If your parents / in-laws had named your children... ?

My mil was determined we call dd Tracey after her. We did not.

My mum liked Lilly, and my mil liked Laura. Mils choice was awful as she was my school bully, so that never got used. But we did use Lilly for dd1's middle name.

My mother wanted me to name DS Hadyn.

For this baby she has thrown out Sophie, Iris, and Stella, none of which I am using. :)

Both sets of parents were happy to tell us what they didn't like, but kept their suggestions to themselves... except for DMIlL. She had three sons and apparently always wanted a daughter named Hannah Victoria. When DD was born she said that her name was beautiful but was a bit disappointed that she would never have a Hannah Victoria in her family. She is a lovely MIL so I just did a bit of smiling and murmuring non committal things when she gave me her beseeching eyes .

Mil - Ralph Hugh
Mum - Sebastian for ds and Jasmine for dd.

Actually my parents, DSIS and DH all agreed on DD2's name. I'd have used her second name, but it reminded my lot of a slightly annoying celeb.

No idea what anyone else would have called DD1, there was never any debate. I'd known what she'd was to be called since I was 14 and discovered my favorite G aunt had a nice second name (her first is so horrible she never signed it herself).

My mam wanted Morag or Elspeth for some unfathomable reason for DD1

My (Step) DM wanted Anastasia, Cosette, Lissanna, Hilja (name from my language) or Safira (also name from my language, just think of it as Sapphira). Anastasia was pretty but to princessy. Safira was okay but only in our language!. Cosette (we aren't even French) and Lissanna... She went through that list for our three girls, with DS she wanted Issak, Leinel, Anouk or Sjander (again, all names in my language) or....Kyle.

My ( step) dad was a bit more sensible. Joshua, Elliot and Zebediah (really?) for DS and Lilja (name in my ,magnate, basically Lily), Topaz, Skye, Liljabelle, Susannah or Emily. Okay, Topaz, Slye and Liljabelle, and Zebadiah, maybe not, but the others are okay? Lilja was a middle name for one of our DDs! We used Joshua though.

DMIL wanted Vivienne, Laurel, Cara or Charity! Charity? For a boy, Aubrey (yes, for a boy, yes I know originally it was a boy name, but NOWADAYS he'd be bullied), Jesus (very common name in her culture- heyzus) or Alberto. She admitted to liking Benjamin, which we used with DS as a middle name.

DFIL wanted Luca, Thomas, Tobias, Quentin or Solemon for DS, and Miriam, Samia, Viktori (my language for victory! Seriously?) or Mariette.

My mum suggested Jack for a boy. Only, she suggested we spell it JACQUES so as to be a bit different. I actually did LOL

For a girl, she suggested Sammy. Which I really like, but we didn't use. Maybe next time!

My dad suggested Icarus which I actually quite liked ; MIL liked Jonti or Josh.

My mum didn't make any suggestions. For DS1 MIL suggested Derek. This was 2001. She is a very lovely MIL so it was a "smile and nod" moment

My mum has suggested the same name for each of our boys, my fathers! (sorry mum, just not into the dynastic name sharing thing )

I mean DH and I discussed - we just didn't with anyone else.

I have no idea- they didn't say and we didn't discuss - we just announced.

DM would have chosen Catherine or Sarah and DFIL would have switched DD's first and midle names around. DF and DMIL wouldn't have any desire to express an opinion.

DM wanted me to name DS Jasper. I would definitely have considered Calypso.

No suggestions made but on the basis of the names they gave thief children I'd say Wayne and Debbie.

No thanks

MIL thought DH was a girl when she was pregnant and would have called him Victoria. The idea that there is any other girls' name than Victoria is beyond her. She suggested it for DD1 and again for DD2.

DMum likes Lucy, which I also like, but DH doesn't. However, DMum's main role in the naming process has been to tell me all the names she really hates, which includes most names in the world ever.

MIL wanted Lexi. My mum wanted to name we chose (i think thats because she knew it was my most favourite nane ever).

My MIL said Crystal and my Mum Skye. Oh and my Uncle randomly threw 'Tiffany' into the mix

My dad suggested Calypso... strangely enough it didn't appear on our list!