What names were rejected when naming your children?

[PepsiFan77]

My partner wanted Alex , I said no

Iarla, Ferdia, Sadhbh, Naoise.

Harriet
Robyn
Alexandra
Lucinda
Henrietta
Jessica
Lucille

All on shortlist but rejected

Estelle and Suzanne
I had no more girls

Gareth and stephen

Another Harriet here

My eldest would have been Rufus Otto if I had my way but we compromised with Reuben Ethan and my second would have been Jesper Jago he ended up being Eben Jago. All my girls names were rejected my favourite was Velvet.

I wanted Anya, my parents didn’t so I chose something else

DS: Christian, Daniel, Nathaniel, Finn
DD: Madeleine, Annalisa, Francesca, Marianne
Still like all of them. DS likes the name we settled on but DD doesn’t like hers much at all and would maybe have preferred one of the others from the shortlist.

DH rejected my all time favourite- Alasdair.
I got my second choice though

I blame hormones in retrospect. I wanted to name ours DDs... Boudicca and Edelweiss. Luckily DH kept his head.

DH wanted Rhys. I said no. I wanted Fynn he said no.

We have an Alex!

Rosa and Clara were a 'no' from DH.

Amelia and Aurelia were a 'no' from me.

My great uncle was Otto.He .died at sea. Never fancied it for ds so was amazed when friend’s daughter called her son it
Of the o names much prefer, Marco, Bruno, Jaco, Milo

My cousin named her son Felix 21 years ago when it was quite unusual
But now it’s everyone and his cat

I wanted Belinda or Miranda or something else along those lines.
He wanted Christine or Alison
We compromised on Jessica (suggested by a nice nurse!)

@MyNameForToday1980
I like all 4 of those

Oh and DH also banned:
Harriet and Juliet.

Mind you, I wasn't going for Madeleine or Maisie.

I wanted Isaac for DS1 and Joseph for DS2. DH vetoed both. He wanted Jack both times. I wouldn't agree.

@iguanadonna

Isambard. Among others. I had to take a very firm line with DH.

I know someone with Brunel as a middle name!

I have ALWAYS wanted Aiobheann (I am irish), DH said it had too many unnecessary letters.. He wanted Olivia, I said it was too common and she would be one of 4 in her class which, as a teacher, drives me mad. He also wanted Summer, or Poppy. I vetoed them too. Something about a November baby named Summer isnt right.

I think naming your child is the only true revenge you get for all the times they are right twats 😂😂😂

@FairfaxAikman I've always quite liked Alasdair too but it always reminds me of Billy Connolly's 'with a d-a-i-r' joke

John

So many but Marion and Elijah top the list.

I wanted Jesse for DS1 and Gabriel for DS2.
In hindsight I'm glad dh vetoed Gabriel but I do think DS1 would have made a great Jesse, he is a cool musician dude

However he is marrying a Jess, so maybe not....!

I wanted Max, husband didn't, and he wanted Auberon, but he was keen to stay married.
We chose one very popular traditional name and one traditional name creeping back into the ratings.