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 wanted to call my first born Lucy.
Dh said he was calling no child of his after my teddy bear.

French names like Thais, Anais, Irene (pronounced with French accent!), Raphael.

Meredith- DH didn’t like
Artemis - despite being a goddess everyone thinks it’s a boys name because of Artemis Fowl

Cedric - I had named my son this for a few hours, until husband woke up and said no

Celeste. My husband couldn't abide it!

Solomon. It rhymes with our surname.

William,I always said I would call any son William -it wouldn’t have gone with our surname (except in an amusing way)

I like Percy but it was DHs grandads name who killed himself. I think it's even more lovely but DHs family are different to mine and tbh seem to look down or feel angry at him for having depression and committing suicide. He doesn't want to upset his mum so we're not using it.

I wanted to call DS Joel but exDH objected

Sloane for mt first DD and Maude for my second. Both huge no nos from DH

No children yet, but always liked Mordecai for a boy. Was a character in a book I read as a teenager.

Didn’t know it was a Hebrew name. DP told me and vetoed it because it would be insensitive as we are not Jewish.

Nancy and Elliott

Isla but DPs surname is an well know islands
name so that wouldn’t have worked.

Also Daniel and Leonie or Lucy - all famous people with the same surname as DP!

And I love the name Lucy. Nevermind.

Matilda but our friends stole it. And by stole I mean thought of it before we did and had a baby 7 years before us we're too close to use the name too without it being a bit weird but damn I love it!

@CreamCabbages was it one of the Chrestomanci books?

Iolo, one of my favourite Welsh male names, but my husband's family played ignorant and declared they were incapable of pronouncing anything Welsh...I also love the female variant, Iola.

Simone, as we already have a daughter called Nina.

Yekaterina or Yael for a girl. Avigdor or Asher for a boy.

DH looked at me with a WTF face.

I adore the name Ulva, it means wolf.

But I think I'd be setting her up for a lifetime of teasing.

My favourite boy's name combined with DH surname was a famous serial killer. Shame!

This is why American serial killers are known by all three names, so members of the general public with the same name don’t suffer.

I love Asa for a boy but it’s really fallen out of fashion.

I also like Alice but one of my close friends used it first 😅

@SideEyeing
It was a chick lit type of book, but I can’t remember the name. He wasn’t a particularly appealing character. Didn’t brush his teeth and drank aquavit. I just really liked the name and it stuck with me.

@Alloftheboys

I was convinced that Danger would make a great middle name (blame pregnancy hormones 🤦🏼‍♀️)

I immediately thought of this!

I loved William but DH has a much maligned estranged uncle called William so couldn't use it as it'd upset FIL.

Anything that began with the letter R or had an ar sound in it. The kids surname begins with R. We live in the west country. Enough said.

The name Emma. Emma R sounds a bit too much like MMR for me.

DS1 would have been Imogen if he was a girl. Shame there wont be another dc as it's a name I really like.

We wanted Theo after a relative but cant now because BIL and his girlfriend called their son Theodore after the Alvin and the chipmunks character