Names you can't use

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This is a thread for names that you love but can't use for various reasons eg OH doesn't like it, someone has ruined it, another family member/friend has named their baby it, ran out of children...
That way we can appreciate some beautiful names and maybe offer some inspiration to expectant parents-to-be so that these names may find a good home
I will go first...
Girls: Aria, Theia, Thalia, Maia
Boys: Logan, Aidan
Uni: Blake, Harper, Harley, Sam

So many names sound comical with my 'F heavy' surname. I've had to say goodbye to all these lovely names as a result:

Sophie
Seraphina
Felicity
Fiona

Finnegan
Frederick

Arabella - we both have names beginning with A
Philippa - surname begins with P
Elliot - vetoed by DH

Niamh... It's so beautiful! But in the great name sharing conversation we had when my best friend was pregnant, she also fell in love with it! So her 3 year old is Niamh and my unborn baby has no name because I'm fixated!

Benjamin, Finlay, Josephine, Carolyn, Frances, Francesca, Hugo - none of these work with my surname
Alexander - ex boyfriend and bf's son
Thomas- friends son

I love the name Sharon, but can't imagine anyone using it these days - uber chavvy I suppose, but I love the way it feels when you say it and the sound of it. Couldn't have used it as had two boys and anyway our surname ends with on so would have been ridiculous.

Love Charlotte but DH not keen because of princess Charlotte and we have a nephew Charlie.
I also like Willow, Gracie, Max and Milo but DH not keen on them either,

DH likes Rocky (!!!) and Fergus. No chance on this earth.

Angus & Beatrice - they rhyme with our surname
Ottillie & Genevieve - they sound too elaborate and long with our elaborate, long, difficult to spell and pronounce surname
Eleanor - some people mispronounce my current DD's name as Elena
Stella/Estella - DH can't get over the fact that it makes him think of beer
Isabella - love this name but dislike very popular names so can't use it
Clara - a close friend named her DD this
Tess - DH does not like it
Noa - Noah is very popular and I know people will assume I gave my DD a boy's name until they see it written down and I'm not cool enough to get away with a boy name for a girl :)

Our last name is an animal, so anything ending with an A is basically out, which I think is a shame, but it doesn't work. Imagine our surname is 'Lion' it's not, but that would be cool

Cora Lion, becomes "Cor! A Lion!" Same for Noah, Luca, Mya etc.

I have Osian on my list but Dh has a dn with the name, so apparently that's out!

Hazel. I love it, but had a boy.

Celeste. I really love it but I can't get away from the fact it's a contraceptive pill.

StarkyTheDirewolf, I had a good laugh about 'Cor! A lion!" "No! A lion!" "My! A lion!" Haha! Sorry, probably not that funny for you... :)

DP's surname rules out loads of names - it's 3 syllables ending in 'y' and lots of names would end up a bit Utterly Butterly.
Bonnie
Verity
Leonie

Any name that starts CLA such as Clarissa, Claire, Clara
The sound just makes my skin crawl.

I will also always veto Junior. Its so career limiting. You can't imagine a CEO of a major corporation called Junior. I would veto Buddy for the same reason.

Rosalie - too many Roses in the family
Emily - niece is called Amelie
Edward - sad but dmil had a sibling with this name who died in infancy

Jacob - I have a brother called Jacob but my OH adores the name, to the point that he maintains he's going to call any DS we may have in the future 'Jacob' regardless of what his actual name is pretty sure he's joking though!

For a girl I loved Ottilie, but OH can't stop thinking about otters whenever I say it...ridiculous excuse to veto a name if you ask me!! ;)

Claudia (apparently we aren't posh enough), Ava (didn't go with surname), Fergus (didn't go with bloody surname), Rory (for second child but eldest can't pronounce "r's" that well and we didn't think we could do it to her!), Liam (DP hates it).... Many many more. Saddest about Claudia. I AM posh enough dammit!

Anything beginning with A as both hubby and mine first names start with A so would be too Kardashian Alistair was the only boys name I liked luckily we had a girl.
Robert as our surname is Roberts
George, Andrew, Benjamin, Seren and Arwen as pets in our family.

Lark, for a girl - I just wasn't brave enough.

Girl:
Juniper - not brave enough
Charlotte - vetoed by DH
Emmeline - rhymes with our surname
Estelle - vetoed by DH
Cecily - vetoed by DH

Boy:
Alexander - vetoed by DH

Hoping to have one more DC, so may have to work on DH's name tastes...

Can't use because they don't go with surname:

• Any name starting with L
• Flynn / Finn
• Bella / Stella
• Emilia
• Mia
• Frida
• Ivy
• Sarah
• Riley

Can't use because they're taken by family/friends:

• Charlotte / Charlie
• Olive (we have an Olivia in the family already)
• Kate
• Genevieve (have a Jen in the family already)
• Rose / any variation of Rose
• Matthew
• Benjamin
• Jack
• Maxwell (have a Max in the family already)
• Ava (best friend is naming her baby due in Sept this)

Bridget
Eugene
Eric
Henry
Albert
Arthur
Rupert
Roighan
DP hates them all but loves any girls name i suggest

Susanna
Miriam
Esther
Louisa
Florence
Genevieve
Jemima
Kezia
Marina
Rosamund
Eliza
Martha
Iris

Aaron
Edwin
Harry
John
Jonathan
Laurence
Miles
Nicholas
Peter
William
Zachary

DH has vetoed them all!

I love
Persephone
Clementine
Rafferty
Seraphina

Huuby said no to all of them

Bella... Ruined by twilight

Dominic and Alexander. DH thinks they are girl's names

Adelaine- DH's cousin.