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What name did your DH come up with for your babies that you hated?

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FortunesFave · 26/11/2021 05:22

DH wanted to call our first DD Charlie.

Fucking Charlie!

SO many lovely girls' names and he comes up with that.

Sorry if your is called that...it's nice enough I suppose but it's just not something I'd choose for a girl.

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twilightermummy · 26/11/2021 09:59

John and Stephen..like it’s still the 90s.
Tbf though I came up with Giuseppe about a week before giving birth 😂

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Lavender24 · 26/11/2021 09:58

My DH wanted Zephyr for a boy. I actually love this name but felt it was a bit too "out there" and wouldn't have wanted him to be picked on. We had a girl anyway.

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Diditreallylookawful · 26/11/2021 09:56

Galadrielle

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oldperson1 · 26/11/2021 09:56

Wanted a name that couldn’t really be shortened, which by the way didn’t work out name I picked people just added a Y to and lengthened it eg Jack becomes Jacky.
Bearing this in mind when we talked about names my husband came up with Todd 😳 apologies in advance to anyone called Todd.
On saying that I’m a Georgina who has only ever been known as Tina

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Peanut82 · 26/11/2021 09:55

My DP wanted to call our daughter Kal El if she was a boy, fucking Kal El 😆😆

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Nc123 · 26/11/2021 09:53

Cressida and Melissa.

We have a spooky sounding surname which with Cressida would have sounded like a cartoon witch. And Melissa reminded me of school bullies.

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RosettaR · 26/11/2021 09:53

Ha, I hated all dh's names! I think they were Mark, Adam, Anthony, and Paul. We had twins so I wanted to choose one of his names for one of them but just couldn't, I negotiated his grandad's name instead which I like but he hadn't suggested.

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roarfeckingroarr · 26/11/2021 09:53

DS' dad really likes virtue names, things like Hope, Charity... god knows why, he's certainly lacking those traits in himself

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HingleMcCringleberry · 26/11/2021 09:52

That’s two Blake’s I’ve seen vetoed. Sad times - Blake is a great name!

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Mumofstanley · 26/11/2021 09:52

Reginald.
Over my dead body. Lucky we had a girl.

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HarrietsChariot · 26/11/2021 09:51

Duane (or is it Dwayne?)
Leroy!

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LemonElephant · 26/11/2021 09:50

@TheOriginalEmu Even funnier when DS2 was born all wrinkly and had a genuine old man face, im high off gas and air and he looks me dead in the eyes and sais 'see, hes a maldwynn though and through'. I was crying with laughter Grin

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SequinnedShawl · 26/11/2021 09:50

SequinnedShawl
Ramona. Ross. Craven. Jeffrey. Kevin.

I said no
@TheOriginalEmu
CRAVEN??
Is a he a big fan of 90s newsround?

That was the only thing I thought of!!

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arapunzel · 26/11/2021 09:45

DH wanted DD (3) to be called Anastasia.

Big no.

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DamnitFanny · 26/11/2021 09:45

DS1 wanted to call DS2 ‘Pain’. He was going to change his own name to ‘Chain’ so they could have a tag wrestling team called Chain and Pain! In fairness, he was only 4 😂. In turn, DD2 cried when we didn’t call DD1 ‘Pig -el- let’ - he was also 4 at that point.

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TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:44

@LemonElephant

We have 2 boys and 3 girls, each boy pregnancy he had his heart set on either Sheldon or Maldwynn!! It started as a joke but deep down he really wanted them. Safe to say my boys are NOT called either Sheldon or Maldwynn!

Grin this has made my day.
Maldwynn is too far even for my Welsh name living self 😂
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TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:44

@SequinnedShawl

Ramona. Ross. Craven. Jeffrey. Kevin.

I said no.

CRAVEN??
Is a he a big fan of 90s newsround?
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LemonElephant · 26/11/2021 09:43

We have 2 boys and 3 girls, each boy pregnancy he had his heart set on either Sheldon or Maldwynn!! It started as a joke but deep down he really wanted them. Safe to say my boys are NOT called either Sheldon or Maldwynn!

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TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:42

@Bobsyer

I wanted Thomas for DS3, which I think is probably one of the least offensive or out there names. DH vetoed. I can only think he’d known someone he didn’t like with that name?

We both flirted with the idea of Asher but in the end decided it was a bit too out there for us Grin

*@LuluBlakey1 I don’t understand - are you questioning what people used to tease @ConcernedAuntie* with?!

I dislike Thomas purely for the association with a Thomas I went to school with. I think that’s often the case when people dislike what is a really standard ordinary name.
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TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:41

@PosyBoo

Paris for a girl and Boris for a boy!! I’m amazed we’re still married to be honest!!

I’m imagining you giving birth to twins who look like Paris Hilton and Boris Johnson. It’s not a great image.
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TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:40

Starr. With two Rs obviously.

😒

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PosyBoo · 26/11/2021 09:37

Paris for a girl and Boris for a boy!! I’m amazed we’re still married to be honest!!

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Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 26/11/2021 09:35

Ingrid…

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PrancerandDancer · 26/11/2021 09:34

Azure.... After a computer software.

Wolfgang for a boy. Yes he was serious!

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romdowa · 26/11/2021 09:34

Not my dp as he never made outlandish suggestions but my father. He wanted to call my brother Charlton after Jack Charlton 🤣🤣🤣 that was quickly shut down by my mother

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