What would you call your baby if your dh had no say?

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Dh ruins all of my baby name plans here is my list if he had no say for a Ds I would have a Hugo or a Jesse we mostly agree on girls names but I love Fleur and he despises it.

What would you call your baby if you had free rein?

schrodinger the name he loved was a name i'd original suggested but then like you the more i heard it the less i liked when it was then forced on dd , i actually put all my anger at dh's inability to compromise onto the name resulting in me loathing it . once we changed her name we kept dh's name as a mn and i've grown to like it even love it.

i believe if dh had been more prepared to discuss alternatives rather than just veto everything quite simply because they weren't the name he liked my dislike of the name would not have grown . i think if this had been the case i would probably have accepted his choice and we would have had none of the acrimony we experienced .

good luck
ps naming within minutes of the birth can work ds4 was to be a hayden [embarrassed] but as soon as i saw him he looked like a name i'd laughed at as poncey beyond poncey and rejected while pg and now 5 years he fits his name perfectly. he's not poncey btw .
sorry for the thread hijack

Saw this thread and immediately asked my DP what he thought as we'd had fairly lengthy discussions on what to call our DD (ended up with Mollie Heather Olwen).

His were DS- Alvar (a Dungeons and Dragons thing) or Albert and for DD- Melody or River (From Dr Who...). Hes such a geek! I actually dont mind Melody but I wouldnt like daughters with matching names.
Mine are- DS- Reuben or Noah and for DD- Harriett or Hannah. Or maybe Noa. He's pretty much vetoed them all.

Our friends and family shot down our original choices of Abraham and Aria and took the piss so much that Im now dead set against them. Aria is DPs favourite girls name though and apparantly hes not put it on the list because hes still hoping to persuade me to use it!

Schroedinger, I know the feeling!

I have suggested, and DH vetoed, amongst others - Evelyn and Lorellei

He has suggested, and I have vetoed - Thomasin and Morwenna. He hasn;t suggested anything else.

ds would have been Sebastian or Basil

DD1 would have been Aida or Lakme'

by dd2 and 3 we didnt actually disagree that much

DS1 would have been Hugh
DD would have been Phoebe Alison.
I got my way with DS2 so I am happy.

My children would have been called Grace, Finlay and Elsie

I wish my husband had been the type to be in awe at what I went through and delegate all naming powers to me. I really like Toby, Rory or Leo for a boy and Catriona or Caitlin for a girl. No joy.

Edith, Margaret, Cecilia. DH vetoed all. He would have had Lauren, Sophie or Charlotte. We ended up with names we both love but I still kind of wish we had a little Maggie.

Emilio - DH kinda likes it now, but too late - have safe names he picked.
Adair - I love this name - someone else already mentioned it for a boy, but I have only seen it (in a fiction book) for a girl.

If we ever have a DD I shall name her Caitlin, we have a pact DH names boys, I name girls. Although we both wield the veto :)

The only name I suggested that DH didn't like was Hope, and I much prefer DD's name (which was actually DS's suggestion). DS's name was non-negotiable really.

marianne
verity
romilly
elizabeth
clara
tabitha

for DS we agreed!

Lennox, Marlon or Evander.

He likes Mason and Marshall - yuck!

I also like Joyce for a girl, but he had a nasty aunt by that name.

girls - Mildred

boys - Reginald or Rolf

all veto'd

Girls - Sophia, Jessica (Jessie), Lucia, Kaye, Cassie

Boys - Evan, Nathan, Ruraidh, Leon, Nico

The latter 2 boys names were rejected because aparently we are of the wrong colour to use them ... although you can imagine his smirk when 2 afro-carribean children moved in next door with those names and their mother actually agreed with him :o

I got my way with DD1
DD2 - Jemima
DD3 - Tabitha
DS - Barnaby

DS1 would have his name as it was my idea and DH liked it

DD prob her name or maybe Mabel which I also love and DH hated. I also liked Constance and Cecily. Ooh and Harriet.

DS2 not sure, we chose his name together but it's an abbreviation which I was trying to avoid... Henry? Wilfred? Stanley perhaps tho that's inevitably Stan. Or yes I liked Gabriel too. Anyway DH vetoed all of those. I do like DS2's name tho!

fivegomad I love your choices (Agatha is another DH vetoed). I think yr DD shares my DD's name! We must band together (not many out there despite what you read on MN)

If I had a boy on my own, he'd be James Phillip Louis, after important friends and family. DP will want some input, though, damn him . And I can't have Sebastian, it's "too poncey."

My married name will rhyme with Willow, so Heather's out, for a girl; rhymes with "feather pillow". Willow, obviously, is gone. Dylan, for a boy, is gone.

I always wanted a Catalina/Katya-for-short. DP's ex was Catalina, so that's out.

There's nobody else I'd want to be the father of my children, but I'm a little nostalgic for the names I could have had, if I'd fallen in love with someone else...

Otis and Ursula.

Ottilie, Stevie (Nicks!) and Titus. DH vetoed them, the miserable bugger.

DD1 was a joint decision.

For the others DH vetoed:

DD2 Talitha
DD3 Maggie/Bobbie
DS Sandy/Stiring.

Happy with them all now except DD3, but she has an ace nn, so it's not too bad.

I love the name Freddie (massive queen fan!) but DP hates it :(
I also love spanish names like Pablo, Hugolinio, Juan. Even french names like Jean Claude, Francois and so on. Dont think I would ever actually call my kids these names though, I just like doing spanish and french accents

benne81 Reginald and Rolf are amazing names!!