Everyone hates my baby names!

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I'm really struggling to find a name for our baby boy that my partner also likes. I steamrolled him with it last time as I found all his suggestions ridiculous and our first son is called Max, much to his disdain.

There are two names we both agree on, not my favourites but I really want one we've both chosen this time:

Sonny & Reid

I've googled these, looked at mumsnet and Reddit and it seems everyone thinks they're awful names.

Names I like which husband has said absolutely not to:

Samson (a compromise on Sonny, use Sonny as a nickname and have this on bc so he can go by Sam when he's older if he finds Sonny childish)
Luca
Rory
Charlie

Husband leans towards more American names which I'm not massively a fan of.

Any suggestions? Are the ones we agree on really that awful? Idek I'm getting so stressed with it as I'm feeling like a lot of his suggestions are just ridiculous.

It only matters what two people think. All are perfectly reasonable names. Love Reid.

What about Reeve?
Reece?
Regan?

When I worked in America, I worked with Elliot, Logan, Scott, Adam, Robert, Dean and Parker.

Your H’s name choices are appalling. Yours are fine. Steamroller him again, for the sake of the child!

I love Samson

Can go with Sam a classic name that wont date.
Sonny when he is little (not really my taste if I'm honest but that gives options )

Max & Jenson and Max & Austin sound nice together. Not too keen on the others and especially not Max and Maverick.

PP had a great suggestion of Grayson nn sonny.

I actually think that both Austin & Reid are good names.

The main thing is not to call him Maverick 😂. That's potentially even worse than Sonny and Junior. You need to be fair and give DS names that are also appropriate for him as an adult. Without sounding too harsh, he's not a cutesy pet.

Agreed!

Op the other compromise would be to let DH pick the middle name.

I know a doctor called Sonny and it suits him, so while it's not my personal taste it's a perfectly fine name.

I'm Scottish so Reid is a surname to me, know quite a few. I've not come across it as a first name - it works ok I think, but in general I'm not really a fan of surnames as first names (although I do like Fraser and Cameron).

The Maxs I know have brothers called Sam, Alex and Oscar.

I think Robin and Austin are both lovely and are not a radically different style to Max anyway.

Realistically a male Robin will probably be Rob or Robbie by the end of primary school anyway. It's a great, solid name and I don't think it's 'better' on a girl - equally nice for both.

Love Robin!

Reid and Sonny are both nice too – I do prefer Samson "Sonny", or maybe Orson?

How about Ezra, Asher, Archer (Archie) or Roscoe?

Sonny is not good.
Reid is okay but I would spell it Reed.

Max and ..
Digby
Lincoln
Colin
John
Jordan
Charles
Howard
Sylvester
Wyatt
Franklin

Austin is great!

It would go really well with Max, too.

The rest of his list is godawful, apart from maybe Wyatt and Jenson.

Junior? Pffft. Is he a hairy handed trucker from Podunk, Oklahoma?

Reid isn't bad. It sounds a little wimpy beside the very robust Max though.

Sonny is silly.

Sonny isn’t bad and I really like Robin (prefer it for a boy actually). A bit retro, but what about Sandy?

Donald nn Donny
Jack or John nn Jack
Casey
Benson nn Ben