How do you manage to jointly choose a name when your OH has such crap taste in names??!

[FoofFighter]

**Disclaimer - I apologise if you have a child with one of these names!! I'm not trying to be nasty!

I thought he was joking at first with some of them, but it's becoming apparent he just has a ... "strange" taste in names - it's like he thinks the baby will be popping out middle-aged...!

Rita?
Lorraine?
Malcolm?
Reginald?
Geoffrey?
Ruebens?

He has come up with a couple I do like, but he doesn't move in the same circles as I do with lots of friends with little children, and doesn't believe me that there will be at least 5 of each Alfie, Lily, Evie etc in our child's class and I don't want that.

How did you work it out with your partner?

I love Morgan (for both genders) but DH has vetoed it...

I'm kind of planning to just exclaim "Oh! Hello [a name I like]!" when we're handed a brand new baby, and hope that DH will be too overwhelmed and tired to object...

maybe half joking, maybe not...!

Yes I found my DH's suddenly revealed taste in names very surprising. With both DD and DS.

With both there was only really one name in the whole dictionary that was on both of our lists. And the rest vetoed (in both directions).

To give a sample of DH's name choices:

boy: Caractacus
Bartholomew
Mungo

DS has had a lucky escape

girl: Pearl (I don't think this is so outrageous but its still definitely not my taste. And he really really wanted it. Apologies to all MNers with Pearls!)

ooh gosh Lily, how did you keep a straight face??

My DP had Jacqueline & Sandra on his list.
Fortunately I gave birth to a baby & not a middle aged woman, so we went for something else.

I love Pearl!!

Foof, I agree, LTB, they are all hilariously awful.

I don't like any of your second list either.

FF I don't think I did keep a straight face, and I did look at DH in a whole new light after the revelation of these favourite names. Kind of, how did I marry you and get pregnant and still not know this about you!?!

He thought of those boys names straight after a conversation we had where we agreed, because our surname is quite feminine, that DS would need a strongly masculine name to counteract the effect of the surname. "So, Caractacus is your idea of a strongly masculine name??"

Conversely he looked at my list of entirely normal boys names and said he didn't like any of them at all (apart from the one name we had in common). We'd be absolutely stuck if we ever had another child, not that we're planning to.

I do like Thomas and Nathan of your new list (and Matthew is fine).

Not sure about Morgan for a girl.

I do like Reggie, it is nice!

DH couldn't think of any names for our baby so I came up with a list of what I liked, he's aid no to most of them, and we ended up with just a couple that we both liked to choose from. Maybe you could try that - give him a short list so that the really weird ones he likes just aren't an option?