Names you wanted to use but were talked out of...

[2ndtimeblues]

I really wanted to call a son Pelham. Some Georgette Heyer hero who caught my fancy when I was aged about 14.
And I had a yearning for a daughter called Bathsheba.
You?
I'm not talking credible or in with a chance. I'm talking about the lovely names you wanted but everyone were too dim to see their wonder.

Wanted to call my daughter Marley but everyone said it was a dog's name :(

Quite Dickensian, though.

Jerico

Finn

I was sorely tempted by Patience as well. And Florence. And Darius for a boy.

Still love Darius actually. Don't know why people laughed.

Saskia

Apparently was an unpopular character in a soap ( non soap watcher here)

Christopher, simply because I wanted to use the nn Kit. Have always loved it. DH didn't (we had a DD anyway).
Monty
Wilfred.

India- when combined with our surname turns out to be a porn star.
Ingrid
Astrid
Greta
Holly

What I would have wanted since I was a teenager:
Amethyst
January

Ramona. Still secretly hoping DP will wake up and decide he DOES like it, after all.

Ray

HugeFurryWishingStool DS has a slightly unusual name and when we registered his birth the Registrar was very excited, and told us her son was called Wolf. And I like Alan too. Alan Taylor, to be complete.

If I had a girl I would have liked Snowy, Fluffy or Kitten.

I was told in no uncertain terms it was out of the question

I have a daughter. She has a lovely name. It isn't one of the above.

I was talked out of Taliesin and it would have suited DS2 so well.

Saffron for my first, I still love it.

Penelope for this baby ( I am20 weeks, so may still have time to change dh's mind)

Krissie - my dd's bests friend is Marly. I think it is really cute and different.

I was talked out of Agamemnon (for the best, that one), Sindri and Lysander (both of which I still love and both of which 'suit' the DCs I wanted them for iyswim).

Rex. :(

All of the Casson family names: Saffron, Cadmium, Indigo and Rose. Though Rose will maybe be on the table for the next one... :)

My husband's vetoed Blythe, Faith and Marianne for a girl, and Daniel for a boy, which I would have loved... The baby's not here yet, so there's still all to play for, but sadly I think those are firmly off the table.

Cleo.
Juno.
Solomon.

DP has terrible taste in names.

Pilot, Clay and Julius. My husband likes very ordinary names like Daniel and John. We compromised!

Me and DH giggle over "Bambi Sapphire". I actually like both those names, but they're not acceptable.

Cesare (promounced 'chez-a-ray'). I'm not saying I definitely would've used it but I love the way it rolls off the tongue. However DP was aghast.

And he didn't like Taylor for a girl.

But he has no taste and likes frigging awful names - e.g. Sandra, Angela, Marie and Francis, to name but some that I've vetoed.

Anemone and Narcissa.. I was completely serious.

Actually she would have suited Narcissa very well, as it turns out.

my dp wanted felix for ds1, but its the catfood my parents always used so i said no.

i liked Conan for ds4 but dp said no, i also liked rafferty, again vetoed by dp, he is rudi arlo, arlo has been mentioned on this thread i think>

i wanted dd to be penelope, but dp vetoed that, oh and felicity, she is a merryn, which i love and suits her perfectly.

i like frost for a girl, still do but dp said no!

there were various other, oh dp wanted one of the boys to be called Eugene!! i mean seriously?!

there are plenty more, we always struggled with names.

DCgirl, I know a Cesare. Nice name.