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.
Notbluepeter · 26/11/2021 09:08
McEwan as a middle name (no family reference). All I could think was export.
jendifer · 26/11/2021 09:09
Ellie.
I’ve worked in schools and taught 100s of Ellie so it comes with those memories for me. He refused to consider Eleanor/elena/Eloise or any other longer version. He also wanted to pronounce it Elle.
Enko · 26/11/2021 09:11
Lars Johannes Bjorn (I am Scandinavian)
He also seriously wanted to use our surname and slightly change our surname so think
Smith Smithy
Ds is Conrad
On girls we were a lot more compatible but I love Alannah and wanted it bad and it was met with a blanket " no" from dh and he refused to discuss it further with others when we had a no there was genuinely a reason why (I don't like the sound - reminds me of x) but w this one nothing I was puzzled. Mentioned it to the wife of his friend who in hushed tone explained Alannah was the name of the girl he dated before I had met him who had run off w someone else..
I didn't suggest it again (sadly as I do love the name Alannah)
evilharpy · 26/11/2021 09:13
Artemesia for a girl - nope.
MakeMineAdoubleChocolate · 26/11/2021 09:14
My dh chose/came up with the names for all our 5 kids. I suggest a few and he is like, yeah nice names but I want something else. And then one day he will suggest a name and I am like wow that's a really beautiful name. And then we go for that one. It's happened every time lol.
GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 26/11/2021 09:14
Molly
Just feels like setting a girl up for a life of being sweet and pleasing others, being weak and accommodating
TheChip · 26/11/2021 09:18
Phoenix. Phoenix! I told him to pick again and he said something just as stupid.
I told him he is no longer allowed to be part of the first name and could only pick a middle name. DS has hated his middle name since he was a toddler. He would actually cry and say no no no if you said it 😂 its a fairly common name, too.
CoffeeAndDryShampoo · 26/11/2021 09:19
Koscielny, as in the former Arsenal player.
RainingYetAgain · 26/11/2021 09:20
After I suggested Cameron, DH announced that he did not want a Scottish sounding first name as we have a Scots surname.
So he suggested Andrew, and couldn't work out why I laughed for 5 minutes.
Tiredout123 · 26/11/2021 09:22
Dh suggested Marsha. I burst out laughing 
hennybeans · 26/11/2021 09:26
My stepdad wanted to call my brother Butch back in the 80s. Luckily my mum said no.
My dad choose my name and named me after his bank manager! Luckily it's a nice name, not very common though.
DH wanted to name ds after him, a traditional, popular in the 70s name. I said no.
Bobsyer · 26/11/2021 09:28
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
@LuluBlakey1 I don’t understand - are you questioning what people used to tease @ConcernedAuntie with?!
wheresmyshoe · 26/11/2021 09:29
Thirza, Demelza, Bathsheba and Hepzibah. I still have no idea where these came from.
My mother wanted to call me Rita.
Peridot1 · 26/11/2021 09:30
DH suggested Beverley for a girl. Thankfully we had a boy.
1967buglet · 26/11/2021 09:33
Ida Clare (my grandfather suggested calling me this, and my dad said my daughter is not going to have a joke for a name...thank you Dad).
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
PrancerandDancer · 26/11/2021 09:34
Azure.... After a computer software.
Wolfgang for a boy. Yes he was serious!
Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 26/11/2021 09:35
Ingrid…
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!!
TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:40
Starr. With two Rs obviously.
😒
TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:41
@PosyBoo
I’m imagining you giving birth to twins who look like Paris Hilton and Boris Johnson. It’s not a great image.
TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:42
@Bobsyer
We both flirted with the idea of Asher but in the end decided it was a bit too out there for us
*@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.
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!
TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:44
@SequinnedShawl
I said no.
CRAVEN??
Is a he a big fan of 90s newsround?
TheOriginalEmu · 26/11/2021 09:44
@LemonElephant
this has made my day. Maldwynn is too far even for my Welsh name living self 😂
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