AIBU to have thought this was a shitty excuse?

[annabelismad]

I'm pregnant and my due date is in two days. We have one son, Franklin James Wilder. Our surname is a religious building. I LOVE vintage names. Husband less so but he liked Franklin when we chose it and frequently calls him: Franklin, Frankie, Lin and Frankie-Jay when around his East London mates who all have kids called Charlie-Jay, Tommy-Lee, Sammy-Joe and names similar. I've never minded the Frankie-Jay thing and thought it was cute. He chose Franklin's middle names. Now, we are having a little girl. We have a name, Gertrude Isabelle Laura. He loved it and chose her middle names. He also mentioned calling her Gertie-Belle, Tru, Gertie and Gertrude. I love this name. Today, he has come to me saying that he doesn't want to name her Gertrude anymore. When, I asked why, he said that I'm worried about what my mates will think. We should call her Lily-Mae or Lola-Rose instead. She needs a proper girly name. This has wound me right round the bend. When he said it, I just walked off. I think this is a rubbish excuse. His mates wouldn't say a thing! Most of them call Franklin, Frankie-Jay but a quite a few call him Franklin.

Matilda's far too common where we live.

Plus no to Gertrude.

What about Betsy, Nina, Coral?

Maisie-Grace?

Livvy-Belle?

Lola-Mae?

I was talking about how awful I thought hyphenated first names were to Dp the other day. I used the word common. Turns out all his nieces and nephews are something rose/mae/Jay/Lee etc.

I told him it proved my point

6/10

Lydia
Nellie
Delphine
Pearl
Mimi
Eleanor

All vintagey names without the goaty element.

Hyphenated names are chavvy.
Teachers know what to expect when they see them
Please don't.

I thought we weren't allowed to use the word chav?

Betsy Pearl? (I'm sorry, I think Gertrude is horrible! Robust Arian woman with plaits.) Why does it matter what your DH's friends think?

Betsy
Libby
Elouise
Philomena
Daphne
Margot

I know someone my age called Godfrey. His brother has a run of the mill born-in-the-eighties name and then there's Godfrey. He too wonders why the hell his parents saddled him with it. It's a family lineage thing apparently. If I had been his mum I'd have told the in laws to scram.

My DD has an old lady name but I thing Gertrude is ropey. I thought your sneering comment, in bold, about the names of you DH's friends' kids said more about you than them though TBH.

Really OP? Try harder.

Sophina
Mabel
Nora (really like this)
Adelaide
Jemima
Kiki

Maisie-Grace?

Livvy-Belle?

Lola-Mae?

No, no , no. Just no.

You're not gOing to call a poor baby Gertrude are you? Yes his mates will be laughing but so will loads of other people! Poor kid

I personally can't stand any of these "old fashioned" names but sometimes they can sound nice.

I've got a friend whose sons are called Beau and rafferty (she's a bit now Beau is done to death), hairdresser has Archie and Elsie (better but still...) and neighbour has Elsie and can't remember the other child's name but she's a whiner (not to be confused with toddler on other side who screams all night see other thread!).

I've got an unusual name Russian and so have my brother, not outing myself and can't change it but even my middle name is a family surname. I'd love to be called something plainer but dear mum wanted to be unique. I've got an ex friend who called her son Riva, not after the town but an alternative spelling of River eg as in river Phoenix. Says a lot that his brother changed his name to Joaquim.

All the Lola-Maes etc I hear are chavvy, all the hermiones are posh.

Still I can't talk my cat is called Felix.

Obliviated and MrsGuyof Gisbo ^^ this!

I like Gertrude. However, I once said on here that I love the name Maud and got told that it was a terrible name.

I know someone called Broderick. Gertrude is on a par with that.

pictish Philomena, that's not even as if it can be shortened! Nellie either sounds like an elephants name or v old fashioned.

Pearl equally cringey. I work with a pearl and she either acts like she is a precious Pearl or is the most unlike a Pearl type (by face) that I know.

Sophina what In the fresh hell?! Either Sophie or Sophia!

Kiki the grandmother of Beau and Raff her whippet was called Kiki and name of randy Andys ex.

Trust me with a fancy name half the kids I know with seriously unusual names secretly hate them.

My grandmother was called Maud Matilda, she hated it, but we loved her!

Polly
Blythe
Audrey
Dora
Violet
Elspeth
Verity

Forgive me I'm enjoying thinking of all the vintagey names I like.

Parker and Hudson are a friends kids names but she's a New Yorker and quite a well off and well respected architect/interior designer/artist

Greta?