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Falling out over baby's name... Help!

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Bunsyduff · 01/01/2012 09:56

happy new year everyone!
Ours was slightly ruined by another night of exhaustively discussing our new baby's name. Our second son is now nearly five weeks old and we therefore have ten days left to register him. The problem is we can't agree! I have a list of about ten I would be super happy with ( agreed pre birth) but my husband has totally and unexpectedly fixated on jack. There is nothing wrong with jack at all as a name ( my great grandad was called that) but I just can't reconcile myself to calling my son that. My husband is a lovely, gentle chap and this insistence is v out of character, but this is genuinely driving a wedge between us. Should I just give him this one? Just feel supremely sad as thought we would decide together and it seems like a very safe option... ( nb I like Arthur, jem, nat , wilf to name a few...).
Please help! X

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Louplet · 01/01/2012 12:23

Jack is a great name. Who got to choose DS1's name? If you then only fair he chooses this time. Can you choose the middle name?

Sannebanana · 01/01/2012 11:34

I know what you mean about Jack- it's a lovely name, but there are so many of them. And there isn't much nickname potential for differentiating when there are 4 or 5 of them at school. I really like Wilf and Arthur though. Has your husband always been fixated on Jack, or did he like your choices until recently? Personally I would tell him you don't like Jack and go back to the drawing board until you find something you both like. There must be other names that he likes.

Kayano- my DH was fixated with the name 'Sophie' too! Which I do like, but it's just so popular. The only other names he wanted to consider were Olivia and Emily- basically the top 3 girls names of last year Angry I know some people aren't fazed by popularity, but I am!

Kayano · 01/01/2012 10:53

I like Wilf Grin

Me and DH are is this same situation withthe name Sophie and honestly want to kill him. Same as you nothing wrong with Sophie but it's so popular and DH likes it so much I'm going to let him have this one and I've got the next one lol

TidyDancer · 01/01/2012 10:45

Personally, I prefer Jack to the other names you mentioned, but it's one of those so-popular-it's-offputting names for me.

Is there any room for compromise? Perhaps Jackson, or something really similar but not actually Jack?

AnotherMincepie · 01/01/2012 10:32

John with Jack as nickname is a good idea.

Jack was the top boys' name for years - it's only recently been knocked off the top spot.

CecilyP · 01/01/2012 10:10

Are you in Scotland? I would wait till the New Year's festivities have settled down before having another talk about it. What are you calling your baby at the moment?

Agreed that there is nothing wrong with Jack but it is very popular so, if you go for it, he may be one of several Jacks in class. Could you use it as a middle name and choose a first name that goes with it?

Though this might not be the case with you, many Jacks of your great grandad's generation were actually registered as John.