Names you wish you could use

[justhayley]

Hiya, just a light hearted thread. What names do you wish you could use but for one reason or another havnt/couldn't ?

Might help someone else to find their dream baby name in the meantime.

Primrose: Grew up in primrose hill, DP would think I'd lost the plot if even suggested.

Heidi: best friends daughter

Joshua: DP hates it (although I will work on it for future DS)

Willow: Too Hippy for DP

Autumn: Don't think Im brave enough to use it but think it's beautiful.

India: same reason as Autumn really + I have no indian connections and have never been so doesn't make sense.

I always liked Flora but DH worked for a certain margarine manufacturer.

Oh and Ruben: again DP Hayes it

And Hugo: close friends dog (who we are probably out with once/twice a week).

Lol oh no scurry what are the chances lol

Scarlett, Alana, Clementine, Lyla, India, Evie, Rosa

Theodore, Stanley, Joshua, Freddie, Atticus, Caspian

Names DH vetoed or names that I really like or names that we just couldn't make work with our surname or siblings names.

Buffy
Lolita
Arthur
Zebulon

Sloane. I flipping love this name. But our surname is too short to go with it.

River. I love it, Dh cringes when I say it.

Autumn-love it, dh not keen.

Chloe-too many pets known with this name.

Jemima - was in the US at the time and was told it was absolutely a no-go name. Racial connotations apparently.

Lydia - DH was fully onboard till he Mumsnetted it (on my advice) and saw references to Chlamydia!! Grrrr.

Joe - ex boyfriend. I LOVE that name.

Mara. Rhymes with my name.

Percival, Lancelot and Bors/Boromir.

Dh said they're all very pretentious, I know he's right but dammit I wanted to use them as middle names!

I wanted to use Augustus as a middle name for ds2 but the wee awkward one had other ideas and came in July

Love Autumn as a girls name, think Winter would be fab for a boy

Seth, I love it but I'm not having anymore babies, which makes it quite hard to use, lol

Maisy, was our name for ds if he'd been a girl. Still loved it when dd came along but dh and ds already had M names and we didn't want a theme.

Angharad - I live in Scotland,DH would never go for it.
Eleri - My ex cheated on me with an Eleri.
Eilidh - DH's ex girlfriend

Lucius - Death eater in Harry Potter

We're in Scotland.

Magnus - DH hates it

Angus - DH thinks of steak

Sholto - DH just laughed

I really want to use Ptolemy or Stanley, but DHs surname ends in LEY, so it sounds a bit utterly butterly.
All names ending in an E sound are ruled are really as it's just too rhymey.
I loved Ottillie for a girl too.

Surname starts with a D, which also rules out my current favourite names Dominic and Damaris.

Ha, my two favourites, River and Atticus, are already here. DH vetoed both when we were discussing names for DC1. Still sorry I didn't get Atticus when DC turned out to be a DS.

Rupert- DP hates it
Ralph- DP says it sounds like someone being sick
Roxy- apparently it's a "tarty" name (?)
Rocco- me and DP are no where near cool enough to pull that off

(We really like R names)

Pixie - because you just can't call a child Pixie (world according to my XP, and most sensible people it seems)

So my dog is called Pixie.

Finn
Ben
Samuel
Theo
Naithaniel
Toby

All names I would have liked of close family / friends / pets

Girls' names:
Grace: I am horribly, horrendously clumsy. It's too great a risk that a DD might be likewise to use this name.
Wren: DH, DD1 and myself are not small people. I suspect calling a DD this would lead to a lifetime of barely-suppressed laughter every time she introduces herself.

Boys' names:

Kier: putting aside the Mumsnet prejudice against names that start with K, our surname does too. He'd sound like he was stuttering.
Atticus: mainly because I'm not brave enough, but it also has a very similar sound to our surname.

If I'd had a girl it would have been Delilah. I also like Phoenix, not sure where or how I'd use it.
Although, I have got a Lennon ;)

I wanted Elliott but DH didn't like it. Also Ryan which doesn't go with surname.

If I had a daughter she would have been Rebecca, which I absolutely love. Three boys here

My beloved boy names of choice Henry, Charles, Arthur and Raife all vetoed by oh. He also hated Edith, Francesca but luckily decided on a beautiful name for our dd.

I've always liked the name Lydia but between the towie effect and a really annoying one I know it put me off- which probably isn't a bad thing reading your post onesie

With DS2 i wanted him to be Clyde :(

I have always loved the name Athena but don't think we could pull it off. Also love Leighton but our surname ends in 'ton' so it sounds horrible.

Ruby....cos it would have sounded too much like ruby tuesday

Mollie. Cos dh's cm was called Mollie and he thought it was disrespectful to his mum