2nd Trimester
Like a name but can't use it for some ridiculous reason?
I love the name Ella for a girl. It's a popular name, but that doesn't matter too much. Everytime I say the name I think of Rhianna's Umbrella song. That just ruins it for me.
Do you have any names that are out for a ridiculous reason?
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Re: Like a name but can't use it for some ridiculous reason?
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I love the name Sawyer but I think it's more of a girl name plus a girl I know is due 3 days after me and that's the name she's picked. I'm kinda bummed.
Braydon 1.23.09
I Love Isabelle... DH hates it because he thinks it sounds too much like Jezebel...
Somehow FI and I have dated enough people to rule out half our good names. I can't have a baby Ryan knowing he was my first love, KWIM? lol
anything that ends in an -er sound; it just doesn't go with our last name.
So Sawyer, Harper, Oliver, and Edgar, all out.
My husband doesn't "do" Biblical names. So anything like Noah, Ezra, Lilah ... all out.
You ladies are cracking me up.
I can't use another girl's name I like because it's part of our town's name.
I'm gonna disagree. Sawyer is a very hot man on LOST
DIRRRTY hot. yummy. 
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I agree with this. To me, Sawyer is a boy name. I LOVE the name Sawyer for a boy (but it sounds horrible with our last name!). I personally do not like the name Sawyer for a girl. That's just my opinion though!!!
Alyssa Ann
Love the name, but I have a cousin named Melissa Ann and she would SWEAR that we named the baby after her. Thankfully we're having a boy so I didn't have to figure out another name that DH and I agree on for a little girl.
Baby #2 on the way!
If we have a boy we want to name him Miles and I like a middle name that starts with a N. The problem is our last name starts with an M. I would start to call him my little M 'n' M. So...DH said no N middle names.
yep, x3. we finally got some girl names picked out and narrowed down, but he hates my favorite and he doesnt have a favorite. dont even wanna talk about boy names! ugh! he wants to use Ronny, which is his best friend; they've been friends since they were like 5. i love the man like another brother, but i have never liked the name Ronny. we find out the sex thursday, so the name game gets serious after that. lol
We liked the name Delilah but it sounds too much like my DH's ex wife's youngest (Layla). Considering we deal with her all the time (due to my DH's kids) I just couldn't take the similarity.
Good thing we're having a boy!
I LOVE the name Avery. But DH says it sounds too much like Ovary (dork) and reminds him of Avery labels.
I liked Taryn, but he said that made him think of "Tear'in it up."
I loved Sophia and actually had DH on board with it until I realized how stupid Sophie (which I'm sure at some point she would be referred to as) sounded with our last name...which starts with an S. Sounded way to Hannah Montana for me.
So Megan Victoria it is...nice and traditional.
LOST is one of the reasons that I love that name! Who knows, we may just suck it up and choose it anyway. lol!
Braydon 1.23.09
Unfortunately ladies, it doesn't get much easier after you know the sex. At least it didn't for us. Girls names were a bit easier to agree on from the beginning, but guess what? It's a boy!!!
We each came up with a top 10 list and not a single name was in common
He nixed mine for the regular ridiculous reasons: "my old boss had that name, he was a jerk" "ugh i knew a ___ in school and he threw a ball like a girl" "my HS girlfriend cheated on me with a ___" etc. I hated his mostly becuase they are very common (his name, his brothers name, my dad and bro's name, etc.) and we have a common last name. We now have a list of 2 or 3 that neither of us love, but can't find a ridiculous reason to veto. Hopefully one of them will grow on us and be perfect for our little man!
It's a tradition in my family for girls to have Anne as a middle name. I'd like to continue if we have a girl. But my last name starts with a D so we have to be careful with initials - could end up with BAD, DAD, FAD, LAD, MAD, PAD, SAD, etc.
I'm somewhat pushing for an R first name if we have a girl so her initials could be RAD.
DS, May 2011
We rejected a lot of each other's names because of associations with other people, but our funnier ones were because of DS's name.
For example, Charlie and Lucy or Charles and Diana. Somebody pointed out Charlie Rose to me...obscure but still a little weird. Somebody else said no Charlie and Angela because we would have a Charlie's Angel. I wasn't really after Rose, Diana, or Angela, but I did get a laugh out of it. I also adore Charlotte, but oh well! He was here first!
FWIW I thought we would never land on a name we both loved. We tossed around a thousand of them and shot them all down. But finally he came back to a name I had rejected (Miranda, because I don't like Mandy or Randy) and suggested calling her Mira. I thought it was impossible, but here we are with a name I adore!
My first pick for a girl name was Dixie Ann. Our last name starts with an M. her initials would be D.A.M. DH told me very qucikly no. lol My poor dad's initials are BED and my brother is JED.
DH liked Chevelle & Spartacus (for middle name). No, I am NOT joking.
So we could never agree on a name. Finally, he suggested Alicia (Alisha), and I said I liked it. And since its the ONLY girl name we could agree on, it stuck. And the more we call her that, the more it grows on me. We just have to pick a spelling.
Now Spartacus I'll have to figure out something with the next baby, if there is one, and its a boy. Oy.
Yep, my husband's 2 fav boys names were Jacob and Gabriel but I vetoed them both for nickname reasons. Not Jacob b/c Jake ends in the same sound as the beginning of our last name, and not Gabriel because I hate Gabe.
I also had a reason for vetoing both Jacob and Gabriel as potential middle names to be used with our chosen 1st name Daniel, because I didn't want my son to be a "DJ", and because Daniel Gabriel sounds stupid.
I also would like to theoretically use Samuel and Joseph for a boy's middle name to honor my 2 grandfathers, but again, Daniel Samuel sounds stupid and Daniel Joseph would be a "DJ" which I hate.
If we have a boy DH wants the middle name to be Hudson. This would be okay except that Hudson is the company that produced DH's car. Everyone knows DH loves his Hudson (the other woman in our lives), but using it as part of our son's name is just too much for me.
I used to like Isabella for a girls name, but Twilight ruined that for me since I can't stand anything Twilight related.
DD2: February 2014
DHs first and last name start with M. he has no middle name. Before DS was even concieved I jokingly said that we should name all our kids names that start with M so that I could refer to my family as my M&Ms. He did not find that one bit amusing and now that we are having kids he has officially banned all names that start with M
This is a great thread because this JUST happened to be this morning.
We found out yesterday we are having a boy. Of course we haven't decided on a name.
I REALLY want Johnathan after my father's name (John)..well HIS father (God rest his soul) his name was Cashmere LOL..So I was like No way..
Then It dawned on me today..How about Johnathan Cash ----(Last name)
Then my friend said...Ummm DUHHH Johnny Cash
I'm like YEA that ain't happenin!
I love Love LOVE the name Morgan for a girl....but never in a million years would I use that because it's his ex-fiance's last name. Boooooo.
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Oh no, I like it!
I don't think that this is ridiculous at all! One of my all-time favorite girl's names is Chloe. Which is also the name of my Dad's girlfriend's cat. So yeah...no Chloe's for us.
I'm a Rebecca and my maiden name started with an R (and my sister is a Rachel). I actually really liked it and a lot of people over the years mentioned the alteration being nice. In high school some people called me 'R squared' (like R^2), which was fun.