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

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dizzydixies · 28/03/2008 19:07

Ellis
Lola
Dixie and Jack

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dizzydixies · 28/03/2008 20:56

Jenna, maiden name is Taylor
say it fast

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theboob · 28/03/2008 20:50

loved the name conner for ds1 until mum pointed out that with our surname sounded like an std,(gonorea)

kitsmummy · 28/03/2008 20:46

Clementine, although I'm using it as a middle name, but would love it as a first name, but not allowed.

BexieID · 28/03/2008 20:40

Jenson and any H names, as DFs surname is Henson!

ClairePO · 28/03/2008 20:39

Ben - a friend has it for her DS
Sophie - DNiece
David - both dads names, I wouldn't mind re mine but DP's dad is an arse and DP can't stand him
Peter - love this but don't like Pete
Isobel - DP veto

I have thought about this far too much. Desperate to conceive person alert.

constancereader · 28/03/2008 20:38

Octavia - because I don't want eight children and it is the name of a skoda.

GirlySquare · 28/03/2008 20:35

Heard a story about friend of a friend who wanted to call her PFB Lucinda until she married a guy with surname 'Head'...

sweetkitty · 28/03/2008 20:29

Millie (with our surname would sound v like Millipede)
Eve
Olivia

cyteen · 28/03/2008 20:26

Friends' names as well...I like Aaron and love Verity and Clara, but have friends with these names and people would always be asking if the kid was named after them (which it wouldn't be). Katarina is one of my favourite names but it's also BF's name and I have a similar weird-out as with my brother's name - couldn't have another Katarina in my life, it wouldn't feel right.

PeppermintPatty · 28/03/2008 20:11

Anything with a 'th' sound (ie. Faith, Beth), as surname is North.
Imagine if LO had a lisp!

LaDiDaDi · 28/03/2008 20:07

Clara because it's too much like dd's name.

Gabrielle, too much of a a mouthful with a surname begining with the same hard G sound.

I also really like Neela for a girl but not sure as neither me nor dp come from an Asian background and it's much more unusual compared with dd's. Also I know someone with this name but Iwouldn't want her to think that I named dd after her.

needtoasksomething · 28/03/2008 20:03

Dexter... love it but our surname starts with D and the middle name we picked out starts with D as well!

Califrau · 28/03/2008 20:01

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berolina · 28/03/2008 20:00

Benjamin is sadly out for us too, as he would be bound to be Ben at some point and the effect with dh's name (i.e. 'Ben and...') would be very comical. (And no, dh is not Bill).

Peachy · 28/03/2008 19:59

Summer and Amber Peach are better..... the all new air freshener range from Glade.

And Ruby Peach sounds like she's an 18th century mid-westerner on the game!

KristinaM · 28/03/2008 19:58

Lucy - doesn't work with surname

harry - because we already have a Tom

John - because it rhymes with Tom

saskia - because all the other kids have traditional names and someone told me it was a character on a soap

Kindersurprise · 28/03/2008 19:55

Peachy
Shame, I quite like Sweetie Peach

Sounds like the heroine of a trashy novel set in Alabama.

eekamoose · 28/03/2008 19:54

Mary for a girl (worst bitch person I have ever met in my life who I still loathe and despise) was called Mary, but I love the name.

Ruben for a boy. We had a boy but we just couldn't name him Ruben ... his older sister is Ruby .

Kindersurprise · 28/03/2008 19:54

We had the same problem as Scotia, our surname starts with a N so Nathan was ruled out.

Actually, it was also because my German MIL would not be able to pronounce Nathan. Nazan does not sound the same.

Phillip and Thomas, because they are the names of close family members.

cyteen · 28/03/2008 19:53

Simon. It was my brother's name, and I love it, but I could never call my child by his name - it would be too weird.

Peachy · 28/03/2008 19:53

patricia, as was my best friends name and she died at 16- but even if I'd not had a surname starting P, i'd never have a girl, just boys here.

Anything resembling a colour, flower or fruit, season, or anything too girly.

Take
summer
amber
sweetie
lola
violet
rosie

and add peach after.......

quite

berolina · 28/03/2008 19:52

Rosamond - because we live in Germany and it is German for 'pink moon' . The fact that I dislike their German pronunciation puts paid to quite a few lovely names.

Matthias, because a schoolmate of dh's of this name was murdered

Emmanuel - because ds1 is Samuel.

Names that end in -a are not really ideal with our surname, which starts with an 'eh' type sound.

colander · 28/03/2008 19:51

Beth and Ben (guess what our surname starts with), Erica (DH not keen, but if we ever have DD3 I bet I could twist his arm!!!)

Califrau · 28/03/2008 19:51

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abigaillockhart · 28/03/2008 19:50

Sabrina - love it but couldn't stand the thought of all the 'teenage witch' comments.