Vetoed Baby Names

[14joa31]

Were there any baby names that you love love LOVED ... but that your SO vetoed?? Or that your SO loved and that YOU vetoed?

[14joa31]

Vetoed by DH: Seamus, Eamonn, Leo and Louis

I love traditional Irish names, but DH says that they are "too weird." :/

[silverspoon]

Dylan.

I love that name. Unfortunately, H has had some not so great experiences with too many Dylans in the classroom.

[pinktartan9]

Chloe. I love that name but we have a long last name that starts with a K so H thought it was a bit too Kardashian.

[pinktartan9]

And for H, he liked the name Elizabeth. Nice name, just NMS.

[14joa31]

silverspoon - no offense to Matthews anywhere, but all of the class clowns I have ever known have been named Matthew. So that name is off my list like for the same reason that Dylan is off of YH's list!

[scorpioscuba]

Not sure if this counts but DD's name: Em.ma was vetoed by H from the very beginning of my pregnancy after we found out she was a girl. I went through SO MANY girl names that I liked but couldn't imagine as my daughters' name. He never could provide a decent alternative. In the end (like the week she was due) he came around and said he liked it with her middle name so he had a change of heart. I was very irritated that we could have just had her named all along like DS was.

Other names I liked: Sophia/Sofie, Clara, Hannah, Meghan
The only one of those H liked was Meghan but that is his cousins name so he didn't think it was fair since he has 2 female cousins he is super close to (Meghan and Kirsten) and he felt like it would be picking one of the other. SMH.

[NellieOleson]

H wanted to name dd1 Beatrice, and while I like that name, our last name starts with a J, and I just couldn't give my daughter the initials BJ. :/

[14joa31]

Sept 22, 2016 11:08:26 GMT -5 NellieOleson said:

H wanted to name dd1 Beatrice, and while I like that name, our last name starts with a J, and I just couldn't give my daughter the initials BJ. :/

If I use my nickname in my initials instead of my given name ... my initials are BJ!!! Wahhh!! by marriage, of course. Together, though, DH and I are PB&J - which is much more palatable!

[silverspoon]

Sept 22, 2016 11:08:26 GMT -5 NellieOleson said:

H wanted to name dd1 Beatrice, and while I like that name, our last name starts with a J, and I just couldn't give my daughter the initials BJ. :/

I love Beatrix, kinda similar. 

I did mention it to H before we found out DS was, well a DS. He looked at me like I had two heads.

[wholenewworld]

I really like the name Micah and I'm sad we won't use it. For DS1 I liked Jackson. DH was not on board with either.

The actual contenders were Evan or Tyler for DS1 and Caleb for DS2.

Both of my kids ended up with Old Testament Hebrew names. (We aren't Jewish, fwiw.)

[Lollipop]

H vetoed a few for S, Malachai, Samuel, Tucker, and Micah. Not sure why, other than they just weren't "right". For M he vetoed: Clara, River, Mildred, and Margaret. The first 2 because he didn't want to name her after TV shows (I got the last laugh, she's named after Dr Quinn), Mildred because people would call her Millie, which is what his BFF"s evil wife is called, and Margaret, because ALL of the potential nicknames I like for it are used for family members dogs.

[crimsonandclover]

I always liked Isabelle but dh gave it a hard veto and twilight happened. It's really good we didn't have any boys because we absolutely could not agree on boy names. Mine that he vetoed were Christopher and Alexander because of bullies he went to school with.

[sjames2015]

We couldn't agree on a single boy name. Good thing we have 2 girls. DD1's initials are BJ. I thought of that but we still named her that.
Amelia was a quick veto from DH. I love the name with a nn of Mia. Contenders for DD2 were Kendall and Taylor. Boys names that were vetoed were Dax and Brandon.

[Lollipop]

sjames2015, Amelia was another on H vetoed for M. Also because he didn't want to name her after a TV character.

[sjames2015]

Sept 24, 2016 11:58:42 GMT -5 Lollipop said:

sjames2015, Amelia was another on H vetoed for M. Also because he didn't want to name her after a TV character.

That was H's reason as well. Darn Princess Diaries Movies.

[Lollipop]

Sept 24, 2016 15:17:24 GMT -5 sjames2015 said:

Sept 24, 2016 11:58:42 GMT -5 Lollipop said:

sjames2015, Amelia was another on H vetoed for M. Also because he didn't want to name her after a TV character.

That was H's reason as well. Darn Princess Diaries Movies.

Doctor Who for us.

[chimomma19]

Aiden, Logan.

[icequeen]

Vetoed boy names by DH: Robert, Shane, Charles.
Vetoed girl names by DH: Reese, Blaise, Quinn.

He liked Arwen for girl, Vincent for boy. Not a fan of either.

[NellieOleson]

My H vetoed Juniper for dd2 because he said it sounded like a cartoon character with our J last name. I'm not sure I would have actually used it either, but I like it!

If dd2 would have been a boy, H told me he was thinking of the name Hector. I would have vetoed the hell out of that!

[pinktartan9]

I love the name Lachlann. H said absolutely not.

[icequeen]

NellieOleson, yikes, Hector?? My friend just had a baby named Juniper and her initials are JJ. I like the name but I'm not a big fan of alliteration in general.