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[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people have hardcore lists with at least 1 or 2 names they absolutely have to use at some point, and I'm just curious:

• What names are you really adamant about using regardless of what people think?


• What do you do when your SO really dislikes your choices and doesn't want to use them at all?


• What are names you can't stand and wouldn't be open to using, though your SO liked them?

Part of the fun in being pregnant [or adopting] is coming up with a name and it kinda sucks when you have to compromise your choices, but sometimes you have to.

This is mostly coming from the fact that my sister-in-law gave birth to her triplets a few days ago and they don't have names yet because she's persistant in naming the girls either Coco and Peaches, or Coco and Lola, lol. She doesn't mind what the boys name will be, and I think they've agreed on Jonas Wyatt

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[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

For the sake of my future husband's life, he better let me name my daughter Aurelia. Aurelia is the only name that I love so much I will kill for. Okay maybe not kill, threaten though yes. ;-)

[americandiva.livejournal.com]

I am really adamant on Peyton for a girl. I know a lot of people hate it but I just love it! I liked it before it became trendy too! lol
I have SO right now, but if I did I would not use Peyton if he hated it. Ok, I'd try to convince him and if that didn't work I'd move on lol. He has to like his kids name too!
And I can not stand the name Julie/Julia/Juliana/Julian. Sorry to anyone who has or love these names...but there is not even a slight chance of me using them

Jonas Wyatt is really nice.
Coco and Peaches sound stripperish. sry. i cant help but think of that..especially with Peaches

:icon love:

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

Big Pulp/Jarv fan, I see. Nice!

Re: :icon love:

[raptorgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, the only person I love more than Jarv is Moz. :) I saw them both live last year!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Names I Will Use No Matter What:
Eliza, Louisa, Michael (as a middle name), Adrienne (as a middle name), Harriet (at least as a middle name, but I'd prefer a first), and Margaret (as a middle name). I'm not as adamant about the boy names, although I have my heart set on Elliot.

I don't have a girlfriend at the mo', but I would probably be willing to compromise at least a little. For example, I am so so so set on using Eliza, but I would be willing to use Elizabeth and let my partner call our daughter Liz or Ellie or something else, as long as I could call her Eliza. But mostly I'd say, "Suck it up, babe. I'm the one pushing the kids out." Unless she was the one having the kids, in which case that wouldn't work;)

I would never ever ever use Aidan or one of the variations, I wouldn't use anything that sounds like a stripper name (no offense to your SIL, but Coco and Peaches and Lola totally qualify;)), and I wouldn't ever use a name that was totally made-up, or one that was really trendy or dated (no Madison, Dylan, Logan, Riley, Ashley, Jessica, etc). As for regular names I wouldn't use... Scott, Robert, Owen, and Adam for boys and Michaela, Victoria, Isabella, and Emma for girls.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

Cool, another gay woman in the comm ;] My partner and I adopted last year, but we're thinking of getting pregnant in the next year or two. Thing is, both of us want to be the one to carry the baby, so we'll see how that one works out haha.

I agree, Peaches and Coco are stripper names; I like them as nicknames only.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

hooray for the lesbians! :)

i'm pretty much 100% set on winifred.
i guess i'd compromise if my (future) partner reeeeeally hated the name winifred or really wanted a particular name, but it'd be hard for me.

and i couldn't use any super trendy names, i guess. i wouldn't settle for any name i didn't absolutely love.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I like Winifred, actually. I think the nickname Fred would be really cute on a little girl (as long as she had the Wini/Winifred part to go by if she didn't like it).

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

thanks. :) my mother's name is fred, so winifred is sort of in honor of her. i plan on letting her choose if she wants to be winnie or fred/freddie, or just winifred.

i like your names too, especially eliza, harriet, and adrienne. i think we have somewhat similar taste in names.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I think there's a few of us, actually:)

I'd like to have four kids, so I'm hoping that if my SO and I both want to be the one to carry the baby, we can work something out where I carry two and she carries two or something. And hopefully she wants that many kids, too;)

They would both work as nicknames, definitely. And Jonas Wyatt is great. What does her husband say about the names? haha

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

My brother hates the names; we're Italian and he wants Italian-names, but because she's American he doesn't mind American-sounding names (hence Jonas Wyatt). He's trying to push for Valentina and Zara right now, lol.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I'm adamant about Neva for a girl. Luckily, my boyfriend likes it too. My boyfriend really likes Josephine and Jocelyn. I don't HATE them but I don't like them.

