I don’t like a single boy’s baby name - do I just go with DH’s favourite?

If he loves it and you like it enough for it to be on your shortlist, then in the absence of any name toy truly love then yes I would.

Baby will become his name and then you'll most likely learn to love it as its his and you love him

Hold the 100% / 70% name in your back pocket. As others have said - those are pretty good odds. But don't commit (ie start telling friends and family) until you have met the baby.

With one of ours, the moment I saw the baby I chucked out the whole shortlist and called the baby a name that hadn't even featured on any of our long lists. It was just the right name!

I agree with this! 100% and 70% is pretty good! I struggled with names for my son particularly, as we were limited in that it had to work in two languages. I wanted to call him James but it doesn’t work in his other culture, and I didn’t like any alternative as much. I don’t think I loved any of the options but liked two or three. We chose one of those - and now I can’t imagine him being called anything else. My daughter was nameless for several weeks, so I don’t agree that meeting the baby actually helps very much either… 😂

I agree with all of this!!!

OP one person being 100% on a name and the other being 70% on it is fairly high, I'd go with it. Call him that in your head for the next day or 2 and see how you feel.

What girls names do you love?

Angry potato 😂😂😂 that’s quite true.

Babies don’t look like a particular name or all babies of the same name would look the same!
Their names grows on them - if your DH has a particular favourite and you don’t, go with his choice of name.

As we did not know what we were having (only that it was a human, not the puppy I wanted 🤣) we agreed that I would get the girls name I wanted and DH would get the boys.

He won. The PP is right whatever the name the child grows into it. DS didn't look like his name, he looked like an angry potato.

That being said he is universally known by the NN my Dsis bestowed on him on his first day. He does look exactly like his real name at 18 though.

I feel the same about boys names. Unfortunately husband is less than helpful and just laughs we might have to go with a really left field name his dad suggested!

I have a list of 4/5 we both quite like, but non seem to be ‘the one’.

our first was a girl and I’d happily have called her 4/5 different names, I had to decide which I loved the most!

Yes, 21 weeks with a much wanted miracle baby boy and we’re both meh about boys names. The choices are far fewer and loads of names are really dull or overused. No advice, maybe wait until you meet him?

It definitely is a thing. Sometimes they just don't suit that name. You don't have to have a name for a good few weeks after the birth. Something will seem to feel right in that time.

Yes, use his name! I was the same. Nothing I loved, but one husband at the time loved consistently from the start. I was 50/50 but went with it and I fell in love with it in the end! It took a good year but now I love it!

I went with my DH's favourite name for our son. I did like it but wasn't 100% in love with it like he was. I've grown to love it since giving it to my son and now I can't imagine him being called anything else, so it can work.

He's right.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

He loves the name, you have no strong feelings against it - so do it.

Can you try to find a name either meaning gor you?

Try researching your family tree
Think back to childhood friends
A great character from a book

If it helps I didn't care for my son's name but my FIL died the year before he was born and it would have broken my DH not to use FILs name.

Now of course because I love my son - I love his name. It grew on me very quickly and I now can't imagine any other name on him.

What’s the name your husband likes?

that’s not a thing, a baby can’t look like a name

It absolutely is a thing; my daughter was to be called Rachael until the moment I saw her and she didn't look like a Rachael at all!

The best advice I can give is wait until baby is born. We really struggled to find a boys name we loved but had a list of a few we liked. When he was born one of the outliers just really suited him & can’t imagine anything else now.

I feel your pain, I don't love many names at all. Have got 1 boys name and 1 girls name (don't know the gender) but if they don't suit it I don't know what we'll do!! I suppose if you don't detest the name your husband likes then it's a good contender but you'll probably have more of a feel when he's born! X

I with your husband I agree that a baby doesn't look like a name. They just grow into their names. Even if they did look like a particular name when the were born they change a lot even during that first year. And you are not just naming a baby you are naming w full grown man who will look completely different from when he was a baby!
I was never sure about my son's name which was my husband's choice but I couldn't think of one. And I was unsure if it when he was a baby. But now I can't imagine he being called anything else. It's his name.

He's got to be called something and if you like none, and he loves one, then I'd say that's the answer.

We had a couple of names lined up for DS if he happened to be a boy(we didn’t know the sex before he was born) but in the delivery room we didn’t think he looked like either of those names and came up with one we had never considered before! So it does happen (might be the gas and air impact!)