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How do you manage to jointly choose a name when your OH has such crap taste in names??!

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FoofFighter · 03/07/2013 20:02

**Disclaimer - I apologise if you have a child with one of these names!! I'm not trying to be nasty!

I thought he was joking at first with some of them, but it's becoming apparent he just has a ... "strange" taste in names - it's like he thinks the baby will be popping out middle-aged...!

Rita?
Lorraine?
Malcolm?
Reginald?
Geoffrey?
Ruebens?

He has come up with a couple I do like, but he doesn't move in the same circles as I do with lots of friends with little children, and doesn't believe me that there will be at least 5 of each Alfie, Lily, Evie etc in our child's class and I don't want that.

How did you work it out with your partner?

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TheSecondComing · 03/07/2013 20:18

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ArabellaBeaumaris · 03/07/2013 20:15

TSC that after Girls Aloud by any chance? Grin

Have you done going through a baby name book & each marking ones you like? Your list is the handful of names you both like!

RhinestoneCowgirl · 03/07/2013 20:14

And we had discussed names (at length) beforehand, it was just that DH was playing extremely safe and just needed nudging towards our childrens perfectly normal but a bit more interesting names...

RhinestoneCowgirl · 03/07/2013 20:12

I'm not proud of this, but I did take advantage of that hormonally-charged moment when you've just pushed a baby out out your fanjo in the middle of the living room floor and announce that the baby was called X.

Both times... Blush

MikeLitoris · 03/07/2013 20:08

We had this problem with dd2.

Dd has interesting taste in names.

I told him the name that was top of my list and then banned all talk of names until after the birth.

When he saw me having proper contractions he told me I could have the name.

I wanted Eliza. He wanted Nevaeh.

Bippidee · 03/07/2013 20:07

Oh, your list did make me chuckle... DH and I are calling our bump "Malcolm" but we aren't actually naming baby that!

We decided on a boy name very amicably, but the girl's name is proving trickier. I WILL win this one though. He thinks my choices are too "posh". I don't.

Perhaps you could suggest spending time around children (for practice!) then he'd realise.... Or maybe not.

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FoofFighter · 03/07/2013 20:04
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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 03/07/2013 20:02

Oh dear. LTB.

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