Names you love but can't use...

nelb3

What are some names you love but can't use because you associate them with someone/thing that you don't want to name your child after. Not necessarily bad, just knowing that it's in the back of your mind as you are name hunting...

Ryan- ex boyfriend

Miles- friend's dog

Evelyn-DH's ex

 

 

Jazzyashes84

Caden

Too many Aiden's running around us.

526SadieSadie

Timothy - my ex

Ivy - name my ex and I picked out for an imaginary daughter

Emmeline/Emma - Love these but my cousin buried her 16 weeker and her name was Emily.  We're staying away from all Em names out of respect for my cousin's feelings.

 

mamahawk12

Charlotte - b**ch I knew in college

Harris - ex-boyfriend

Norah - not a bad association, but my cousin (who I'm really close with) just named their daughter this.... dang it! 

sugarpumpkin716

well as of right now (meaning when we want to have another baby who knows if i'll still like the names anyway)...

tyler---nephew

summer---niece

eliana---niece

cameron---nephew

alex---brother in law

hayden---relative named aidan

hannah---cousin

christian---i'm jewish so...

ryan---cousin

michael---brother in law/father in law

anything with ari in it (aria, arielle, ariella)---brother is ari

savanna---husband hates it

austin---husband hates it

harrison---cousin

addison---cousin

alanna---brother is ilan

i'm sure there are more.

kerribear1717

Elise - I love this name and have love the song fur elise ever since I was a kid.  But BFF now has a dog name that, yuck!!!!

JustSadie

Sienna - friend named her daughter this

Elliana - see above

Ruby - friend's dog, and rhymes with DD's name

Cody - our last name ends in "Kodie"

Avery - cousin named her daughter this, and it's getting too popular for me

Olivia - have loved this name since I was little, but now it's way too popular 

MarxieVonTrapp

Eleanor--DH's cousin

Susie--MIL (she goes by Sue)

Sally--DH's dog from childhood

Lucy--sister's dog

 

Under.the.Rose

Margot, Ian, Colin, Nora, Chantal, Henry...

MrsFinn810

Allison---family member

Grace---too close to DD's name

Joel---friend's H

Caleb---friend's DS

ETA: Forgot a big one!  Elizabeth (or any derivatives)---the woman who broke up my parents' marriage. Yikes!

CarolynDouglas2012

Landen - Friend's son

Savanna - Cousin

Caden - Friend's son

Brynn - DH says it reminds him of a rifle. Apparently it is a name brand?

McKenna - Friend had her daughter 1st and swiped it from under me

Kennedy - Niece

Jace - DS is Chase

 

femmepink

Victoria - a woman I do not even like to think abou. However, I love the name.

LLB430

Cora-rhymes with dd

Larkin, Liesel, Beatrix, Leighton, (dh hates them all, I am especially sad about Larkin)

Grant-ex boyfriend 

 

 

hmp1

MrsFinn810:

Allison---family member

Grace---too close to DD's name

Joel---friend's H

Caleb---friend's DS

ETA: Forgot a big one!  Elizabeth (or any derivatives)---the woman who broke up my parents' marriage. Yikes!

Best reason I have seen to cross a name off your list!

hmp1

This is always my go to answer to this question because I really do LOVE the name.  John, cannot use because of our last name.

DevonPow

Gage - DH refuses because of "Pet Semetary"

Oliver - I would name DS2 this, but DH hates it for unknown reasons (see a pattern here??)

Adam - ex-BF. Love the name, though.

Esme - I have always loved ths name, but everyone would think I picked it because of Twilight. Stupid Twilight - ruined many a good name.

naflmj

Lachlan- sounds terrible with our last name

Evelyn-apparently a wicked old aunt of DH's

Middlesnpoddles

Lilah or Lorelei (our last name starts with L and it would sound ridiculous)

Charlotte (sounds too close to scarlett- the name of a crazy family nutbag that shot some guy)

Winter (My name is Autumn so I feel like that would be too cheesy)

Luke (DH is Luke and he thinks it would be confusing)

ETA: added a name

nelb3

Reading through these, I realize I missed some...

I also love the name Alex, but can't use it because it's too close to our niece's name, Alexis who goes by Lex.

 

MissRachel621

Lucy - DHs deceased grandmother that no one liked

bethanyui

Gage- A name I loved since reading Pet Semetery, my sister named my nephew that.

