What names do you love but can't or won't use?

[Kimonolady]

Maybe because it doesn't go with your surname, you know someone with that name, it's just a bit too "out there"...

Alex has always been my favourite, favourite name for a boy - but since it's DH's name, that's ruled out for me. At least he has it instead!

There are also a lot of girls' names that I like, but don't know if I would have the balls to use - my family all have very traditional, ordinary names. I like Marina, Beatrice, Emilia...

How about you?

Gunnar. I love it, but I can't imagine shouting it across the park in the current climate.

I've always liked the girl's name Fabia. Except it rhymes with... which would be a bit cruel. Especially especially as our surname rhymes with another gynae word (all be it slang)

I loved the name Liam when pregnant with our youngest and my husband was fine with it too. During that time we had new neighbours with a son called Liam who was a nasty violent bully towards our older son so it put us off the name completely.

Iona, Ivor and Ivo don't work with surname.

Saskia, Felix, Ariadne, Esther, Hester, Willem, Maxim, Rex, Louis, Jago - taken by friends/family or too close to names that are

Meg, Gwen, Primrose, Pippa, Zara, Kitty, Xanthe, Oscar, Rufus, Rafe, Teddy, Luca - DH not keen

Plus many that are just way too much to inflict on a real child

Gabriel and Edward - but I already gave those names away to my cats.

We both liked 'Cody', but it seems to be viewed rather negatively.

Cassius/ Cassiel - worried they are a bit pretentious.

Louis - I went on a single date with someone called 'Lewis' 11 years ago, so DP has vetoed.

Reuben was husband hated it and Crispin which he loved but I hated (I'm pretty sure I'm right about this one)!

Damian has always been my favourite boy's name, but I never accounted for having a DH who wouldn't like it.

Ditto Rory and Jack.

Lila for a girl...Evidently it was the name of my grandfather's first wife.

emmanuel - vetoed
amber - vetoed
lee - in the family already
sophie - in the family already
elliott - vetoed

recently mc'd a girl who i refer to as amber.

Constance and Ava - neither work with our surname. Also Clara as it would sound like someone gargling

Michael. It's my dad's name and I love it but we can't use it because it will inevitably be shortened to Mike and baby's surname will be Hunt

We have settled on the name just now. Finally something me and DH both like.
Here are the names on my list that we either couldnt use or my DH vetoed.

Juliette
Julia
Charlotte
Philippa
Sofia
Serena
Lucia
Marissa
Cecile
Celeste
Felicity

Nathaniel because DH hates Nathan

Tristan because DH dislikes it, and Alexander because DH associates it with someone.

DH likes Arthur but an in-law shares that name

Matilda.... because I'm having a boy!!! I also love Madeleine but hate Maddy so probably wouldn't have used it

If we want to go 'off the wall', I like the following boy names but wouldn't use them as they are too out there for us

Lysander
Aubrey
Kester
Lucius
Cassius
Devon
Quinn

Girls:

Eleanor - too close to niece's name
Margaret - name of a friend who it would feel strange to name a child after
Alexandra - too close to nephew's name
Rain - vetoed by DH
Wren - vetoed by DH
Star - vetoed by DH

Boys:

Hamish - vetoed by DH as we aren't Scottish enough
Struan - as above
Innes - as above
Angus - as above
Ezra - too close to DC1 name

I love Scottish names!

Endeavour - it's awesome! but I couldn't do that to a child

Sonny, Ezra, Jonah & Beau - all vetoed by DH.
Isla was always my favourite girl's name but it's way too popular now (and I only have boys any way so it doesn't matter!) & Maggie because it's our dog's name!

Ella.

Because my son is called Sam and I cannot go through life with food poisoning.

I wanted Lola but Dh didn't like it. The goldfish is now Lola!

Husband vetoed: Magnus, Jasper, Peter, Andrew, Rupert, Hamish, Imogen, Faith, Ramona, Tabitha

Doesn’t work with our surname: Hazel, Clara, Ophelia (also probably a bit too out there, but mostly really bad with our surname!), Griffin, Sorrel, Caleb

Not brave enough: Damaris, Elara, Hester, Hermione, Jessamine, Leopold, Niobe, Phineas

Negative association (personal or otherwise): Patrick, Simone, Myra

Already have family members/close friends with these names: Adam, Nicholas, Henry

Joseph/Joe - my "one that got away" ex and I thought it would be kind of disrespectful to DH (he wouldn't have minded)

Matthew - DH liked it too but didn't like Matt for short. he now has a good friend called Matt and I think he's come around to it but our babymaking days are over!

Jago - always been a favourite of mine but DH was scared it was "too out there" when naming DS1. He reconsidered for DS2 but I said we couldn't use it as DS1 has a related name.

Adam, Alexander, Richard - would have been duplicate initials in the family and I'm fussy about that.

And of course a whole lot of lovely girls' names because I never had a girl!

Marina - husband vetoed as he knows someone called Marina and doesn't like her.

Venetia - or any V name as our surname starts with D.

Loveday - adore this but would have been completely pointless mentioning to DH. He would have thought I was mad

Clara because it's a match to our surname and Beatrice because my dear friend's daughter has that name.

Oh and Wilder (for a girl) because it's not a real name 👎

Couldn't use Maximus, Lucifer or Damien.
(Ex didn't like them. Apparently I'm nuts)

Would love to call little girls Erza Scarlet and Mira (meera) Jane. But they wouldn't go with the names of my other kids and I'd get the face because they are anime characters.

Serenity, Felicity, Natalia, Juliette, Veronica, Coralie - all vetoed!

I fought for (and won) Fabian as our boy's name, but then I had a girl

Riven as it rhymes with our surname.

Serendipity- everyone, except DH and I, hates it. (Although if surprise baby 3 is a girl who knows...!)

Naomi - DH's ex, I don't mind but he does.