To tell my dad to keep opinion to stop badmouthing baby name?

[pinkglasgow23]

I am 6 months pregnant with my first baby, and my partner and I decided on a name when we found out it's a boy.

Partner came up with the name and we both really like it and others seem to like it too, except for my dad. He'll mention every other day "so is it still gonna be (name)?" and laughs about it when I tell other family members what his name will be.

I know it might seem a bit dramatic to be getting annoyed about it so much but we've been set on the name for about 6 weeks now and the laughing at the name infront of other people is a bit hurtful.

AIBU to tell him to back off a bit?

Bloody beautiful name and on our list too OP.

Tell your father that if he continues to be so rude and hurtful about the name that you will cease contact with him and that he will not meet his grandson until he is three months old. (Insert something realistic) you're not being overly sensitive. Your dad's being an arsehole.

I told my DM that if she didn't stop buying stuff for this child she'd not meet it until it was 12!!! She has finally stopped so not DH and I can actually buy things without her saying every five minutes "I bought you a baby bath" (we didn't want one) "I've bought you xxxyyyzzzz"
She's just excited but it was taking the fun out of shopping because she was buying the essentials and I wasn't having a say.

Zachary is a lovely name.

I thought that it was Shiraz or Tywinn

Yeah MeeWhoo - It could be 'Giai' (Pronounced like the GI in GI Joe). It has quite a nice ring to it. And a full form - Grandad Is An Idiot

Love Zachary-ignore your dad.

Love Zachary! Very nice.
Give him rubbish made up names like the celebs do for a while then revert back.

Zachary is a nice name and nothing offensive or objectionable about it! He is being silly.

Zachary is a name. It's when people name children with a collection of letters that could be the name of an IKEA CD rack that I get annoyed. Zac/Zachary is fine.

Wtf?? I thought it was going to be one of the newly popular names that some people still haven't gotten used to, or something really out there... But Zachary's just a normal name?? Not hugely common like Jack or something but just a regular, everyone's heard of it, name...

Your dad is weird.

I'm actually disappointed at what a normal name it is. I was all ready to internally judge you.

Zachary / zach is my sons name and he and we love it, plus it really suits him. Very good choice!

We told family we were gonna call DC 2 Oscar and they all said it was terrible ... Blah blah... Also dad said in Babies r us.... You can call him Oscar just heard some stupid butch shout her don and hes called Noah so Oscar isn't so bad ... Noah's mum was feet away!!!

Now 7 years on they all say ..... Pooh hour Oscar couldn't be called anything other than Oscar!!!

We call him Oz or Oz Snoz or occa doo

I was also going to suggest telling him you've changed your mind after all his nasty comments and you're now going to call the baby...some awful name.

If you're about six months now, you must be due sometime around Christmas? I think you've perhaps decided to go with something festive, haven't you?

Tinsel? Angel? Mistletoe?

We didn't tell anyone names that we were thinking of beforehand.

And even then when I told my Mum she said "oh no, I don't like that".

Er, well that is the name Mum, I'm telling you, not asking your opinion!

I told people I was going to call my son Isambard Kingdom (as I'm a huge steam train fan!) that shut them up!

Seeing you are having a baby around Christmas tell him you changed you mind and will call him Balthazar, Gaspar, or Melchior. After one of the three kings.
I love Zachary one of my nephews in the US is Zackary, it's a lovely name, they call him Zack or Zackie.

Hippolytus is a real name do tell him he's put you off Zachary (good choice by the way) and gave chosen Hippolytus.

Absouletly tell your Dad to keep his opinion to himself. I always think people that comment of names are bloody rude, it's not there child having that name so they should bloody well shut up.

I think Zackary is a nice name and not one I hear too often.

A bit late now but best way to name a baby is to tell nobody before its born then announce the name, that's what we done and most of my friends have done it that way.

You need to firmly put your dad in his place. The name is lovely and not in any way a name to be ridiculed. My dad told me he was upset that Id found out the sex and didn't want to know. I reminded him that he had his choice 30 years ago and this was mine and I wasn't going to call my baby 'it' around him for the next 6 months just to appease him he soon came around. Tell him if he ridicules his grandchild any more he'll be last in the queue for cuddles.

Zachary/Zac is a perfectly lovely name! Tell him that it's not up for debate; he WILL respect your DS and that will start by respecting his name.

My grandmother disliked my cousin's name when he was born and persisted with calling him 'the boy'. As he got older he questioned why does gran do that? And now she has to use his - perfectly normal and respectable - name. But even if it wasn't a conventional name she still should! It's his name. YANBU and DF is BU. Name your child the name you want to give and they should love him and call him by that name xxx

Aasrgh apologies for xxx. I've been sending too many texts I don't normally do Mumsnet xx's

Ha, we have also chosen Zachary for our boy and we're not telling anyone the name until he's born for this reason. I know my mum won't like it, she doesn't like any name that wasn't popular in the 80s when she had babies.