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I suggest Grace, Anna, Lydia, he suggests Yvette... I'm thinking the problem is bigger than babynaming....have you had any suggestions from DH/DP that made you choke on your cereal?

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Jackaroo · 09/06/2008 10:44

fortunately this was idle chatter about a not-yet conceived child, so we have time to work on it....

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greenelizabeth · 19/06/2008 15:36

Piper, now that's a name that just makes me think of potato. Maris Piper. Wouldn't be my choice

What do you DO with it when you're 25 and stuck with a dated name. Sort of like Tiffany but not even pretty!!!

gillydaffodil · 19/06/2008 15:29

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SalBow · 19/06/2008 15:17

Bugger, I hope they don't go on mn and see that

SalBow · 19/06/2008 15:10

Haha, thanks that is hilarious!
One of my pet hates is surnames as first names! This was one of the (many) "discussions" Dh and I had.
I can't wait to show that to him tonight.

DH's Aussie best friends went with Piper for their little girl (is there a cringe emoticon?)

I'm hesitant about sharing this with you, but I liked Billy and dh said we couldn't call him that cos "he knew a retarded boy called Billy when he was growing up" (nice).

OracleInaCoracle · 19/06/2008 14:43

dh wanted to call our ds Zeecko. i was not impressed. in the end we settled on Noah.

greenelizabeth · 19/06/2008 14:43

Salbow, here you are, it's called the chasers war on bogan names.

enjoy!!

greenelizabeth · 19/06/2008 14:41

Hey pp, you ever seen that clip 'chasers' two aussie guys going around giving out fines to children with bogan names. It's hilarious. I'll dig it out for you, make him watch it and then maybe he will stay on the classic side of bogan iykwim.

greenelizabeth · 19/06/2008 14:40

Grace, Anna, Lydia - your names. I love all of these. Yvette sounds very dated to me. I knew one at school and I knew an Yvonne too. I think it was the height of chic way back in 1971. But, perhaps it could be seen as a nod to Yves Saint Laurent??

Personally, I prefer Evelyn. Evelyn Grace sounds good.. I love Lydia SO much, but it would be too repetitive after Evelyn.

Yvette Lydia Grace sounds good though.

It would take me a while to get behind Yvette, but it has got a certain je ne sais quoi, mummy and daddy do not follow the herd about it which I really like. It's different without trying too hard.

SalBow · 18/06/2008 13:50

God, what is it with men and names???
DH suggestions were Talon - sounds more like a gladiator or a pitbull name to me, Thor (again), and Cervarsius (not even sure how you spell this one).

Hi is Aussie though, and I think they seem to be a mit more 'creative' with names.

Everything I suggested, he knew a dog called that when he was growing up .

We argued sooo much about names that in the end we just had to stop talking about it. When I gave birth, DH rightly came to his senses and realised that I should have the right to choose the name .

chandellina · 18/06/2008 13:26

have had to deflect Kai and Mitch (baby's surname to be Mitchell no less)
got to love Mitchell Mitchell.

EachPeachPearMum · 17/06/2008 16:21

Oh, his other (serious) suggestion was Ajax

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nooka · 17/06/2008 15:59

Dh was well into Greek classics and wanted Hector and Cassandra when we were first dating. Then when we were sure we didn't want children we called them Oedipus and Jocasta (still with the Greek theme). When it came to it we both struggled to find names we really liked, but it wasn't because we disagreed. When I was little I wanted to have 11 children, and the youngest was going to be Zachariah!

We've generally confined mad names to pets (the next two cats will be Amos and Mr Wilkes )

geordieminx · 17/06/2008 15:45

Dp suggestion Kenny, Stevie, Rafa and Kevin....He is a liverpool supporter... but still he likes "normal" names.. suggested names like Paula, Helen and Lynsey forgirls... all fine names but very 80's. They all remind me of people I went to school with.

We only had 1 name out of a whole book full that we agreed on.... we now have ds... Charlie.

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 17/06/2008 14:47

Meredith

hubarbspong · 17/06/2008 14:45

Really wanted to call bump Thor (Scandinavian heritage & surname) but DW vetoed it, fortunately we seem to be having a girl.

EachPeachPearMum · 17/06/2008 12:52

We had absolutely no boys names first time round- thankfully was dd, BUT Dh's suggestion was 'Gallant'

Thats not even a name!

fryalot · 17/06/2008 12:25

dp suggested that as ds was due around about the 200th anniversary of the battle of trafalgar (or waterloo, I forget ) he wanted to call him Horatio after Horatio Nelson.

I said no.

vesela · 17/06/2008 12:22

Ghislaine.

Aero · 14/06/2008 22:02

Dh suggested Dennis and Trevor (no lie) as boys names when ds1 (10) was on the way!!!!! OMG - I sooooooooooo got to choose names in this house. I would have thought it funny if he wasn't serious.shock He's a huge cricket fan and these are the names of well known cricketers (allegedly). Needless to say I suggested all acceptable names and he just agreed to the ones he didn't hate. The dcs all have lovely names (imho of course).

MONKEYMONKEY · 14/06/2008 22:01

If you veoted how about Raine? or sawyer

Cecy · 14/06/2008 21:46

Dh suggested Hayley for a girl, needless to say I vetoed it.

LaDiDaDi · 14/06/2008 20:56

When I was pregnant and we were looking for a name for dd I liked Isobel, Anya, Matilda and Aurelia.

The only two girls names in our baby name book that dp underlined to indicate that he liked them were Demi and Blair .

Dd is not called Demi or Blair.

moodlumthehoodlum · 14/06/2008 18:34

DH really wanted Austin for ds.

halogen · 14/06/2008 18:34

Haha at Roger!