My husband rejected:

Margaret- bc mean girl in elementary
Rebecca - ex girlfriend
Rachel- bc our last name starts with L
Mary- too old fashioned

(I love all these so much)

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Anonymous wrote:I have love the name Jennie all my life. Unfortunately DH’s last name starts with “Jeni” so it was way too rhyming and awful.

Strangely, my son’s nickname on his ball team is Jennie!

Taking my husband’s last name (Taylor) ruined a lot of my favorite name choices too. No Elizabeth, Kelly, Andie. Even names like Tara and Tamara sound goofy with Taylor.

Ugh, same here. My married last name is Elliott and that knocked out all of my favorite names that end in -elle (which was pretty much all of my top choices).

Iris, Georgia, Vivian, Diana, Helena, and Elena

Roman, Asher, Milo, Miles, and Victor

My DH never came up with names, just vetoes. So I tried not to suggest names that I didn’t love. My misstep was Zara that he LOVED and I liked but wasn’t quite right.

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Anonymous wrote:We have two boys and I campaigned for Ansel each time and was firmly rejected.

H wanted more common names.

A seal is a fricking cool name! My DH vetoed it as well (along with Silas).

Ansel not a seal! Even autocorrect doesn’t like my favorite name!!

Anonymous wrote:We have two boys and I campaigned for Ansel each time and was firmly rejected.

H wanted more common names.

A seal is a fricking cool name! My DH vetoed it as well (along with Silas).

Stella. Then when DD was a year we were at a family event and found out it was a great great grandmothers name. Then he regretted his dislike of it

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Anonymous wrote:Ezra and Zion— DH said they were creepily religious.

I know a Zion whom I met as toddler and I remember thinking, wow your family must be REALLY religious -- and they were (literally missionaries, etc.). I guess if you want to mark your kid, it works... but for me at least it really marked the kid.

I’m the PP and Zion was actually for the national park, not necessarily the religious meaning. It’s my husband’s favorite park and last name starts with a Z, so I thought it was awesome. Nope!

And his siblings, Shenandoah and Yellowstone.

Theodore called Theo. DH said it sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks.

We have two boys and I campaigned for Ansel each time and was firmly rejected.

H wanted more common names.

My husband wanted to name our son Ragnar. He really likes that Vikings TV show

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Anonymous wrote:Ezra and Zion— DH said they were creepily religious.

I know a Zion whom I met as toddler and I remember thinking, wow your family must be REALLY religious -- and they were (literally missionaries, etc.). I guess if you want to mark your kid, it works... but for me at least it really marked the kid.

I’m the PP and Zion was actually for the national park, not necessarily the religious meaning. It’s my husband’s favorite park and last name starts with a Z, so I thought it was awesome. Nope!

Zoe.

Lots of other hippie names.

I vetoed old man names (Arthur, Harold) and names of people who have caused us significant harm (Charles, Richard, Robert, Melissa). My husband vetoed every name he considered too "weird" (Beatrice???) and any name that had even a slight negative assocation. There was almost nothing left. I love our kids' names but if left to my own devices I probably wouldn't have gone with ultra classic Biblical names.

DH hates his last name (I kept my own name) so kids got my last name. Their middle name is R -- just R -- which represents DH's last name. We both vetoed each other's top 5 names. Our kids did not have a first name for the first 5 days of their life.

Anonymous wrote:James. DH was vehemently opposed to James. He had no personal association with the name but just hates it.

I still love that name.

I liked this name too, but it was the name of the affair partner of dh's first wife.