This is down to my own idle curiosity, following the thread in which people posted their all-time favourite girls' names.
Quite a few people said that though they adored a particular name or names, they hadn't used ever them for their own children. Sometimes the reason was because it didn't go with the surname/didn't have a child of that sex etc, but a small but significant number said their husband/partner had vetoed it as too unusual or not 'ordinary enough', or because it 'would need explaining'.
Obviously, I'm not disputing the right of either parent to veto a name they loathe, but it looked to me slightly as if people's male partners' had more conservative tastes in names than the posters...?
Is this true in your experience? If so, what kinds of name got that kind of response from your OH, and did he say why? Is it fair to say that men have more conservative (don't stand out in the school yard) tastes in baby-naming than women, and is it equally true of baby boy names and girl names?
[Obviously, not assuming everyone naming a baby is in a het couple situation, but it seemed to be women posting about male partner's preferences in the original thread...]