Did you throw out your hypothetical names?

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The thread about the lady whose SIL wants to reserve the name Rose in case she has a baby one day got me thinking.

This is just hypothetical as we're TTC but DH and I vetoed a lot of each other's favourite names because we don't like them, or they're the names of significant exes or family pets or they have some kind of negative association, or there are other babies in the family with that name (we'd just rather not go there).

Which just goes to show that you can think you've got your future names picked out, only to find you'd be naming your baby after your MIL's tortoise. So I wondered: if you had names in mind for a future child, have you actually been able to use them or have you thrown them out?

Had I 'reserved' a name in that way, it would have been Tara, Zoe, Alex (for either sex),

Sorry, on iPhone and hit post before I meant to.

Mine would have been Tara, Zoe, Alex for either sex, or Seth, none of which DH likes. He's also vetoed Henry and Georgia (a family pet and a cousin's baby).

I've vetoed almost all of the names he likes for various reasons as well. So we had to find new ideas we both liked. I just wondered if anyone actually used the names they had in mind out of sheer curiosity and to give ammo to people being told they can't use a name as it's reserved...

I love William, Thomas and Benjamin but Thomas and Benjamin were already taken by family and DP vetoed William.

I love Emilia, Freya and Sophia for girls names.

DH ruined my chances of using quite a few names I like because they clash with his surname. I'm saving them for my second husband

We were always going to use the name Esme if we ever had a girl this was decided 2 years before, but when I was actually pregnant we both went off the name altogether and went for something else (that I love a million times more!)
If we would have been expecting a boy we wre struggling as I have a huge family and lots of my cousins have boys that have been given traditional English names that we would have wanted to use but wouldn't have been able to

Christopher, Alexander vetoed by DH
Matthew didn't go with surname
Edward- chickened out as didn't like any shortened form.
Robert- already used in family.

Never needed a girls name but Louisa, Sarah, Elizabeth, Catherine.

I used my long decided boys names for our ds1
They're quite normal names (think James John in style) but he's named after my brother who died so my dh would have been quite hard hearted to veto it
He did however stop me having Myfanwy for our daughter and then vetoed my top ten for each of our other children

Yes, it takes DH and I ages to agree.

For DS we had liked Leo (our if DD was a boy choice) but by the time DS arrived SIL was living with her boyfriend - Leo. So we chose something else. SIL and bf have since broken up!

I had a friend whose favourite name was always Freya.

Her married surname is Lake...

I always thought i'd name my daughter clementine but DH's parents named the baby (cultural reasons) so DD has a traditional name from DH's culture and clementine is her middle name. I do feel a tinge of sadness when I hear of people actually calling their child clementine. I would love Monty for a boy but I know that will also only ever be a middle name for me. But I love my DD's name so I can't complain .

Freya Lake?
I must be really dim this morning

The only thing I can come up with is frail ache and if its that she really shouldn't have let it stop her

F Lake? Don't think it's bad though.

Flake. Best avoided...

I made DP throw out the name he was adamant about for any DS's. It was shocking. He can have it as a middle name but that's it.

I have to say the names I imagined calling my DC before I had any are not names I actually considered when chosing a name. They had seemed so nice, but then I found I couldn't imagine using them for a real life person (not that they were unusual). I didn't want DC to have a name that I had any preconceptions about, I wanted a whole new name for her.