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Baby names

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Has anyone ever ended up with a name for dc that you really HATE?

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getstuffed · 13/08/2010 19:38

I am going mental trying to thing of names for my gorgeous new bubs due in September, I mean seriously mad.

Dh and I can't agree on anything and for some reason now I am uber paranoid I'll end up with something I loathe but really, does anyone actually end up with something they detest for their dc? I don't know anyone who has, do you?

All name suggestions welcome, surname Surrey, Liv Jane already firmly ensconced and fab.

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marriednotdead · 13/08/2010 20:17

Bearing in mind this was 1987 and pre Eastenders, if DD was a boy we were going to call her Ricky
I am a fan of classic/biblical names as I hate the obvious dating of fashion names.
Sure others will make better suggestions than I can, you sound confused enough already

TrillianAstra · 13/08/2010 20:30

Do you mean that you'll change your mind later adn hate a name you currently like?

Because otherwise I don't see how you could. You're going to fill in the piece of paper after all. Just don't write down a name that you hate.

IlooklikeGrotbagstoday · 13/08/2010 20:39

I know exactly how you feel getstuffed. DS2 is due in Sept and we can't agree on anything. I don't like most boy's names and the ones i do like DH and the rest of the family don't like.

I have been really worried that i will hate the name we end up with and it will bother me for the rest of my life. I Love DS1's name and feel guilty towards DS2 before he's even born.

teameric · 13/08/2010 20:40

I still love both my DC names even though they are now really popular.

laughalot · 13/08/2010 20:46

I have a aidan and a lauren and i would never hate them

DancingOnMyBladder · 13/08/2010 20:51

ooo i could have written this post!

DC3 is due in Sept and we agree on nothing! Literally have gone through the top 700 names in the ONS list and still nothing! We even know the sex and this still doesn't help! Imagine if we had to pick two names
!?

shongololo · 13/08/2010 20:51

Method 1: (my DD) Argue constantly about names. No decision...you hate his choices, he hates yours. 1 week before due date, stumble across previously rejected name, love it and...voila, when baby arrives, it is the PERFECT name. ("Amber" - she was born with copper coloured hair)

METHOD 1: (my DS1) Decide on a name. 3 weeks before baby arrives, change your mind and be absolutely certain on alternative name. when he arrives, realise option 1 name just not right, option 2 name is perfect.

Method 2: (my DS2)

go through the baby names book and highlight all the ones you like.
Get partner to do the same.
Get list of boys/girls names that you both like.
Have power of veto on a set number of names.
See what you are left with
await baby's arrival.
Call baby "baby" for a while....
3.5 weeks after baby arrives, realise that none of the names fit.
Choose a completely different name.

krisskross · 13/08/2010 20:53

we have 2 with lovely names, but when i was pregnant both times my DH suggested horrendous names- both times he wanted glenn or maurice for a boy ??? wtf??? they were born in 2007 and 2009 by the way, not 1980. he liked maurice 'beacuse my friend had a cat called maurice and it seemed a nice name'. my god.

i would say dont go for anything too fashionable as it will date very quickly and dont for anything top 5 in the names list(unless v classic) as they will date too.

krisskross · 13/08/2010 20:54

oh yes- and it also took us 2 weeks first time and three weeks second time to agree on their names.

QuantaCosta · 13/08/2010 21:02

Agreed to truly horrible middle name for DS2 as it was DPs Dad's name who died 9 months before DS2 was born.

Thankful no one really uses middle names!!

notagrannyyet · 13/08/2010 21:22

I am never going to forgive DH for not allowing me to choose the name of our only DD!.....It was his choice. I don't hate the name, but it was not my choice. I had 4 more babies but they were all boys! Having said that I vetoed all of his names for DS so I shouldn't complain.

Gigantaur · 13/08/2010 21:23

my brother was named by my dad. My mother hates it. they had agreed that if baby was a boy my dad could name him though so she had no choice.

She has always hated his name and still does.

meadowlarks · 13/08/2010 21:58

My best friend allowed her DH, a Tintin fanatic, to give their DS the middle name Tintin. She still goes bright red whenever anyone asks.

LoveJules3 · 13/08/2010 22:12

We had set names for our dds, and even one for our dc3. We didn't know the sex before he arrived but when he was born he really didn't look like the name we had!

3 days later, endless calls from my MIL, and trying out a few names, My Dh said "what about Joel Dylan?" It had never been mentioned before and after sleeeping on it we decided it fit perfectly.

I am so glad my mum vetoed my dad's choice of name for me though, He wanted to call me Agrippa!

clairefromsteps · 13/08/2010 22:14

My SIL was supposed to have been called Siobhan, but when FIL got to the registry office he forgot how to spell it and plumped for Margaret instead. He only regrets this decision in the sense that she has given him a 40-year-long shit-fit over it (she hates her name)

In other regrettable-name news, DH wanted to call DD Pepper (I know! I was hormonal at the time, but he had no excuse), until a friend pointed out that there was a children's character called Peppa Pig. In our child-free ignorance we would have consigned her to a good few years of playground taunts.

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getstuffed · 13/08/2010 22:24

hehehehehehe some of these are very funny, glad I am not alone!

I too was in a hormooooonal fog last time and wanted ''September'', pushed quite hard for it, bloody well imagine if I had gotten my way! As my lovely dh tried to explain 'September Surrey' is almost certainly headed for Spearmint Rhino.

This is why I have THE FEAR.

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kiwidreamer · 14/08/2010 10:22

Funny stories! I think as long as you go for a name you like now and its not 'odd' in any way then you will probably be fine, most names I've thought of strange choices eventually just take on the personality of the child so for the most part it works out well. Best friends called their first born Lance, which at the time (4yrs ago) I thought was -hideous- a brave choice! But now that's just his name and it doesnt feel strange at all even tho I dont know a single other Lance under the age of around 35yrs!

mathanxiety · 14/08/2010 15:15

If my mum had had her way for all my DCs (she called with suggestions regularly) they would never want to talk to her, and as it was, I felt like not picking up the phone when she called towards the end each time. (Stacey, anyone? Martina?)

The one thing I regret is not sticking to my guns and calling DD1 by her full French type name (two names but not hyphenated), instead going along with using the first name only. She uses both now herself a lot of the time.

If you stick with OT names or family names (worth doing some research maybe) you can't go wrong, depending on the family, and also family names are harder to veto.

Once you have a name it's usually hard to imagine your child being called anything else.

mathanxiety · 14/08/2010 15:18

If you're looking for name suggestions, have you considered Rebecca/ Rebekah or Rachel? Susanna? There are lots of good OT names for boys.

lulabellamozerella · 14/08/2010 16:03

My brother was going to be called Aiken if my Nan had got her way - thank god my mum stood up to her!

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