What names did you like but couldn't call your child?

[NachoNachoMan]

When I was expecting, we were discussing baby names. Me & my husband liked the name Sydney for a girl. We had a conversation about names with my brother and sister in law (who were also expecting) and told them we liked the name Syndey.

A few weeks later it was Halloween. My phone rang, it was a withheld number but answered it anyway. I said "hello" & then the voice down the phone said "hello Sydney", followed by a knock at the door. My husband answered it, and there was someone in a scream mask, followed by laughter. The mask came off... and it was my brother! (He has always been a bit of a teaser, thank goodness I'm not of a nervous disposition!)

My daughter was born a few months later, and she is not called Sydney.

So what names have you liked but couldn't call your child?

@AllPlayedOut no but if DC2 had been a girl, there may well have been all I can say is hormones

Wallace for a girl. I love it but Wallace and Gromit so no.

Also love Vada but that was ruined too.

Holly. Susannah. Emma - DH didn't like them.
Patrick- DH had known one at school who had been horrible.
Joseph- DH said it would just get shortened.
Amelie- I didn't even bother suggesting it.

DH miraculously pulled it out of the bag with some likeable names, after I vetoed his initial ideas, which read like a primary school class register from the 1970s.

Our kids have names that they themselves have managed to shorten.

@SameToo

Wallace for a girl. I love it but Wallace and Gromit so no.

Also love Vada but that was ruined too.

Why not Wallis?

@JulesCobb because it’s a shop

I always wanted to call my first son Oscar all through growing up. Then I had to meet somebody with the surname Wilde 🙈

Ivana and Clara. When I was expecting our last baby these two names literally kept me up at night wondering how I would choose between them if we had a girl, and I didn’t have any names for a boy. OH hated them both but I thought I’d win him around to one of them by the birth, but I never did and we had a boy anyway. I still lament not being able to use either of them as we are def not having anymore!

Oh and I forgot about Eva... OH insisted on doing an impression of Wall-E saying Eeeeevaa! 20 times a day so I decided I couldn’t live with that for the rest of my life and neither could our poor child.

Camilla. OH thought by the time our child grows up, she would be referred to as the mistress (because i guess sometime soon she will be Princess consort). I tried spinning it with the K (Kamila) but he said we aren't a Kardashian!

I like isis but the spelling I thought people would struggle with and now, well, I’m relieved
I also love Ever for DD but everyone thought it was Hevvver as in Heather
Mya many years ago before it became popular but everyone mistook it for Myra.

Ophelia. It’s beautiful, but ultimately too ‘Shakespearean tragedy’ for me.

2nd ds was going to be called Joshua until I did a quick google check as we have an uncommon surname and there was a criminal in USA with that name. I also liked David but my evil boss at the time was called David so that got ditched too. Ended up using a New Testament biblical name for both boys. I had been aiming for 1 old and 1 new Testament!

Ophelia and Violet. I was too chicken to go for the former, and DH thought the latter sounded too much like Violent

Ngaire

DH vetoed it on the basis that English people would not be able to spell or pronounce it.

It's DD's middle name and she derives an amount of pleasure using it online or in Starbucks

At a time we like Quinn and Blake for a girl but Suicide Squad had just come out so we couldn't be bothered with the whole 'are you DC fans?' (We aren't)

I would have liked to call a girl after my Granny, but not many girls called Minnie these days... I couldn't do it (and DP would never allow it anyway if I lost my mind and did try).

I liked Melissa but Mel.. smell

Also, Marissa DH vetoed

I loved Bruce. I have many positive associations with the name and any guy who can carry Bruce off is doing all right... Sadly dh had precisely the opposite reaction to it and used his absolute veto card. 😆

Jezebel. Love it but...

Jethro. Also love it but it comes accompanied by banjo’s. That and we live in London so it would be Jeff-ro.

We really liked Max, but one day I said it sounded like a toothpaste... Sure enough colgate now have Max White! Imagine the ribbing he would have got at school!

Also Zebedee! We both loved Zeb but we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it. Although now, having met DS, I think he could pull it off!

Persephone for a girl, which was vetoed by DH. Also Hermione. DD2 was so nearly a Hermione.

Lily; Bethan; Brianna; Daniel; Hazel.
Basically any name I liked

Carys, but we're not Welsh.
Zainab, but we're not Muslim.
Paloma, but we're not Spanish.
Arabella and Liberty, but we're... Not that posh.

DH wanted middle of the road, traditional English girl names which is what we ended up with.

For boys, I liked Christopher (Kit) or Hamish. No to those as well.

I do like the names we chose in the end.

My brother, born in the mid 80s, to was going to be called Butch by my mum. Luckily Dad said no and he's got a standard name.

I’ve always loved the name Grace. Our surname starts Gr, so it would be s bit Grgrgrgr.

Kanen- other half said k names are aggressive

I was a PCSO and K names were always naughty boy names and I was adamant our son would never have one. Then we ended up adopting and ended up with a K named child anyway 😂

My mum wanted to call me Tierney (I assume that’s the spelling, pronounced Tee-er-nee?) Her friend responded ‘Peony?’ which luckily put her right off.

That’s even more amusing if you say it with a broad Dagenham accent 😃