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Baby name near-misses

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BarryGoosey · 10/06/2015 11:38

What baby names did you "just HAVE to" use when you were pregnant that you were talked out of, and realise now are awful?

I was desperate to name DS Sirius, or to at least use it as a middle name, when I was pregnant. At the time, I was really upset that DH wouldn't even consider it and instead, every time I brought it up, would reply "Sirius-ly?". I'm so just relieved that I didn't tell anyone else this was the name I wanted to use so didn't have to face a load of Hmm faces! Grin

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Earthbound · 10/06/2015 11:42

On the HP theme I was quite keen on Severus (nickname Sev) when I was pregnant. Fortunately for us all, the baby was a girl. Sill think it would have been quite cool though.

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Rhubarbgarden · 10/06/2015 12:50

Anemone. I still love it, actually.

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nilbyname · 10/06/2015 12:52

Lorcan for a boy, too Scottish for me now. (I'm Scottish btw!)

Magda for a girl- but actually it's my best name, going to make actual dd use this for her dd one day!

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Theas18 · 10/06/2015 12:53

Not awful but 22yrs ago I had my eye on Hermione for eldest. 1st Harry Potter published 4yrs later. She would have hated the name from then on I'm sure!

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iwouldgoouttonight · 10/06/2015 12:53

Herbert with the nickname Bertie. Me and DP both decided we loved it while I was pregnant. Still quite like it now but I can't imagine DS called it.

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Yokohamajojo · 10/06/2015 12:54

Mac - which I thought sounded really cool, and seriously considered. Our surname is a Mc name ... glad I didn't Smile

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Christelle2207 · 10/06/2015 12:56

Not awful but my dc1 would have been called Elsa if a girl. The whole
Frozen thing kicked off the following month.

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temperamentalamongcorvids · 10/06/2015 12:58

I loved the name Isis and would have used it had either of my dc been female .

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fourchetteoff · 10/06/2015 12:59

I really liked the name Gretchen. DH quite liked it but thought it wasn't a good choice in the end.

I look back and think WTF?!??! It sounds like Retching, combined with some horrible millennial mean girl from The Valley in Beverley Hills.

I blame the hormones.

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SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 10/06/2015 13:06

I only have the opposite - perfectly nice names that DH vetoed but would have been great.

Had I named my DCs as a single parent they would be called Isaac, Marcus & Jenna. However DH's 'word association' put paid to every single one Sad.

So far I think temperamental has had the greatest escape!

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FoamyOne · 10/06/2015 13:06

DS1 (almost 7) would have been Isla. Which I still think is absolutely lovely, but we have a boring last name, and for a number of reasons are keen that our children have less common names. I had thought that Isla was quite unusual, but there are lots around here - 3 in his class (of 19), so he would have been Isla number 4. I think I would have been quite upset by its sudden popularity.

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Caitmous · 10/06/2015 13:09

I wanted Toph/Topher after a character in my favourite book. DP said it sounded too much like tofu. He's not wrong, I now realise.

Plus, it's an American nn from Christopher and ds was never going to be a christopher.

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ArfurFoulkesayke · 10/06/2015 13:11

christelle2207 my DD1 is called Elsa, and as she makes very clear, no she does NOT WANT TO BUILD A BLOODY SNOWMAN Sad

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OrionsAccessory · 10/06/2015 13:17

She wanted to call dc1 Buster had she been a boy. He also wanted to call dd2 Bellina after the chicken from Return To Oz. Dh has shit weird taste in names.

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WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 10/06/2015 14:09

Dh wanted to dc1 Dylan. If he had been a girl...

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shitebag · 10/06/2015 14:30

DS would have been Dionne or Leyah had he been a she, thank Christ he wasn't as 9 years on I cringe at the thought!!

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HighwayDragon · 10/06/2015 14:41

Dd was nearly a Pixie, she even held the name in hospital for 2 days, but saying it out loud and about a baby not cat brought me to my senses!!

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Pagerty · 10/06/2015 16:37

We nicknamed my bump Herbert and I grew so attached to it that I spent ages trying to persuade DH to let me have it, Bertie for short. 4 years on and I am pretty relieved DS isn't a Herbert but I still love Bertie.

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Totality22 · 10/06/2015 18:07

Indiana - for a girl. I loved it but not one single person in RL had anything positive to say about it.

Adore the name we actually went for a million times more though!

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Theas18 · 10/06/2015 18:24

Aww there are too few little Herbert's around. I knew / know several. All Herbert's are entirely lovely. It's a rule I reckon.

If is have met thrm before I had DS ....

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ToGrapefruit · 10/06/2015 18:37

I had a wild fantasy of middle-naming my dd Tuesday if she was born on that day! It just appealed so much, and I still rather love it, but perhaps it's for the best that she was born on a Wednesday (and I didn't fancy that so much!)

On impulse we gave her the middle name of the dr who actually pulled her out of my section! Completely spontaneous decision.

I have a friend who is quite cross that Kate and William have now stolen both her dc's names... she's a big republican/ socialist! It's quite funny I think! Also her little George looks ever so like theirs.

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Wailywailywaily · 10/06/2015 21:12

I couldn't understand why DH vetoed Sebastien.

All our other DC have single syllable names.

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ThinkIveBeenHacked · 10/06/2015 21:12

Fox. Loved it. However (1) it is bonkers and (2) DD is Meg. I did not fancy shouting "Meg and Fox" in the playground.

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Francescal88 · 10/06/2015 21:20

Hacked, I love the name Fox also but think it is quite a name to live up to!

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