Well since my wife is Swedish, i thought THOR, God of thunder would be a great name, but no she wouldn't let me.....Then since she wanted A.J to be initials, being the Star Wars fan I am...Anakin Jackson because i had a feeling he would turn to the dark side...again a big no from the wife......anyone else have perfectly good names that wife poo-poo'd?
Names you wanted but wife veto'd
henry
I really liked Henry and Kira. Strangely enough, those are the names of the singer and one-time bass player, respectively, for Black Flag. Funny how my wife wouldn't allow those.
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Sara Naomi
I wanted to name my daughter completely in honor of my grandmother who had passed away back in December of '96 and my wife said NO!!!!! and wanted to name our daughter Isabel, which is what her name is. It was going to be Isabel Sarah until the wife's best girlfriend died from breast cancer and now my daughter is Isabel Maria.
Sara Palin beat me to it
I was all set on Track, Trig or Piper! Shoot!
Second choices are Discus, Algebra, or Cesna.
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My Choices
I've always loved the name Josh for a boy and wanted both of our boys to be Joshua...but the wife doesn't like the name so neither is. I also loved the name Rita for a girl but again...nope. To be fair, however, she loved Alexandria and there was no way I would agree to that one. It did go both ways.
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Nebraska
I'm the happy father of a three weeks old little princess, and I was thinking to name her Nebraska, just because I like the sound and meaning of that name, but wife said NOOOOOOO!!. So I suggest Hypatia, Tayrona and Christine (the name of my grand_grandma, and one of her aunts), but the same answer.
But we choose the most beautiful name for her SAMARA, and so she has the same initial as her big brother "S S-S"
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Havstein
I know this is a really old thread, but I am new here and it caught my eye and I was pushing for a name I bet you never heard before :-)
My wife is Norwegian and we live in Norway and we inherited a couple of Norwegian baby name books from some friends. We leafed through them but we were planning to use family names for our son so it wasn't really a serious name-hunt. But then we stumbled over the greatest name ever for a boy: Havstein. It literally means "Sea-Stone" or "Ocean-Rock" and I thought, "wow, cool, super name - soild, yet fluid; powerful and enduring; calm, yet wild..." and so on and so on... I really couldn't get enough. We even started calling her stomach Havstein, much to the chagrin of my mother-in-law (Havstein is NOT a common name at all... Stein is very common, but Havstein is someone's great-great grandfather from northern Norway).
While we were never really serious about Havstein I actually kind of started pushing for it, but my wife said no. In hindsight it was for the best, really - I can just hear my family back in Canada chronically mispronouncing my son's name... better to choose a name that works in both languages...
Names for kids
Well, my first two were boys (biological) so we had absolutely no trouble w/ my namesake (& my father's), however,
the second son was a little trickier.
We stumbled on Cameron which we both liked, and gave him a middle name after my best friend from college who died of cancer, Dana.
The last of our kids (we adopted at 5 days old) is a girl...that's why we adopted, I seem to have boys only.
I liked the name Andre'a with the accent in the middle, but my wife did not. We both did like, however,
the name Kiersten which is in keeping with our Germanic and Nordic heritage and ancestors
only the spelling is somewhat modernized to make pronunciation clearer.
BTW, her middle name is my wife's first name :)
Wilberforce
On our second kid (boy) I originally suggested Wilberforce, after William Wilberforce, the British abolitionist, but my wife rejected that.
My second suggestion, Lincoln, she initially disliked as well, but after time it grew on her and that is his name. I would suggest that if you have a name you think your wife will reject, come up with one that you know she will reject that makes the name you like sound more reasonable to her.
Moxie Crimefighter
I was pushing for it but then realized Penn or Teller (I forget which one) had already taken it. Some of the names out there, GEEZ! We were lucky. We had both decided we liked Talia for a girl before we even met each other and both our grandmothers were named Lillian. I was pushing for Ayala or Aviva if we eventually have another girl but I have been vetoed. I plan to philibuster.
Vetoed names
Thor is a kick ass name great way to honor your ancestry. I wanted to name our son Maximilliano Tezcatlipoca. The first name is just a strong spanish name and the second name is the Aztec god of war. I also loved the name Texas (where I'm from) which would have been great because my son is the biggest (tall) two year old at the park.
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