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

315 replies

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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toastofthetown · 26/11/2021 06:59

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RussianSpy101 · 26/11/2021 07:00

@Popskipiekin oh god 🙈 Blake and Logan!

AragornsGirl · 26/11/2021 07:02

@ SpangoDweller snap!
Although I didn’t know it at the time! We couldn’t think of a boys name at all. Husband suggested Seth, I didn’t like it at first. The more I thought of it with the middle name I wanted to use, the more I liked it. It wasn’t until several weeks after baby was born that my husband told me he’d got the name from a warhammer character. We still joke that he tricked me into naming our child after a character from his hobby!

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Giggorata · 26/11/2021 07:03

Ex wanted Irulan. Irulan. He'd just read Dune.
I knew it was going to be a boy anyway, but still…

hels71 · 26/11/2021 07:04

Obidiah and Hepzibah. I put my feet firmly down!

DontWantTheRivalry · 26/11/2021 07:06

I actually really like Charlie for a girl Smile

I have got two sons and my husband chose both of their names.

When he first came up with the name for our first son (when I was pregnant) I wasn’t keen on it at all, but when the baby was born I had no clue what to call him so told me husband we’d just go with his chosen name. Thankfully I love it now.

With our second son, my husband suggested the name towards the end of the pregnancy and I liked it straight away so I didn’t even think about alternatives.

My dad named both me and my sister and I always used to feel quite offended by it - thinking what kind of mum has no interest/input in choosing their baby’s name….but now I’ve gone and done it too Grin

PrincessNutella · 26/11/2021 07:06

Adonis. I am not kidding.

Paddingtonthebear · 26/11/2021 07:10

Patricia

PrincessNutella · 26/11/2021 07:10

When I think of names like Tyler and Kyle I think Oh golly it's the Non-Binary Hour.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/11/2021 07:10

Jacqueline, so we could call her Jack (she’s now 10 not 60)
Thomasin, so we could call her Tom
Phillipa, Edwina etc

I pointed out that we had a son, he had a name, and now we were naming a girl.

DD has an actual girls name, not a boys babe with an “a” on the end.

DinosApple · 26/11/2021 07:13

DH liked the name Gemma. Possibly from an unrequited playground love as a kid.
I, on the other hand, went to school with a really mean Gemma. Vetoed!

Duxiejhrhrvjz · 26/11/2021 07:13

The ones I remember, Xanto for DS1, -Evie for DD2, David for DS3 and Cleopatra for DD4.
Nothing wrong with the names as such Hmm but some sort of theme would be nice.

honeylulu · 26/11/2021 07:16

My husband really liked Eugene for our first child. I didn't! To be fair he didn't like my suggestion either (Orson). We ended up with a much more common/ordinary name.

Second was a girl and he really really wanted her to be called Emma. It is a pretty name but (1) There were 5 Emmas in my class at school and I felt a bit Emma-ed out and (2) my ex had recently called his daughter Emma (we still have friends in common) and it might have looked a bit weird and stalkery if I had chosen the same name!

MrsPleasant · 26/11/2021 07:17

Stacey. For a child born in the 00s.

Slayduggee · 26/11/2021 07:18

DH suggested Einar and Odin!

We are not from Scandinavia, never been to Scandinavia and are not into Norse mythology plus those names sound fugly in English!

SilverPeacock · 26/11/2021 07:19

Dawn.

Again nothing wrong with it for a 45 year old.

MojoJojo71 · 26/11/2021 07:19

Jedi for a boy
Summer for a girl

I’ll let you figure out what our surname is

Footprintsinthegrass · 26/11/2021 07:19

My isn't the best with spelling so wanted names he definitely could spell, Sarah, Lauren or Rebecca. All so boring to me

Wedowonder · 26/11/2021 07:20

Winston

HardbackWriter · 26/11/2021 07:22

DH pushed quite hard for Aethelred (he wanted it with the ash at the beginning, which I pointed out would be giving the baby the gift of a lifelong administrative issue), and came quite close to talking me into Raedwald as a middle name.

PurBal · 26/11/2021 07:23

@hels71

Obidiah and Hepzibah. I put my feet firmly down!
@hels71 I don’t know what you went with in the end but both are big statements about your faith, seems a lot for a baby.

DH wanted James. Which after reading the comments is obviously not that bad. I was the one with unusual name choices to be honest. Blush

SilverPeacock · 26/11/2021 07:23

@MojoJojo71

Jedi for a boy Summer for a girl

I’ll let you figure out what our surname is

This is funny Grin
TheWayTheLightFalls · 26/11/2021 07:25

Not DH, but my father suggested a Swahili name for DD. Spoiler: we have absolutely no connection to Kenya.

disappear · 26/11/2021 07:26

My DH also suggested Charlie.

My DF wanted to call me Paula. This was in the sixties so not a bad choice… except that my older brother is called Paul.

ApplesAreTheBaneOfMyLife · 26/11/2021 07:27

Tarquin and Cassius.
And he wasn’t joking.