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Names you loved but DP vetoed

59 replies

Iwasthefourthwiseman · 12/12/2010 09:10

For me: Betty, Aurelia, Andrina and Rosa

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RockinRobinBird · 12/12/2010 20:14

Verity and Dominic. He said they sound poncey. His brother is called Piers ffs :o

BeetleBaby · 12/12/2010 20:12

My DH vetoed Seth as well Sad I love it but apparently it just makes him think of an "emo kid teenager wearing jeans with the crotch so low he looks like it'll trip him up"...And I thought I was over thinking names!!

Bejingaling (I hope I've got your name right!) One of your vetoed names is part of my name! Xmas Grin DH is very keen to use it so if ours is a girl it will be middle name. He was all for it being a first name but I went through a phase of hating it as my own name around 9years old (wanted Louise like all the other girls at school!) and worried history would repeat itself. I love my name now though!

thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 12/12/2010 19:51

See, I quite like Jocelyn - but can see that from the list of names you were suggesting, Darnsarf that it's way off the mark. DHs sometime just don't try, do they?

Darnsarfupnorf · 12/12/2010 19:16

mine vetod isla, alexa, olivia, pippa, faye, effie (soo many more!!) all my pretty girls names and then suggested Jocelyn! is he taking the piss!? then decided on ruby, and he wasnt gonna shift on it and would veto everythin i suggested untill i agreed with him! never! so when he eventualy suggested raine and river we comprimised and made her orla raine..see how long it sticks before he changes his mind...!

BelligerentGhoul · 12/12/2010 19:14

Cece - I love Wesley!

Dp wanted names like Sophie and Chloe but I vetoed those.

SandStorm · 12/12/2010 19:12

He vetoed Daniel, I vetoed Lawrence. Thank God we had another girl!

panettoinydog · 12/12/2010 19:02

Stella. Sigh

PressureDrop · 12/12/2010 18:48

Girls: Maria, Lola, Zora

Boys: Oisin, Fidel (DH laughed his head off at Fidel, before fixing me with an 'are you utterly bonkers?' stare and saying very firmly:'NO').

thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 12/12/2010 18:46

spidookly - Graham? Yvonne? I think not Grin.

smoggii · 12/12/2010 18:38

Antigone (Tiggy)

Cedric

reup · 12/12/2010 18:35

Seth. He said it reminded him of cess Pitt. Also jared

SantasKnickersOnMyHead · 12/12/2010 18:30

Damien. Actually, I was quite intent of calling him Damien.....and the he was born on the 31st Oct Hmm

spidookly · 12/12/2010 18:28

On the contrary Iwas - this thread suggests that men are the only thing standing in the way of their children being given some godawful names :o

Fourleaf · 12/12/2010 18:20

Jonah
Osian
Rowan (sob!)

He likes simple, masculine boys names (quite common for Dads perhaps?), but would approve of most of my eccentric, flowery girl names...

We had a boy and luckily found a simple name we both liked :)

cece · 12/12/2010 18:12

Sidney for DS1. I am still Sad about it.

Other boys names I loved but DH vetoed.

Wesley
Spencer
Lisle/Lyle
Gregory

Girls, I rather liked Ottilie but he wouldn't hear of it.

Having said that though I also vetoed some of his ideas....

DaisySteiner · 12/12/2010 18:10

Lettice

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Iwasthefourthwiseman · 12/12/2010 18:09

Wow, all these DPs just have no taste do they?Xmas Grin

Love Otis, Ottilie and Sout.

DH also vetoed Camille and Celia

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thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 12/12/2010 11:57

That's nothing ShanahansRevenge, before we knew that DC3 was a boy, he actually suggested 'Yvonne'. And there was no hint of irony.

pink4ever · 12/12/2010 11:12

Begged my dh to let me call dd Agatha(my fave girls name since I was 10!) but he said over his dead body!
Also vetoed-
Cecelia
Clothilde
wilhemina
Veronica

Still pine for my wee Agatha Sad

ShanahansRevenge · 12/12/2010 11:08

Oooh yes! Posie was one of mine too! As was Rowena and Clara.

ShanahansRevenge · 12/12/2010 11:07

Grin at Graham!

ShanahansRevenge · 12/12/2010 11:06

Aurelia here too! And Tabitha and Violet.

Sad

Dismal old DH.

Komondor · 12/12/2010 10:59

Marianne, Clarissa, Eloise, Caroline, Freya

beijingaling · 12/12/2010 10:52

Arabella, Amabell, Araminta, Cressida, Electra, Savannah, Stella and many, many others.

Violet5 · 12/12/2010 10:37

Scarlet and Violet