If only dads named babies....

@MajesticallyAwkward The only thing I've got is there's a few names from Firefly (Jayne, Malcolm and Kaylee) in your list.

DD (born 2019) would have been Rachael, Sarah, Claire or Sandra without my input of a hard NO. Though he eventually came up with the name we did use.

He only ever suggested sensible boy names, so DS would most likely be called George

DH actually got his choice for our boy, I had lots of what I felt at the time were amazing names....
Titus
Jayne
Gabriel
Thor
Malcom
You get the idea, I was exhausted, hormonal, had a traumatic EMCS and scbu baby. DH suggested a very normal, not super popular name that suits ds. I still think he'd suit Titus though 😂

He had very little input for DD, everything I suggested he hated until one day I was watching one of my favourite shows and said 'oh actually, I really like (the name of the main character)' and he agreed so that's how DD was named.

Had he been pushed DD would have been something like kaylee or kara (anyone see a theme for geek points?)

DH wanted Rowen for a boy and Willow for a girl.

Perfectly nice names (if a bit tree-themed) but far too popular and "modern" for me. Once I introduced him to the world of ONS stats and naming trends, he came around to my way of thinking and DD has a Welsh name (his heritage so he was happy) much further down the charts. 😄

My ex-boyfriend wanted our future daughter to be named Emma, which is by no means a bad name but he was about 25 years late to the trend. I knew so many Emmas when I was growing up. I think women often are more cognisant of which names are in style and which are dated.

If we had a boy, he wanted him to be named after himself. Apparently he came from a long line of men who all had the same name and if I refused, I'd be breaking a centuries-old tradition. I wasn't a huge fan of his name (it was foreign and often mispronounced in this country) and I hated the idea.

Thankfully, we split up and I never had kids with him.

😂😂

DH liked Gaius, Horatio and Rupert for boys and Athena and Cecily for girls. I couldn't tell if he was taking the piss or being serious (I don't mind Cecily though).

If we’d had a boy, my husband wanted Percy. After the Laura ashley wallpaper in the spare room.

We had girls.

DH told everyone on FB DD was called Padme, as in Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker's mom.

Worryingly lots of people believed him and it took quite some time for her real name to filter through.

My ex is John. His dad was John. He wanted our son (born 2014) to be called John. When I vetoed that he chose "Mark". Mark is his best friend.

So I chose a name (classic, fairly common but sturdy and easily shortened if wanted) and got his mum and sisters to agree with me so we ganged up on him and my son was given the classic name 😂

@Aquamarine1029 sorry quote fail! I mean to quote @SurpriseSurprise

I love this! Gary and Churchill! 😂

My father would've name me and my sibling Noah and Daisy in the 90s. Not bad but certainly wouldn't suit us.

Now he constantly suggests John or Paul for our children 😂

DH is obsessed with American names like Travis and Seth. I don't hate them but they just remind me of some greasy skater dude from a 90's film like Clueless!

MIL is worse. She suggested Helen or Robert. I didn't realise we were having a 50 year old.

Great thread @user3199 .
Gary and Churchill is amazing. So funny. And better than twin names I've taught ( Paul and Pauline. Victor and Victory. Sophie and Sophia ).
Anyway, back to the thread.
I worked with someone who had a dd named Chezni. She said her dh chose it.
My db wanted to name my niece Sally. It's a perfectly nice enough name, but so dated, even 25 years ago. I suggested Eleanor, and my sil loved it. 😍

Haha. Nope. Coulsdon born and bred! No Spanish or Italian heritage. 🤣🤣 Honestly, I couldn’t impress enough on him that he’d be potentially setting up his kids for awful bullying. With the combined last name…just horrific! 🤣🤣🤣

We had this conversation too! Henrik Larsson was the star of DHs wedding speech so I reminded him he'd had that moment.

He still wanted it shoehorning in as "middle names".

Didn't happen 😄

Siren (not Seren), Tyrees and Anette.

@muchtootired, people who live opposite to us have Luke (24) and Leia(19). My son was friends with Luke from school and it was quite a while before we found out the name of his sister. Made us smile though.

DH would name a boy "Atom".
(After hearing the name of a Canadian film director.)
I love the name.

Marigold and hope she does. (Sorry, niche 80s joke)

My dad wanted to call me Alice. My mother vetoed this as "an old ladies' name". He said "Julian then" after Julian of Norwich. And so it was.

I have a niece names after the scent of a can of airfreshener curtosy of my db... its a nice name but how he came about it was ... seriously

Poppy and Patrick. Rather nice actually, maybe we should have.

Dh wanted Belinda or Brandon for our first child.
Happily she isn't called either!