If only dads named babies....

Dc1 would be Cody, dc2 Laurana, and dc3 would be Danny-Boy

just… no

Gary and Churchill is brilliant. Reminds me of Faith, Hope and Kevin.

Chris and Nick.
These are the names I guess he wanted in the 70s/80s growing up!

😂😂

Twins Gary and Churchill! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages!thanks for cheering me up! 😂

Dh shot down every single lovely name I suggested for our boy because he always knew someone with that name that either was a knob, picked his nose at school, wet himself until he was 14, was a fraudster etc. This was probably the only time I wished I had a girl because it probably aged me by 19 years and we had this agreement that I would name the girl and he can name the boy. Hell my DH even suggested naming ds his dead uncles name where his uncles dil's all gave a wide berth to that name when they gave birth to boys as well. In the end we came up with a lovely name for ds.

I also really enjoy it when you get a Jeff Jefferson or a Robert Robertson.

People are weird.

If we'd had a girl my really rather sensible and level headed DP insists she would have been called Calypso. And he means it.

Thank feck we didn't.

I do love these threads. It gets batshit real quick 😂

I also love the 'names turned down by the registry office' posts. There was one not long back where an office in France had refused the name Bob l'eponge.

It was DEFO a Dad who thought it would be a great idea to call their kid Spongebob!! 😆

Nc for this but that's my name🥲 And my last name begins with Ro🤣

Dc2 would have her actual name. No idea what dc1 would have been called as dh seemed to have gone to school with a twat bearing every classical/sensible boy name in existence. I had to really fight for the name I wanted.

I would have had a biblical boys name despite being female (my parents were convinced I was a boy until I was actually born). Although to be honest at this point in my life I can see the benefits of that.

If it had been left to DH, DSD would have been Boudicca (sp). Say no more.

My DH liked fantasy or sci fi character names for our sons, kylo.. Roland, aniken (can't spell it)

For girls he chose: Anne, Katy. His ex and his sisters names.

Needless to say, we didn't go with any of those names.

I would have a Crystal and a Charlotte (different fathers)
Can you tell which one I married 😂

My dad wanted to call me Brenda like a girl he dated when he was a teenager. I was born in the late 90s, Baby Brenda would have got some weird looks.

He also tried to call one of my brothers Horton.
I am glad my mum didn't let that happen

@Aroundtheworldin80moves - I am now picturing a daughter called Beer!

DH wanted Ragnar for our son. I do have Norwegian heritage so we have chosen a Scandinavian name, but it's much less out there than Ragnar is!

Mind you, if my dad had had his way, my brother would have been named Rolf-Olaf; on reflection, perhaps Ragnar isn't so bad!

My ex wanted ‘flea’ after some bloke from the red hot chilli peppers

best one I ever heard was a couple who didn’t know what they where having and where stuck on a boys name for pfb
anyway,one day while in the pub dad nipped off and went to the loo,he came back and said ‘what do you think to Scott?’
mum loved it,they had a boy and named him scott
they went to register the birth when mum asked dad where he’d got Scott from

’oh yes,the loo roll holder on the wall…’

Sounds like the Mycroft and Moriarty dad's should be friends 😂

Mine came up with totally ridiculous names. I'm still not sure if he's winding me up with some of the latest suggestions or he genuinely thinks our child is going to come out with celebrity parents.

We knew we were having a boy both times. Here is DH’s list:

Tintin
Valentine
Ludovic
Mycroft (brother of Sherlock Holmes)

All put forward seriously.

DH suggested Michael for a boy 😂

Dh wanted to call DS Ira. I had to explain that with my family being from Northern Ireland, this was a terrible idea...

Dh did actually come up with ds actual name which I absolutely adore.

As I am old, I grew up in a class with many Marks, Davids, Simons, Sarahs, Claires, Julies and none of those sharing the names were ever harmed by their lack of nominative uniqueness.

I work for a large organisation, and there are FOUR women in our email address book with the same popular first name and last name. Let’s say they’re all called Claire Brown. It was confusing enough when there were two Claire Browns, let alone four.

There are several “pairs” of people with the same name, too. One colleague was mistakenly deleted from our IT system as IT wrongly thought her namesake had been set up twice.

Both of my kids would be called "I don't know what do you think".

Daphne or Cherry for a girl.
Hudson or Dougie for a boy