Baby names you love but can't use

[AClaire11]

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

 

[TheAmazingGrace]

Marcella: I don’t have a baby.
Rita: I don’t have a baby.
Scholastica: She’d be bullied to no end. And I don’t have a baby.
Titus: I don’t have a baby.
Ignatius: I don’t have a baby.
Sixtus: I don’t have a baby.
Columba: I don’t have a baby.
Francis/Frances: I hate this person.
Pierce: I hate this person.
Donald: Forever tainted, although I do love the duck.

 

[TheAmazingGrace]

Savannah: loved this name dearly until I met a Savannah with the nickname Savvy. No.

There’s a Savannah at my school who goes by “Van.” Not sure if this helps.

 

[Belshazzar]

Marcella: I don’t have a baby.
Rita: I don’t have a baby.
Scholastica: She’d be bullied to no end. And I don’t have a baby.
Titus: I don’t have a baby.
Ignatius: I don’t have a baby.
Sixtus: I don’t have a baby.
Columba: I don’t have a baby.
Francis/Frances: I hate this person.
Pierce: I hate this person.
Donald: Forever tainted, although I do love the duck.

One of the most mature and well adjusted kids I went to school with was named Scholastica Rodgers. She happened to be among the most popular kids in school and had the ability to laugh off the occasional teasing of her name (we called her “Battlestar Scholastica.”) She in fact was proud of her name because it was so unusual.

Most children, if you ask them, will tell you they hate their names.

But as they get older, they learn to appreciate them.

If I ever have a son, I would love to name him “Aloysius.” Such a Catholic and nice and elegant name. I’m sure he would learn to love the name also.

 

[Contra_Mundum_1]

I love Andrea for a boy. But outside of Italy it is a woman’s name. I’m not Italian so that just wouldn’t work.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Marcella: I don’t have a baby.
Rita: I don’t have a baby.
Scholastica: She’d be bullied to no end. And I don’t have a baby.
Titus: I don’t have a baby.
Ignatius: I don’t have a baby.
Sixtus: I don’t have a baby.
Columba: I don’t have a baby.
Francis/Frances: I hate this person.
Pierce: I hate this person.
Donald: Forever tainted, although I do love the duck.

I guess I missed something - why is the name Donald forever tainted?

why are Francis/Frances and Pierce followed by “I hate this person”?

 

[Richard_White]

I guess I missed something - why is the name Donald forever tainted?

why are Francis/Frances and Pierce followed by “I hate this person”?

I don’t know what TheAmazingGrace’s reasoning is behind the Francis/Frances and Pierce names…it’s probably personal. But, as to Donald, it is definitely because of Donald Trump haha.

May God bless you all!

 

[nodito]

Margaret. {Sigh} Spousal veto.

 

[nodito]

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

I think Josephine Jackson sounds cute! I don’t worry as much about girl first name last name combos, though, because odds are good that at some point they’ll go by a different name (either through marriage or religious life).

 

[7_Sorrows]

I don’t know what TheAmazingGrace’s reasoning is behind the Francis/Frances and Pierce names…it’s probably personal. But, as to Donald, it is definitely because of Donald Trump haha.

May God bless you all!

you think so? how cruel. I guess the same could be said for Barack.

 

[7_Sorrows]

I think Josephine Jackson sounds cute! I don’t worry as much about girl first name last name combos, though, because odds are good that at some point they’ll go by a different name (either through marriage or religious life).

I was thinking the last name of Jordan.

 

[nodito]

you think so? how cruel. I guess the same could be said for Barack.

“Cruel”? He’s a major reality TV star and highly polarizing politician. Donald wasn’t a popular baby name before the presidential campaign and whereas before it was associated more with a Disney character, I think it’s become highly charged and more strongly associated with a celebrity that many people detest.

Yes, I think many people would agree that the name Barack has similar connotations (but although I vehemently disagree with many of Obama’s policies positions on things like abortion, his person -and therefore his name- are not quite so repugnant to me).

 

[nodito]

I was thinking the last name of Jordan.

Ha! Brain freeze this morning. You’re right.

Hmm, Josephine Jordan could work too, though. What do you think?

 

[7_Sorrows]

Ha! Brain freeze this morning. You’re right.

Hmm, Josephine Jordan could work too, though. What do you think?

I don’t see a problem.

 

[7_Sorrows]

“Cruel”? He’s a major reality TV star and highly polarizing politician. Donald wasn’t a popular baby name before the presidential campaign and whereas before it was associated more with a Disney character, I think it’s become highly charged and more strongly associated with a celebrity that many people detest.

Yes, I think many people would agree that the name Barack has similar connotations (but although I vehemently disagree with many of Obama’s policies positions on things like abortion, his person -and therefore his name- are not quite so repugnant to me).

yes cruel. to say the name is forever tainted. I wonder what the actor Donald Sutherland would think of his name being forever tainted.
for all we know, President Elect Donald Trump might become one of our best presidents.

 

[AClaire11]

I don’t see a problem.

I just don’t like the similar sounds. Either way, it would sound very odd paired with our daughter’s name and my husband doesn’t like it.

 

[nodito]

yes cruel. to say the name is forever tainted. I wonder what the actor Donald Sutherland would think of his name being forever tainted.
for all we know, President Elect Donald Trump might become one of our best presidents.

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?

 

[TheAmazingGrace]

I don’t know what TheAmazingGrace’s reasoning is behind the Francis/Frances and Pierce names…it’s probably personal. But, as to Donald, it is definitely because of Donald Trump haha.

May God bless you all!

Spot on.

 

[7_Sorrows]

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?

petty and immature.

 

[TheAmazingGrace]

One of the most mature and well adjusted kids I went to school with was named Scholastica Rodgers. She happened to be among the most popular kids in school and had the ability to laugh off the occasional teasing of her name (we called her “Battlestar Scholastica.”) She in fact was proud of her name because it was so unusual.

Most children, if you ask them, will tell you they hate their names.

But as they get older, they learn to appreciate them.

If I ever have a son, I would love to name him “Aloysius.” Such a Catholic and nice and elegant name. I’m sure he would learn to love the name also.

That makes me feel so much better.