And if ANYTHING, she could use those names as middle names, or nick names... But I mean c'mon. That's just fucking ridiculous. Coco and Peaches? Maybe do like Caroline or Courtney and call her Coco. And maybe like Paige or Penelope and call her Peaches?

Send her this (http://www.babynamesworld.com/naming_tips/eb20.htm).

[hells-librarian.livejournal.com]

What names are you really adamant about using regardless of what people think? What do you do when your SO really dislikes your choices and doesn't want to use them at all?
I want to use Aoife if our baby is a girl. My husband hates it. I told him that he has to come up with something else or Aoife it is. He has about 34 more weeks, but I know him - he won't suggest anything. He doesn't have any creative energy when it comes to picking names; I even named our cat. He can pick names for servers (he's a sys admin) but his mind blanks when it comes to names for living creatures.
As for compromise, he shoots down all the boys names that I like - Liam, Owen, and so on. That's fine. I'll be able to find something that we both can live with - like Henry, after his late grandfather. I'm reasonable in this case.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

One name I definitely want to use no matter what anyone thinks is Rowan for one of my daughters' names.

[drunkontea.livejournal.com]

Haha, it sounds like your SO is a fan of the the video game Devil May Cry.

[emtotherescuee.livejournal.com]

...Coco.
...Peaches.

Don't let her do that D:

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

We're all trying to get set her straight, really.

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

I changed the name of my daughter because I caved to pressure from family and friends. I don't regret changing it, because I love her name and think it suits her, but I'm annoyed with myself for caving. I won't do it again.

My fiance and I battled heartily over names. We tend to have very different taste and argued about it. If I hated a name, it was off the table, and same goes in the reverse. Some examples of the names he liked that I refused were: Athena, Artemis, Persephone, Lucien, and Rhys--though I think I did tell him Rhys could be a middle name, maybe. We found out we were having a girl, though, so the boys' names dropped off the discussion fairly quickly.

Coco and Peaches are ridiculous names for children and more ridiculous for adults. These babies will grow up one day to hopefully become contributing members of society. Ask your SIL to think about that for a second and imagine going to a doctor named Peaches.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

What was her name before, and what did you change it to? I kind of did the same thing with my daughter. I really wanted to name her Lourdes and that was going to be it, but then I changed it after everyone kept making references to Madonna's daughter, plus my family disliked it. I really regret the decision, but I like her new name (Isadora).

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

Her name was going to be Anneliessa Belle, and we changed it to Miranda Paige. Everyone gave me crap for how difficult to pronounce/spell Anneliessa was, and a friend who has a similar and equally difficult-to-spell-and-pronounce did confirm that it was difficult to go through life with that name. My fiance was ticked because it took us forever to agree on Anneliessa, and he was mad I was changing my mind because of my family. But we both love her name now and it gave me an excuse to use a favorite nickname of mine, Mia.

I love Isadora :)

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

Aw, Anneliessa Belle is so pretty. I don't think it's hard to spell at all, though I can see people getting it wrong. Miranda Paige is also cute, I've always loved the name Paige. I need to add it to my babynamesworld.com list ;]

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

There's no name I would use no matter what. If my future significant other hated it, I'd let it go. After all, if he wanted to name our kid Zayden I'd refuse, so it's only fair to let him veto names he hates as well, even if they're my favourites. It's all about compromise.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Jonas Wyatt is a wondeful name. I really like it a lot. I feel really bad for those girls. A lot of celebrity children get those types of names and end up hating them. I hope she comes to her senses.

The only name I'm absolutely going to use is Scott as the first name for my first born son. And, right now, I'm more or less set on Wesley Scott with the nickname Wedge.

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely using Anne with the nickname Hannah and Daniel as my first son's middle name. My second daughter will be named Elisabeth with an s, called Bess.

But these are names my husband and I came up with together. Or rather, I brought Anne (it's been my #1 name since I was 12) to the table and he loved it. Our styles in names matches well, we like really simple, classic names, like Anne, John, James, Tom, Elizabeth, Jane, Caroline, etc.

