Baby names you love but can't use

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adamhovey1988 said:
I want to name all my children after Catholic saints in some way or another but I find the Welsh name is very interesting even though I can’t say most of them I don’t think anyone else would be able to unless they spoke Welsh
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You don’t have to be able to speak Welsh to say many Welsh names. Sure the LL can be an issue but once you know with other letters you just know because it is a phonetic language.
Some are pretty self explanatory like Mari or Mared or Owen
 
Bill_Martin said:
Polycarp. Tremendous saint, but that poor kid would have to be one too to deal with this name in school.
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I did my confirmation with a boy who picked Polycarp as his name. Even in that everyone thought he was mad
 
You might have guessed we’re getting close to trying for #2. I have a medical condition where it’s advised that I try again soon after my cycles come back, and it’s more likely to happen now that my daughter is sleeping mostly through the night (only one wake up last night!!! That and starting to drink tea again have made me into a new woman).

Anyway, we were talking last night and he may have relented on Nathaniel and Constance! (Which I forgot when making my list). Though I do still really like the idea of Samuel or Hannah, haha. Our daughter has a classic, simple old testament name. He didn’t like Constance before, but now says it’s okay because it reminds him of Constantine.
 
AClaire11 said:
You might have guessed we’re getting close to trying for #2. I have a medical condition where it’s advised that I try again soon after my cycles come back, and it’s more likely to happen now that my daughter is sleeping mostly through the night (only one wake up last night!!! That and starting to drink tea again have made me into a new woman).

Anyway, we were talking last night and he may have relented on Nathaniel and Constance! (Which I forgot when making my list). Though I do still really like the idea of Samuel or Hannah, haha. Our daughter has a classic, simple old testament name. He didn’t like Constance before, but now says it’s okay because it reminds him of Constantine.
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I know not the subject of the thread, but I’m glad the sleep issue is getting better.
 
Oliver: had a close friend lose her baby and this was his name
Maggie/Margaret: husband’s ex. Very bad break-up
 
I’m not a big fan of last names being used as first names. I like the idea of naming children after Catholic saints or deceased family members as a way of honoring them.

Having said that, my 19-year old daughter’s name is Jessica Ann. I’ve been told that Jessica is a variation of Iscah who was one of Abraham’s wives. And, well, we all know who Ann was…🙂

I had a long list of names that I gave to my husband, Jessica was at the bottom of the list and of course that’s the only one he would agree too. But it suits her, so…

Had she been a boy, she would have been named after her grandfathers: John Francis.
 
I always liked the names Trevor and Adrian as boy names. Trevor Francis was a British soccer player and I thought he had a distinguished name, “Trevor Francis” as the first and middle names would’ve been my first choice for a boy, then Adrian as the name for our second son.

However, my wife didn’t like those names so we didn’t use them, since she did most of the work in bringing them into the world, although like the Shake N Bake commercial used to say, “I helped”.

youtube.com/watch?v=bB7j3sUWohE

So we compromised and named our first two male dogs Trevor and Adrian instead. 👍

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I’ve always really liked the named Khadija. It’s not usable. It is the name of Mohammeds first wife (she is known as “the mother of the believers”) and I was bought up that names mean something so to be careful. I’ve also only ever heard it used by Muslims and I won’t give any child a name with a religious link unless it happens to be a Catholic link.
 
Bill_Martin said:
Polycarp. Tremendous saint, but that poor kid would have to be one too to deal with this name in school.
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I think most of the names my husband rejected are in the “great saint, but a kid with that name will be tormented” category. There were a few family names that older siblings had already used on their children, but those weren’t that high on the list.
 
Maximilian: Not called to marriage.
Aurelia: Not called to marriage.
Regina: Not called to marriage.
Penelope and Josephine: My little cousins names and not called to marriage.
Julius: Not called to marriage.
Olivia: Still not called to marriage.

I’ll have to have a plethora of posh pets.
 
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