baby names you love, but won't use

mypalbabs · December 2012

What names do you love, but don't plan to use (and why)?

Shannon526 · December 2012

Oh there are so many! Pretty much any name that begins with the letter C or K is out of the question, because her MN and LN will begin with C, and I'm not a huge fan of a triple C for initials.. just personal preference I guess.

I don't want to use any of the "popular" names either. I like Emma/Emily.... My cousin has 6 girls and I love all of their names, but I can't use them (the top 2 I like are Isla and Carly)

I could go on forever lol

UberBiz · December 2012

Unfortunately, Thomas. It has always been my number one favorite boy name, but FI vetoed it right away due to family members or people he knows with that name. Boo! He also hates the nickname Tommy, and admittedly I do, too, but I didn't even think of that because I'd always pictured me saying the whole name all the time.

mypalbabs · December 2012

Love, love, love Beatrice, but a dear friend NAMEJACKED IT.

Adore Violet, but it's just too popular for me to use as a first name; ditto Vivienne.

KrisM86 · December 2012

One syllable names are out because our last name is one syllable and kind of harsh, so the combination sounds bad to me. Some we loved were Clare, Kate and Luke. I also loved James, Noah and Harrison but I couldn't get DH on board with any of them.

Amethyst26 · December 2012

Hendrix. I love last names as first names and especially when the last name belongs to a musician, but we won't name our son that because while Jimi Hendrix was a musical great, he also did a LOT of drugs in his day!

Mrs.Leah.Maria · December 2012

Abigail :: My cousin tragically lost both of her daughters within a year of each other due to a mitochondrial mutation, that we've since learned I also carry [but thankfully my husband does not which is the linchpin!]. The oldest was 2 years old and her name was Abbi.

Asher :: I love this name, oh how I love it, but it's just too trendy for me to use with a straight face. Seriously, love, love, love.

NativeFloridian · December 2012

Jonas, Leo, Micah, and Benedict for a boy. Oh, and Loki, which I can't use for obvious reasons but actually really like the sound of.

I really like the sound of Micah (pronounced as Mee-kah) but it sounds almost exactly like DD2's name (Mischa, pronounced Mee-sha) and it would mean a lifetime of correcting people who want to pronounce it "My-kah".

Benedict was immediately shot down because of it's "dorkiness factor".

Jonas reminds me of the Jonas brothers.

Leo sounds like a nickname by itself, but full forms of it are either dorky or over the top - Leopold, Leonidas.

And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.

Mrs.Leah.Maria · December 2012

NativeFloridian:
And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.

Girl names are extremely difficult for me.

WorkinWeezel · December 2012

Girl: Bridgette, Elizabeth, Juliana, Anna

Boy: Alexander, Edward

We won't use them because we already have our names picked out and they are family-oriented

mypalbabs · December 2012

Mrs.Leah.Maria:
NativeFloridian:
And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.
Girl names are extremely difficult for me.

Amen. We had about a dozen epically AWESOME boy names and are really struggling to find girl names we feel excited about.

Fremdschamen · December 2012

Sounds like I am in the minority-- I love girls' names! Picking boys' names is much harder for me.

Name I love, but we won't use:

Girls: Evelyn, Eleanor, Violet, Aurora, Aurelia, Mabel, Fiona, or Flora

Boys: Eliot, William, Stephen, Theodore, Xavier or Edward

ETA: Most of these names don't work with our last name, or have been vetoed by DH. Eleanor has been "dibsed" by my sister, and I would never steal her favourite baby name because we're super close.

PSUBecky23 · December 2012

mypalbabs:
Mrs.Leah.Maria:
NativeFloridian:
And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.
Girl names are extremely difficult for me.
Amen. We had about a dozen epically AWESOME boy names and are really struggling to find girl names we feel excited about.

Glad we're not the only ones. We came up with a boy name the other night in about two minutes when we decided we needed one just in case.

I would love, love, love to name this little girl after my mother or my grandmother but I cannot stand either of their names - Sally and Betty.

Mrs.Leah.Maria · December 2012

mypalbabs:
Mrs.Leah.Maria:
NativeFloridian:
And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.
Girl names are extremely difficult for me.
Amen. We had about a dozen epically AWESOME boy names and are really struggling to find girl names we feel excited about.

