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?

I liked Grace but I already know one

Merlin

Overruled by husband.... Zak, Casper, Reuben, Charlotte and Katherine.

Also on my list was Jean. I love the name but is it ready for a come back? Plus Hi Jean! = hygiene

Anything ending in -a. We have relatives who would pronounce that as an -er sound and it would drive me absolutely crackers.

Otherwise anything very flouncy or ott. I love the sound of Vesper but I don't think I'd want to be Vesper So that was out. Ditto Amity, Electra, Trinity.

I can definitely see Jean coming back!

@SionnachRua I think Gene for a boy has started coming back.

I think they’re both cool.

@Rainbo83

Cornelius or Gabriel. Every one laughed so much I decided against.

We both absolutely adored Gabriel but unfortunately DFIL would have torn it apart and seen it as a 'sissy' name (his words not mine).

Madeline; Joanna; Julia...but DH had had ex's with these names!...and thought they were all "too old-fashioned"!

Was 5 months pregnant with ds2 and wed already settled on the name dalton, then watched insidious and decided it wasnt a good idea!!!

Vivienne Rose

I had a ds

Celeste.

When I was pregnant with DD2 this was my name. My friend said “ew, Celeste Moleste”. And that was it for me.

My favourite names were Genevieve and India but DH was having none of it n

Tallulah was the girl’s name I had always loved but my partner didn’t feel the same. I also liked Jemima, but we agreed on something else.

@WingingIt101

I loved aurora for a girl. Dh veto’d as apparently it’s a name used by a lot of actresses in porn! Well and truly spoilt it for me!

I didn’t know this! It was a big fav of mine but when I was about four months in a new colleague joined with this name and she was so strange and creepy that it was quickly removed from the list.

Astrid, Clementine, and Mina. I got the last one in as a middle name but the other two were firmly vetoed.

I now intend to use the other two as names for the matching English Bull Terriers I'll have when DD leaves home to cure my empty nest syndrome

Sorry, appalling grammar in the last sentence!

Sebastian, but there were so many at the time (4 just in hospital ward) that we chose a different name.

Lucy.
Vetoed by DH even as a middle name.

I had Joshua picked out until ex said 'push for little Joshy' while I was in labour 🤮

Liam for our now 20 year old.

We’d definitely have gone with that had it not been for the boy called Liam next door who bullied our other son.

Off the subject a bit, I once met a lovely family whose surname was Carr, The Dc were Austin Morris, Royce and Mini, and the dog was Rover.

We were utterly stuck for boy names, and I kept coming back to James, every time. But it was my nephew's name, so just not an option. For months, we'd go round and round with options, and then, like a goldfish, I'd say 'I don't know why we're having this conversation - I love the name James' and DH would have to remind me every time why we couldn't use it. It just felt like the totally right name.

We had a girl luckily.

I liked Tom but it sounded silly with our surname!

@ThighthighOfthigh

I had Joshua picked out until ex said 'push for little Joshy' while I was in labour 🤮

Yep, that'd do it . . .

I like Sarah for a girl, simple and elegant. It's my husband's ex girlfriend's name so that was a no. I like Hugo for a boy but DH said it's too pretentious.