Delilah- The negative Biblical connotations. 

 

kenldav

Abigail (Abby)- SIL's dog

Cadence-SIL is 4 weeks ahead of me and is naming her daughter this

 Logan- ex bf

Cason- Co-worker's son

Jackson-Everyone and their dog's name

CatiJ

Katrina - FI's ex

Peter - FI's brother

Victoria - my ex's mom

Benjamin - my southern family butchers the pronunciation

Meredith - niece

Reza - FI's brother's Persian name

Matin - FI's brother's Persian name

Parisa - FI's cousin

Zachary, William - my cousins

 

Basically I love names of people I know/knew...sigh

TheWop

Allegra- allergy med. 

Mac_n_Yak

Leota (like Madame Leota from WDW) - Husband Hates  

Phoebe - Friend's Dog

James - Ex

Silas - Husband Hates

gingermom2

Phoebe- BIL & SIL dog is named Febe...might still get away with it if I can.

Jackson- I love it, but family hates it. Will not be asking opinions anymore  

Aaron- ex-BF

Larissa- DHs ex-GF

Joanna- cousin

Erica- cousin

Rachel- SIL  

serendipity_5

Finley - I have loved this name for as long as I can remember, my brother and his wife had a baby recently and while she was pregnant they asked me if they could use the name, I said I dont own it but no, because I plan on using it..They told me they picked out a new name, but when baby was born low and behold they named him Finn, when we went and saw the baby my sister in law says," your okay that we used Finn right? You can still use Finley, we dont mind at all! It'd be cute to have a big Finn and little Finn"

Nathan - Ex boyfriend

Sadie - My inlaws dog

kmpls

Kasey - family dog

Kendall - Relative

Kay - Family Drama

Aurora, Bode, and Ty - don't go well with last name

Noelle - Hubby said no.

danlexi04

Most of mine are family names of people that are still alive (generally Jewish don't name after the living, we arent religious though) but a name running more then once in my family would be odd.

Kevin and Brian- both are uncles

Andrew- distant family for us but close for my grandparents, so it would still be weird

Eric- DHs cousins name

AlphabetFish

Katrina... name of my mom's boyfriend's ex who practically stalked her, and that was before the hurricane, so that pretty name is dead to me now.

Oh, and I like the names Sam and Ben, but they were my dogs.

LBF DPT

Benjamin-my ex

Elizabeth or any variation-my DH's ex

igottacitylove

Walker- my cousin's son; also my grandpa's name

Emerson- friend's son

Violet- my grandmother's deceased sister's name; I feel like I shouldn't use it in case one of her grandchildren want to someday.

 

 

Chrissymarie98

Emma - Too popular now

Olivia - See above 

Hannah - Sister has claimed it

Gregory - ex bf

Bethany - his ex 

Noah - Sounds like Noah's Arc with our last name.

Graham/Blake/ or any one syllable name - sounds funny since our last name is 1 syllable and only three letters

Any name with a Y at the end - since DS is named Anthony, I don't want to name our next child with a name ending in Y. Rules out quite a bit.

For example, Ansley - one of my favorite names. Has a Y ending and also sounds way to similar to Anthony.

guilletskichuk

Marley - I've loved this name for YEARS...but I'm not sure that I can use it due to the association with the dog from the book and movie, Marley & Me

Korissa - a name my ex loved and suggested to me for future children; he felt he could never use it because he had told his BFF about it and then his BFF used it; I still really like it and it works well as a smoosh name (as much as I'm not fond of most smoosh names) that I could use to honour two of my really close relatives (an aunt named Clarissa and a cousin named Korinna). Anyways, it's totally out because it was first suggested by an ex. That would be weird.

Brayden - another name that I've liked for a really long time (I'm talking 10+ years) but everyone seems to dislike it on here because it is one of those -aden names. I also know a few too many.

desabean

DevonPow:

Gage - DH refuses because of "Pet Semetary"

Oliver - I would name DS2 this, but DH hates it for unknown reasons (see a pattern here??)

Adam - ex-BF. Love the name, though.

Esme - I have always loved ths name, but everyone would think I picked it because of Twilight. Stupid Twilight - ruined many a good name.

 

I LOVE the name Gage but wondered if anyone would even remember it being from PS.  Not that is matters since DH hates it AND one of my best friend's last names is gager....so it would be too weird.