Favorite Rejected Baby Name?

PrimRoseMama

My BFF is a fan of the hyphenated boys-for-girls name thing. I can't get with it. Example: Danny-Lynn & Marley-Jo . She's free to do what she likes when she gets KU, but many of the names on her list horrify me.

PrimRoseMama

DH has veto'd Aurora for a girl. I has the sadz, but it's his kid too. Whomp whomp.

DobbysSock

I vetoed Jordan for a girl. I don't love boys names on girls. I also vetoed Myles spelled with a Y although I would love Miles spelled correctly, which he vetoed.

H vetoed Margaret (Maggie) after my favourite Aunt, and Rowan for a boy (plus about a gazillion others, but these are my favourites). He's the type to say no to 100 names but not offer any alternatives - drives me crazy!

We've agreed on hypothetical DD2's name, but nowhere near agreement on hypothetical DS1's name.

DaAliDShow

This thread has been so interesting to read! DH is from Spain, and all of our future children will receive traditional Spanish names. I drew the line at DH's suggestion to name a boy after his grandfather, Valentín. Just too close to Valentine, especially if we're in the US while they're in school. Torture.

krzyriver

We like weird/uncommon names, but the one name my husband is stuck on is Alaric. He REALLY wants that for a boy. I was ok with it just because my husband's middle name is James and he wanted that for the middle name. So I was just going to call the baby James. But then I finally found a name he liked more and Alaric was going to be the name if we had a second boy. Then we changed our minds and decided we only want one baby. Lol

PrimRoseMama

krzyriver said:

We like weird/uncommon names, but the one name my husband is stuck on is Alaric. He REALLY wants that for a boy. I was ok with it just because my husband's middle name is James and he wanted that for the middle name. So I was just going to call the baby James. But then I finally found a name he liked more and Alaric was going to be the name if we had a second boy. Then we changed our minds and decided we only want one baby. Lol

Good old 410 & the sack of Rome. That's all I think of when the name Alaric pops up. The good news is that a Visigoth Leader doesn't make the name lists too often. Your kid will definitely stand out. :-D

DumbledoresArmy

You all have fantastic responses!  Thanks!! 

@PrimRoseMama love Aurora, that's too bad!

Lilybee8614

TheTamedShrew said:

I've always loved the name Naomi for a girl, but DH hates it. He says it sounds like a stripper name.

I mean...okay.

On the other hand, if we ever have 3 boys, we already have all of their first AND middle names picked out. I don't know why we can never agree on girl names.

This sounds exactly like DH and me!
We can't agree on a girls name at all but we already have 2 boys name picked out complete with middle name.

He's vetoed most of my choice of names. I absolutely liked Timothy and he does not.
It's just harder for us to pick girls names though.

karriejean91

For me it's a girls name we can't decide on. He wants Aurora but I have a 2nd cousin who named her daughter that. And I wanted Mina but he shot that one down pretty quickly. He also likes the name June for a girl because of his grandmother who he was close with growing up. But I just can't like it no matter how hard I try..

For a boy, we both like Oliver.

MrsDho11

DH and I have never really seriously talked about it... I just assumed we'd wait until if/when I get KU. Now I'm feeling like we're behind! :-S

krzyriver

PrimRoseMama said:

krzyriver said:

We like weird/uncommon names, but the one name my husband is stuck on is Alaric. He REALLY wants that for a boy. I was ok with it just because my husband's middle name is James and he wanted that for the middle name. So I was just going to call the baby James. But then I finally found a name he liked more and Alaric was going to be the name if we had a second boy. Then we changed our minds and decided we only want one baby. Lol

Good old 410 & the sack of Rome. That's all I think of when the name Alaric pops up. The good news is that a Visigoth Leader doesn't make the name lists too often. Your kid will definitely stand out. :-D

Lol. Yes, he definitely would. My husband actually got Alaric from The Vampire Diaries of all things! Hubby loves that show. Lol. We picked out 2 girl names and 2 boy names and 3 of them came from that show and one came from Agents of Shield. We're TV nerds I guess. Lol

mrsmommya

I just experienced a loss and had no interest in discussing girls names. I do believe this baby was a girl and god was shielding me from the pain of having a name and not a baby.

