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 😂

😂😂😂😂

My ex liked “kingly, Germanic boys’ names” such as Florian and Ruprecht.

I have different tastes.

😂😂😂

Nigel is also a dying name.....

Marigold... I just cant stop thinking of rubber gloves!!

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This thread has given me a giggle this morning 🤣
My EXH wanted to call our kid's some horrendous names. So horrendous I've erased them out of my mind 🤣 Both kids have his name as their middle name as compensation 🤷🏼‍♀️. My DP and I won't be having kids but if we had a boy or a girl he said he'd definitely want to call it Jurgen. Big Liverpool fan 🙄

DH did name all 3 of our kids

1. Eleanor
2. Lloyd
3. Constantine

The boys are named after my husbands grandad. One has his first name and the other has his middle name.

Though perhaps months of agonising over the perfect name that will represent their (unknown) personality and trying to pick something unique that won't lead to a 'lifetime of bullying' isn't always a productive use of time..

As I am old, I grew up in a class with many Marks, Davids, Simons, Sarahs, Claires, Julies and none of those sharing the names were ever harmed by their lack of nominative uniqueness.

well he wanted Dilan and Chloe originally.
At one point he thought Milton was a good idea for a boy.
He also wanted Persephone for a girl.
Our children have none of these names !
Also left to own devices he probably wouldn't have even considered names until actually handed a real baby.

DH would only make stupid boy’s name suggestions like ‘Thor’ or ‘Ragnar’, and didn’t have any girl’s name ideas at all. Luckily he liked the name I picked for DD!

Not that Thor or Ragnar are objectively stupid names, but they’re pretty silly if you both have absolutely zero Scandinavian heritage!

DH - Eleanor for a girl; Darwin for a boy.

We don't have any children. From my point of view Eleanor is nice but not keen on Darwin.

Just read that as kinky!!

Still trying to figure out what names those would be?? 😂

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Echo. After overhearing someone call their toddler that in antenatal clinic.

I think Marigold would be a great name if it weren’t for the rubber gloves.

Daphne or Cherry for a girl.
Hudson or Dougie for a boy

Both of my kids would be called "I don't know what do you think".

As I am old, I grew up in a class with many Marks, Davids, Simons, Sarahs, Claires, Julies and none of those sharing the names were ever harmed by their lack of nominative uniqueness.

I work for a large organisation, and there are FOUR women in our email address book with the same popular first name and last name. Let’s say they’re all called Claire Brown. It was confusing enough when there were two Claire Browns, let alone four.

There are several “pairs” of people with the same name, too. One colleague was mistakenly deleted from our IT system as IT wrongly thought her namesake had been set up twice.

Dh wanted to call DS Ira. I had to explain that with my family being from Northern Ireland, this was a terrible idea...

Dh did actually come up with ds actual name which I absolutely adore.

Loving these!

I think my partner had no idea name popularity had changed since our generation until our son started nursery. He'd say things like 'there's a boy in nursery called Noah, can you believe it, such an unusual name'!

Although @Zilla1 I do agree that in some ways it's good that some people can just pick a name and not agonise over it for months.

The Gary and Churchill twin set is growing on me 🤣🤣🤣

DH suggested Michael for a boy 😂

We knew we were having a boy both times. Here is DH’s list:

Tintin
Valentine
Ludovic
Mycroft (brother of Sherlock Holmes)

All put forward seriously.

Sounds like the Mycroft and Moriarty dad's should be friends 😂

Mine came up with totally ridiculous names. I'm still not sure if he's winding me up with some of the latest suggestions or he genuinely thinks our child is going to come out with celebrity parents.

My ex wanted ‘flea’ after some bloke from the red hot chilli peppers

best one I ever heard was a couple who didn’t know what they where having and where stuck on a boys name for pfb
anyway,one day while in the pub dad nipped off and went to the loo,he came back and said ‘what do you think to Scott?’
mum loved it,they had a boy and named him scott
they went to register the birth when mum asked dad where he’d got Scott from

’oh yes,the loo roll holder on the wall…’

DH wanted Ragnar for our son. I do have Norwegian heritage so we have chosen a Scandinavian name, but it's much less out there than Ragnar is!

Mind you, if my dad had had his way, my brother would have been named Rolf-Olaf; on reflection, perhaps Ragnar isn't so bad!

@Aroundtheworldin80moves - I am now picturing a daughter called Beer!

My dad wanted to call me Brenda like a girl he dated when he was a teenager. I was born in the late 90s, Baby Brenda would have got some weird looks.

He also tried to call one of my brothers Horton.
I am glad my mum didn't let that happen