Have you allowed anyone(besides the other parent) to name your baby?

I was 10 when my youngest brother was born. Parents where undecided between two names (say James and Jack) relatives started to call and I told everyone he was called Jack so parents went with that.

In my home town,there was a family who allowed the paternal grandparents to pick both the first and middle name for their first child.
They didn't like what they had chosen but still put it on the birth certificate. They didn't use either name but called her by her initials JG instead.
I could never understand why they made the offer in the first place or they just couldn't say they hated the names.

God no! We ask mil for name suggestions and she suggested nuala for a girl 🤣🤣🤣 needless to say that wasn't happening 🙈

My daughter named my youngest son she was 8 at the time and disappointed he wasn’t a sister.
Luckily it was a name we liked. Would’ve been different story if it was something ridiculous.

I'm just amazed at the (slightly) older siblings who chose normal names. I would have expected more little brothers and sisters out there called Pooface or Stinkybum - and any gentle steering away fiercely countered by "But you promised that I could!"

We let DD pick DS's name. Not "let" but simply let. She even picked the name of her favourite cartoon character.

My mother let a sadistic midwife nun name me — the saint whose feastday it was the day I was born — and I’ve always found it appalling, as it was just my mother weakly going along with the dictates of someone who wasn’t even at all nice to her during labour.

Of course it’s lovely for someone you love to chose baby’s name…as long as it’s a name you really like! But if your children would chose a name that you actually hate or don’t even like, I don’t think you would let them?:) all the names mentioned above are very nice so no wonder you “let” siblings pick them.

We let our dc6 and dc4 choose a middle name for their sibling, we also included them in first name conversations (though we got the final say on that).

My DS (3) named his baby sister (7mths).
He named her after one if his cartoons and was adamant that was who she was. He wouldn't even entertain anything else and told everyone her name before she was born!
She's a lockdown baby and after a rubbish year we didn't have the heart to disappoint him. He absolutely adores her :)

@MilduraS
Alice?
Pocahontas?
Olive Oyl?

My DS named his baby sister. We said he could pick and he took the responsibility very seriously. I love her name and even more so that he picked it.

Ds wanted sibling to be Bob after his friend's ddog!!
We declined...
Dh had a huge framed name word search made with all our names in - including unborn ds's.. Nobody spotted it!

With me and my siblings, we all have a first name and middle name - paternal and maternal aunts/uncles/grandparents all had a turn at giving us all our names for some reason. My mum chose both names for my youngest sibling though.
For DS and DD, DH and I named both of them and I really love both of their names :)
I chose my eldest niece's name because DSis asked us to choose, and also nephew's name for another DSis. I don't offer suggestions for names unless the parent/s outright ask for my opinion because I feel like it's the right of the parent/s unless they ask otherwise.

My 7 Yr old niece didn't like the name her sister was going to be called and suggested a different one. My bro and sil asked a few family members which one we preferred and we all agreed with niece's choice. So effectively she chose the name. And did a pretty good job too

My 2,5 year old chose a name for his baby brother due in 4 weeks. He chose Gung-Gung:), should we go with that? 😂 funny thing is we are so used to saying it over the last 8 months that it started to sound like a perfectly normal name to us :)

I chose my sister's middle name

My 4 year old sister named me after her favourite cartoon character. Its a very traditional and at the time, common, girls name so when she suggested it my mum just said "yeah, sure".

It’s only a middle name, though.

DS’s middle name is Hugh, which as a name on its own I don’t love but goes well with his first name and is a nod to my own dad.

I wouldn’t let someone name my baby but there are any number of girls names I like equally (more fussy with boys!) and I can imagine saying ‘do you prefer Isabella, Charlotte or imogen’ and going with the favourite.

We asked DS (then almost 3) if he’d like to pick a name for his sister. Partly curiosity, partly in genuine need of inspiration.

He made up the names ‘Hinch’ and ‘Gonk’ for her. We gently declined his suggestions

I would never let anyone to name my baby, that’s the silliest thing I ever heard. It is YOUR baby, why on earth would you let anyone name them? It’s ok for older brother or sister to chose a name but only if you really love it! And let an uncle come up with a name that you actually hate and have that on BC? 😮 wow!

My now 4yo (3at the time) named my youngest!

We gave him a totally different name on his birth certificate but she was set on the name she liked was the one and it is, it's stuck and it's what he's now known as so his birth certificate needs changing haha

A friend of mine is from a culture where it is traditional for the paternal aunt to name her brother’s child. It is a risk! Her SIL left a lot of strategically placed baby name books lying around for her to indicate her preferences.