Anyways our boy names were Luke, Bennet, and Jake. Still feel comfortable to use them for future children.

ArtlessIbex

DH vetoed Francesca super fast, and I was really bummed. I always loved that name.
Others he's vetoed are:

Sage
Willow
Violet
Ariadne

Guess I just like my nature names!

smfeuro

DH and I went through a billion different names for years. With a lot of veto's on both sides. We finally agreed on one girl name and one boy name together. I love/hate that we have the names picked out and no babies to put with them. 
And I don't know what we're going to do if we have two of the same gender. 

Blonde1817

Since I've been sitting here all baby crazy for *awhile* before we actually started TTC, naturally I got a little obsessed with baby names.  I think I came up with two perfect - unique enough but common enough - names for a boy, Greyson and Everett.  I definitely got attached to these names, but when I brought them up to DH, they were rejected super quick  

On the other hand, I've definitely panned a lot of his names two.  He likes a lot of names that are popular from our generation (names given circa late 80s) that aren't very popular anymore, but I'm not sure he knows what's popular now.  I, on the other hand, used to be a preschool teacher, so I know a lot of the names that are common now.  

Unfortunately, that also rules out A LOT of names, because I can't seem to separate the name from the kid I used to teach! Now that I'm a therapist, I also have the same problem with patient's names.  Anyone else have that problem?

The good news is that we're both obsessed with the girl name that we both agree on.

addyplusone

For a girl, I think we have agreed on Eleanor Marie and it would be Nora as a child for her nickname. Because I LOVE Nora Marie! Eleanor is a family name for him.

For a boy we are still undecided. Names that have come up: Oliver, Owen, he likes Van Mathew (I am saying no!), I liked Mason but he said no =\

If we ever have twins their names would be Oliver and Olivia. For Oli and Livi.

Maydar

DH likes to suggest Jewish names for a boy - as in, ones that are ONLY seen in the Jewish culture, and rarely in America in modern times. I'm not Jewish, I grew up a Christian in the midwest where I'd never heard of any of of these names, and we're both non-religious and just celebrate the fun holidays from both our cultures. Some of the names have had sounds in them I can't even pronounce!!! At this point, when he suggests one, I just quietly stare at him until he realizes and goes "oh, yeah, that's REALLY Jewish, isn't it?"

I do like the tradition of naming after relatives who have died, and our grandparents' and great-grandparents' generations have some lovely old names we like for girls (Rose, Lilian, Clara, Ruby) but all the guy names strike me as "too boring." Maybe if I don't want boring I should be going with DH's suggestions! lol

TheTamedShrew

addyplusone said:

For a girl, I think we have agreed on Eleanor Marie and it would be Nora as a child for her nickname. Because I LOVE Nora Marie! Eleanor is a family name for him.

For a boy we are still undecided. Names that have come up: Oliver, Owen, he likes Van Mathew (I am saying no!), I liked Mason but he said no =\

If we ever have twins their names would be Oliver and Olivia. For Oli and Livi.

We named our daughter Eleanor and I wanted to call her Nora, but DH refused, so it didn't stick

Also Eleanor has gotten really popular in the last two years. When I named her that I didn't know any Eleanors, and now she has at least one other Eleanor in every play group.

cait5413

DH is the 4th, so if we ever have a boy, he wants him to be the 5th. I personally don't like that idea, but I have agreed under two conditions: 1. We would call our son by a nickname or his middle name (I grew up with family members who were Big T and Little T, and I HATE that--I want our kid to have his own identity. H and his dad often go by Name3 and Name4, and I am not sticking our son with Name5 as his name! Plus, his mom and I get confused enough when we just use the name and then have to figure out which one we're talking about). 2. I get to pick the name if we have a girl. 

We've also been discussing what nickname we'd use. I suggested Quint (because it means 5) kind of as a joke, but DH really likes it!

Paturkey

My DH has vetoed Felix. I absolutely love it, but don't love the female versions (like Felicity or Felicia).

