If only dads named babies....

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Came across an old thread on baby names husbands/partners had suggested. A common theme seemed to be men suggesting really dated names, like those of school friends/work colleagues, or really out there names of comic book characters. Got me wondering what names would be in the top 10 if only dads were allowed a say in the naming....

To get us started, my DP thought Mark or Steven was the perfect choice for our son born in 2021! Good, solid names he said 😂

Our children would be called.

1. Her actual name... which is after his favourite drink (its a nice name, she's not called Mojito or Cappuccino or something like that)
2. Nothing. He exhausted his name ideas on DD1.

My husband and I made a deal that he would name our son and I would name our daughter.

We chose not to learn the sex of our children so we had to be ready with a name at birth. I gave him my options for a girl to ponder and my husband hadn't offered anything to me for a son for the entire pregnancy.

Our first child together was a boy.

Two hours after his birth, he opened a baby name book and chose "Adam" from page one! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Seriously, nine months and that's how our son got his name. It's a nice name and has suited him for 24 years but jeez!

Spike and... actually no idea what he suggested for DS2.

Georgia for a girl
Jim for a boy

My DP suggested Scarlett for our DD. Nice name, but together with his surname it sounds like a medical condition.

For DS he suggested Rupert. It was a hard no from me. My dad hates the name we actually chose for our DS and suggested we go for Clive - because he's never met a Clive he didn't like . I only know one Clive, and he's a twat.

My husband wanted Ruby Rose and our last name starts with an R…

The Clive thing... I know 2 and it still holds true!!

I was born in 1973, and my mother said if I had been a boy, I still wouldn't have a name. They could not agree on a boy's name, not in any way, shape or form. My mother said she liked Matthew, Jonathan and Christopher. The only name my father liked was Kirk. I still get a kick from my mother's look of disgust when she says that name. 🤣

I’m currently pregnant with indentical twins, DH has suggested Gary because he’s heard it’s a dying name. There’s a reason for that. Randomly also Churchill (?). So if my twins are both boys they’d be Gary and Churchill.

Girls wouldn’t get off lightly either, they would be Marigold and Everly. Oh and he thought Primrose would be a lovely middle name for Marigold.

No chance!

If my husband had named our kids then
#1 (a DS) I have no idea as he instantly agreed with my desired name. DS has DH's name as a middle name. If DS had been a girl, we would have used the female version of the name.
#2 (a DD) may also probably have had the same name as when I suggested it (from my favourite Shakespeare play), DH had a crush on an actress with the same name. Had DD been a boy, DH wanted William. I totally vetoed that.

My dad named me. Had my dad been allowed to name my brother, he would have been called Eric Bloodaxe! 🙄

...what's wrong with Steven or Mark?

Oh and this is possibly outing as these names are pretty rare (and ridiculous), my ex fiancee (who I was with for almost 3 years before DH), when we discussed names for future children, wanted Rolando and Rogero! His surname also started with a Ro sound and ended with an ee sound. I almost died laughing the first time he told me and told him it was a hard NO WAY! 😂
We agreed on Zach and Cameron. I FaceBook stalked him a couple of years ago (because I am nosy) and he has a son called Zach! I found that a bit weird tbh as, when I eventually did have kids, it didn't feel right to discuss names I'd picked with someone else.

DD would be Ruth. Thankfully our friend used the name for their dog so I didn’t have to put my foot down about it 😂

Rebecca. I said no because I knew a Becky at school who was a total b*h. I hate Becky and Becca with a passion. It's her middle name. He chose her first name in cahoots with my mother (I was in theatre under GA when she was born, and it was all decided). ()

Mine is so outing and I’ve also posted about it before under a different name but both times I was pregnant DH wanted to call a boy Moriarty. Yes, Sherlock Holmes nemesis.
‘But DH, he’s a villain!’
’yeah but cool name though’
…
thank god they were both girls, his suggestions there were much tamer 😂

My Dh wanted Christopher for a boy. But idk Chris was always the irritating boy at school. And Christopher is, to me, a bit beige. Don't think he had any thoughts for a girl. His name and his sisters' names are very (nice) but sort of "we don't want to stand out" names. I prefer quite unusual but not outlandish names.

Anyway, suffice to say our son is not called Chris.

Our daughter would be called Trixie!

Gary and Churchill! 🤣🤣🤣

Only one of mine was my complete choice. ExH was an abusive twat and current DH is, IMO, entirely lacking in taste and I was lucky he agreed on compromises.
My eldest would've been Vince. He ended up with a "classic" name that I didn't tell his father is quite common.
My youngest would've been Geoffrey. Or Darius. So i came up with a similar deal in the end.
So neither was what I wanted but it was an emergency!

Alan for a boy, after Alan Partridge. I don't mind it, but we had two girls.
It's tough discussing baby names with a teacher as they rule out loads!

Mine would have been named after a couple of Arsenal goalscorers. I said a 'no' to that . The names weren't stupid, I just didn't like them. He never realized that I wanted Vanessa for a girl because of Van Morrison, though!

Fiona and Atticus

I have b/g twins. Left to DH, I’d have Luke and Leia.

If I had been able to name our two, I would have liked Ishmael for a boy and Dayesha for a girl.

DH named both our DCs. First was named after his uncle. Second was named after his father.

I never felt particularly enthralled with any boys names but had loads of girls names so I went with it mainly because we had to name them something! . Love both names now (I particularly adore DS1's full name and DS2's nickname which is the usual nickname) and get many compliments about how you 'don't hear many of those anymore'.

Definitely equivalent to Mark or Steven.