Love it, but can't use it?

Themaritimemama · June 2016

Anyone care to share their cast offs for names? Whether you can't use it because you're having a different sex, or because your spouse hates it, I wanna hear em!

reesaXden · June 2016

For a boy I love Beckham, Logan, Jett, Crew, Callen, Griffin, and Ezra.

For a girl I love Aspen, Lucy, Claire, Anniston, and Morgan.

KimmySchmidt · June 2016

For a girl I love Evelyn. We could never use it because my husbands name is Evan and it just sounds too similar.

vampirina · June 2016

I love Aina and Eleanor, but DH hates both. I also love Emily, but my neice is Emma and I didnt want two "Ems" in the family.

Ampip2270 · June 2016

My husband and I had a very hard time with picking names during pregnancy #1 so we just decided to revert back to our list this time around and work from that since we knew we were both happy with most of the names on there already. Well were team green and I HATE sharing names because I don't care for others opinions - well DH got a little drunk the other night and spilled a girl name we really like, Bristol - it was our #2 on the list - and his sister WENT OFF about how we better not name our kid Bristol and she hated it, it's a horrible name yada yada yada .... sooo I came home and had a melt down about it (thanks hormones) and crossed it off the list.

tinypikachu · June 2016

I loved a bunch that DH didn't and never will or we didn't pick them because it didn't work with our last name. I can't remember them all but there's Isla, Abigail, Stella, Lennon, Logan, Ian...

BernieRae · June 2016

DH vetoed Jeannie.

toimadness1 · June 2016

Our potential girl name (when we had boys) was originally Aubrey but we can't use it now because of family association (it's actually my fathers middle name and an old English name passed down many generations) since my parents have gotten divorced. If this little one had been a boy it would have been Ezra.

BernieRae · June 2016

We're having a girl, but the boys names we agreed on were Everett and Nolan. I've always liked Ryan. I also suggested Mario, but DH said no.

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

I love Evelyn goo but I have a great aunt Evelyn that's a nightmare so we will never use it.

For a boy, I love Leo after my great grandpa but I also have a cousin named Leo that would definitely brag that he was named after him. Plus, we are done with having kids after this one so we will never have a boy.

schuberta · June 2016

DH vetoed Sebastian and Luca for both of our sons

Since we're not having a girl, we didn't get to use Lucille, Lila, Greer, or Cora. Oh well. Maybe in my next life!

cassloumy · June 2016

@KimmySchmidt @MrsVoorhees (love when your usernames end up together!) I also love Evelyn, but it rhymes with our surname. Same with Quinn.

CRich15 · June 2016

I absolutely love Liam for a boy but it's super popular now and DH has always hated it. I also really liked Rian for a girl but DH vetoed that one as well. He always said he wanted to name our girl Cali but then he went to Brynlee and stuck with it.

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

Our last name is similar to Meryl (spelled differently) do you think Claire Meryl sounds too much like caramel? If you're the person that pronounced caramel like cara-mel.

Themaritimemama · June 2016

@MrsVoorhees I probably wouldn't have thought of it if you hadn't pointed it out, but now that's all I can hear when I say it.

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

@Themaritimemama so maybe if we just never, ever speak of it again, it would work? Haha I love Claire. It's the only name so far that I love and our freaking last name.

SLou24 · June 2016

For girls I love Kennedy and Evelyn, but both were given a hard NO.

For boys, since we can't use them, some of my faves are Grayson, Dalton, Sawyer, Jackson.

My list right now for girls is comically long, I just love so many names! I think we have it narrowed down to 2 though, maybe 3. Getting there!

Kimmy717 · June 2016

Im in love w Aspen. Thats what we were gonna use if we were having a boy. I half heartedly considered using it for our girl because i love it so much, but it feels much more like a boys name to me. Plus weve told everyone her name. And its already stuck lol

RG1 · June 2016

We are having a boy, but would have loved Lailey or Clementine for a girl

ajn092 · June 2016

If we were having a girl we both really loved Paige. We also thought about calling her Evan "Evi" Paige since DH is anti-Evelyn

Boys names that are technically still on the shortlist but likely will get vetoed include Carter, Connor, Drew, Parker, Logan, and Christopher.

ruemcclanahan · June 2016

For boys I LOVE the name Walter but literally not one other person has told me they liked it.
and girls I love Gwendolyn and Èlodie but fiancé said no way

If this baby was a girl her name would have been Audrey Eleanor Marie

ruemcclanahan · June 2016

@RG1 I love the name clementine!

jbscmama · June 2016

@MrsVoorhees I seriously don't think it sounds like caramel at all? even when I try to say it really fast. And I do pronounce cara-Mel. I would go for it !

seitzy3 · June 2016

I love the name Poppy for a girl. Yes, really lol but I would never use it. Our boy named would have been Max Austin and probably will be if we ever have one (highly doubt we will go for a fourth) we got engaged in Austin but I don't love it as a first name.

