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 😂

I would have a Crystal and a Charlotte (different fathers)
Can you tell which one I married 😂

My DH liked fantasy or sci fi character names for our sons, kylo.. Roland, aniken (can't spell it)

For girls he chose: Anne, Katy. His ex and his sisters names.

Needless to say, we didn't go with any of those names.

If it had been left to DH, DSD would have been Boudicca (sp). Say no more.

Dc2 would have her actual name. No idea what dc1 would have been called as dh seemed to have gone to school with a twat bearing every classical/sensible boy name in existence. I had to really fight for the name I wanted.

I would have had a biblical boys name despite being female (my parents were convinced I was a boy until I was actually born). Although to be honest at this point in my life I can see the benefits of that.

Nc for this but that's my name🥲 And my last name begins with Ro🤣

If we'd had a girl my really rather sensible and level headed DP insists she would have been called Calypso. And he means it.

Thank feck we didn't.

I do love these threads. It gets batshit real quick 😂

I also love the 'names turned down by the registry office' posts. There was one not long back where an office in France had refused the name Bob l'eponge.

It was DEFO a Dad who thought it would be a great idea to call their kid Spongebob!! 😆

I also really enjoy it when you get a Jeff Jefferson or a Robert Robertson.

People are weird.

Dh shot down every single lovely name I suggested for our boy because he always knew someone with that name that either was a knob, picked his nose at school, wet himself until he was 14, was a fraudster etc. This was probably the only time I wished I had a girl because it probably aged me by 19 years and we had this agreement that I would name the girl and he can name the boy. Hell my DH even suggested naming ds his dead uncles name where his uncles dil's all gave a wide berth to that name when they gave birth to boys as well. In the end we came up with a lovely name for ds.

Twins Gary and Churchill! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages!thanks for cheering me up! 😂

😂😂

Chris and Nick.
These are the names I guess he wanted in the 70s/80s growing up!

Gary and Churchill is brilliant. Reminds me of Faith, Hope and Kevin.

Dc1 would be Cody, dc2 Laurana, and dc3 would be Danny-Boy

just… no

I think you've hit the nail on the head - I think my partner was thinking of names he wished he'd had. (His name is a bit unusual, he'd have rather had a bog standard 70s/80s name)

Very impressed by the 'creativity' of many of the dads mentioned on this thread!

One of my kids has a name I loved when I was at nursery school and never stopped liking!

Dale.

Just no

Sizzla

(For a middle name). After the reggae artist. And no I'm not on a wind up.

My husband named both our sons (now aged 8 and 5) because I didn’t feel strongly about any boy names. I was very nonchalant about the naming process to be honest.

I love the names he chose though so it all ended well.

Lenny or Larry for a boy

Not sure about girls

Gary and Churchill 🤣 I don't know if I'm just exhausted or what but this has ended me 🤣

Kimberly or zebedee

We have a 5 syllable surname

I would be called Morag if my Dad named me.

My daughter would be called Samantha if DH had his way.

DS would be called Henrik Larsson. It would be okay whilst we were at home but at large family parties DS would be one of about ten.

Tails. - then got really offended when my nose visibly hit the roof in disgust.

“We’re having a baby not a dog!”

“I wouldn’t call a dog tails”

I suppose could have been worse...Pierre Van Hooijdonk? 😂