What would your children be called if...

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I'm just curious and thought it would be an interesting topic as I know parents don't agree on everything. What would you have named you child/children if your DP didn't have a say in it?

I got my way for two out of five of them; one of those two would have had a slightly different spelling though, and the other three, whose names were compromises, would have been Niamh or Angharad, Alice, and Colm.

They same they they have now, I chose the names. Dh knew better than to argue wasn't bothered.

DD1 - Amelie (Friend had an Amelia the month before so that was out)
DD2 - Eilidh (DH said too difficult to spell)
DS1 - Rhys (DH bullied by a Rhys)

I have two boys. Their names were a bit of a compromise, and I don't dislike them at all (one of their middle names would have been on my very short shortlist if I'd been on my own), but some of the names I liked that were vetoed include Matthew, Adam, Benjamin, and Daniel, so those might have been in the mix too.

Ds would have been Kirby James. If she had had his choice he would have been Mitchell which is hideous and so wouldn’t suit ds!

Asa and Gabriel

Leander or Lysander, Vesper and Saxon

DS1- the same
DD- Sunday
DS2- Tadhg

Jude and Alexa/Lex (Alexa was the girls name I wanted 15 years ago - quite glad I didn't now as the one teenage Alexa we know is getting quite a lot of grief/random questions directed at her now because of the Amazon thing, poor girl! Mind you pre-Amazon in the 90's I always wanted to open a tall clothing store called Amazon, clearly have something in common with whomever thinks up names there..).

My son would have the name he has now.

I would have been called Magdalena if my mother had her own way, so happy my dad talked her out of it.

Indiana for DD

Charlie and Sophie.

I'm glad we both compromised and took time to agree on names though - I prefer the ones we came up with

Omg if my son had been a girl (14 years ago) she would have been named Isis.

Thank the heavens!!!

I have a ds and dd. They'd have been Edward and Esme or Estelle if left to me.

That said, after exH vetoed Edward I came up with my other name that I had loved since I was 16. I kept it quiet right up till eight months when we were despairing of ever finding one we both liked, then casually dropped it in passing during a phone conversation. He really liked it so I did get the name I wanted in the end. I think though if I had said it early on it would have been an automatic veto.

DD would have been Caoimhe if it was solely my choice. As it happens we found a name I liked just as much, and that DH liked too.

A boy would have been Kane which was a favourite of mine, DH liked it too luckily (well, I say luckily, but really it didn't matter as we had a girl).

Well we agreed and both loved ds1 name straight away but with our ds2 who is due in March, I would have loved the name Nicholas. It's a name I have always loved but dh hates it so we have picked something else I like but not love.

Joe, I still like it.

I love this - so interesting!

My oldest daughter would have been Scout. Deeply regret not naming her that though I do love her current name.

Seth.

He ended up being a Joe. Suits it but I sometimes call him Seph

Probably Sebastian and Charlotte

Same as they are now. Single mum

Parker or jaxon

DD would’ve been Chelsea

Dh wanted ds2 to be called Danny-Boy I wanted Edward. He’s neither of those.

Annabelle or Lydia