I would, under no circumstances, name my child any -aden name, Holden, Madison, or Atticus.

[crayonkid.livejournal.com]

i wanted Lucien or Noe sooo soo badly, but anthony would NOT have it. absolutely no convincing would work.


im determined that when we have a girl i get final choice ha.

[tokyo.livejournal.com]

My last name is Noe. How would you pronounce it as a first name? Ours is just "no".

[crayonkid.livejournal.com]

oh its pronounced no-ee.

[crayonkid.livejournal.com]

also, Jonas is a really great name.

[happysaid.livejournal.com]

A lot of names I love, but I'm not adamant about anything. I won't choose any one name until I've met my children and make sure it 'fits'. If my SO didn't like it, I wouldn't use it. I wouldn't go for something he loved and I hated; I feel it should go both ways.

I like Jonas Wyatt a lot. Lola I don't really mind either. But Coco has got. to. go.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I'm going to use the name Blair no matter what anyone says. I know a lot of people hate it but it's always been my favorite name.

I don't have a SO and I will not be acquiring any babies for at least ten years, so I can't really answer the other questions. But if the SO liked any names I hate, I would not be open to compromise. I know I'm a hypocrite.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

My first daughter WILL be Colleen Marie, no matter what anyone thinks. And by anyone, I do include any future SO. The name has a lot of meaning to me, and I'm not willing to compromise on it. Any of the other names on my favorites list (Justin Royd, Hunter Andrew, Daytona Ruth) I would be willing to compromise or part with. But not Colleen Marie. The only compromising I might be willing to do would be on the middle name

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

I really want to use Gethin and Theodore. I think my bf likes Gethin, but he HATES Theodore. I don't intend on budgibg though, unless of course my taste in names radically changes by the time I have kids!

[xpinkxamazingx.livejournal.com]

> I really like James or Jamison. I am using one of those.
> If my So does not like a name then i let him has his opinion. it is his child as well.
> I do not like names like sky, moon, river, kyle, conner, liam, josh. ew ewww.

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

What names are you really adamant about using regardless of what people think?
Simon has been my favourite since forever I think. Luckily my boyfriend likes it.
I haven't figured out what name I want to use for a girl but I really like Liesl, Peyton and Charlotte.

What do you do when your SO really dislikes your choices and doesn't want to use them at all?
I think I would find a way to persuade him.

What are names you can't stand and wouldn't be open to using, though your SO liked them?
Ruby, Audrey and Aubrey are horrible names in my opinion. I don't just dislike them but I hate them. I don't know why I just do.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

1) The only one I'm truly set on is Richard as a mn, as it's after my brother. There are other names I love, but there's no way I could use them all, so am a bit more flexable.

2) No idea, I don't have a SO. Hmm guess we'd have to compromise; but compatable naming style is an assesment criteria of sorts, so maybe it wouldn't get that far.

3) mc- or -son names for girls, anything absurdly trendy, or just bland/dated.
I'd also refuse to settle for anything that 'just sounded nice'; names should have meaning and a story.

Congrats to your family. Jonas Wyatt is wonderful, hope they find some decent girls names. :)

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

# What names are you really adamant about using regardless of what people think?

- Quite a few dislike my daughter's middle name of Salome, but my husband and I don't care as the set really fits her and the namesake (Queen Salome Alexandra) is a wonderful yet forgotten figure of history (and as history buffs, we like to correct that ;)

- Serach as a middle name - I think it is a beautiful hebrew name and intend to use it even if most people seem to think it's a funny way to spell Sarah (when it's a completely different name). Favorite combo with it is Celia Serach. Other hebrew names I really want to use, but most don't seem to like are Eran, Reuel, Yair, Tzadok or Zadok, and Shifra.

# What do you do when your SO really dislikes your choices and doesn't want to use them at all?
- For first names, I would save it for a pet - my husband's approval is just as important as mine for a name. He's not too bothered about what I do in the middle though so I can get away with stranger middle names.

# What are names you can't stand and wouldn't be open to using, though your SO liked them?
My husband's favorite girl name right now is Mirabelle and I go back and forth about whether I like it.

