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name you wanted other half vetoed for no good reason...

111 replies

Enko · 24/04/2019 15:38

The do you like your name thread made me think of this question.

Name you liked for your unborn your other half vetoed for no good reason. So I mean fairly common names you liked you didn't get to use.

Mine is Allanah dh was on a mega no.

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Firefly89 · 29/04/2019 22:50

Harry- I have always loved it but husband wouldn't have it as someone else in the village was called it Hmm he would not change his mind

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 29/04/2019 22:41

Izaak
Rafal

Mind you he wanted Seweryn (pronounced Severin) which was obviously a no!

Aimily · 29/04/2019 22:37

Every single girls name I have suggested so far. I actually went through the alphabet and suggested a name a liked for every letter. He noped them all... But then I've also noped his choices. We've only agreed on one boys name, this is why I am convinced (we decided not to find out) we're having a boy.
If it's a girl or doesn't look like a Myles when it comes out we're kind of stuffed 😏

Rosebud1985 · 29/04/2019 22:34

Cleo and Carina

AndItStillSaidFourOfTwo · 29/04/2019 22:29

Orlando - really wanted it for dc3, and having had two boys and used up all my favourite names already, it was the only boys' name I really liked as opposed to thinking 'it's alright'. Dh vetoed. Dc3 was a dd and I'm sure if she'd been a ds I would have grown to love the 'compromise' name, but I'd have been a bit sad, I guess.

MrsWidgerysLodger · 29/04/2019 21:26

Cora or Grace for a girl, Noah for a boy.

MollysLips · 29/04/2019 21:25

Wolfie. Looking back, quite glad that got vetoed...

But the one we should have chosen was Alex/Alexander. It would have suited DS perfectly.

MadameJosephine · 29/04/2019 21:23

Felicity
Emmeline

Edison
Darwin

Aquilla · 29/04/2019 21:11

Margot. 'Too posh'
Elliott. 'Sounds like a twat'

TeenTitans · 29/04/2019 21:10

William. Henry.

RussellSprout · 29/04/2019 20:06

Leah.

Couldn't even use it as a middle name as her first name was Faye (say it quickly)

ABitOTT · 29/04/2019 19:56

Dougal - not for a human child but the dog's name I loved. Was banned from having this but with hindsight my dog doesn't look like a Dougal

tdam · 29/04/2019 12:49

I would do anything to use Olive for our daughter due in a few months but it was vetoed. He doesn't like any names that are things. So others that I like like Violet and Iris are out too. I also adore Margot/Margaux but he said it makes him think of 'maggot' Sad

I do love the two names it's down to though so it's not all bad!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/04/2019 19:50

I really liked the name Zipporah, Zippy for short, but that was instantly turned down.

I suppose, in hindsight, people of our generation would constantly be thinking they were the first to ask 'hilariously' where George, Geoffrey and Bungle were. We had a boy, though, so it was irrelevant in the end anyway.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/04/2019 19:47

I loved Lola but DH couldn't get 'charlie and lola' out of his head

Maybe I'm just old, but it would be the subject of the song by The Kinks that would instantly put the kibosh on that one for me.

Dualta

I've never heard of that name - just makes me think of a toaster, though.

BillywigSting · 26/04/2019 07:43

Joshua for a boy

Rose for a girl

To be fair to him though he did have reasons for both, but imo 'I don't like it' is a good enough reason to veto a name

ItsAllGone19 · 26/04/2019 07:39

Poppy & Elin he hated both of those girls names for no reason. He vetoed none of my boy names but I had to veto loads of his names...
Leia
Luke
Zeus
Chip
...were the most memorable. I played my only power card of us being unmarried at the time of birth for both our children, so my veto held a lot more sway.

SamStephens · 26/04/2019 07:32

Every girls name I came out with (Parker, Harper, Hannah, Arizona, etc) but it was because the second we knew our first was a girl he just had a name in his head and he so staunchly stuck to it from 10wks in that I let him have it.

I did the same the second I knew we were having a boy, and he didn’t put up much of a fight.

Baby 3 on the way and we aren’t even at the stage of discussing yet, but I think we’ve got a pretty clear winner on either side of boy/girl now that it’ll be easy.

KitNCaboodle · 26/04/2019 07:32

Xavier, Arthur and Teddy
Betsy (reminded him of Betty Swollocks)

I vetoed Imogen

MrsBobDylan · 26/04/2019 07:26

I often think it was always destined to be be ds2 name. It suits him and with only 2 letters (1 appears twice) it has been easy to learn for a child who goes to a special school and definitely CBA with reading and writing!!

MrsBobDylan · 26/04/2019 07:22

Soz presses send too soon.

...but now dh loves ds2 name. Can say what it is as it is very unusual. Often comes up on these boards as a suggestion tho.

MrsBobDylan · 26/04/2019 07:20

Frank. However he vetoed ds2's name for ds1 but had a half hearted change of mind and agreed it. We announced his name and a week later DH said he didn't like it

LadyBrienneofTarth · 26/04/2019 07:09

Plus on the boy side

Isaac
Isaiah
Elias
Tom

Grrrrr

LadyBrienneofTarth · 26/04/2019 07:07

Sydney
Savannah
India
Mabel

Still annoyed many years later Grin

OnlineAlienator · 26/04/2019 04:51

Isambard.

Still smarting.