If only dads named babies....

I think Marigold would be a great name if it weren’t for the rubber gloves.

Echo. After overhearing someone call their toddler that in antenatal clinic.

Just read that as kinky!!

Still trying to figure out what names those would be?? 😂

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DH - Eleanor for a girl; Darwin for a boy.

We don't have any children. From my point of view Eleanor is nice but not keen on Darwin.

Not that Thor or Ragnar are objectively stupid names, but they’re pretty silly if you both have absolutely zero Scandinavian heritage!

DH would only make stupid boy’s name suggestions like ‘Thor’ or ‘Ragnar’, and didn’t have any girl’s name ideas at all. Luckily he liked the name I picked for DD!

well he wanted Dilan and Chloe originally.
At one point he thought Milton was a good idea for a boy.
He also wanted Persephone for a girl.
Our children have none of these names !
Also left to own devices he probably wouldn't have even considered names until actually handed a real baby.

Though perhaps months of agonising over the perfect name that will represent their (unknown) personality and trying to pick something unique that won't lead to a 'lifetime of bullying' isn't always a productive use of time..

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.

DH did name all 3 of our kids

1. Eleanor
2. Lloyd
3. Constantine

The boys are named after my husbands grandad. One has his first name and the other has his middle name.

This thread has given me a giggle this morning 🤣
My EXH wanted to call our kid's some horrendous names. So horrendous I've erased them out of my mind 🤣 Both kids have his name as their middle name as compensation 🤷🏼‍♀️. My DP and I won't be having kids but if we had a boy or a girl he said he'd definitely want to call it Jurgen. Big Liverpool fan 🙄

😂😂😂

Nigel is also a dying name.....

Marigold... I just cant stop thinking of rubber gloves!!

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My ex liked “kingly, Germanic boys’ names” such as Florian and Ruprecht.

I have different tastes.

😂😂😂😂

My xdh want to name our dc after Lord Of The Ring characters!!!! I agreed, after lots of rows, to 1dc having a character name as a middle name but I got to choose it. Still regret not standing my ground.

Axel or Melody

Aroundtheworldin80moves So is she called Stella after his favourite drink?

DS1 would have been Andrew. If a girl Shona.
For DS2 he touted the name Prentice of all things, and it became one of a list of three potentials (I was never going to agree to it though) , but now claims he can’t remember that. I actually can’t remember what the other one was, apart from Prentice and the name he actually got.

My parents agreed that any child would have a name that reflected DM's home Scandi country, be pronouncable in English (total fail on this count), and not sound too German - so as not to upset DF's English relatives postwar.

If it was a boy it was going to be Peter after DM's brother who died young.

Instead they have me. My DM came up with a list of names and my DF picked one.

My DM only found out 40 years later as my DF was dying that he'd picked that name as it was the name of a famous opera singer he fancied. Well done Dad on keeping a secret.

My parents were expecting b/g twins and my dad pushed hard for "Leonard" for a boy (not exactly a usual name for the time).
My mum was 7 months pregnant before she twigged that it wasn't for a particular, previously unmentioned love of Leonard Rossiter as he'd claimed. But Leonard Nimoy. She hated Star Trek about as much as he loved it so that was vetoed fairly quickly.

As it happened, we were both girls. But I have been affectionately referred to as Mr Spock by my dad well into adulthood.

Maximilian probably for both of our DS! 😂

Objectively nothing at all. It's just he put no real thought in to it. A bit along the lines of
Me: have you thought of any boys names you like?
Him: No, but Mark and Steven would be fine.

A bit like @elp30's husband choosing Adam.

I then gave him a link to a name website to get some 'inspiration' (i.e. names other than people he knows from work/school) and he went completely the opposite direction choosing things like Hunter.

But Steven and Hunter definitely doesn't beat the Gary and Churchill twins 🤣

I was born in the late 80s, when every other girl my age was called Laura or Emma or Rebecca. My dad’s one and only suggestion was… Carol!

I think my mum is still cross he even suggested it.

That’s true about names that are a bit dated. My OH would have gone for

Paige
Bryony
Ciara
Roisin
Philippa
Alana
Caoimhe
Mary

John
Owen

not all totally dated but different style to me

DH actually suggested the names we ended up using. Fortunately I really liked it, as I don't think he'd have contemplated another.

We never agreed on a boy name. He wanted Theodore but I vetoed. He also wanted Douglas, which I didn't like initially but it grew on me, only for him to later say that he didn't like it and had never suggested it!

Dh wanted Elijah or Colton..No!