Born on Easter Sunday! Please, help us name our DS!

[GreenLounger]

Hi all,

My little boy arrived yesterday... He is an Easter Baby!

We are so stuck for names - our styles are way too different.

I like relatively popular names...

We gave a list of 15 to each other:

Mine:
Alexander
Benjamin
Daniel
Edward (Teddy)
Ethan
Henry
Isaac
Joseph
Kieran
Matthew
Nathan
Reuben
Samuel
William (Billy)
Zachary

His:
Ash
August
Bryce
Carson
Clinton
Cruz
Dante
Devon
Elvis
Gideon
Kyan
Nixon
Oak
Ryder
Saxon

Help!!!

Your list is much the better!

How about Conrad? Both traditional and edgy?

Thanks all!

Awh, I love Ewan, I love it spelt Euan too!

Our new lists:

Mine:
Noah
Lewis
Evan
Oliver
James

(These are my 20th-25th favourite names)

His:
Clayden
Sailor
Tyrese
Tucker
Baxter

Jesus Christ OP! I don't know what to say! I didn't think it was possible for him to
come up with five worse names! I'd suggest you don't talk about names for a week and see if the pressure of asking others for a name all day everyday causes your other half to let you decide.

Has he been drinking? His list is getting worse.

I love your 20-25 names too. Oliver and Noah especially. And thank you.

Sailor? He's taking the piss, surely?

Congratulations on your gorgeous boy, he shares a birthday with me! Just warn him that it always rains on our birthday, and every few years they steal an hour of it

I think he looks like a Daniel, Dominic or Nathaniel. Nobody deserves to be lumbered with any of the names off your DH's list, let alone a lovely little boy like that!

he's taking the piss big time
just say that he has no say and call him whatever YOU want

sailor? fucking sailor? that's a horses name in a jilly cooper novel!!!!

Btw, what does your oh so helpful MIL think of his list? Does she know exactly what he's proposing?

Your list is so much better! I love Alexander.

What about Chase?

I sometimes think he is taking the piss and he genuinely isn't, it's sad! I wish he was

MIL says its up to him what his preference is! I ask if she likes them and she shrugs and says its his son

This is going to be a never ending battle

Perhaps you could counter Sailor with a few occupational names of your own:
Postman
Dentist
Accountant
Forklifttruckdriver

You don't need him when you register the baby.

Just saying...

Seems like neither of you want to compromise on your polar opposite tastes. When DH & I couldn't agree I took to using name berry to find names similar to those on his list. I'm not in love with ds's name, but I like it enough.
For example: names with a similar feel to Gideon-
Ezekiel
Asa
Ezra

You have to tell him straight the he is going to have to compromise, as are you. Maybe try the above method & see if you can find some common ground. Do this before his list gets any worse!

& tell mil to do one.

Queen

I am really trying to compromise actually!

I am really trying to compromise actually!

And that is your problem. Don't budge and keep vetoing names. That's pretty much how DS was named.

Did your DH sneak the gas and air cylinder home from hospital?
Cos he's definitely high on something!

Your DH is a troll. He's invested a lot of time in convincing you he is a real member of society but there is no way anyone over the age of 12 wants to call their son Sailor. LTB.

Is your DH American OP? They sound very American all of his choices. You've got 6 weeks to register him so don't rush.

Don't let DH and his mum push you into naming your DS something you don't like.
Of course you should both like the name but it sounds as though your DH wants your DS to have a first, middle and last name on DH's conditions and not yours.

Both pick the absolutely top five that you like, then you have to pick out of those ten instead of going into names neither of you are even slightly keen on.

Definitely get him to read this thread!

How about Cashiell/Cash?

Also like Postman though

Liv Tyler called her son Sailor Gene last year. Perhaps that's where he's got the idea from?

Sailor Gene sounds like a DNA mapping breakthrough identifying people who never get seasickness.

Your 2nd list still seems really traditional though & his way out there. Loads of the names on your list are winners to me, but as your DH will never agree, maybe something a little more contemporary or less common might win him over. Rather than being a battle of wills.

Asking him how he will feel calling 'tyrese' or 'tucker' across the playground .

Ooh, occupational names.

Tinker
Blacksmith
Cooper
Quantitysurveyor

His choices are a little unusual aren't they. I refuse to believe that there can't be at least one name you can agree on though. Then you'll have to hope that any other babies are girls.

I know a Bodie ( his dad loved the tv show 'the professionals " ) it's a cool name ?!

Congrats on the birth !!!