AIBU to have thought this was a shitty excuse?

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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.

pictish ah your last lot are better!

I'm just saying them as they come. My dd doesn't have a vintage type name actually. More a foreign one.

Brunhilde is a lovely name OP, regal too!

My exBIL is called Reginald, his brother is Harold. They are 50 and 48! Reg was a bondage trouser wearing punk and is still in a Clash tribute band. Sorry but Reginald, Harold and Gertrude just aren't very rock and roll.

Greta is nice.

I like Leisel as well.

Lily may is horrible.

How abut Olivia? Or Emma? Or Agatha?

Any of them are better than Gertrude.

Is it foreign Pictish because you are or part or just because you like it?

Mine isn't even a name really more a word...

Sort of get away with it as grandads side on her side is German/French direct so I make more of that... My aunt has called her dogs German names like lottie, fritz, kaiser but then they're not kids!

Leisel?!

There Olivia is far too well used these days.

Emmeline?

For the life of me, I cannot imagine why anyone having a baby now would call their dd anything like lily-Mae - given the stereotype associated with those kinds of names.

Gertrude as a name is ok, sounds a bit Germanic. It`s a real old lady name though. I think there are worse names, Enid is pretty bad.

I was in Cornwall last summer and there was a gorgeous little girl of about 2 wandering about the beach and I heard her mum shouting 'Enid, come back here'

Enid! Enid! Why on earth would you saddle someone with a name like that. The same goes for Gertrude. It conjures up images of grey chin hairs, cardigans with holes in and imperial mints.

Don't do it, OP.

Just because we liked it. It's Russian.

X post with bert

The horror of Enid.

Polly
Emma
Imogen
Anna
Sophia

Maureen hasn't really made a comeback has it?

Pictish my name (but not a name it's a word) is also Russian. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's the Moon Unit etc ones I feel for.

Gertrude was also the joke name when I grew up.

It's on a par with Ethel isnt one of Lily Allen's called Ethel?

Alice
Josephine
Emily

betty. Delia. Florence,

I know young children with all of these names.

I like all of them but I know these names would never have been used where and when I grew up as too old fashioned.

Gertrude isn't the nicest. Sorry op

Polly was our closest runner up. There's an incredible song by Dillard and Clark called Polly and dh and I both love it.

Scarlett
Amber
Ophelia

I like gertie. Reminds me of the little girl in ET too

Sadie?

I don't think DH could tell you what his friends babies are called... This is a bit odd....

Fwiw I like Gertrude but I don't really care for your DH.