@bromios I love Beatrice (pronounced the Italian way)!! It reminds me of Il Postino (or the play it's based on, Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta). Have you seen it/read it? And as I said earlier, we were going to name DD Lorenzo if she had been a boy, and we'll use it if we ever have a son. S/O Fiorella, I had convinced myself that Fiora was a name and we considered it for a bit. Alas, it's not real (not that I can find, anyway).
We really struggled with boys. He hated my whole list - Arlo, Cormac, Dashiell, Arlo.
Girls were easier but he ruled out Louisa ("too masculine" wtf) and Ximena (which, to be fair, nearly everyone I consulted also rejected).
The most annoying thing was that he couldn't usually articulate what he didn't like about a name, and he didn't come up with any of his own suggestions.
We went on a vacation last year when I was about 9 weeks pregnant (ended in m/c) and we had a LOT of time in the car to discuss names. He pretty much vetoed every single one of them. LOL... And honestly, I can't really remember them all but a few were:
Girl: Vivian, Violet, Eloise, Lauren
Boy: Griffin, Matthew
With him, he can't seem to wrap his brain around names until he sees it in person (and then if he gets a bad association, it's over, like with Lauren). When I was pregnant with my daughter (Katherine nn Kate) we went round and round about middle names. I really liked Adair and he could NOT see why I liked it. Then we became friends with a couple who has three kids and the youngest is Adair. She is a beautiful, spunky little thing and DH definitely did a 180 on the name. Too little too late though.
Married 6/28/03
Kate ~ 7/3/09 *** Connor ~ 11/11/10
4 miscarriages: 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014
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No more TTC for us. We are done, and at peace, as a family of 4.
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens
Luckily DH and I do out best to compromise. And by compromise I try not to kill him over his hypocritical reasoning. Half the time the logic doesn't even make sense. Like he likes all the NNs for Elizabeth and Margaret but not the actual names but won't use a NN as a FN. Others he will shoot down because a character on tv or a celebrity has that name like Lucy from I Love Lucy but his current favorite boys name is Sullivan which he discovered because there is an actor he likes with that name. He doesn't like Noah because it's too "bibley" but likes Patrick because he's the patron saint of Ireland (he's Irish). on the flip side of that, he doesn't like Kieran, Rhys, Eoghan because they are too Irish. A few names he has set aside for future dogs as well. He doesn't like "old people" names but his top boy choice was Arthur when we were deciding on DS's name. Just hard to get him to pick anything because he'll mention a name then talk himself out of it. Thankfully we have decided on the next boy name and our girl name is the same since DS.
He is obsessed with Brooklyn, and while I like it I just can't seem to get on board at all with it -- after all, we used to live in Brooklyn, which makes it weird to me. I haven't fully vetoed it, but I don't really think of it as being on my short list, which I think bums him out.
Re: What's a great name that your DH WILL NOT go for?
BFP #2! Travis is getting a sibling!
EDD: 1/24/2017
Corbin
I loved it...he wants Tyrus. :-&
Gosh, there are so many.
We went on a vacation last year when I was about 9 weeks pregnant (ended in m/c) and we had a LOT of time in the car to discuss names. He pretty much vetoed every single one of them. LOL... And honestly, I can't really remember them all but a few were:
Girl: Vivian, Violet, Eloise, Lauren
Boy: Griffin, Matthew
With him, he can't seem to wrap his brain around names until he sees it in person (and then if he gets a bad association, it's over, like with Lauren). When I was pregnant with my daughter (Katherine nn Kate) we went round and round about middle names. I really liked Adair and he could NOT see why I liked it. Then we became friends with a couple who has three kids and the youngest is Adair. She is a beautiful, spunky little thing and DH definitely did a 180 on the name. Too little too late though.
Married 6/28/03
Kate ~ 7/3/09 *** Connor ~ 11/11/10
4 miscarriages: 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014
*~*~*~*~*
No more TTC for us. We are done, and at peace, as a family of 4.
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens
Dexter.
I really love this name, but he is not having it.
We know it's a boy so girl names have never come up.
For girls it took 6 years and 3 pregnancies but I finally got him to come around on Lydia