I'm honestly sad that I won't get to name another boy. I hate unisex names, primarily for the confusion factor, but even with how popular Asher is becoming, especially in MN, as a boy name, I tried to get DH to consider it as a girls name, because I love it so.

ETA: The thought first crossed my mind after viewing this stunning wedding, with the bride named Asher. She is absolutely gorgeous. https://blog.lemonlimephoto.com/2010/11/24/asher-justin-wedding-2/

ChicagoBroad26 · December 2012

I always liked Alexis and/or Alexandra for a girl (and wanted to call her Alex) but my SIL is named Alexis and H's aunt is named Alexandra. Curses for having married into a Mediterranean family that would over use the "Alex-" prefix to death.

JSS1002 · December 2012

Anna and Madeline

Because we are having a boy :

randomnames · December 2012

There are several Dutch boy names I really like, but they just don't translate well at all. Jelle, joris, jeroen. Similarly a lot of English names I like don't translate well into Dutch. Although that's less of a problem and if I found a name that I was totally in love with that didn't work that well in Dutch I would still consider it.

jerkosnow · December 2012

Now I'm worried.... I love the name Violet. What is the reasoning for not using it??

JBDamonM · December 2012

Patrick. I love this name but my mother in law is Patricia. My mother in law makes my blood boil. She is an awful person and I would never take the chance on it being construed I named my son after her!

JBDamonM · December 2012

mypalbabs:
Mrs.Leah.Maria:
NativeFloridian:
And I don't really like girl names, so it's a miracle I came up with my girls' names at all.
Girl names are extremely difficult for me.
Amen. We had about a dozen epically AWESOME boy names and are really struggling to find girl names we feel excited about.

i am the total opposite. Have a girls name I LOVE and am not enthused by the names on our boy list!

scj110610 · December 2012

emerson for a girl until someone said, "you mean like the stereo?" **sigh** Like Gabe for a boy but think its a nickname and don't like Gabrial.

sntotolo · December 2012

I am having a VERY hard time naming our baby boy! I have a weird obsession with a couple boy names, but with our last name, its an epic fail. We have strong O's in the last name, and I loved the names Rocco (I know, laugh it up- every one does!), and Otto (my grandfathers name), but just too many O's!

For girls I loved Milah, Stella, Norah... Maybe next round I will get to use one

mrshall10210 · December 2012

Jocelyn, Madeline, Abigail, Chloe, Benjamin, Colin...

All names that friends/family have used, so I won't.

MrsP7309 · December 2012

Ugh, so many. Our last name is 2 syllables and ends with an 'ey' so almost all names ending in a 'y' sound too sing songy to me. Our last name is also a common noun, so adjective and noun names just sound too descriptive.

Poppy715 · December 2012

Madison, Samantha, Joshua, Taylor, Charlie (for a girl), Harper is my FAVORITE name right now but DH doesn't like it. I thought he would come around but he never did.

mypalbabs · December 2012

jerkosnow:
Now I'm worried.... I love the name Violet. What is the reasoning for not using it??

It's an awesome name, but it's too popular for me. I mean, it's only like at #100, but it's trending up steadily.

Year of birth - Violet	Rank
2011	101
2010	122
2009	141
2008	182
2007	229
2006	260
2005	371
2004	587
2003	588
2002	612
2001	663
2000	735
1999	849
1998	904

mypalbabs · December 2012

sntotolo:
I am having a VERY hard time naming our baby boy! I have a weird obsession with a couple boy names, but with our last name, its an epic fail. We have strong O's in the last name, and I loved the names Rocco (I know, laugh it up- every one does!), and Otto (my grandfathers name), but just too many O's!

For girls I loved Milah, Stella, Norah... Maybe next round I will get to use one

I really love "o" names, especially Otto

karenthecroccy · December 2012

Edward due to sparkly vampire trashiness. However, it is my husband and FIL's middle name (though FIL actually goes by that), so it will remain a middle name.

I'm from a rather large Irish Catholic family, so any Kate/Kathleen/Catherine names are right out. Husband's last name being synonymous with "baby cow meat" makes it difficult to "match" girl's names to. Luckily, we are having a boy. Ditto to the Mary/Margaret names.

For boy names, we don't have a lot of family names that are usable: Elmer, Albert, Kenneth, Irving, Alois ... Except for Thomas.

