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Names DP has come up with...

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Snowflakepie · 23/10/2012 11:17

...and you just cannot stand? Still early days for us but before we knew DD was a girl, DH came up with Tennyson for a boy. I thought he was joking and just laughed, but he was serious. Is there hope for this poor DC?! We've already had the 'no to Tennyson' conversation just to get it out of the way!

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curiousgeorgie · 23/10/2012 11:26

My DH wanted 'Leon' all the way through my first pregnancy. Which I don't like but is fine as a name I suppose... Except it was also our very grumpy neighbours name.

Thankfully it was a girl.

MolotovBomb · 23/10/2012 11:32

Melita Confused

He was obvs under the influence of my pg hormones!

ellesabe · 23/10/2012 13:03

Dh wanted Horatio for a boy

Thumbwitch · 23/10/2012 13:18

DH has a penchant for names like Billy Bob, Bobby Ray etc.
My answer was Just No.

Thankfully we came up with a realistic and lovely name by the time DS2 was born. Grin

gymboywalton · 23/10/2012 13:20

dh wanted to call ds2 jasper with jazz as a nickname
i just laughed and said 'don't be so silly'

you push the child out of your vagina-you get to name them imo

Rhubarbgarden · 23/10/2012 13:33

The only name dh suggested was Alison. I think he'd been listening to goldfrapp at the time.

Lancelottie · 23/10/2012 13:36

Rhubarb, my DH came up with Alison, Samantha and Julie. All perfectly fine names but date his school decade very neatly.

ScrambledSmegsEvilTwin · 23/10/2012 13:36

DH suggested the name Rupert for DC1. I laughed. He got a bit huffy and I realised he was serious. DC1 turned out to be DD anyway.

I don't have a massive problem with the name, just always associate it with the bear.

EldritchCleavage · 23/10/2012 13:37

Jackson. I said it was twatty, he got cross.

gymboywalton · 23/10/2012 13:44

dh suggested alision too!!!!!

WingDefence · 23/10/2012 13:50

DH has recently suggested Gias. For a boy. Hmm

DessieLou · 23/10/2012 14:09

Eldritch I love that you described it as 'twatty'....good word!
My OH has come up with Renee and Victoria... Confused Sorry to any Victoria's but no child of mine will be called Sticky Vicky. And If we called her Renee I could never say her name in anything other than a dodgy Allo Allo french accent. What was he thinking?!

apachepony · 23/10/2012 15:22

Wolfe. Well actually I suggested it half jokingly and he's really ran with the idea...

Teamthrills · 23/10/2012 15:42

My dh suggested Paula for dd2!!! I got my way in the end though!

MoonHare · 23/10/2012 15:45

Montgomery. He insists he isn't joking. It matters not, I get final veto.

LarkinSky · 23/10/2012 16:20

Wolf. We're not using it. Wishful thinking on his part.

AnathemaDevice · 24/10/2012 08:15

The only name DH likes for as yet unborn DC3 is Persephone. He can't fathom why it might sound a little bit poncy on a child growing up in a slightly rough part of Essex.

I do actually quite like Persephone, but I know that it just wouldn't work living where we live.

He also insisted on calling DS Fernando all the way through my pregnancy, after Fernando Torres. Luckily he saw sense once the baby arrived.

AlwaysHoldingOnToStarbug · 24/10/2012 09:56

DH always insisted that if we had a girl she would be called Jocelyn (from A Knights Tale) I don't think it's a pretty name at all (sorry to all Jocelyns and mums of Jocelyns) and its also a mans name!

Good job I only had boys!

MotherWithoutACare · 24/10/2012 10:04

What is it with these men and boys names? Fernando, Horatio and Bernard were all favoured by DP. Thankfully I named DS or so he tells me anyway.

TessOfTheBurbervilles · 24/10/2012 10:29

I had DS1 when I was 19, and his father wasn't on the scene (his choice, not mine), so I was the sole opinion when it came to naming DS1.

It was a bit of a learning curve to have to negotiate with someone else when DS2 was born 6½ years later.

My DH came up with a number of eye-raising suggestions, the pick of which were Humphrey, Ignatius and Leopold. I thought he was joking but he wasn't.

With DD, the pick of his suggestions were Davinia (as his dad is called David) and Lucretia (was his grandmother's name). No and no was my response.

pastahat · 24/10/2012 13:05

For a boy- Abelard, Bede or Abraham... He is a history teacher. Or randomly, Eric ( after Cantona).
Luckily we had girls! (not that I'd have given in to any of those as a first name)

shinyblackgrape · 24/10/2012 13:16

We've had "Rocky", "Spartacus" and "Horatio". I've obviously vetoed these.

When I've managed to divert him from Alsations' names, he suggests his name, his Father's name or his grandad's name. [hhmmm]

NurseMuddled · 24/10/2012 13:18

DH wanted to call DC1 Booker if it was a boy (our surname is 2 syllables ending in "er") which I vetoed outright, he also wanted Thursday for a girl - I told him the only grounds that I'd even consider it would be if DC had been a girl and born on a Thursday... DC1 was a girl but luckily born on a Sunday!
No2 due beginning of June and so far no mention of either name from him!

Pleasenomorepeppa · 24/10/2012 13:23

For DD, DH suggested Bernice. It was because he'd read a baby name book as if it was an instruction manual & had got bored by the B's!

Moominsarescary · 24/10/2012 16:08

At the moment dp is going for Arden, darragh, Blaine or Rowen. I'm not in agreement.