What would your kids have been named if it was up to you?

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I.E - no input from stupid DH

Toby and Rufus

I may need to get hamsters

Clara and Jess

Ekaterina Yael and Araminta Abigail.

Tabitha and Sulis

Andrew and Elliot.

Not too dissimilar to their actual names (Youngest has Elliot as his middle name). Guess DH isn't too bad after all.

All 3 were my choice. We had 2 names we liked for DD2 but I won having just squeezed her out. DH's choice for her was Freya which I love but it's too popular.

If he'd had a free choice DD1 would have been Susannah and DS would have been Casper. I vetoed.

I chose DS’s name and DH did not object. It’s not at all contentious or adventurous though.

DD would have been Lorelli (me) or Thomasin (DH). Her actual name is nothing like either of these!

Alex (for a girl) and Lewis.

I wanted balthazar for ds2

We settled on something very 'common' lovely cos he is lovely but lots of boys have the name

We settled on fairly unusual names (at the time) for ds1 and dd but the only name we agreed on was the common one for ds2

I had a list of 30 names, dh had 6. Only two were the same on both lists

I really wanted Chloe for a girl

I also love the name Tiffany but everyone I ever told thought it was chavvy horrible

Torin
or Arthur

DS (now 27) isn't either of those , but loves Torin and uses it for his Gaming name .. (I knew I was right..) But I do like the name we actually gave him and so does DS. He's glad he wasn't Arthur tough..

DH wanted Stewart .. (DS isn't that either, I'm pleased to say,and so is he )

Ottilie if we had a girl - DH preferred Elizabeth- luckily we agreed on DS's name (only child)

My son would be Gabriel or Rafe. My daughter got the name I picked out when I was 18 wanted

Sakura

The names they have. I picked them, ex wasn't really interested in choosing names. He did say he didn't like a name for DS2 that we eventually used for DS4.

And for DS3 he said he liked a name I read out from a book of names, it was the only one he liked so he kind of chose it but I was only reading out ones I liked!

For the youngest he said he didn't like the name I chose but didn't come up with any other alternatives so I got my way in the end.

When I was pregnant we didn't want to find out the sex until the birth, so we came up with both a boys and a girls name.
We both loved Daniel for a boy and from around the 6 month mark the decision was made.
But couldn't agree on a girls name, and we hadn't decided on one. I loved Jessica but dh wasn't too keen.
I still would love Jessica if we had a daughter in the future. Obviously we had a boy, and as soon as the midwife told us we both said "Daniel", and Daniel was Daniel.

Gabriel
Cadence
Cassandra
Tobias

DS1 would have been James. He got that as a middle name.
DS2 would have been Dominic but I adore his name that H agreed on, he is Benjamin.

ROFL at 'Jared, Denise and Matilda', CoffeeChocolateWine

Lol! I’ve always tried to appear like I’m open to his suggestions but just try and picture my face when he said ‘Denise’! We did end up using Matilda as a middle name for our youngest (he knew better than to suggest Denise again!)

Ex and I could never agree on names, I liked hippy type names and he was fairly mainstream.

Always wanted a DD called Indigo or Bronte. Ex gave in agreed to Mikayla.

Boys I was desperate for Joel or Blake. Ex refused and convinced me to name DS Jordan (which I like but never fussed). Have some regrets, he was born in the 90s so extremely popular then and looks dated now. But as DS grew up I have loved the name and it does suit him.

My husband left it entirely up to me. I chose first and middle names for all our girls, and first name for ds. Husband's only input was middle name for ds (he wanted him to have his middle name). He really doesn't get excited by names !

Phoebe, DH vetoed it and then ended up choosing DD’s name (we didn’t know her sex and I had much stronger feelings about him not having his own way on the boys name!) 🙊

He has said I have the freedom to choose next time, so long as it isn’t phoebe 🙄

Macie and Paddy

Alex and Oisin.

Nova for a girl. We had a boy though and agreed on his name.