names you would love to use but can't, for whatever reason

[dizzydixies]

Ellis
Lola
Dixie and Jack

Digby. Just not allowed by dh. Not even as a middle name. 3 boys, and not a Digby amongst them

I used to love the name Stella, but for obvious reasons I would never name a daughter that!!!

I love Lily, but husbands ex-wife's dogs called Lily, so it would be too weird. Liked Ethan too, til I found out that that's what his first child would have been called if it was a boy!

Could never pick Richard because our surname is the same as the mad murderer who used to be on Coronation Street (it starts with H!! - got it?)

Dorcas - potential unfortunate derivative.

i really wished we have used Dixie as dd3 first name, but she is Serena Dixie.

I love charlotte, cant use it as two cousins called it already.

loads of names i like buty cant use.

Samuel - with our initials, it spells a rude word. Funnily enough, my cousins' kids were all keen for us to name ds that, but then, they are all between 4 and 18 years old.

Niamh....as we have an N and a V in our surname.

i love dolly but what if one of my girls wanted to become a banker? it would be too silly

Araminta and Antigone (Minty and Tiggy)

just too poncey for our modest lifestyle

Diana, complicated family reasons.

Names I like but can't use:

Owen...because I'm having a girl
Ella...to close to Emma, my niece
Lauren...my cousin's daughter's name
Claudia...my brother gave it to his DD, our late mother's name
Roxy...DH hates it
Alexa...DH hates it
Sadie...DH hates it
(do you see a pattern here?)

Lola. I love this name but other people kept mentioning songs about transvestites and showgirls so DP flatly refused to have it!

LOVE THIS THREAD LOADS OF NAME IDEAS KEEP IT GOING!!

I love Mia but can't have it as our surname starts mi so would sound funny.

Really like jenna , took me a while to realise why you couldn't have it with Taylor - lol - so glad you realised!!

lotuseener - I used to love Stella too, but a year working opposite the most insane megabitch in the world quickly cured me of that!

mia, because thats what father in law called his cat

For a boy we can't have Bert or Fred. Can you guess the surname? Would love Frederick after my grandfather but its a no-no. Girls names I loved but DH didn't, Frances - I love it.

Eva - did not go with surname but Ava worked well
Aiden, Fred, Callum were my favs for boys
Olivia - too popular
Charlotte

I love Freya but it rhymes with our surname, even tried turning it into Freya-ann, but DH said no.

Love Oscar, but with our surname its the same as an American hotdog manufacturer, could live with that until I met someone in the UK who works for them!

Charlotte Grace - because we had boys

Just thought of another one - Edmund - absolutely love it but it's the name of my ex.

Amelia
Matilda

I have boys

Amelia
Matilda

I have boys

Dusty but surname is Spittlehouse! Hermione but then the Harry Potter thing took off! Anyway had a boy. I really liked Ruben but I was out voted. Settled for Elliott.