If only dads named babies....

Dh wanted Buster but thankfully she was a girl!!

No thanks my ex wanted to make our daughter kizzy, I thought he was joking at first

I quite liked most of DH's suggestions. I suggested Rosalind and Hope for DD, and Luke and Elliot for DS.

Both boys. DH lobbied hard for Jack both times. No idea what he would have picked the second time round had he got his way the first time.

Though he did want the diminutive Alex instead of Alexander for DS2s middle name. I stood firm there too and he conceded on registering him that that was the better choice.

Girls names he was okay with actually. He was the one who came up with Isabel for DS2s potential girls name, which I loved.

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Not laughing at the name just laughing at how simple a decision it was for him!!

After insisting on DD1s name during a hormone induced pregnancy meltdown, I promised DH he could name any second child we had. (DD1 was IVF and we’d been told almost medically impossible to have another so I didn’t actually think that would ever come about)
Currently very pregnant with surprise DD2 and DH has named her.
Her name will be Jessica and it makes our DD1s name look positively flamboyant in comparison. Probably better than the Jane or Emma he was also going to pick. He basically named every girl he went to school with as his frame of reference.

Moral of the story - don’t promise your husband anything, ever 😂

DH wanted Boris. This was in October 2021. Though his dad is Vladimir so I suppose I can count myself lucky.

Our friend just had a baby. Her dh suggested 5 names, 3 of which were his friend's names including my dh, 4 his uncle's name and then 5th his own name. I don't think he had imagination for anything else 😂

Dh went the other way and wanted dd's middle name to be Batman.

Ex suggested DDs name which was v unusual but lovely and I agreed immediately after months of not being able to agree. I chose the middle name as its got a family connection. There were a few discussions about DSs name but it ended up being Exs second choice and not one I would have naturally shortlisted but is perfect for him. Again the middle name has a family connection for me.

Dh wanted to name dd Delilah.

Hell no!

We compromised on a name with both liked.

Initially he wanted to name ds Nickolai which I wasn’t keen on.

Then he decided on something else.

Then we compromised on a name we both liked, only for me to change my mind and go and choose his second choice.

Abel, because he already had a son called Cain.

If we'd had a girl she would have been Rachel. It was the only name DH would contemplate. I was a bit reluctant as I have a (nice) cousin Rachel and don't like reusing names, but in fact it's probably better than most of my hormone induced choices ('Gabriella! Rhiannon!') and was a great choice.

We had a boy....

(He wanted Hera if either had been a girl. Which I secretly love also but it would have been hard to pull off).

DH named both our DCs. First was named after his uncle. Second was named after his father.

I never felt particularly enthralled with any boys names but had loads of girls names so I went with it mainly because we had to name them something! . Love both names now (I particularly adore DS1's full name and DS2's nickname which is the usual nickname) and get many compliments about how you 'don't hear many of those anymore'.

Definitely equivalent to Mark or Steven.

If I had been able to name our two, I would have liked Ishmael for a boy and Dayesha for a girl.

I have b/g twins. Left to DH, I’d have Luke and Leia.

Fiona and Atticus

Mine would have been named after a couple of Arsenal goalscorers. I said a 'no' to that . The names weren't stupid, I just didn't like them. He never realized that I wanted Vanessa for a girl because of Van Morrison, though!

Alan for a boy, after Alan Partridge. I don't mind it, but we had two girls.
It's tough discussing baby names with a teacher as they rule out loads!

Only one of mine was my complete choice. ExH was an abusive twat and current DH is, IMO, entirely lacking in taste and I was lucky he agreed on compromises.
My eldest would've been Vince. He ended up with a "classic" name that I didn't tell his father is quite common.
My youngest would've been Geoffrey. Or Darius. So i came up with a similar deal in the end.
So neither was what I wanted but it was an emergency!

Gary and Churchill! 🤣🤣🤣

Our daughter would be called Trixie!

My Dh wanted Christopher for a boy. But idk Chris was always the irritating boy at school. And Christopher is, to me, a bit beige. Don't think he had any thoughts for a girl. His name and his sisters' names are very (nice) but sort of "we don't want to stand out" names. I prefer quite unusual but not outlandish names.

Anyway, suffice to say our son is not called Chris.

Mine is so outing and I’ve also posted about it before under a different name but both times I was pregnant DH wanted to call a boy Moriarty. Yes, Sherlock Holmes nemesis.
‘But DH, he’s a villain!’
’yeah but cool name though’
…
thank god they were both girls, his suggestions there were much tamer 😂

Rebecca. I said no because I knew a Becky at school who was a total b*h. I hate Becky and Becca with a passion. It's her middle name. He chose her first name in cahoots with my mother (I was in theatre under GA when she was born, and it was all decided). ()