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I gave in. We were never going to agree. She came a month early, we were still debating 20+ names and when she was about 36 hours old I just gave DH his choice (although it was his second choice, I was never going to agree to his first). I knew he was never going to pick my top two and once I moved past those his pick wasn't that different in my mind than the other names I kind of liked. The first month or two of her life I completely regretted it.

DD is 19 months old now and to be honest I still don't love her name. BUT I do like it and I've come to a place of thinking it's a good fit for her.

The whole "don't settle until you find a name you both love" didn't work for us. Our tastes are too different. One of us was going to give in no matter what.

We never really considered names that the other hated. So it was always a compromise. Luckily we completely agreed on our boy name, so it was easy. Before birth we had mostly agreed on our girl name, but if we'd had a girl, I think there still would have been some last minute debates.

We narrowed down to two girl names, we each had different favorites. DH is CONVINCED we will only have girls, so I told him to put his money where is mouth is and that if he's right and our next LO is a girl we can use his name, and then use my name first. He agreed! Bonus - if future LO2 is a girl, then we have a name already. No idea what we'll do if we have a boy because he doesn't like any of my boy names and his top choice is Thor (seriously?).

My husband has nixed all the girl names that I love. So I've traded him - we will pick form his list of girl names if I can have my number one boy name for the the next child, if we have a next child and that child is a boy. I really feel bad that I'm not wholly in love with the potential names for our little girl. I'm hoping I can come to terms with that.
ETA: His list of names are all names that I have suggested at one time or another, so at least its not like they are names I don't like at all.

We struggled terribly with a girl names. My husband wanted loves double names and preferred names with family meaning while I preferred more old-fashioned names and didn't necessarily care if it was a family name. We eventually found one that fit both our requirements and we both really like it. No, it wasn't my first choice initially but I think it's lovely and made even lovelier that it's something neither of feels we had to "give in" to the other person on. I encourage you to keep trying to try to find that name you both enjoy!

We have chosen not to share the name with anyone until she's born which I think makes it so sweet. No one knows! Not even my Mom (that's hard for me!)

We kept looking.

For our girl name we had it sorted very quickly. But the boy name we weren't getting ANYWHERE. I loved a name, which he did not like, and he wasn't really sold on anything himself.

Eventually someone suggested a name and we both kind of liked it... but let it sink in for awhile. Now, we both absolutely love it. We're team green and didn't want to be set on only one name for each sex, but in the end that's what ended up happening! I love them both so much I get a little sad thinking about not being able to use one!

I caved. I literally had about 20 names that DH vetoed, and out of ALL the names in the world, he could only come up with 3 he liked. I settled on the second one. Should we ever have another boy though, his name will be Reese no if and or buts. I'm still mad at myself for caving even though I love LO's name.

We couldn't agree on a middle name. I got to choose for DD1 and he got to choose for DD2.

She sort of got her choice. I loved the name too but it was my second favorite and her first.

@Smurfette: that's how we were- we had similar tastes and both liked similar names, but neither of loved anything as much as we loved DD1's name. Still don't. I do love the baby's name and it suits her but I feel a little bad sometimes because I think our first daughters name is just better. Oh well.

@MenagerieMama: that's my husbands top Choice too!!! He also likes Igor and Sven? What???? Who is he??

I'm currently pregnant and we discuss names on and off. We have a girls name that we both love, the boy name is a different story. We had one, then one day DH decided he didn't like it anymore, so it was taken off the table, not a big deal. We have 5 months to come up with a name we both agree on.
@yoursilverlining: Same with us, when discussing names a name is brought up and if one person doesn't like it it gets tossed and we move on.

@MenagerieMama: men be crazy lol... The names are bad just bad! I told my DH he can get a dog and name it Thor

We agreed for LO1 really easily but got stuck on LO2s middle name. I was absolutely set on her middle name honoring my late dad, and DH was vehemently opposed.

I decided half the battle was him not being used to the sound so I used it in conversation as much as possible and finally wore him down over a period of 6-7 months.

We didn't agree at all, boy or girl names. We basically made a list of what we liked and held our ground until our baby was born. Then, in the delivery room, my husband basically said, you know what, you were right his name is what you picked out for him.