what name did you like partner veto'ed?

[Lonnie]

seeing the dislike and do you like your own name I got to think about this one

What names did you like for your dc but your partner was adament was NOT happening?

for me

boys

Otis
Basil (I didnt grow up in the UK dont have the faulty towers connection)
Tristan
Alexander (apparently it is a "weak" name
Cole

girls

Aida
Ayla
Zia
Nia

for me towards Him I can recall vetoing (is that a word?)

Harry (my close friend has an AWFUL horrid dog called it)
Christian
Frederick

didnt veto any girls names as He is GREAT w those

Every single chuffing one.

He seemed to take great pleasure in not liking a single name I suggested for nine months and then occasionally making passive-aggressive suggestions of his own such as Gillian or Deborah or Susan just to wind me up.

Then he waited until I was in in a sleep-deprived morphine haze to name our new baby. I was so amazed that he'd actually got a bloody opinion on the matter that I agreed straight away.

Hugo and Miles

I love them - dh wouldn't entertain them

Stella and Ned

Notanumber - my dh did exactly the same. I came up with around 100 suggestions which he hated. He came up with one. And guess what dd's called?

I was stronger the second time round. Wouldn't tell anyone, including dh, the name I liked and then told him mid-contraction what name I had chosen. He was too scared to disagree.

ohh forty plus I love Hugo and Miles both lovely names

(we discussed Niles for all our girls had 3 girls and with ds it wasnt discussed lol)

Sebastian

Isobel (got it as a middle name though)

Most of my choices, when I think about it. Notably, Hal, Gabriel, Bodie (now that was pregnancy hormones!) and Florence.

Ah well I have 2 boys so my 'long list' of girls' names never came up for discussion! I rather liked Charlotte, Eleanor and Sarah but haven't a clue whether dh would have gone for those!

My DH wouldn't entertain Gabriel or Christian which I really wanted.... To be honest we couldn't really agree on boys names so good job it was a girl!

ds - hated name partner chose - he dismissed all my suggestions, absolutely hated it and then the little sod was born, I couldn't imagine calling him anything else and now love it.

So with dd had couple of vague ideas but left naming her totally to my husband to the horror of family and friends I said I'd go with whatever he suggested, which he finally announced a week before she was born, and all is fine.

Kester
Hector
Milo
Arlo

Gabriel (would get teased)

Daniel (too boring)

Asa

I wanted Hebe but he didn´t.

Ada & Imogen

Martha and Wolf

James - poncy I'd call him Jim or Jimbo
Poppy - ** hippy!

Bianca with DD, Tico with DS. Which was better imo than the Boris HE wanted!

Sibble - my DH vetoed Poppy too because he said it sounds too much like "puppy" (he is not a native English speaker). But the dog was pregnant too so I got to call a puppy Poppy!
And Samuel. But we have had 2 DDs so that was irrelevant.

Verity. DH hates the Felicity/Verity sort of names and I love Verity.

He is currently complaining about Dominic for dc2 which I also love.

Eloise.

Still pregnant with an unnamed girl.

Still pissed off about not being allowed it.

Ha! My SIL wanted Eloise and despite 2 dds my brother has always vetoed it

He vetoed lots of names while I was pregnant, but, after seeing what I went through giving birth, he changed his mind and said I could have whichever name I wanted!

Names he liked that I vetoed: Bruce, Kenneth, Iris, Ivy, Marianne.

Almost everything I liked was hard to pronounce and/or had additional connotations in DH's first language.

And I really wanted Grace but DH said it was too common. So now whenever we meet a Grace I get an "I told you so" look. Unfortunately, too, his exW's name is one of my life-lone favourites, too

I liked Daniel, Harry and Benjamin and DH vetoed all three. Hardly controversial names so not sure what his beef was with them