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I'm interested to know which names you love but can't use and why.

For example I love the name David, with it's strong sound and beautiful Hebrew meaning of beloved,
but my ex-boyfriend is called David. My mum's boyfriend is also called David, and an old friend, and my uncle...
this brings me to the issue that it's overused. And I know it would inevitably be shortened to Dave.

John is my father's name after his father, and it's another strong classic name with a great Hebrew meaning,
but my boyfriend just pointed out as I want the middle name Luke, also a family name, it would be John Luke like Jean-Luc Picard,
what's worse my boyfriend's surname even sounds similar to Picard lol.

And I love Ariel for a boy and it's Hebrew meaning but my boyfriend, who hopefully will be the father of my hypothetical future kids,
can't get over the association with a certain redhead cartoon mermaid he had a childhood crush on lol.