DP evil veto!!!!

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What names did you ADORE but DP/DH vetoed?

I am mourning over the fact I'm not allowed to use Perdita.

I love Perdita.

Raphael was vetoed both times, and DS2 is so a Raphael.

For girls: Meg, Alba, Lotte and Sylvie.

If we ever have another, I hope to suggest them all again and hope he's changed his mind!

I am still bitter about Gabriel 8 years later
dh staunchly defends the indefensible

I have 3 brothers and my dad famously vetoed Conan, Herman and Mungo which were my mum's choices.

She still maintains they are lovely names...

Florence...although I'm kind of glad now as I love the name we ended up picking, but I was dead set on it for a long time

Too many. We actually have quite similar taste so we can find a lot we both agree on but he has some irrational dislikes to names I love. In particular: Theo, Isaac, Jude, Rufus and Verity, Felicity, Annabel, Leah.

Lydia

Christopher, to be shortened to Kit, and also Alastair and Rupert.

I got my own back by vetoing Louis - ridiculous name IMO if you don't have some form of French connection to justify it!

Eliza, Martha and Evangeline were my favourite names for girls. He hated all 3.

Naomi (an ex), Rosie (a childhood pet) and Harriet ("too posh")

Dh vetoed Matthew.
I still think I can convince him if we have another boy though.

DH vetoed Ezra when DS was born. Probably a good thing as it’s very popular now.

I vetoed Holly for this one. I don’t hate the name, I just used to know a really, really annoying Holly and some names are just always associated with negative traits.

Meredith - reminded him of Meredith Kercher

Perdita- didn’t like the meaning

Aurelia - pretentious

Serena - knew one once and hated her

He suggested Ruth...the name of a woman he had previously had a fairly long term relationship with . I vetoed that.

Dd’s name is one we both ultimately agreed on and none of the other names would have suited her as well as the one we went with in the end.

So many of mine are on here - who knew j had such feminine taste! He vetoed:

Felix/Raphael/Gabriel/Rory

Hazel/Daphne/Helena

Tallulah and Persephone (where maybe he had a point)

But also Saskia and Lucy, and Fergus

Oh Persephone was one of mine that vetoed too!

Just remembered the boys names -

Jasper - slang for wasps...in the South of England, which is not where we live

Aneurin - too Welsh. Live in Wales

Gabriel - would get bullied in school because it has “gay” in it (this was a very out of character stupid comment from him)

Torin - too Lord of the Rings

I don’t think we would ever have agreed on a boys name.

Although I love DD’s name, I remember wanting to call her Ruby and DH vetoed it.

Fast forward 6 months, we’re watching a tv programme with a character called Ruby and DH turns to me and says “I really like that name”. It was if he was hearing it for the first time!

Serena and Audrey

Sirius for DC1 (thank goodness )

DH also rejected my all time most favourite girls name for DC1, who ended up being a boy.

I tentatively suggested it again when I was 38 weeks pregnant with DC2 and he had done a completely 180. DC2 was a girl and she has the name I love! So there's always hope!