I promised DH he could name the baby. Now I've changed my mind.

[JakeyMom]

When I was pregnant with DS1 I had my heart set the name Jacob. DH hated it and used to come up with all these alternatives but I had my heart set and I promised him that if he let me call DS Jacob he would pick the next DC's name. I PROMISED.
So fast forward and I'm pregnant with DC2 and naturally DH has been considering names. He was under the illusion that we would be having a boy and had already picked out the name Adam which I was fine with. However, it turns out we're having a girl which has totally thrown DH off course.
He's now decided he wants to name DD after his GRANDMOTHER(!!!) as she brought him up. It's an AWFUL name for a child (Blanche) and I just can't bring myself to agree. The name makes me shudder, it reminds me of coronation street. I've told him I hate the name and it's disgusting for a baby but he won't budge on it and is digging his heels in. AIBU to go back on my promise for the sake of our DD?

It just shows that it is never a good idea to use a name that one doesn't like. You forced a name that he hated (I don't like Jacob either)and now you don't like the trade off.
It is all water under the bridge now and you should have abandoned your choice and kept going for a compromise. I have 3 DSs and they would be called something completely different if I named them alone.
You can only appeal to his better nature and try and get Blanche as a second name.

Blanche is a real name too! I think it's quite a stylish name. I don't watch Corrie, but then people of the baby's generation won't be familier with Blanche from Corrie either. I think it's due a revival.

I just went on the Baby Name board and suggested Blanche to three people! :o

Think your stuck...........

Blanche is not the worst name - could be a lot worse imo. Try to change your thinking on the name -google famous blanche's in history to take your mind off the corrie association.

I actually don't see what the problem is, you did this to dh. Prehaps he is winding you up. I like Blanche

JAKEYMOM??!!

I take it you don't live in Glasgow

I like Blanche (mind you DD is Grace so I like granny names)

Jacob however is forever associated with a topless shapeshifting werewolf who can't act.

I think it is a name on par with Jacob. You love one and he hated it and vice versa-seems a fair exchange.

Kanyon? Kanyon?!!! Oh my various gods!! My dad taught a lad in the 70s called Guy. Only his parents had only ever seen it written down and didn't know how to pronounce it. They insisted it was gooey! True story.

Yabu. Anyway I actually prefer Blanche to Jacob.

doctordwt

I know!

And she's worried about the negative connotations of Blanche. I wonder if little Jakey came out of the womb holding a bottle of buckfast.

I've just read the OP and whilst i am in a shitty mood, it has made me laugh.

Not at you, OP, just the name 'Blanche'

Thankyou for cheering me up a little!

It's growing on me.

I'm with OldLady on the first page: I doubt if the children your dd goes to school with will even know that it's an old granny name. But the names that seem sensible and ordinary to you probably will get a good old snigger in the playground.

To me, the most ridiculous old grandfather name I can imagine is Oscar- that is really somebody totally doddery, probably with side whiskers- but half the kids I know seem to be called Oscar and they just don't realise it puts them in the dotard category.

But when did I last meet a Mark or Michael under the age of...well, my age, really?

Oscar makes me think of a Labrador for some reason.

Funny thing is there are very few elderly Oscars in the UK due to the stigma of the Oscar wilde trial. The 'stigma' attached to the name lasted decades.

I know a really gorgeous little Jamaican boy called Stan. Now that's traditionally an old man's name. I think it's great and really suits him

Cory, I have a Michael - he is 15

There's a Stanley in my dd's class. At first i thought of Hilda Ogden's husband and my friend's elderly dad, but you do get used to it.

I know an 8 year old Michael. I think it is a classic name

Jacob and Blanche are both equally awful names in my opinion, but you made the agreement and if you've got any decency you'll stick with it.

Just found out that my cousin has had a baby and called him Gavin.

I think thats quite strange...

Our neighbour had a baby the same time as I had DD. She was a scary, scary woman, with scary dogs and no teeth.

She called her lovely little boy Derek.

kittyandthefontanellese "My dad taught a lad in the 70s called Guy. Only his parents had only ever seen it written down and didn't know how to pronounce it. They insisted it was gooey! True story."

Sorry but I don't think it can be unless it was a very common mistake to make. I had a friend at University who said this had happened in a class her cousin (female) taught.

In fact if you do a serach just on the Baby Names forum of mumsnet for "gooey" you will turn up quite a few threads where this story is re-told...

Gooey!

I think Derek is akin to Roger.

When our DDs are old enough to have DC they'll be calling them things like "Jean" and "Pat" and "Ray"

You wait.