Tell me the name you love but can't use

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After a conversation with friends we all have a name that we love but can't use for various reasons

Our examples are:

Jame- because an ex bil was called that and its weird to have a nephew with the same name as your ex husband

Lyra - friends parents ended up adopting a dog with that name

Iris- goes absolutely horribly with my surname

So tell me your names that you cant justifiably choose! Are you someone that loved the name myra but have a horrid aunt called it? Or have an impossible surname that combines awkwardly with a beautiful name?

Emma. I love it but did not work with our surname at all :(

My brother couldn’t use Emily, I had to point out it didn’t go with surname. It would have ended up a rhyming alliteration mouthful.

I loved Lucy but it's DH's ex fiancée's name, so he vetoed it

I also loved Lyra but it sounds like one long noise with our surname

Cormac - DH has a cousin called it and thinks it’s too unusual to get away with using.

Tadhg - our surname begins with an “Er” sound.

James or Jamie - My husband (now ex) had a friend called James who I had slept with before meeting husband.

Rebecca - husband's ex-fiance.

My two favourite names.

I like Maggie

But our surname is Smith...

I liked Eve too but I think one syllable names don’t go well with one syllable surnames

Myfanwy

Love the name but know what kids would do to it in school.

Autumn..surname is Day so rules out lots of names like Holly etc but Autumn before I met my husband would have been my daughters name

Augusta. Literally everyone else including dh hates. Fortunately not having any more kids!

Georgia - cousin's name
Alistair or Alexander - female cousin called Ali
Sienna - this was my favourite name for years but DD would have the same name as a known actress

I love the Russian name Daria but someone pointed that our daughter would be called diarrhoea

Aurelia - apparently it's the brand name of the coffee machine at DH's work 😕

Etta
Because my DP is part of the English table tennis association

I loved Alexa, Amazon ruined that one!

Conn - BIL’s name and he’d 100000% think we used it to honour him when we hadn’t 😂

Sullivan - Our Surname is another Irish name ending in “an” and it sounds like an estate agent when they’re combined.

Oscar, our absolute favourite but DSIL beat us to it!

Vanya. I was forbidden to use this name by DD's godfather, who's a playwright.

Isolde - just.too.romantic. I adore this name but i think it’s OTT for a pedestrian Home Counties family. The tragedy of my life.

Cordelia - we have a 3 syllable surname and it was just too much
Hence why all 3 kids have short names.
But I am 3 syllable first name and last name. It's a mouthful.

Brent - everyone hates it!

Megan, rhymes with surname

Alistair - it has sad memories within my wider family

Sophia - it was the name I always had picked out for my future daughter but now it's my niece's name.
Max - our surname is an adjective that would be too weird with it.
Millicent - the nickname would be too close to SIL's name.
DP and I also have the same initial so we're probably going to avoid giving DC that initial as well otherwise it could get confusing on post etc.

I always loved Henry but that’s my husband’s nephew’s name and he thought it would be weird to have two Henry Xxxx in the family.

Fanny (always liked it thanks to Aunt Fanny).