Also love the name Tuesday (not any other day of the week or month names - just Tuesday). Hubby said “Over my dead body.”
If I had a son I would love to name him Gabriel. However, my asshole would pucker if anyone called him “Gabe.” So, Gabriel will be the middle name for my nonexistent son.
I like the name Hannah for a girl but I won’t be naming my daughter that because my partner nixed it.
By the way, I love the name Declan. An aquantaince of mine named her son Declan and after you say it a few times, it really sounds cool and works, even for a baby.
Myceeluna? Did anyone else just start singin “My Sherona?”
Sorry, but these things need to be brought out into the open for the sake of our future children.
I don’t like Declan because I associate it with a deckle, which is a tool in paper making.
Once I married a Dutch guy it was evident that our children would have Dutch names. Our first child was such a Douwe that there was no controversy; he just is a Douwe, I don’t know how to explain it.
I wanted Adriaan for Youngest but Dearly Beloved does not like it; so he is Daan instead which was as close as I could get. Ad being the other variant of Adriaan popular here and I don’t care for that one.
I also wanted to name a boy either Jelle (YELL-eh) or Kees (case) but the first is sort of unfortunate Stateside and the other Dearly Beloved hated, too.
We both wanted to name our daughter Elke, but we didn’t have one.
I have a bunch of names I’d love to use, but my wife hates (and vice versa I’m sure).
John Lennon (She won’t allow me to name a son after a musician so obviously )
Ray (Just doesn’t like it)
Sarah (Ditto)
Jess (Ditto)
Elizabeth (Ditto)
Rosemary (She think it’s too old-fashioned)
Dave (Our last name also starts with “Dave.” I think that would sound cool, like Dave Davies, but she thinks it would sound dumb.)
Rubystreak and Caridwen, my wife and I both love Walter for a boy and Lily for a girl. We’re likely to use both if we have the chance!
Uh oh, we were gonna use Holden for a boy, thinking that no one else was using it.
To answer the OP, I really like Caitlynn for a girl, but it became way too trendy with way too many spellings.
My nephew’s name is Dryden. He’s named after John Dryden, an English poet.
Also, his mother’s cousin is a member of Alien Ant Farm - which I assume is your favorite band.
I love the name Cassandra, but the story behind it is so tragic, I wouldn’t give it to a child.
Samuel is another name I like, but I’d hate to tell my son he’s named after a Terry Pratchett character.
No kids, but during one of those conversations about potential names, it became alarmingly clear that Mr. Del and I don’t really have a lot in common when it comes to names.
I love the name Kaye, but could never use it now because it’s the name of an in-law, the kind that you wouldn’t want to name a child after. Too much baggage.
I also like Bonnie, but he just doesn’t like it, in a strong, visceral dislike way.
We’re both extremely fond of Lydia, but it’s creeping up the popularity charts which would make us very hesitant to use it. (If presented with an actual baby, we might have to reconsider this, because it’s one of the few we agree on.)
Sadly enough the other name we both like is Cowboy (for a boy), which we realize is somewhat ridiculous. We had been trying to think of outrageous names for a laugh, and Cowboy made the list, and then we realized we sort of liked it, for real. We probably just need to get a dog and name it Cowboy.
koeeoaddi, I had a student named Tamar a few years back, and it was the first time I heard the name – now I just love it.
I like Aaron, but it wouldn’t go well with our last name.
I also had Marion Grace put aside for another girl, but he wasn’t.
I love the name “Flannery” for a girl (after Flannery O’Connor). SO nixed that one right out of the chute.
Oh, please use it! I’d love to see someone use it, even if I don’t.
Funny related story: Some friends and I were discussing names one evening and I mentioned that I liked the name Holden. One of my friends asked if it was because of some soap opera character or other and when I said no she had a sudden realization: “It’s one of those literary things, isn’t it?” (She’s not a reader; I majored in English Lit.)
Just saw Jennshark’s post. I love Flannery too. I named one of my Sims that recently.
If and when we have a daughter:
Ava - I’ve loved it for years, but now 1. it’s too popular and 2. my cousin just named her daughter Ava
Samantha - one of my favorite names, but my husband doesn’t want our child’s first and last name starting with the same letter
Lily - he hates how it sounds with our last name
For our son, and any future sons:
Aaron - we both like it, but a friend has a daughter named Erin.
Other than those, I don’t think we really have many names that we can’t use.
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My wife and I have also just entered the ‘maybe we should have kids’ phase. We’ve come to refer to our hypothetical offspring by a name we would never use… Perpetua.
And what’s so wrong with that?
My dad actually wanted to name me John or Lennon at some point. Much as I like the Beatles, I’m glad my mom didn’t approve. Now, if they’d named the middle brother Lennon - he’s a Communist - it would’ve been spooky.
for a boy I like Aubrey and Florian, but both sound like girl names (even though they’re not.)
For girls, I like Philippa and Pippi for short, but there’s that whole… longstockings thing.
And then if I’m going to continue in the tradition of my mother and grandmother and so on, there are other limits.
No Emily, Gabrielle, Carrie/Kara/Carolyn, Sarah… nothing that would sound stupid following “Mary.”
delphica, I used to like the name Lydia, but it rhymes with chlamydia, a fact I can’t not think of whenever I hear it. Also, I remember an episode of the Muppet Show where they sang a song with the first line, “Lydia, oh Lydia, oh have you met Lydia? It’s Lydia the Tattooed Lady…” So that name is just about shot for me.
If we have a son my SO wants to name him Percival. Over my dead body. No son of mine is going to go through the playground of life saddled with that bullseye on his back. I told her if she likes the name so much she should name our next pet Percy.
I have always loved the name Aidan since I first saw the actor Aidan Quinn in Reckless with Daryl Hannah. It’s so popular now though. I also think it would make a good girls name.
I do kind of like the idea of giving girls certain names that are traditionally male; like Michael or Kieran. Or even the above mentioned “Daryl.”
Last names as first names can add a flair if you don’t get carried away. Kaiser for a boy? I’d do it. McGregor? Yeah, why not?
That actually IS a great name for a dog. My down-the-street neighbor named his Boston Terror…er…Terrier “Cowboy” and it really works!
I like the name Reyna, but Himself doesn’t. We both have “R” names, though, and it’d be kind of corny to name a kid with an R name, too, especially considering our LAST name is an R name. I also love the name Rose, but that would be really outside the limits of okay, since “Rose Russ” sounds terribly like an uneducated and lazy pronunciation of “Rolls Royce”.
:eek: Ha, well now I will probably also think of that fact every time I hear it, so I will feel better about not using it.