Family dont like our name choices

It’s a perfectly fine name. For some reason people seem to think it’s fine to comment negatively about names if the baby hasn’t been born yet. They’re less likely to do this if the baby is born and has already been given the name, so it might have been better to keep the names to yourself. Your family will likely grow to love the name once they start associating it with your baby. My mum said she didn’t like my son’s name when I was pregnant. She now swears she never said that and it’s one of her favourite names. She loves my son and associates that name with him so much that she’s forgotten she ever didn’t like it.

I really want to know what the name was that she wanted a family meeting about!

Tell them you've changed your mind and he's going to be called Sonny or Jaxxon, then "Toby" will come as a relief.

Not their baby is it.

Carry on and ignore them.

We named our children after they were born and with DS my dad pulled such a face when we told him! He then repeated the name in a tone of disgust. He got over it though.

Keep your names preferences between you and your partner - always. Don’t tell anyone else until after the birth. You then introduce them to baby Toby or whatever and it’s simply baby’s name.

I love the name Toby.

Wow. I would literally have nothing to do with my PILs after that.

Toby's lovely and was on my shortlist with my first baby (who was a girl so didn't get that name). It's nobody else's business. Tell them to mind their own.

Toby is a lovely name.

Our DGS is 9mths old. DS2 and DDIL didn’t find out what sex he was until he was born, but they did tell us the names they’d chosen. Unless it was something that I thought would get the child bullied at school then I’d have kept my mouth shut even if I didn’t like it. It’s not my business at the end of the day. I do love his name, it’s not common but not out there.

I remember being pregnant with DS1 and every time we said a name, someone would have an opinion or reason as to why we couldn’t use it so in the end we chose the two we loved and kept quiet.

Use Toby @Cosyreader1 if you love it. Congratulations on becoming on mummy btw.

They'll get over it. It's not their baby. If I could do it all over again I wouldn't have told anyone our names because my mam had a proper melt when she found out we were giving my daughter a name with the typical Norwegian spelling rather than the more common westernised spelling (husband is Norwegian and it was important to him). Daughter is 16 now and I'd say my mam is mostly over it 🙃

Why did everyone in your immediate family get input into your DC's name? Surely that's only for the parents to decide?

I love Toby but would probably pick Tobias in the hope they'll get a Knighthood one day 🤣

I know it's too late now but I'm also in the camp of not telling family until they are born - it's a lot harder to dislike a name when there's a baby right infront of them rocking said name.

I prefer posting on here for honest reactions from strangers than actually telling anyone I know

Oh god your first mistake was telling anyone the name 🫣
people then feel free to give their opinions.
Which is fine if you’re confident in your choice. But less find if you’re not.

Yeah it’s wise just present baby and name in one go. My parents for sure were surprised by my kids’ names 😄 but they just become one, the baby and the name, and therefore they end up liking the name. There are loads of Tobys around, but if your parents don’t know many babies maybe they think it’s too whacky. They’ll learn!

My mother told me that it was a family tradition for the maternal grandmother to choose the name of her oldest daughter's first child

Was this even true? Did she let her mum name her eldest child!!?

My mother told me that it was a family tradition for the maternal grandmother to choose the name of her oldest daughter's first child. I wasn't about to let Mum lumber my daughter with her own first name, which I know she wanted to do and which was deeply unfashionable at the time, so I told her that although all suggestions would be considered I was starting a new family tradition in which the person who gave birth to the baby got the final say in their name. XH and I gave each bump a silly nickname until the baby was born then presented their actual name as a fait accompli.

It's better to keep names to yourself. Unfortunately, if you share everyone has an option and they love sharing it with you. As long as you like the name Toby that's all that counts. I really hate names like Hunter, Wren, Brooke but I would never share that with a heavily pregnant woman that live the name.

Ignore them. Nice name and nothing wrong with it. They will get used to it.

Rookie error @Cosyreader1 Never EVER tell people what name you are going to give your baby.

Anyway, to hell with their views. It's your baby! (Going against the grain on here, IMO Toby does seem like a name you would give a dog though sorry!) 😬

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There's nothing wrong with Toby, it's a nice name. Classic, even.

My parents would have hated our name choices. Which is why I didn’t tell them until after they were born. They have never made a negative comment because they wouldn’t say anything about an actual child with that name.
I really dislike my sisters child’s name, but not my kid not my business

Lovely name!

I got a comment on my daughters name and I announced after she was born. She is called Alexandra which is normal, classic name IMO. Someone said "isn't that a boys name?". This particular someone kept suggesting names inc Bella, Ruby, Posy and Prim and I think she was miffed I chose something more traditional but hey ho.

It's your baby at the end of the day xxx

My baby is Toby (okay he’s a 6ft beardy 20 year old now) and I love it, always have and more importantly so does he! Weirdly loads of people call him Tobes so as long as you are okay with that then go for it ❤️