I love James though and still consider using it for a middle name over Edward.

nikknakk4 · December 2012

I love the name Blake, but my husband never liked it.. plus he has a cousin named Blake so he really didn't want use it for our little boy.

jkoulton · December 2012

Ruby- because people side-eye me for liking it.

Harlow- sounds made up

Catherine/Kate- Duchess of Cambridge

mollyskywalker · December 2012

I LOVE the name Cillian for a boy and think it would go very well with Declan, our DS, but I'm afraid people will mispronounce it (saying Sill-ian instead of Kill-ian) and I don't want to use Killian because it's the name of a (terrible) beer.

brevans02 · December 2012

There are so many - mostly because I really love a lot of the popular girls names right now, but I refuse to use something in the top 10 or 20.

Specific names? Patrick. I adore the name Patrick. I loathe the nickname Pat. So I won't even take that chance that I'll sometime, somewhere hear my beloved son called "Pat".

NativeFloridian · December 2012

mollyskywalker:
I LOVE the name Cillian for a boy and think it would go very well with Declan, our DS, but I'm afraid people will mispronounce it (saying Sill-ian instead of Kill-ian) and I don't want to use Killian because it's the name of a (terrible) beer.

We're using Cillian, but we're actually going to have it pronounced Sill-ian because we like the soft C sound, and I think people do naturally want to pronounce it that way.

rxredhead · December 2012

Madeline. I adore it, but I KNOW I would shorten it and the only thing that works is Maddy and I'm so not a fan of Maddy.

starshineamator · December 2012

I've always loved the name Devonny but I absolutely hate Devon/Devin/Dev for a girl (because they are boy names and I don't like boy names on girls) and I know if I ever used the name she'd get those nicknames at some point and I'd hate it.

My top girl name to actually use was always Sophia, because I'm a philosopher. It drives me crazy that the name has become so popular and is one of the top names now; so I'd never use it now.

gahendersons · December 2012

Scarlette Lynn...I will seriously consider having a 2nd child (our plan has ALWAYS been 1) because I want my child to have this name so bad! Scarlette is my all time fav girl name (I was born & raised in the south) and Lynn is both my mother & MIL middle names.

There are a lot of boy names that DH rejected- Dane, Mason, Xavier, Maverick, Ezra, Isaiah, Noah. Also the names that start with H since our last name starts with H and I'm not into that- Henry & Harrison are two of my likes.

DarlingNIkki1028 · December 2012

I kind of had/have a ridiculous amount of rules for our future babies' names. They can't start with H or end with N, because our last name starts with an H and ends with an N, and I don't like how similiar that'd sound. They have to be more than one syllable, because our last name is only one syllable. And I don't want my kids to have names that can be shortened into nicknames. I know it's silly, but my name is Nicole and I have ALWAYS gone by Nikki, and I always hated the first few weeks of school when I had to remind the teacher that it was "Nikki". And then I love a whole bunch of popular names, but I don't plan to use any. I hated having to attach the first initial of my last name to my first name when there was someone else with my name in school. And then I have specific less common names that I'll never use because they remind me of people I don't want to be reminded of.

storms19 · December 2012

My daughter's name is Violet and I get tons of compliments for it. It is a very pretty name in my opinion. Now if I could come up with a boy name I like. I am finding it very hard.

BellaBean76 · December 2012

sntotolo:

I am having a VERY hard time naming our baby boy! I have a weird obsession with a couple boy names, but with our last name, its an epic fail. We have strong O's in the last name, and I loved the names Rocco (I know, laugh it up- every one does!), and Otto (my grandfathers name), but just too many O's!

For girls I loved Milah, Stella, Norah... Maybe next round I will get to use one

I love Rocco...but DH vetoed it. Luckily we are having a girl b/c we could not agree on any boys names

kateb171 · December 2012

I have always loved Ava, but its gotten so popular the past few years! And on top of that, DH's really b!tchy ex that he dated all throughout school..middle/high/ some college..named her daughter that last year so no way! Lol it's a small town so everyone knows everything and when I heard I was so disappointed that she could like the same name I did. Also loved Mason until the past couple years of popularity!

Kate_C · December 2012

Not sure it rises to the level of "love," but we like Eliza. The natural NN for that appears to be Liz. Unfortunately, my niece's name is Elizabeth and she usually goes by Liz. I also like Josephine, which is MIL and her mother's name. DH thinks that would be too many Josies for one family.