name you wanted other half vetoed for no good reason...

[Enko]

The do you like your name thread made me think of this question.

Name you liked for your unborn your other half vetoed for no good reason. So I mean fairly common names you liked you didn't get to use.

Mine is Allanah dh was on a mega no.

@museumum hah strangely enough all those are the names my husband vetoed too! We are also Scottish.

Orla. Both tomes. Happy with my names now but still... it’s a beautiful name...

I really, really wanted Hepzibah! weirdly he hated it. I still think he was wrong!

Lily, but we had boys anyway...

Scarlett
Also OH slapped a ban on anything ending in “ie/ey” for some weird reason

Theo (Theodore)
Leo
Toby (Tobias)

Beatrix and Evangeline

Cecilia and Constance (Connie)

Zelda
But then he turned out to be a boy, so that solved that argument

Laurence and Cordelia

So unreasonable!

He vetoed Joshua and Jacob, dmil vetoed Toby.

I refused Phoenix from him

Luckily we had girls.

Isambard.

Still smarting.

Sydney
Savannah
India
Mabel

Still annoyed many years later

Plus on the boy side

Isaac
Isaiah
Elias
Tom

Grrrrr

Frank. However he vetoed ds2's name for ds1 but had a half hearted change of mind and agreed it. We announced his name and a week later DH said he didn't like it

Soz presses send too soon.

...but now dh loves ds2 name. Can say what it is as it is very unusual. Often comes up on these boards as a suggestion tho.

I often think it was always destined to be be ds2 name. It suits him and with only 2 letters (1 appears twice) it has been easy to learn for a child who goes to a special school and definitely CBA with reading and writing!!

Xavier, Arthur and Teddy
Betsy (reminded him of Betty Swollocks)

I vetoed Imogen

Every girls name I came out with (Parker, Harper, Hannah, Arizona, etc) but it was because the second we knew our first was a girl he just had a name in his head and he so staunchly stuck to it from 10wks in that I let him have it.

I did the same the second I knew we were having a boy, and he didn’t put up much of a fight.

Baby 3 on the way and we aren’t even at the stage of discussing yet, but I think we’ve got a pretty clear winner on either side of boy/girl now that it’ll be easy.

Poppy & Elin he hated both of those girls names for no reason. He vetoed none of my boy names but I had to veto loads of his names...
Leia
Luke
Zeus
Chip
...were the most memorable. I played my only power card of us being unmarried at the time of birth for both our children, so my veto held a lot more sway.

Joshua for a boy

Rose for a girl

To be fair to him though he did have reasons for both, but imo 'I don't like it' is a good enough reason to veto a name

I loved Lola but DH couldn't get 'charlie and lola' out of his head

Maybe I'm just old, but it would be the subject of the song by The Kinks that would instantly put the kibosh on that one for me.

Dualta

I've never heard of that name - just makes me think of a toaster, though.

I really liked the name Zipporah, Zippy for short, but that was instantly turned down.

I suppose, in hindsight, people of our generation would constantly be thinking they were the first to ask 'hilariously' where George, Geoffrey and Bungle were. We had a boy, though, so it was irrelevant in the end anyway.

I would do anything to use Olive for our daughter due in a few months but it was vetoed. He doesn't like any names that are things. So others that I like like Violet and Iris are out too. I also adore Margot/Margaux but he said it makes him think of 'maggot'

I do love the two names it's down to though so it's not all bad!

Dougal - not for a human child but the dog's name I loved. Was banned from having this but with hindsight my dog doesn't look like a Dougal