I need help as I'm really struggling to move past this. We called our son Rupert as it was my husbands favourite name. It took me a while to come round to it, as I thought it was a bit 'out there' - he is our second child. To me it's quite an upper class, very English name, and I didn't realise until recently that it was a slang term for a bit of a useless army officer 😟. I am from a very working class Irish background, my husband is English and we live in England. I have always wanted to go with my Grandads name if I ever had a son, but my husband didn't think it quite worked with our surname and I was really sad about it. So, as my husband really loved Rupert, we went with it. When we announced the name, a few people laughed about it and it made me feel really self conscious about it. I always assumed we would have another child, and then I could have a name that I loved, but it wasn't until my son was a few months old, with the name firmly embedded that my husband made it very clear that he didn't want any more children. Anyway, cut to five years later, and I very much resent my husband for both of these things and I am finding it really hard to get past them. My son is the most precious thing in the world to me, and I hate that I am self conscious about his name. To be clear, I am very conscious of not projecting any of this on to my son and making him feel anything other than love for his own name.