used to like, but now don't?

juliad2010 · March 2014

Do any of you have names that you used to love, but now don't like or can't use?

I used to like Benjamin, but a close friend has a Benjamin who I see all the time.

Spin313 · March 2014

I loved Anica (and still do), but a friend named her daughter Annika so I didn't consider using it for DD. If DS had been a girl, Anica would likely have been the name, though.

sunnyday016 · March 2014

DH & I had decided on Liam as our boy name during my pregnancy with DD. Obviously she's a girl so we didn't use it. When we found out DS was a boy, we didn't even consider Liam. It just didn't feel right anymore. We'll probably never use it now, even if we have another boy in the future.

homediva · March 2014

We used to like Lily but I've heard it yelled too many times across the playground!

NerdyLucy · March 2014

homediva said:

We used to like Lily but I've heard it yelled too many times across the playground!

Same. I still think Lillian is positively lovely, but Lily is very common and I'm sort of tired of it, frankly.

Also, I have a boss named Lillie, and while I like her just fine, I don't know if I could name my daughter that.

lauralew · March 2014

I love William, but it's a family name. Except my grandpa, every make family member named William/goes by Billy has turned out to make some awful life choices. So the name feels cursed/tainted. Loved Liam as an alternative but it's too popular. I always loved Olivia and Lucy, but both are way you popular for my taste.

Lilleybug · March 2014

I have a lot of names we cannot use simply because of our last name, which is close to Lily. Like nothing with an L (e.g., Lucas Lily- too many L's) or anything with a Y Gregory Lily- again repetition at the end, or William (nn Willy Lily).

blu-eyedwife · March 2014

There are names I can't use, but still love.

The only name I can think of that I used to like, but am now over is Sinjin. For a girl.

ferris0906 · March 2014

For a girl I used to really love Cora and Delaney. For a boy Nolan and Bennett. They've all become more popular, and I think I'm just over them. They'll all fine, but they just don't do it for me any more.

MinnesotaMomma91 · March 2014

I used to really like morgan, kendra, and cheyenne but now i have bad name associations with them.

I also used to love my grandpas name bert, but i now think his name should fade into obscurity...

Jags8 · March 2014

I used to love Evelyn but now I have a nephew named Evan, so I figure they sound too similar and it would be confusing.

Ineedmorecoffee · March 2014

i freakin love Cecilia but can't use it because my neice is Amelia.

juliad2010 · March 2014

Ineedmorecoffee said:
i freakin love Cecilia but can't use it because my neice is Amelia.

I think they are different enough for cousin names. Especially if one of both girls had nicknames. Too close for siblings, but I think fine for cousins.

theimpossibleastronaut · March 2014

I loved Sadie, but the show Awkward ruined the name for me.

Ladymouse · March 2014

A friend lost a son named Evan. It knocks a few names off my list.

And makes me extra paranoid - third little one I know to die of what seemed like the common cold.

julie921 · March 2014

I used to love the name Addison for a girl - this was before Grey's Anatomy and I had never even heard it as a name at the time. Now it's way to popular. Loved Chason for a boy. Don't remember where I heard that originally, but now that I'm actually having a boy, I just can't do it. Seems too much like a made-up name. There are also several names that I associate with people I know that, although I like the name, just can't use them. I wanted to use a name that doesn't make me think of any particular person (other than my son, of course!)

JackoftheBox · March 2014

I loved Sophia for a girl. I still do a bit, but it is becoming so popular.

I also loved Noah for a boy, but I am over it now.

jf198400 · March 2014

I always wanted to have a daughter named MaryAnne, but DH had a girlfriend in high school Marianne, so it was out. Our daughter is Marie Stella, and I can't picture her as a MaryAnne at all. I loved MaryAnne from babysitters club, she was quiet and shy. Dd is outgoing and very bubbly.

ConversationFear · March 2014

DH and I both love Emmett for a boy, but we refuse to use any name with an "E". A couple of close friends recently had babies - both boys - only a couple of months apart - and named them each with E names (actually they are both "El" names making it even more confusing.) Anyway, so since we are also having a boy, jokes have been made about how they will be best buds and we're building a "boyband" and all this - so yeah, you couldn't PAY us to name our kid with an "E" name too.

Additionally, DH has crossed Henry off of the top of his list, once he found out how popular it is right now - especially among the hipster crowds.

Ceridwen21 · March 2014

Two names I can't use because of awful co-workers: Cecilia and Louis.

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