A Name You Couldnt Use

Domenic.
Bad ex boyfriend association!
He was easy on the eyes (he modeled) but lets just say he was not the sharpest crayon in the box!

I had been in love with the name Finnian (for many years) for a boy, Finn for short. It was the name of my ex fiance's cousin's son. So, had I had a boy, it would have been difficult to use. I really wanted a girl and was blessed with a girl, so I didn't get to use Finnian, but I still love it! I'm French and went with a French girl's name, Sylvie! Neat to see that Suzie Q likes the name Sylvie too!! :)))

My dad, John, passed away when I was six months pregnant with my first child. I would have loved to have named my son after him, but I already had a brother and a nephew named John. What I did instead was look up John in the book of names and I chose a variation of the name; Evan. When I had my second son, I again chose a variation of John; Owen.

I wanted "Tessa" but I'd named my cat that...so, couldn't use it :-)

I really like the name Ariel, but the whole gender thing is an issue. It's a Jewish name and it's masculine, and it means Lion of God which is so fab, but everybody here thinks of it is feminine bc of our favorite little mermaid, so I couldn't name any of my boys Ariel bc I thought people would tease them about it and I am not Jewish, so I didn't have that ace in the hole either.

i understand not using anthony (which i love) if your family is saturated with it, but i really don't get the idea that 'someone else stole the baby's name', especially a neighbor! i mean, no one has patents on 'em. if you love a name, use, even if your friend or neighbor or even family member already has it.
about a month or two before my dylan was born, a gal on a soap opera had a dylan, and it went viral. i WAS pretty pissed about that. but i still loved the name and kept it.
i had a couple of friends around that time in my life, one of whom 'stole' the name ashley marie, and they never spoke again.
i just don't it.
khairete
S.

DH decided we should select a name by listing all the names we could never use. The one that was left after we eliminated all the other names would be the name. Really? The first name we eliminated was Vlad.

My family has 8 Gregorys and is now going through a recent spate of Josephs, 6 in total. Sometimes it happens that way. I've never held either of these as favorites, so its no big loss to me. In any event, I wouldn't be put off by anyone having "stolen" a name choice. They get to choose what they name their child, I get to choose what I name mine. If we happen to make the same selection, so be it.

Good luck to you and yours,
F. B.

As for ACE, you can still accomplish that there are a good number of names which carry those initials.

Arian---but due to Arian Nation.... no

Before we had our first child we had decided that if they were a girl we would call her 'Sylvie'. My husband and I both adored the name, and we hadn't told anyone. If our first child was a boy, then we'd save the name and call the first girl that came along Sylvie.

Anyway, my beautiful boy was born, and was named his boy's name, but the first time he was placed in my mother's arms (still in the delivery room), she started softly singing 'Sylvie' by Harry Belafonte to him.

I had never heard her singing that song ever - it was just weird!

Turns out we had three boys, and never got to use Sylvie. I still love it.

i always wanted to name one of my girls francesca. i wanted this name since i was a teenager.
when my hubs heard me say that name when i was pregnant he said i love the name but none of us are of italian or french descent.
so then i started wishing i had been born italian :)
we didn't name anyone that name but i still love it.

I have an ex friend who was sneaky and asked what we were going to name our son. I told her and she stole the name. She had her boy the day before mine was born. I was pretty pissed off. Now we dont speak anymore. But I do have to say that I love, love, love the name I picked out for my son and it fits him 100%. The other name would NOT have fit his personality. So...it all worked out.

We had a name we had 80% decided on for my second son. Hubby shared this with the family at Easter dinner shortly before my son was born and based on the negative reaction from the family we changed. I still wish we'd named him Hayden, you can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a Collin!! I was sooooo pissed off at my hubby, I wasn't ready to share and he just blurted it out. I firmly believe in not sharing the child's name until they are born and have been given that name, at that point (hopefully) people will keep their negative comments to themselves.

M

Aurora and Magdalena. Aurora because honestly no one associated it with an actual name(it is Sleeping Beauty's name)but rather a brand toilet paper sold back in the day. Magdalena because my husband felt it was too old-timey and no one would pronounce it correctly.

Why wouldn't you use Anthony since you love it? I like the nickname Ace based on his initials too. We have two Davids in our family and have never had a problem with it.

I had wanted to name my daughter Emma my whole life, it's my grandma's middle name. Then that year stupid Rachel on stupid friends named her daughter that and it was the most popular name in the country. Even more sad about it now that my grandma's gone! I also wanted Evelyn (eve) after my grandma's sister but hubby didn't like it. And never got our boy who we wanted to name jack Leland after our grandpas' names. I liked one name but it's my only arch enemy's daughter's name, Whitney. Oh, and I loved the name Allegra, but some idiot named an allergy medication that! :(

I LOVE the name Addison. But my brother/wife named their daughter Madison. Probably would never use Addison :-) Also love the name Sam for a boy, but hubby's side we have a niece Samantha :-)

My husband loves Amanda, but I had a girl who was really mean to me all through school named Amanda, so I couldn't use it.

I love the name Matthew, but my MIL convinced my husband that since our last name has an sh, everyone will lisp it with Matthew, making it a th when said together, which I think is dumb and it makes me mad that we can't use the name because of that.

My youngest has the most different name of all 3 of my kids, but I don't care. I got a whole slew of reasons why we shouldn't name him what we did before he was born, but I didn't care. He got that name. Now it is SO fitting for him and I can't imagine him being anything else, other than his nickname that is used more often then his real name :).

My daughter was supposed to be Mia. I named her Nicole because my neighbor stole my name two weeks before she was born. I was soooo mad.
My son was supposed to be Dante Alasandro. I loved this name and at the last minute my Mother was so upset with this name she yelled and took a fit. So I named him James. My son used to work at Stop n Shop and he used the name Dante on his name tag. I thought it was cute of him.

well i LOVED micah...and was told "it's too "bible-y" :(

i still love micah. thing is with our last name it doesn't really work anyway...lol.

i also loved Zoe for a girl, but we had a boy. does that count?? lol.

we ended up with "our" name because it was the only one we could agree on. neither of us LOVED it...but it works and now, of course, we couldn't imagine him with any other name...

Callum and Thaddeus were the names I picked for my girls had they been boys.

Hubby and I had a really hard time agreeing on a girl name. We both loved Allison, but I have a cousin who I was close with that named her daughter Allison. I just felt it was weird to use the name, even though it was one of the few we agreed on.

I LOVE the name Alejandro, along with the nickname Alex. Neither I nor my hubby are Hispanic, though, so I didn't think it would fit right. As it turned out my son was named after my husband, so no "choosing" a name there, and then we had a girl.

When I was pregnant with my 1st we decided on the name Rayne I loved it, as did my hubby. Everyone asked the name so we told them, we got so much mixed feedback I ended up decided that wasn't the name of our baby, even though I really liked the name. So we changed it and and didn't tell anyone! My mom had a dream we called her Cranberry so we called her that until she was born, then told everyone the actual name. When I was pregnant the 2nd time I told my husband our Rayne was finally coming and we didn't tell anyone. It was the only girl name we could agree on so I wasn't changing my mind again.

I had a miscarriage over 8 years ago and we were going to name our baby girl Sara or Isabella. Everytime I hear those names it makes me smile.

I love the name Azkadelia, but because I've only ever heard it for a fictional villian it seems to have a bad association.