Family members not fond of name choice - any experience with this?

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We find out the gender next week.
First mistake I probably made was to tell our family some name choices and not everyone seemed keen.
Our top boy name is Nathan. Some people have turned up their nose on that name and think it’s a bit out dated.
We are still 99% sure we will be calling our baby (if they are a boy) Nathan but now I feel a bit anxious about it

I quite like the name Nathan but it wouldn't matter if I didn't. Your family are entitled to their private opinion but this is your baby, his name is none of their business, and it's rude of them to try to change your mind. I agree with others who've said once the baby arrives and grows into the name, it becomes the baby's name and harder to dislike.

This was why we never discussed names with anyone!

Nathan Is fine, there’s one at my children’s school.

People are incredibly cheeky and entitled when it comes to other people's baby names. Seriously, unless you're calling your kid Adolf Hitler or Beelzebub Shaytan or something, it's none of any cheeky effer's business.

We had this.

"Her name is xxxx. We like it, you will get used to it.

Nobody's business but yours. Come up with something wacky and then they'll be begging for you to return to Nathan 😂

This is why we refused to tell anyone until the baby was born. It's a lot harder to say anything negative about the name when the baby it belongs to is here (some will still manage it)
Stick to your guns and don't be bullied out of it. If the opinion of a random stranger matters to you at all, I think Nathan is a lovely name.

Make it clear that you will not discuss it further. I probably wouldn't tell them the sex of the baby either once you know so they can't keep badgering you about Nathan if it's a boy or start suggestion girls names if it isn't.

(I think Nathan is a lovely name)

I dont like the name Nathan but that's partly because where I come from it would be pronounced with the t sound only not th.

I wouldn't be in the slightest bit bothered about what anybody thought of my name choices. I'm sure not everybody was fond of my kids names and I am not overly fond of some of the names that my family members/friends chose for their kids. In sqying that i would actually never say that to them.

You can't please them all so just please yourself.

Nathan is a fine name, I’d still go with it and avoid talking to your family about names and maybe even the gender when you find out. You might find you’re having a girl anyway (Natalie is a lovely alternative to Nathan), so don’t worry too much. You won’t find a single name that everyone would love and not have some sort of issue with. I’ve been floating a long list of names with family and someone said they didn’t like a name because one of their exes cousin’s was called that. So ridiculous! Nathan is very inoffensive

Nathan is a naughty boy name, that's probably why they don't like it

Nathan is a lovely name.
My parents and their siblings hate my children’s names, but that’s probably because they gave their children names like Ian, Nigel, Trevor, Sharon, Denise, Karen, and Noel, so the names were never going to be to their taste. I couldn’t care less as I’d be more worried if they approved of my life choices but I appreciate it’s more difficult if your family are usually kind and reasonable.

I was my daughter birthing partner and she didn’t tell me until after baby was born what her name was ! I literally had 10;seconds to digest her name and wasn’t sure because it was so unexpected….I now absolutely love her name and cannot imagine her as anyone else X

No one's business but yours!
You can't please everyone

If they don’t like the name they can call their children something different and you’ll all be happy. Go with what you like.

Take no notice. Nathan was one of my two choices for a boy, although we had a girl in the end. My dad made it very clear that he didn't like either of the boys names I'd picked. I just told him that it wasn't up to him and I liked both of the names so that was all that mattered. If I had a boy now, Nathan would be my choice. You need to remember that you're never going to please everybody so you might as well please yourself!

What is a naughty boy name? Haha

It’s a classic Old Testament name . It’s nice sounding and safe . It works across classes and occupations , Dr, Prof, Captain etc
but also wouldn’t sound out of place on a building site .
its a name that will grow with him whoever he becomes .

it’s many many times better than the latest trends of made up , cut and shut , unique names that will age very badly for those who find themselves in professional careers.

now I feel a bit anxious about it

Your choice of baby's name is honestly the last thing you need to feel anxious about. As parents, you really can't get this one wrong.

Enjoy and don't bother telling anyone your choices in advance. Plenty of time for them to find out when they actually meet the baby.

So what? My father didn't like the name we had chosen for my daughter so kept referring to her as some other name he preferred while I was still pregnant. Didn't make any difference we went with our name and he accepted that.

When we announced my daughter's name my mum's only comment was 'Its a bit long isn't it, how will she fit that on forms?'. Her name is long as she has 2 middle names. But it is shorter than my niece's full name and my mum didn't make that comment about her. It was just my mum criticising without actually having to say he doesn't like it.

I don't really care, we chose a name we liked and we have compliments on it aaaall the time. Literally everytime I introduce her people say what a lovely name.

I think Nathan is a really nice name - and he probably won't be one of 6 Nathan's in the class at school, and I really like the name meaning. Go for it. Family will get over themselves.

It's none of their business it's your baby, my little cousin is called Nathan he's a lovely boy. X

My mum criticised my choice for DC1 and it put me off
For DC2 I kept quiet and called them my original choice
I wish I'd have pointed out at the time how rude she'd been but I think she got the message when I point blank refused to share my choices with her for DC2.
FWIW, Nathaniel was on my list both times, lovely name

It is a lovely name, but does always make me think of the joke 'you can't call him Nathan, you have to call him somethin'' (said in a NI accent!)

I think telling people before you have the baby is pretty much asking for their opinion, I have no idea why you'd do it if you weren't inviting their opinion.

I guesss you're not asking for our opinions either

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This!!!! I was a bit 'hmmmm' about some of my nieces' and nephews' names but as they grew older, I realised that I love their names because I love them.