Partners' bizarre opinions

I more or less agree with his comments

Agree with your DP about Hazel. It's very old cockney washerwoman, like Mabel.

My DP is refusing to contribute to name ideas as we don't know the gender and he doesn't want to waste (his time? his enthusiasm? What?) on finding ones he likes in case he doesn't get to use them. Illogical and infuriating.

My dh liked the name Xerxes. I said I'd change his name to it and he said that in that case, he'd need a cape. 🙄

Alice is not posh. None of the Alice's I know are even remotely posh.
Ex wanted to call DS1 Spike. DS has told me he's glad I said no

My brothers DC are Oliver, Abigail and Alice
So they are similar levels of 'posh' imo. Which means to say they are classless. Timeless. Classic.

I actually really like Douglas. I have a great Uncle Douglas. All of his siblings have really Welsh names, like Llyr and Idris, except for Douglas.

Not a big fan of Susan, but Susanna is lovely.

I really like the name Susan but know too many nasty Sues.

I love the name Michael.

The looking for an uncommon name threads seem to attract names that are likely to be far from underused.

Anna was a no-go because of Frozen.

Dp said no to my offerings of Sebastian and Aidan as they were too posh. As was Luke.
His offering was Michael.
DS is not called Michael.

I put forward Grace for DD but apparently this was too boring and Carmen- which is apparently the name of a large smelly girl he knew at primary school- so that was a no go too.

And yet people are always on here looking for uncommon names that there won't be five others in the class. Susan and Douglas are perfect.

To be fair to him, Home and Away is one of my first thoughts on the name Ailsa.

Myfanwy is not used much.
It's not awful, but I wouldn't use it. It would become Myfanny, Miffanway, etc.

Buddug is lovely. I quite like Boudicca.

Oliver and Alice names are fairly classless. Georgiana is just too much for me .

I think of Sebastian as a bit downmarket because it has become popular fairly recently, as has Jenson. Strange that.

DP's top picks were Susan and Douglas. I don't know what decade he thinks this baby will be born in.

Shame - Myfanwy sounds so soft and pretty in a Welsh accent. I do see the problem using it elsewhere though.

Ha, Genghis is the kind of name my Dad would like (he made a series of very out there suggestions for me (think Boudicca) at which point Mam took over and named me, thankfully!)

There is a Welsh version of Boudicca, Buddug, but even Mam could see that wouldn't work in England!

Dad vetoed Myfanwy for me but otherwise let Mam choose.

It's not cultural appropriation for a Scottish person to use a Scottish name in England.

My Mam's Welsh and gave me a Welsh name in England. My DH did ponder whether it would be cultural appropriation for me to use a Welsh name but we concluded it wouldn't be.

I really don't think Alice is posh. Alys, which is the Welsh version, is on my list and I'm decidedly not posh

I think most classic names don't have strong class associations, isn't that partly why they're popular?

I see names like Thomas, James, Elizabeth and Alice as quite timeless - they could be old/young or posh/not posh.

I had a friend called Oliver at school and remember my parents (and friends' parents) dubbing it a posh boy's name. They are currently struggling over whether the country is increasingly posh or not...

Nothing wrong with the name's OP. Whether a name is posh or not is often pretty arbitrary (Tarquins and Jagos notwithstanding)

According to a particular ex:
Sebastian - far too posh
Georgiana - a hell no, not even entertained

But Genghis? Genghis was fiiiiine.

Needless to say I did not have babies with ex.

Raffaelo is a chocolate

Isn't there a chocolate called something a bit like that

momsdish.com/recipe/372/ferrero-raffaello-cake-recipe

My DH has vetoed my favourite name, Raphaella, because "it sounds like a brand of cakes"

Anna is one of my favourites, but I agree I think all the names you've just listed are completely normal and I wouldn't say any of them were particularly posh or the opposite. They're all pretty much the same level of posh in my opinion.

It was meant in jest OP.

I think SweatyAmy's OH is worse, and suggest you look for names you both like, and as it's you giving birth, you get to make the decision.

Mine has very strong opinions on not using names from other cultures.

So no Alice, Sophie or Louis on the grounds we're not French... most biblical names ruled out on grounds they are of Greek/Hebrew etc. origin.

Isabelle is acceptable, however, as he really likes it, as are Isabella and Juliette, but not Isabel or Juliet.

He thinks names like Edward and Henry are too posh to use, but I know loads of non-posh people whose DC have these names. For me they are timeless and classless names.

The only truly 'English' names I can come up with are Aethelfaed type names. Our children will love us