What's the strangest reason for rejecting a name you've heard?

DH won't call any girl baby we have 'Orla' because there was an 'Orlaith' on Big Brother about 15 years ago who had big boobs, and he doesn't think it's right to be reminded of somebody's boobs when he's talking to his daughter

I have pointed out that he wouldn't think of this when it was his daughter's name, and he has accepted that, but still vetoes the name. GRR.

I am 14 weeks pregnant with our first baby. DH and I are keeping the name discussions private, in case of many of the issues mentioned above! At least this way we only have to deal with our own crazy reasoning rather than our whole family's.

Our problem is that we have come up with two boy names that we love. Shouldn't be a problem, we should just use one and save the other for a potential second son, or use it as a middle name. Problem is, the names are George and Harrison...

So one of them is going to have to be vetoed!

I know a child who would have been Aaron. A few days before he was born his mum told his dad to "keep your hair on", and the baby to be became Carl.

Some of these are brilliant, especially it sounds like eye-sack and reminded him of a boy who wore trainers instead of shoes

My mother wouldn't give me a middle name she really wanted (Grace) as my first name starts with E and she thought if I had EG I couldn't then marry someone with the last name Gordon as I would be EGG

But that left me with the initials ET. So...rather than possibly have me named EGG she definitely named me ET Still don't understand it, and I've never met anyone with the last name Gordon! Have had a lot of sniggers at my initials though.

Dh vetoed Dominic as someone at school was referred to as 'doms-a-dick'. I vetoed Lucas as I refer to someone as 'luc-arse' he totally deserves it though

When I found out the twins I was expecting were boys I had to find a second boy's name, having chosen one early on. I wanted Gordon but my stepdaughters were in hysterics about it. It was at the time of Gordon the Gopher on Saturday tv. So glad we didn't call him after all.

I vetoed a name DH chose because it's really unusual, and a work with somebody with the name. I know her a bit, but not that well. DH had also met her once or twice through work.

Really unusual name I don't know anyone with - fine
That we know someone who with - fine
That a passing acquaintance/collegue is called - too odd.
As it happens someone who reports to her used the name for his DD s couple of years later, and she was quite

My mum rejected my brother's name of Nora for his daughter, as apparantly her father had once had an affair with a woman called Nora back in 1950-something.

She is currently on a one-woman campaign to get them to change it to Laura!

My grandmother tried to veto my name as she thought people would think I was black.....

A friend had Max vetoed as her MIL had had an affair with Max Clifford.

I retired Lachlan because Loki means asshole in German apparently!

DH vetoed Lydia because it sounds like chlamydia

EllenTheEgret -- I vetoed Ailsa for DD1 because of Home and Away too! I'd actually come around to the idea by the time we got to DD2 but by then DH wasn't as keen anyway.

I vetoed Mackenzie (my husband's middle name and a family name passed to all the boys) because it reminded me (my words) 'that kid from so solid crew..... I hate so solid crew'.
I have since found out there was no Mackenzie from So Solid Crew. There is a Kenzie from Blazing Squad and I actually quite liked one of Blazing Squad's songs. Not enough to name my child Mackenzie though.

And my husband vetoed Posy because, he said, people would call her Posy the Poser...... sigh

My DH has vetoed Jonah because "it's an old man's name". He has never met any Jonahs, old or young

My dp won't use Ailsa because of Home and Away.

This will out me, but DH refused to call DS2 Henry as DS1 is called Thomas. Apparently everyone would ask when we would be having a Richard (Tom, Dick & Harry) .

DH vetoed names based in fictional characters, ie

Cyrus.....the virus
Phineas... Fogg

Can't remember the others but there was a long list.

All 3 of the DC names, I suggested names and he said, nah I don't like that. They all ended up with my original suggestion.

I have a very weird one, and I have no explanation for it at all... DH loved the name Beth for a girl, but for some crazy reason it makes me think of corned beef yes I know I'm a crazy person

A sad one, but I have a friend who wanted to name her DS Jack, but her DH vetoed it as he is black and was worried the DS would be called Black Jack. So sad that was seen as a real possibility in this day and age.

I liked Matthias for dc2, dh said no as he had had a classmate of that name (not in UK) who was murdered Not a 'strange' reason at all, though - a very sad one.

We dismissed a planned middle name for dc3 because it rhymed with another middle name that we definitely wanted to use (all our dc have 2 middle names).

DH's family said I couldn't name either of my boys after my father, whom I adored, because it was the same name as a politician's (they hated) husband. Totally irrational, but there you go.

One day I got talking to a proud grandma who was telling me that her DD and son-in-law were expecting again. Further along she confided she was a bit anxious because they were considering names she thought of as "black".
This was in the west country last year.

My partner vetoed Tabitha (which I adore) because he said it was a cat's name.

He vetoed Hope because we wanted our theoretical daughter (we had a boy in the end) to have the middle name Ivy, and it would mean she could never marry someone with a surname beginning with V, because then her initials would be HIV.

DH vetoed my favourite ever name because (apparently) it was the name of someone his uncle had an affair with many years ago and he didn't want to upset his aunt by reminding her of this (never mind that we see the uncle and aunt about once a year. Or that the uncle still works with the woman he had the affair with, so I can't see the aunt being all that bothered).

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