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names you would love to use but can't, for whatever reason

159 replies

dizzydixies · 28/03/2008 19:07

Ellis
Lola
Dixie and Jack

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Doobydoo · 31/03/2008 20:57

If we had a dd she would have been Nancy...but seems to becoming popular.Ds2 is Milo...couldn't give a damn if one of the tweenies is called the same.There will always be people around to make pointless comments whatever you call your child

ThingOne · 31/03/2008 17:38

I'm glad we didn't choose Milo for our PFB as we didn't know Tweenie names then, ditto Lola was on our list but we had a boy.

I liked Charlotte or Lottie. DH vetoed and we had another boy anyway.

I loved Max but surname starts with M.

Benjamin but my fuckwit SIL announced her baby's name as soon as they'd had the 12 week scan when I was a couple of weeks away from giving birth. I nearly chose it anyway but decided a lifetime of rancour was a bad plan. No, it doesn't annoy me .

Tom as it's my BIL's name.

Half the other boys' names as my sister has four boys and has nicked quite a few goodies already.

TheFallenMadonna · 31/03/2008 15:10

Eve

missblythe · 31/03/2008 15:07

DD was so nearly Nancy, but after she was few days old, we decided on Blythe.

Hmm, regret changing our minds sometimes...

jellybelly2007 · 31/03/2008 13:39

keidis cos im a big chili peppers fan (anthony keidis is the singer) but dh said we werent rich enough to call our son that, and mil couldnt pronounce it, coming out with different variations each time she tried, til eventualy she gave up and said "if you name him that i'll just call him liam cos i like that!!!"
we called him adam.

beckyvicky · 31/03/2008 13:28

Natasha. Our surname has "a's" in it and it would sound like a good sneeze.

marina · 31/03/2008 12:07

Ellen or Lucy (one would mortally offend my mum, the other my MIL, so at one stage dd was going to be Ellen Lucy )
Philip (problematic old flame)
We can't do names ending with -a either, as it clashes with our surname
Jennifer, Susan, Kim, Vivian...the gang who bullied me at primary school

SixSpotBurnet · 31/03/2008 11:57

Rory

Dylan

bratley · 31/03/2008 11:56

I've always liked Aston or Ashton but had to rethink when I married DH.

With our surname, Martin, our little boy would have become his Daddy's dream car!

Would be the only way he'd own one!

imaginewittynamehere · 31/03/2008 10:53

Catherine, Lorna, Imogen, James, Anya - all family names

Saskia which I love is too much like DD's name. Lucy which has really really grown on me because is very close to DD's middle name.

Elizabeth because I have known 2 awful ones spoiling a lovely name for me forever

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dizzydixies · 31/03/2008 10:41

ROFL @ cicatrice@ boy name sue!!!
Iw as desperate to call dd2 Dylan but dh wouldn't budge, he's not said he's come round to it a bit - too farking late [humph]

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Hulababy · 31/03/2008 10:18

My name is King too - so lots of names out fr us, including Joseph (which is the name iI really wanted to use for a boy but Joe really doesn't work!)

TaLcYonHerTodd · 31/03/2008 10:12

Violet, but my surname is King.

Cicatrice · 31/03/2008 10:11

Demelza - DH wouldn't hear of it
Lydia - DH wouldn't hear of it
Eleanor - friend has one (though I could just have stopped seeing her, I really like the name)
Ariadne - because no one will be able to spell it, apparently

Had a boy in the end despite my conviction I was carrying a girl so none of them were goers.

Tried to convince DH that we could use them anyway (taking the Johnny Cash "Boy named Sue" attitude to child rearing) but he wasn't having any of that either.

MouseMate · 31/03/2008 09:49

Willow - because we have a W surname and it was too much of a mouthful.

Lily - because both DM and MIL said 'urgh' when I suggested it.

Xanthe - because I found out it meant 'golden blonde' and both dh and I are dark......odds were that dd would be dark too (and she was!). Mind you I met an 'Ebony' a few weeks ago that was as blonde as anything, so maybe I shouldn't have worried.

Millie - because my bf got there before me (although she's Emilie really)

Welsh names - as strangely my DMil didn't like any of them even tho' she is from deepest darkest Wales.

FossilSister · 30/03/2008 22:21

Ruby and Edith. I love them but dh said "Over my dead body". Which, looking back, sounds like an incentive.

loopybear · 30/03/2008 21:03

Agatha - don't like Aggie for short and everyone thought I was barking.
Poppy - Our surname begins with P
Matthew - I taught a child from Hell called Matthew actual alot of names got dismissed because I'd taught children with that name who were odd / perculiar

wa11ace · 30/03/2008 20:47

Our favourites were Thomas and Emily- but our niece and nephew have those names, and share our surname too.

Took at loooong time to find some others we liked as much.

rozzyraspberry · 30/03/2008 20:38

Eve - had 3 boys!

MrsArchieTheInventor · 30/03/2008 18:45

Benjamin
Alexander
Tobias
Jennifer

blackrock · 30/03/2008 17:56

Dangerfield...

Agnes... love the French version, loathe the English!

mollymawk · 30/03/2008 14:48

Robert. Lovely name but I have to work with two Roberts, one of whom is reasonableness personified but the other is a total arse so couldn't have his namesake in the house.

mummyoffrankie · 30/03/2008 14:05

Araminta

Dh scoffed at this name but has been my favourite for like, ever.

notnowbernard · 30/03/2008 12:50

Liked a few boys names beginning with B (I really liked Bobby) but surname also begins with B and it would have sounded a bit 'Roy of the Rovers'

We had girls, anyway

Doobydoo · 30/03/2008 12:46

Actually mrsmacleod...The Tweenies I can live with.Liv Tyler NOOOOOOO