To want an alternative baby name

[GreenieBeanie]

DP and I are trying to come up with baby names (we're waiting to find out the sex), he is favouring names such as Leo and Leona, but I love the name Green for a boy or girl. He's trying to veto it but I'm sticking to my guns here, I love it! AIBU to want a pretty out there name for lo? Would I be setting them up for a life of hating their name?

Green is awesome.

Why not got for siblings called Brown and White to get the full-on druggie parent chic?

The negative connotation of Green would be naive and / or envious.

Green? It's a new one to me. I'd prefer names with associations to green, natural things.. like Forrest or Aspen or River or Eden.

I was thinking I actually don't mind green then I remembered it's a form of cannabis.

So a no from me too, sorry op.

I knew a little boy called Red. It was short for Redford.

^^ love your choices of Avery & Joni.

I can think of many worse names than Green.. as long as your surname isn't Mould, Grass, etc, or even Brown, White or Black; it would sound very silly.

Love the name Gray too. This is a great thread.

Green immediately took me back to doing Richard II for A Level and Bushy, Bagot and Green, the kings snivelling sycophants. What a trio of fuckwits they were. So for that reason, no.

Meh I've heard worse, prefer it for a boy though, love the name Gray too.

I think if your heart is set on Green, you should consider Greene. I know a little boy called this and it's fine. It's more like using a surname as a firstname (Jackson, Harrison etc) I very nearly called one of mine Pixie which I loved at the time but she has a classic French name, and I'm glad now as she's actually a very anxious child and I don't think Pixie would have helped her! That said my son has a very unusual name, which was slated on here and he loves it and is 18! It's never been an issue for him.

I came across an (adult, woman) Evergreen the other day and I kind of love it

Stay away from the colour wheel

Well we are going to B&Q later, he'll have to drag guide me away from the Dulux colour charts

Why does your child need a 'different' name? Once they're born they'll be so special to you they could be called John Smith and you'll think they're marvellous.

Who exactly benefits from being called something like Green? Your child or you? It's you isn't it?

A baby name should be something you BOTH agree on , that you BOTH choose together and that you BOTH love...if he doesn't like green, and you don't like Leo and Leona then all those names need to be scrapped and you need to together find names you both like...

Why don't you print out a list of traditional and alternative baby names, both of you get a copy, cross out ones you hate, put a ring around ones you like, then compare your results....all the names that you both put a ring around, are the ones you both like...

I like Greenlee, Greene and Girinhi (green in DPs second language for a girl)

Do you think they'll like that name, OP? When they're being called upon in class or called into a job interview?

I'm in two minds whether they'll like it, as in 12-20 years there'll be a lot more adults with unusual names than there are now.

Don't worry though this thread has made me put it firmly in the maybe pile and it'll probably stay there unless they pop out Green and in that case they're being called Gamora

It's not easy being green

🐸🐸🐸 .

Green is just your pregnancy hormones making you crazy. How about:

Verna
Jade
Jaida
Olive
Teal (still pretty out there, but I’m conditioned to it being normal from Abney £ Teal)
Forrest
Verde
Sage
Moss

Why not got for siblings called Brown and White to get the full-on druggie parent chic?

Blues are a drug here too.

Oh yeah aren’t blues Valium?

How the devil do I know that?

OP Are you Kim Kardashian?

Are you Kim Kardashian

Only on days ending in y

he'll have to drag guide me away from the Dulux colour charts

Don't go near Farrow and Ball or your child will end up being called Elephants Breat or Dead Salmon