Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

Well, for a girl, the only name we both wanted was Ava, so there were no back-up names, but for a boy, it was going to be Trent.
We honestly had no other boy names. I'm a teacher, and I could not come up with a name that I liked that I didn't associate with a child I already knew. It was so annoying. I have no idea what we're going to do when we have another baby!

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

I loved the name Daisy-- from The Great Gatsby. Dh hated it. Lucky for him, my cousin named his daughter Daisy before we started TTC.

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

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I have always wanted to name a girl Allegra but DH said too many people would think of the allergy meds. I also liked Gabriella but he said it sounded too Italian

For a boy, we never decided. I wanted Vincent and he said it was also too Italian and I also liked Roman, but he thought everyone would think of Roman Polanski

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

For DS I LOVED Spencer, DH vetoed it I also loved Seamus and he wouldn;t got for that either and I really liked it! He travels for work and I did threaten if he wasn't there for the birth I would use Seamus

For DD there were a few names we both liked and just couldn't decide so we went with DH's #1 pick. I did like Meredith a lot and he vetoed that.

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We had originally agreed on Sierra Belle for a and for long complicated reasons discarded it, and walked into the delivery room disagreeing about the spelling for Kyra (vs. Kiera) even though neither one of us really loved it for a , and in complete agreement on Charles Joseph for a .

Previous rejects were Emma Louise, Alexandra Rose, Christina Louise and John Joseph.

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Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

Rafael Alexander...I would have been ousted from the family had I not carried on the name Francisco.

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Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

I loved Bryce & Chase- DH hated them...

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

Hmmmmm......

My eldest sons names were Jonathen & Andrew. I had wanted to name them Hunter & Thayer but their father wanted "traditional" so Hunter and Thayer wound up being their middle names instead....

When my eldest daughter was born we werent sure if she was a girl or a boy although we were pretty sure a girl. Ariel Jae would have been Christopher William had she been a boy...

When I was pregnant with Jaedyn & Alexis I found out that they were girls but they would have been Jacob & Noah had they been boys...

We found out very early that Caden was going to be a boy...but we did have a girls name...Caden would have been Abigail Elyse...

DH picked out Caden I added James so in case we wanted to call him CJ...his middle name is Aron after DH's grandfather.

(Had I had naming rights to DS he would have been named Rush...I found out afterwards that it was DHs 2nd choice so had I been a touch more persistant I could have had it!!!! )

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

If my DD was a boy, she would have been Tyler James or Jackson (we didn't have a middle name, although DH thought Daniel would have been really funny) DH wanted the boy name to be a Jr, but I vetoed that.

Our other girl name was Emma. DH wanted Sarah, but I vetoed that too!

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for a boy dh wanted harrison tyler - which i do like, but he would have been harrison tyler IV/V (long story on the numbers) and i'm not a big fan of jr. plus dh wanted him to go by tyler which i'm not a big fan of. i liked harrison 9which dh goes by) or harry (which dh didn't like). at that point henry came into the running, but then we found out she was a girl.

for a girl we always knew she'd be harley, but the middle name was up in the air. we debated quinn but decided that was a little too "batman-y" (though quinny has now become one of her nicknames) then i said i liked shea. dh looked through the baby name book for a while but then agreed to shea once he realized all the other names he liked were because they rhymed with shea.

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We both liked Seamus but got way too many negative comments so I felt like I couldn't do that to DC.. He kept trying to push the name but I said no. I really liked Ethan but it wasn't irish so he said no.. I wanted Liam, he said it was english, not irish so that was a no. he's crazy haha. he wanted carrig i said no. We ended up with Declan we got some negative comments but I finally said screw everyone else

Re: Spin-off Names: What were your back-up names? Veto'ed names?

Grace was always Grace, no discussion. I had her name with my madien name as her middle name FOREVER after my Grandma. Luckily, it went with my married name. Of course is became really popular a few years ago which pizzed me off but we kept it anyhow.

Jack's name was REALLY hard. We didn't find out so we had a girl name we loved(Charlize- Charly for short) but no boy name we could agree on. For a while it was Alec, then my DH got stuck on Derek which I liked until I realized everyone would think we named him after Derek Jeter( my husband's a DIE HARD YANKEE FAN).

Jack was the only one we could agree on and plus, it honored my DH's uncle who raised him with him Mom after his Dad died. Again, super popular but I am glad we picked it. It really suits him and made DH's uncle so happy.

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Posted by MommaTo3Dogs1Boy

We both liked Seamus but got way too many negative comments so I felt like I couldn't do that to DC.. He kept trying to push the name but I said no. I really liked Ethan but it wasn't irish so he said no.. I wanted Liam, he said it was english, not irish so that was a no. he's crazy haha. he wanted carrig i said no. We ended up with Declan we got some negative comments but I finally said screw everyone else

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I wanted to name Sadie Reese very badly, but DH didnt like it.

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I wanted with all my heart and soul Ella...I made the mistake of telling family members, and they all had negative comments about it. I will never make that mistake again!! That made DH not like it.

We then have narrowed it down to
Kayla
Kaitlyn
Emma
Emily

The night I went into labor it was Isabella or Gabriella. We named her after she was born.