Baby names you love but can't use

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nodito said:
Do you not like the phrase because in this particular case you don’t dislike the politician or do you think that in general it is not possible for a name to become so closely aligned with one infamous person that it becomes tainted?
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Without commenting on The Donald, it is possible for a name to become that tainted. How many baby Adolfs do you see?
 
7_Sorrows said:
no, not your question. saying the name Donald is forever tainted. petty and immature because of being a sore loser.
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I’m not a sore loser. I wouldn’t name my kid Herod or Adolf for the same reason.
 
7_Sorrows said:
no, not your question. saying the name Donald is forever tainted. petty and immature because of being a sore loser.
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Okay, so in this case, you don’t think the name is tainted because you don’t think the president elect is that bad, but in other cases you might agree that it’s possible for a name to be so negatively associated with a politician that it becomes tainted?
 
Therese Giovanna: I don’t have a daughter and DH wouldn’t agree to it anyway.
 
Ugh. Could we have one thread without political connotations??? :banghead:
 
I’d honestly name child Lucifer before Adolf or Donald. Feeling kind of sorry for poor Donald Duck, though. 😦

Any who, I absolutely love Adele. The name and the artist but there are no more kids in the distant future so perhaps a grandbaby name suggestion. 😃

Edit: I also really like Savanah, but it means bed sheets in Spanish. 😛
 
AClaire11 said:
I can’t sleep. 🙂 What are some baby names you really love, but can’t use? Either because of your surname, spousal veto, bad associations, etc.

For me:

Michael: we have the same last name as the basketball player
Jeanne, Joseph, Josephine, Jessamine: would sound terrible with our last name
Clara: multiple close relatives used this name already
Richard: abusive ex
Savannah: loved this name dearly until I met a Savannah with the nickname Savvy. No.
Melanie: too close to abusive relative’s name
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Spouse vetoed two:

Siobhan - said it sounded like the word for goat in Spanish
Sara - he had a pet that was called “Sara the dog” and was afraid his relatives would call the baby that. 😃
 
mVitus said:
Without commenting on The Donald, it is possible for a name to become that tainted. How many baby Adolfs do you see?
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A friend of mine, born in the early 1960’s, is actually an Adolf, but he goes by his middle name. It was his family’s tradition to name the first-born son Adolf, and that went back hundreds of years (long before Hitler). His dad had been born about the time the war started in Europe, so there hadn’t been as strong negative connotations then. He had debated not naming my friend that because of the negativity surrounding it, but he hated to let a family tradition die. So my friend is Adolf ‘John’, and goes by John.

(My friend doesn’t have any sons, and said he’s sort of secretly relieved by that, because he admitted he wasn’t sure what he would have done himself.)
 
My husband’s mother is Italian and he really feels attached to that part of his family heritage, but you can’t put any Italian-sounding name with our family name. It just doesn’t work. So no “Gianni” for me. 😦

There are a couple girls’ names I just love, but my husband doesn’t like them AND we seem to be destined for boys, so we’ll see.

I had a friend in college who I think was the only girl born in her family. She had about five names just so they could fit in everybody. 😃
 
I wanted Mireille fir my oldest. But first hubs said he couldn’t pronounce it
Pronounced meer-ay.
So we went with Rebecca. It suits her.
I love the same Sofia, Marisol, Azucena, Marianita
 
Meagan34 said:
I’d honestly name child Lucifer before Adolf or Donald. Feeling kind of sorry for poor Donald Duck, though. 😦

Any who, I absolutely love Adele. The name and the artist but there are no more kids in the distant future so perhaps a grandbaby name suggestion. 😃

Edit: I also really like Savanah, but it means bed sheets in Spanish. 😛
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Seriously? That’s pretty pathetic and immature to chose Lucifer over Donald…unless your concern was about the poor snowflakes that might be triggered by the name “Donald” and then bully your child.
 
Meagan34 said:
I’d honestly name child Lucifer before Adolf or Donald. Feeling kind of sorry for poor Donald Duck, though. 😦

Any who, I absolutely love Adele. The name and the artist but there are no more kids in the distant future so perhaps a grandbaby name suggestion. 😃

Edit: I also really like Savanah, but it means bed sheets in Spanish. 😛
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With a change in spelling.

The same word is also used, however, to refer to grasslands (which is how IIUC the Georgian city was named.)

Me, I don’t hold much to naming folks after cities. IMINWHO

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I have no children nor prospects therefor so this is all in fun.

It is puzzling, though, given that there was a Saint Adolphus, that “Adolf” is so thoroughly tainted, while “Joseph” (as in Stalin) and “Benito” (as in Mussolini) are not.

No doubt because Saint Joseph is a much bigger-time saint, whereas Mussolini while a dictator was nice to the Church? 🙂

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Indigo_Cardinal said:
A friend of mine, born in the early 1960’s, is actually an Adolf, but he goes by his middle name. It was his family’s tradition to name the first-born son Adolf, and that went back hundreds of years (long before Hitler). His dad had been born about the time the war started in Europe, so there hadn’t been as strong negative connotations then. He had debated not naming my friend that because of the negativity surrounding it, but he hated to let a family tradition die. So my friend is Adolf ‘John’, and goes by John.

(My friend doesn’t have any sons, and said he’s sort of secretly relieved by that, because he admitted he wasn’t sure what he would have done himself.)
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I’m wondering what’s going to happen with the name Osama. From my limited understanding it’s a very common name in certain cultures (akin to naming someone Peter or Timothy). That could make for some interesting intercultural relations.
 
DarkLight said:
I’m wondering what’s going to happen with the name Osama. From my limited understanding it’s a very common name in certain cultures (akin to naming someone Peter or Timothy). That could make for some interesting intercultural relations.
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In places that it is common, it may well remain so. OBL is not universally hated away from the West.

The Pakistanis were, after all, content to host him for many years.

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