I'm vetoing the name we agreed on that we both LOVE because it's DHs brother's name and it didn't occur to me that although a future-DS wouldn't be a junior, he'd have the same first and last name as his uncle and I don't like that.

@cait5413 I like 'Quint!' I have a cousin who's Name Name Name the third and he's always been called Trey.

@Dobbysock If you don't like it, veto it, but Myles is actually a totally legit version of the name. Like Myles Standish.

TheBorg7of9

Paturkey said:

My DH has vetoed Felix. I absolutely love it, but don't love the female versions (like Felicity or Felicia).

I'm vetoing the name we agreed on that we both LOVE because it's DHs brother's name and it didn't occur to me that although a future-DS wouldn't be a junior, he'd have the same first and last name as his uncle and I don't like that.

@cait5413 I like 'Quint!' I have a cousin who's Name Name Name the third and he's always been called Trey.

@Dobbysock If you don't like it, veto it, but Myles is actually a totally legit version of the name. Like Myles Standish.

You could also call a third, "Trip"

MrsRo731

For a boy, Miles. I really like that name but DH is super against it. For a girl, Sadie; DH just doesn't like it. Luckily we agreed pretty easily on DD but if we have another girl I think it's going to be a hard one this time.

0SeaMonkey0

The firstborn son in my dad's family has had been given the middle name Heartries for many generations. I made sure we considered it since I knew he would be really disappointed if we didn't use it but in the end DH and I just decided that we didn't want to do that to our son. I don't want him getting teased and hating his name just to make my dad happy. We gave him my dad's first name as a middle name in consolation.

If we have another boy I really like Henry and so does DH but he already warned me his family would turn it into Hank which I am absolutely not ok with so in the end we'll probably veto it to avoid a fight.

I really have no feelings on girl's names for some reason.

ReesaAnne16

I have a list of favorites, but we haven't talked about them yet (it gets my hopes up too much)

I have a couple names I really like for a girl --> Elodie and Elowen  but I have a niece named Eloise so I feel like they are too similar. Also my SIL's sister has two girls names Ember & Elora, so my niece Siri (named before the iphone ap came out), already has cousins named Ember, Elora, & Eloise. Adding an Elodie or Elowen to the mix seems redundant and confusing. 

What do you ladies think? Fortunately we have a lot of other names we like. 

babymish

chrlyr said:

DH loves Alexandra for a girl. I realize it's a relatively normal name, but I had a Cabbage Patch doll named Alexandra. It just strikes me as an 80s name. 

@chrlyr Alexandra is my name and I was about to protest...then I remembered I was born in the 80's so you may have a valid point....  >-

housewifehobbyist

PrimRoseMama said:

DH has veto'd Aurora for a girl. I has the sadz, but it's his kid too. Whomp whomp.

That was one of my favorites, with Rory for short, but DH said, and Tabatha, were porny names.

gardeniagirlknits

@severmilli12 Cora is my fave name too for a girl and hubby vetoed it... BOO!!!!

gardeniagirlknits

We disagree on every name except for Henry and Caroline. I love both... But my friend, her grown daughter is named Caroline so I feel like that's kind of weird... To use that name knowing one.... What do yall think?

The other problem is that the only middle name I like with that first name is Elizabeth... And... Of course.... My friend laughed about this and said "yes that's my daughters middle name, obviously I think it's lovely, you should use it!!" I didn't know that was her middle name going into the conversation... I only knew her first name was Caroline and I told her bc I thought she'd get a kick out of that being the only name hubby and I could agree on.

But that's so weird.... Right?!

Ps. This name game only happened for like, a month bc we thought, of course, we'd get pregnant right away. Now I refuse to talk names... I just answer with "we are never going to get pregnant I'm sure so why waste time dreaming"... I hate how bitter this has all made me...

KASG

Omg to the Jewish names you can't pronounce: my husband is Filipino and he suggested an indigenous name that not only can I not pronounce, but I can't even spell it!! Like, the first half of the name is an onomatopoeia! Wth?!

vmgoodell

My DH refuses to name a son Xavier or Gabriel, both names I love. We are TTC #2 and our DD name is perfect, so will be hard for us to find another perfect name. (:|