I've vetoed this baby name, AIBU?

[FreakyZoey95]

I love my DH, but he's said he wants to call our baby Marrack if we have a boy (apparently Gfather name). I've vetoed it, won't he be bullied!? AIBU?

I can't see why he would be teased for that name.

With bullying I guess I'm anxious about names because it's my first and am a bit worried about unusual names, not meant to cause offence to any Marracks in the thread!

I've met a Marek and a Merrick before... 🤷‍♀️ they are ok.

But YANBU. Call the baby a name you love. Could you consider it as a middle name?

If it's a family name of significance, make it a middle name.
I have a family name as a sort of middle name (the third of my three forenames) - and having done payrolls over a good few years, where you inevitably see full names, it's very common.

Bullying because of a name, or initials, has NOT been eradicated!

There ARE no Marracks: a PP advises only 7 of them since 1837!

So your H is wrong about it being a ‘West Country’ first name, at least in the last 180 years

I doubt he’d be bullied for it but it isn’t a great name.

I immediately thought of MARAC as well and you don't want to name your child after one of those!

I like it a lot.

MARAC. Multi agency risk assessment conference
For safeguarding/ social services and the like.
Don’t call your child that.

[quote oakleaffy]@littlepattilou

I really like the name...In fact, I am looking for a name for an old rocking horse...''Wilfred'' [Being Victorian sounding] rather fits the bill!

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Awwwwww

Marek is very common in the Czech Republic and in Poland - it means MARK!
So you could either just call him Mark (if you like it), and the Eastern European relatives would call him Marek anyway, or you could have Marek as the middle name to commemorate his Grandfather.
Or you could just find another name meaningful to you both, if you truly don't like Marek or Mark.

If you don't like it fair enough but I don't think a child would be bullied for having that name any more than being the 1000th 'george' could lead to bullying.

Marac is a meeting for high risk domestic abuse...

Ha. Oh I love the name mona. It’s a family name and I adore it

But after my grandmother begged me not to call her that. (It’s her name!) hence why we love it. We decided with a heavy heart that she would get picked on massively for it.

However I love that name and can’t see why it would be bad

As someone who in their 40's still have to spell their name out to people, pick something easy to spell. It gets boring and I have been laddened with this by someone else's choice. I always thought middle names best to honour a relative. Hardly used and therefore don't have to spell it so often.

My mother wanted to call me a name that meant my initials would had been VD. Thank god she recognised that

Mind you. It’s STi now. Ha

@NicLondon1

Marek is very common in the Czech Republic and in Poland - it means MARK! So you could either just call him Mark (if you like it), and the Eastern European relatives would call him Marek anyway, or you could have Marek as the middle name to commemorate his Grandfather. Or you could just find another name meaningful to you both, if you truly don't like Marek or Mark.

I don't think the OP has Eastern European relatives

The name is Marrakesh. Not Marek. Different names

bloody autocorrect

Marrack not Marrakesh.......although

@PurpleMustang

Oh my god. Me too! I’ve spent 40 odd years telling people how to spell my name and having it misspelt.

My only thing when we named our kids was easily spelt names. Yet my second has a name which is often mis said. Which she hates. I thought my kids names were easy to say. But it seems not
But yes!!!! I always say those people who wanted unique spellings. I hate it. Hated it as a child. Hate it as an adult. Don’t wish that on any person!

I like it

john merrick was the elephant man, marrick is a bit to close for me.

I’d maybe agree to it as a middle name if DH really wanted it.

It’s not a name I like and wouldn’t call a child it, but I don’t think they’d be bullied for it.

My new gd5 has an unusual name. It was between two and the other rhymed with windy which would have been disastrous as she most certainly is. When I mentioned the name to other grandmother she looked at me in disbelief, but you know, I like it. Its fresh and different and surprisingly despite one or two funny looks, most people like it.

Her friends have also had new babies, one with a name I think is funny but others like it so I put it down to my being old. I would love to say what they are, but it would be grossly unfair.

Op, I think you get used to names. I don't particularly care for Marrack, but its also far from awful. But you have the pain, you get to name.

It's beyond dire. Put your foot down.