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Names DP has come up with...

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Snowflakepie · 23/10/2012 11:17

...and you just cannot stand? Still early days for us but before we knew DD was a girl, DH came up with Tennyson for a boy. I thought he was joking and just laughed, but he was serious. Is there hope for this poor DC?! We've already had the 'no to Tennyson' conversation just to get it out of the way!

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Poppins27 · 05/01/2013 21:09

My DPs (not so) helpful input was Admiral for a boy...the rationing for this was he would 'be someone'. I could only assume he would 'be bullied'!!

YoSaffBridge · 05/01/2013 20:50

I have quite an obvious lisp, more than enough to rule out any names that are too sibilant, and DP went through a phase of suggesting names like Sarah, Isaac, Isabel... Hmm

LexiLoganberry · 05/01/2013 16:46

I'm expecting at the moment and I have agreed that my DH can name the baby, I have put a condition one name which I strongly dislike, Emily, sorry to any Emily's or parents of Emily's.

Thankfully we have similar tastes in names and I know he would never choose a name I didn't like, he's a fair man.

ISpyPlumPie · 05/01/2013 12:36

DH suggested both Leighton and Duane for a boy - tbf, he was somewhat 'refreshed' at the time and both DSs avoided these inspired choices.

His taste in girls' names is stuck firmly in his schooldays - Michelle, Claire etc - absolutely nothing wrong with them in themselves, but not exactly common amongst girls born this millenium!

SpikyLikey · 05/01/2013 11:37

Angelique for a girl. Sounds gorgeous in a French accent, but in a flat London accent, sounds like Angie-Leek. No.

BestIsWest · 05/01/2013 11:33

Woodrow, Woody for short. Failing that, Tiago. Just no.

BinarySolo · 05/01/2013 11:32

Weeps even. Stupid sausage fingers

BinarySolo · 05/01/2013 11:29

Dh suggested Napoleon last time round. This time the only name he vaguely likes is Thor.

QuietNinjaTardis · 05/01/2013 08:47

Dh came up with Bismarck Hmm which I think he was joking about. He also suggested Sebastian which I had suggested 3 weeks earlier and he had vetoed and then ruined it by nick naming him sebby. Oh and he also came up with striker. Ds has none of those names.

hurricanewyn · 05/01/2013 08:07

Django for a boy & Serendipity (nn dippy!) for a girl.

Neither were chosen.

mrscog · 05/01/2013 08:01

Another DH here who suggested Wolf (well Wolfgang actually) 'because it will make him sound hard when he's at school'

akaemmafrost · 05/01/2013 06:16

Ex suggested Keith and Kathleen, which would have been fine if we were c1977, but we are not! He denies these suggestions now but he DID.

volvocowgirl · 05/01/2013 03:30

I love Jackson. But OH says it reminds him of MJ immediately.

OH wanted Smash for a boy (and that was before the new Avengers movie) and Cherry for a girl (I went to school with a Cherry and thought it was really pretty and different but my obsession with American crime dramas has resulted in me automatically thinking 'stripper' when I hear it now).

We're still TTC so I have time to talk him into something nicer!

rkh15900 · 05/01/2013 00:23

'mercedes' and/or 'porsche' ..... hope he was joking - aint never gonna happen !!

SerenityNOT · 26/10/2012 08:40

DH suggested Frank - I hated it, FIL immediately called out "Frank the Wank", to which DH said "No, after my favourite guitarist, Frannie Beecher"
Fanny? No. Not really, thank you.
MIL wanted something posh and suggested Alisdair (DH said 'gay flight attendant') and StJohn - remember its pronounced singe-un - to which I fell about laughing and DH reminder her it would not be becoming of a Jewish man to name his child after a Christian saint, even if DS isn't Jewish himself...
We had a lovely time with names.

HappyHippyChick · 26/10/2012 08:38

Pedro? That's inspired! Grin

LivingInAGoldBubble · 26/10/2012 08:37

No dc here yet but we do discuss baby names and DH has terrible taste! Girls-names like Sharon and Tracy, this is not even the decade of his school friends etc. Meanwhile I like unusual names so hs suggestions of names like David fall on deaf ears! Mind you, he turned to me the other day and suggested Percival! I can only hope he is trying to think of unusual names and just has awful taste, apologies to all who like his names, thy are not my choice.

Alisvolatpropiis · 26/10/2012 08:06

OH suggests names like Ruth. I like names like Aurelia. I foresee tantrums discussions taking place at some point.

mathanxiety · 26/10/2012 04:40

Colmcille, if any of the last three had been boys. What a lucky escape.

Em2010 · 25/10/2012 23:03

When I first met dh he wanted 3 boys- to be called Ashley, Andre and Pedro.... (Dh is English) Hmm Needless to say our ds1 is called James!

HappyHippyChick · 25/10/2012 22:54

Flick I think the otter was Tarka. Taka is like tacky but with an a! classy

PinkSoccerMum · 25/10/2012 20:58

Rocky, Carlisle, Gene Grin

scentednappyhag · 25/10/2012 20:55

Not my DH, but my male co worker wanted to call his DD Murbella Confused
(turned out to be a fake girlfriend and pregnancy, and then he told everyone he'd died, he was just a bit of an odd ball really...)

JasperStreet · 25/10/2012 20:53

DH suggested Brian. He said Brians tend to be good blokes. He has since lost his right to name any future children.

Yika · 25/10/2012 20:51

I actually like some of these! Bernice is lovely for example. Humphrey and Davinia on the other hand ... My now XDP suggested Sharon for DD. to be fair, it sounds pretty in french and doesn't have any particular social connotation here in Belgium.
Several decades ago meanwhile, my dear dad suggested Clarence or Maurice for my little bro. Good thing my mum was there!

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