, Archer, Rowan, Talia, Milla, Mali, Eloise. The list goes on... and on....
Myah Audrey was the name we had for DD if we decided not to use the ones she's been given.
I also wish I could have had a Jack, but due to naming difficulties that would have caused we couldn't.
Henry for a boy.
Matilda, Stella and Grace for girls. There are actually quite a few girls names but that's all I can think of at the moment...
I got the names I always wanted - especially DD as from when I was young my daughter was always going to be called Tara Rose and that is her name. For the twins Liam had his name pretty much from knowing we were having boys, Rhys' name came about later after DH vetoed the original name picked (Cale).
Boys names: Owen & Euan - were never going to happen as DH's surname ends in EN so was too rhymy for them to work.
Girls name: Brooke, Renee, Eliza - I still love, love Eliza for a girl but if I was to ever have another little girl I would want her name to have 4 letters like the other 3 kids have and also blend in with the 'Irish/Welsh/Celtic theme' we have going :)
I always wanted Lillian Louise but DH said no as it would be hard for a kid to say.
We had piper or Isla when pg with Eli but would t use either now. Audrey seems to be popular in this thread... I like that for dd dh said no, Eli has since told us, I'm his three year old wisdom we will have a baby called Audrey- so now dh agrees!!!
I liked Addison, Emerson and lucy... Dh said no.
Drake for a boy... DH hated it!
Aurora & Peyton for girls.
Tristan, Hayden & Xander for boys
Kazzo, the one and only name in the world I wanted to call my Daughter was Audrey.
Audrey Catherine (middle name is my name)
Alexis is just about to turn two and I still want that name!!!!
Over my husbands dead body aparently :(
We had Chloe for the girl we never had :)
Actually, DH and I decided on names before I was ever pregnant, and we never used them. We would have had Paige and/or Michael if we'd stuck with them. I realised at about 10 weeks with Ianto that we could NOT name our daughter Paige Reid. How did we not realise that?! :lol: Once I'd pointed that out we re-thought Michael. I admitted I didn't really like the name. We only ever chose it because we liked the nickname "Mikey". Dumb dumb dumb. I still loooove the name Paige and I'll keep it in mind if I remarry and have a daughter with my new husband :rofl:
DH is a hard-butt when it comes to names. The ones we've come up with (Ianto/Isabelle, Amelia/Oscar) are the only ones he ever agreed to. Oscar he wasn't a huge fan of, but I flat-out told him that if we had a boy it would be that if he didn't think of a better one. Luckily we had a girl :lol:
I've already named our next girl, and he agrees. Just have to think of a boy's name and we're set for one more ;) Middle names are ridiculous though. It has to be a J name for every boy but he doesn't like any of my suggestions! :rolleyes:
I love Tessa. I can't use it because with our L-ending surname is sounds similar to testicle :( Maybe not overly noticeable but it is one of those things that you can't unsee.
I also love Audrey, although it was never on our list or debated.
We liked Clare until I met one who was a bit of a cow, just before I fell pregnant with DD. I had the name Olivia picked before I fell pregnant, I saw it on one of those name puzzle ads in a magazine and cut it out - that's what we ended up going with. Surprising, given the name was never shortlisted for DS1 or DS2.
Years ago, I loved Dante and Dash (DH = no way). Just reading through others' suggestions, I actually know a Yannick and he's lovely (he's French/Canadian). I've always LOVE, LOVE, LOVED Joshua but DH thought it was too popular.
Chloe, Evelyn, Ella, Joshua, Emma, (I got Grace for our DD's middle name), Flynn, Joshua...
DH wanted Harvey or George. They didn't happen.
omg.can't.stop.laughing. I cannot unsee it lol.:
LOL, it was my top of the list name for A for months, until one day when I said it out loud!
I loved Greta, but DH wouldn't have a bar of it :(
Grace.
My daughter was always going to be Grace Ann. Alas, no girl for me and no more babies so no Grace.
Oh, so many. It's actually one of the things that upsets me most about our decision not to have kids, I had such beautiful names lined up!
Hannah Nerys
Keturah Christine
Saffron Damaris
Kaylee Mara
Malakye Stewart
Samuel Dante
They're the only ones I can think of at the moment, I've got a book somewhere so I'll come back :)
Great thread Kazzo!
It will help me find some more names to try with DH - he hates soo many and we both have large extended families that we kinda have no choice but to go 'different' BUT DH still hates most of them.
So my list was/is like this:
(- G girl & - G/B unisex)
Jasper
Naia - G
Nitaya - G
Asha - G/B
Eliatha - G
Emanuel
Avian - G
Arabella - G
Eveanah - G
Siana - G
Samikah - G
Elias
Alehena - G
Orlando
Emmerson - G
Talia- G
Harper- G
Aury - G
Marlo
Lacey- G
Raphel/Raffael
Ellis
Eveny- G
Malie- G
Ozias
Tovia
Tessah- G
Anaya- G
Arella- G
Ariella- G
Aveline- G
Ayla- G
Corin
Tayen
Alandra- G
Ella- G
Peyton- G
Kennedy- G
Amalija- G
Ainsley- G
Amia- G
Arla- G
Arley
Nico- G
Victory- G
Astala- G
Camille- G
Clark
Jones
Quinn- G/B
Grey/Greyson- G/B
Tallara- G
Piper- G
Ellouise- G
Tahlia- G
Ivy- G
Evie- G
Asriel
Mattathias
Roman
Sia- G
Eli/Elijah
Jasper
Kelsey/Calsie - G/B
Lakyn
Allie - G
McKinley- G/B
Tomas
Torah - G
Avis
Avy- G/B
Aviah - G
Nevaeh - G
Declan
Caelan
Remy- G
Rone / Rhone - G/B
Ezekiel
Love love Kennedy until we both read it means 'unshapely war head'!
And some of the 'old' fashion ones like Ella, Charlotte, Audrey, James, Evelyn (Evie)
:sigh: yet still to agree on one...
If Spock was a boy it was have been Xanda Tyr Sol. i always thought we would recycle but somehow since she was a she Xanda seems to have passed. might use if we have more than one boy in the future but have a different names picked for our next.
when I was younger names that were my fave before I decided on my golden list were: Liberty, Freya, Sinead for girls, and Zeke, Achielles, Sean and Cyprus for boys. might still make an appearence depending on number of childen.
Fortuantly DH still says i can have complete 100% say ob our kids names even though ive asked him if he is sure millions of times. so the number of children will be the only limit.