Names: I like it, but er, not for my bebe

OnWayto3 · April 2015

What names do you like yet would probably not name your own child for whatever reason?

To start the list...

Jezzebel/Jezebel (love the sound, hate the meaning)

Justin

Marcel

Tatum

ksimo6 · April 2015

I like Gemma but my husband said no... So now we have a dog named Gemma.

ElRuby · April 2015

I always LOVED the name Mariska but felt silly using that kind of name since we aren't European haha

starrysmile18 · April 2015

Sorry to offend anyone. But I don't like this name and I wouldn't use it. Why you ask? It is like every other kids name now. Jackson, Jaxson, Jaxxon. Nope. None of them.

klkonwi · April 2015

I loooove Roman, Watson for boys girls named Elliott...... I was shot down on all of these by my husband.

obryana6219 · April 2015

I love the name Roman for a boy! We like Rowan for a girl. Maybe next time since we settled on Eleanor.

kales0719 · April 2015

I loved the name Noah for a boy, and Amelia for a girl. Both were shot down

Emilywooddesign · April 2015

Ohhh I love Conrad and I really like Vayda and Paris and Ramona for a girl. My husband hates them with a passion

lalamomma · April 2015

ElRuby said:
I always LOVED the name Mariska but felt silly using that kind of name since we aren't European haha

It was our second choice when we thought this baby was a girl. I love it and I'm certainly not European

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

Love Sebastian, but we could never use it for one of our kids because our last name has a ton of S's and if the poor kid had a lisp he'd be doomed. Same most likely goes for Cecilia, which totally sucks because that's one of my all-time favorite girls' names.

virginiaunicorn11 · April 2015

Am in love with Vivian for a girl but after 5 months of lobbying, DH still won't budge. DH loves Waylon (boy, obvi) but we are from a redneck area so it would be too redneck vs. hipster lol - same for Jethro. (I hate both.) I also love the name Jaia for a girl but don't think it fits us. I also really like Cecilia, @karaelaine1991 and Celia, but DH vetoes all my favorite girl names

sschwege · April 2015

kales0719 said:
I loved the name Noah for a boy, and Amelia for a girl. Both were shot down

Noah is our son's name, I adore the name though it has become very popular. Unbeknownst to us at the time it was #1 on the SS list for boy names the year DS was born 2012. I loved the name so much that I told my SIL who has 3 kids all boys that if we never had a boy she had to have another and name him Noah, just so I could have someone in our family named it

Amelia is sweet too!

OP: Brooklyn and Kennedy for a girl.

dancegurl1118 · April 2015

All the names I love I mostly can't use because of our last name. Its short but completely changes a name (just not going to put it on here because of privacy and shit but I'm sure it's easy to guess).

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

amark11 said:
Am in love with Vivian for a girl but after 5 months of lobbying, DH still won't budge. DH loves Waylon (boy, obvi) but we are from a redneck area so it would be too redneck vs. hipster lol - same for Jethro. (I hate both.) I also love the name Jaia for a girl but don't think it fits us. I also really like Cecilia, @karaelaine1991 and Celia, but DH vetoes all my favorite girl names

Yeah, if we would have another girl down the road, I would probably bring up Cecilia in spite of the S's thing, just because I love the name that much... but DH will probably veto it

totally valid reasons for that, too. But it makes me sad!

HoosOnFirst · April 2015

DH shot down Pearl.

We both really liked Nina at first but we can't picture our girl as Nina!

DH is gunning for Alice but it rhymes with our last name. Otherwise I like it, but it would drive me absolutely bonkers.

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

hoodoll82 said:
DH shot down Pearl.

We both really liked Nina at first but we can't picture our girl as Nina!

DH is gunning for Alice but it rhymes with our last name. Otherwise I like it, but it would drive me absolutely bonkers.

Oh no! I thought you found something? Evelyn, if I'm remembering right? Definitely might not be remembering that correctly. But I do remember that whatever it was did go well with Pearl!

HoosOnFirst · April 2015

karaelaine1991 said:

hoodoll82 said:
DH shot down Pearl.

We both really liked Nina at first but we can't picture our girl as Nina!

DH is gunning for Alice but it rhymes with our last name. Otherwise I like it, but it would drive me absolutely bonkers.
Oh no! I thought you found something? Evelyn, if I'm remembering right? Definitely might not be remembering that correctly. But I do remember that whatever it was did go well with Pearl!

We did! I think we are going with Evelyn. And I'm pretty confident I'll get the middle name Pearl.

seesea · April 2015

@amark11 and @karaelaine1991 Cecilia is my grandmothers name and I was named after her.

mccall35 · April 2015

I loved Isla and Gemma, but DH vetoed both. We've decided on Gwyneth.

disney815 · April 2015

I loved Eleanor, but my hubby shot that one down immediately. He shot down Zachary at first, but I got to him and now that's what we are naming our baby boy!