[devofriends.livejournal.com]

Hey, one of my best friends is named Yair. I like the name--but I will warn you, unless you're in Israel, nobody's going to pronounce it right.

And Serach is awesome. But we've already had that conversation. :-)

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I'll be bummed if I don't get to have a Lilith Ashley, called Lili.
However, it's mostly that I have to use the middle name Ashley for one of my girls, because it was a name of a close friend who died.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

1. Maeve and April. I'm not really adamant about any of my boy's names, although I do love the name Adam. Even if Maeve will get popular (I hope not...but it could be) I'll still use it because I just love it so much.
2. Then I'll try to make it a middle name. If that's not an option either, then we'll have to use another names. Too bad, but there are worse things than not using the name you love. There are about 5 more names (for each gender) I really like, so we should be alright =)
3. Hm...names I really, strongly dislike, or names with a bad connotation. Let's see...Norma, Norman, Todd, Carla, Belinda, Bonnie...those are some names I would never even consider.

Jonas is so awesome. Wyatt is ok. So altogether, it's a fine name =)
I like Lola too, but Coco and Peaches are bad =P

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

What names are you really adamant about using regardless of what people think?
We are using Eleanor Mirah for our first girl and Asher Everett for our first boy. It's pretty much set in stone. We have other boys names and girls names set also but those could always change.

What do you do when your SO really dislikes your choices and doesn't want to use them at all?
Um then we can't use them, same for if he likes a name and I don't. It's called comprimise. It sucks because he hates alot of my faves and vice versa but there you have it.

What are names you can't stand and wouldn't be open to using, though your SO liked them?
He told me he like Gertrude once because of the nick name Gertie (vomit) I would never use that. He also loves Lizaveta which I would never use. Alot of the names he likes have gotten bumped to middle name status, ex. Mirah

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

Eh. I compromised with my boyfriend over our future children's names.

We're using Remi Christine (maybe Remi Grace if I can convince him of that one, though) for a girl (his sister's name was Remi, I don't know how many times I've said this though lol).

For a boy we've agreed on Sirius Arthur (I picked boy's middle name out, he picked out girl's first name. Arthur was my grandfather who passed away, so I want to use it.. goes well with Sirius I believe.)

He was surprisingly easy to pick names with, though. We have mostly the same tastes in EVERYTHING, so it makes stuff hella easy on us. Lol.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Lola's better than Peaches, at least. Jonas Wyatt is nice. Coco is a great nickname; I hope your sister-in-law can be convinced to give the one girl a longer full name and just *call* her Coco. Charlotte, maybe, or Chloe?

We'll probably end up using Aurick and/or Zane, even though they are unusual and (I think) under-appreciated.

My absolute top choice for a girl is Aurora. Thankfully, Hubby's not dead-set against it, though he's indifferent leaning toward no. However, he's outright vetoed some of my other favorites like Eleanor, Pandora, and Iseult. It's sort of depressing, but I'm adamantly keeping Aurora on my list, and trying to be hopeful about finding names I like almost as much.

I hate Perrin, but it's Hubby's top boy choice. I'm passively disagreeing with it, which is probably what he's doing with Aurora, but using Aurora isn't worth allowing Perrin, in my opinion, so whatever.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Somewhat incredibly, I found somebody who's a nearly exact match to my name taste. So I married him.

Okay, so the progression of events was a little different, but it IS convenient. He's with me all the way on both my female choice (Henrietta) and male choice (Sidney), and we have a solid 5 additional names for each gender that we both really love.

The only one I can't get by him is Polaris, which I think would be an excellent middle name. Ah, well. I've got enough wiggle room in choices — as mentioned — to let that one slide.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i neeeeed to use lux. i love it far too much to part with it.
also, i MUST use jane as my first daughter's middle name. it has so much importance to me/my family.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Aside from naming babies after family members or close friends whose passed on, I can't imagine saying this WILL be my child's name. For instance, if you are dead set on the name James, and your SO's last name is James, you might have a problem.

As much as I love talking and thinking about baby names, I know that it is going to be a whole different story when I am pregnant and discussing names with my SO (and probably to a much lesser extent, my family).

I am curious if anyone on this blog picked a name as a child or teen, stuck with it through adulthood and pregnancy and named their child against their partners will, as several people said they would.