I've always been a huge fan of the name Evelyn but Chris isn't a fan and instead tried to talk me into naming this girl Evan. I tried talking him into Everly. Still don't have a definite name for this little girl. I'm thinking the name will be picked in the delivery room

@Megan324 my cousin just named their son Walter. I am a fan of names that never go out of style. I also have three friends who named their boy Henry

RedMar · June 2016

If this was another boy, I really like Dominick, Isaac and Wyatt. DH didn't like any of those...
We are currently deciding on a girl's name. There are so many to choose from!!

We like names that end in "lyn". Do you think it will sound like a run-on bc our surname starts with an "M"? For example: Evelyn Miller.

lovelylauren86 · June 2016

Love Clara
neice is Claire so too close

vampirina · June 2016

Megan324 said:

For boys I LOVE the name Walter but literally not one other person has told me they liked it.
and girls I love Gwendolyn and Èlodie but fiancé said no way

If this baby was a girl her name would have been Audrey Eleanor Marie

Walter is our boy name! Wally will be his nickname as long as he wants it

lovelylauren86 · June 2016

PoodleDoodleOoo said:

Megan324 said:

For boys I LOVE the name Walter but literally not one other person has told me they liked it.
and girls I love Gwendolyn and Èlodie but fiancé said no way

If this baby was a girl her name would have been Audrey Eleanor Marie

Walter is our boy name! Wally will be his nickname as long as he wants it

My dad is Walter goes by Walt. I think it's a good name

pilotswifey · June 2016

Had this been a girl, we would have named her Piper. It's off the table, because we're done after this little man.

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

@RedMar I don't think that sounds bad at all!

PSUBecky23 · June 2016

@Ampip2270 no no no to your SIL vetoing your name. Put it back on your list and tell her to shove it.

Cricket Bug · June 2016

Our short list for girls was: Tessa, Emilia, Alice, and Rosalie

Boy names that I loved but DH vetoed: Orson, Gabriel, Sebastian, Arlo

Cricket Bug · June 2016

PSUBecky23 said:

@Ampip2270 no no no to your SIL vetoing your name. Put it back on your list and tell her to shove it.

This! What a jerk move on her part!

KimmySchmidt · June 2016

@redmar Evelyn Miller sounds great. Nice rhythm to it. "N" and "M" are different enough sounds.

But get what you're saying and it bothers me too. I know a Frank Carter and it always sounds like "FrankArter"

lovelylauren86 · June 2016

I would suggest A double name like Ivy Lynn ---- if you were a southerner

@RedMar

0SeaMonkey0 · June 2016

My fav boy names that I can't use are Max and Jacob (Jake)

For girls I like Isla but hubby thinks it's too weird.

AnnaS930 · June 2016

If this baby boy was a girl, we were leaning towards Stella, though most of our "won't use" names are ones that start with an S because our last name does as well and is basically pronounced "seagull". S names end up sounding like children's book characters. For example, names that sounded silly to me: Sadie Seagull, Sydney Seagull. See what I mean?

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

@AnnaS930 I love Stella too, but my cousins named their daughter Stella.

love that name!

skirtandsandals · June 2016

For a boy, Robert Lawrence and Patrick Odin were in the lead, but this one's a girl.

mrsvoorhees-2 · June 2016

I'm not a fan of misspelling names, but I have a guilty pleasure name that is my cousin's wife's name. Evynn. I know it's a masculine name and it's spelled wrong but I just love it! Obviously I wouldn't use it, I just think it's so pretty!

jhems776 · June 2016

I really like Clifton and am having a hard time letting it go. It is also the name of a neighborhood we used to live in and I'm pretty sure I'd get a lot of crap about it. We don't live in that city anymore but still. H finds the name ok.
Girls: Brynn, Maeve, Elizabeth, Genevieve, Marie, June, Roberta, and Olivia.

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