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

CillyMama said:
@amark11 and @karaelaine1991 Cecilia is my grandmothers name and I was named after her.

Such a pretty name!

seesea · April 2015

karaelaine1991 said:

CillyMama said:
@amark11 and @karaelaine1991 Cecilia is my grandmothers name and I was named after her.
Such a pretty name!

Thanks! If it helps your case at all my whole name has a bunch of S sounds and I've got a lot compliments.

KaLikeAWind · April 2015

DH and I both like Connor very much. But, too popular for us. We also briefly debated using the names of people we loved who have passed (his brother Norman, my first true love Jeffrey) but noticed whichever one you put first and middle, it just sounded weird. Especially when paired with DHs last name (which is very long - 18 letters and 4 syllables. I did NOT take that name) And if we only chose one it would have to be the brothers name, but Norman? [-(
Also, if we had used Connor we would have had two 'K' sounds in the name. One at Connor and one for the last name.

MaliKaela · April 2015

I LOVE the name Galen for a boy. Just the way it sounds I guess. Unfortunately, I think it might one of those names a kid would get teased for because of the "gay" at the beginning. It makes me sad that this could even be worthy of teasing but DH and I decided it wasn't worth the risk for our LO. Still love it though!

JessHeppell · April 2015

i really liked the name Terra for a girl, or Wren. but DH didnt like em much :C

HoosOnFirst · April 2015

Emilywooddesign said:
Ohhh I love Conrad and I really like Vayda and Paris and Ramona for a girl. My husband hates them with a passion

Ramona is still in our top 3 options, if when we see her as she feels like a Ramona versus an Evelyn. It's also a Guster song

I like Fern and Vera, DH likes Ethel (after his grandma). We vetoed each other's there.

We also bandied about Athena, Elyse, Ivy, Irene, Alma (DH: "Alma? Do you want her to ever date?")

ElRuby · April 2015

hoodoll82 said:

Emilywooddesign said:
Ohhh I love Conrad and I really like Vayda and Paris and Ramona for a girl. My husband hates them with a passion
Ramona is still in our top 3 options, if when we see her as she feels like a Ramona versus an Evelyn. It's also a Guster song

I like Fern and Vera, DH likes Ethel (after his grandma). We vetoed each other's there.

We also bandied about Athena, Elyse, Ivy, Irene, Alma (DH: "Alma? Do you want her to ever date?")

I love vera... If we didn't have a name already picked I would have rallied for that one and it still is on my list if we have another girl!

staceyfern · April 2015

Brynn for a girl. But it rhymes with our last name so I am lucky we are having a boy

knwilliams01 · April 2015

I love Kaylen for a girl and Damon for a boy - DH nixed both. But we are very very happy with the name we have settled on.

laurendutch · April 2015

hoodoll82 said:

Emilywooddesign said:
Ohhh I love Conrad and I really like Vayda and Paris and Ramona for a girl. My husband hates them with a passion
Ramona is still in our top 3 options, if when we see her as she feels like a Ramona versus an Evelyn. It's also a Guster song

I like Fern and Vera, DH likes Ethel (after his grandma). We vetoed each other's there.

We also bandied about Athena, Elyse, Ivy, Irene, Alma (DH: "Alma? Do you want her to ever date?")

But yet he liked Ethel

haha!

I liked Cal for a boy. I liked Brooke, Sloane and Sage for girls. All were vetoed by DH

bbnmama2012 · April 2015

DH loves the name Gavin. Being a teacher, I've never had a sweet Gavin. They're all little toots. So I shot that one down very quickly. Lol. Teaching has ruined so many names for us.

I liked the name Winston but our last name ends in -ton so it was too much.

OnWayto3 · April 2015

bbnmama2012 said:
DH loves the name Gavin. Being a teacher, I've never had a sweet Gavin. They're all little toots. So I shot that one down very quickly. Lol. Teaching has ruined so many names for us.

I liked the name Winston but our last name ends in -ton so it was too much.

I have found the exact same thing to be true! Either bad experience with someone who has a certain name or, in my case, a current student who shares the same name. Ugh!

livewithasmile02 · April 2015

I love the name Rose but unless we end up having more than one girl (currently having a boy and only plan to try for one more due to IVF) I won't be able to use it because we already have our first girl's name picked out (Charlotte after my grandmother). So, maybe a middle name or maybe Ill get lucky and have twin girls next

aj1327 · April 2015

I love the name Beckett, but DH shot it down.

staceyfern · April 2015

livewithasmile02 said:
I love the name Rose but unless we end up having more than one girl (currently having a boy and only plan to try for one more due to IVF) I won't be able to use it because we already have our first girl's name picked out (Charlotte after my grandmother). So, maybe a middle name or maybe Ill get lucky and have twin girls next

Charlotte rose is a pretty name!!

HoosOnFirst · April 2015

Gosh why are our DH's last names making everything so difficult?

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