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Partner being difficult about boy names

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RedRobyn2021 · 28/06/2024 12:45

Has anyone else found this?

The only names he likes are

Teddy (Edward, Ted) - I feel this is very popular and not for me tbh
Woody - a no from me
Zack

I love the names

Milo
Otis/Otto
Cosmo

Any suggestions please? Have really struggled with boys names, more so than will our daughter

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Soontobe60 · 28/06/2024 12:47

Sorry, but I’m with your DP on those names! His are good solid names, yours are a wee bit pretentious.

SweetGingerTea · 28/06/2024 12:47

It would help if you found some middle ground. His names are dated, and your's are very soft for boys' names

TribeofFfive · 28/06/2024 12:48

Zack is the best of them all!

AppleCream · 28/06/2024 12:48

You have to just keep going OP and consider more names until you can find a compromise.

Fwiw I prefer his names to yours - sorry!

L2435 · 28/06/2024 12:49

There’s an app called Babyname that you both download and swipe either way depending on whether you like or dislike the name, then it shows you which you matched on - try it?

RedRobyn2021 · 28/06/2024 12:51

I've suggested a lot of traditional names as well, those are the ones I like best

Names he's said no to

George
Toby
Jack
Billy
Alfie
Theo
Sebastian
Oscar

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RedRobyn2021 · 28/06/2024 12:53

L2435 · 28/06/2024 12:49

There’s an app called Babyname that you both download and swipe either way depending on whether you like or dislike the name, then it shows you which you matched on - try it?

Thank you I'll give this a try

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ThreeEggOmlette · 28/06/2024 12:54

Wait until the baby is here and see what he looks like - my 2nd DC arrived and he couldn't have been named be anything else, which was weird as it wasn't even on the list before.

Fontainebleau007 · 28/06/2024 12:55

Theo, Rhys, Asher, Blake, Finley, Flynn, Elijah, Mason, Freddie, Jensen, Isaac, Lucas, Kai, Bailey, Harrison, Benjamin, James, Rueben, Levi, Jayden, Ashton, Ryan, Preston

I like Zack from the suggestions you have.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 28/06/2024 13:06

Zachary
Peter
Harry
Wilfred
William
Cameron
Aaron
Rowan
Ross
Murray
Christopher
Lewis
Robin
Jeremy
Tudor

Theoldwoman · 28/06/2024 13:33

Rufus
Rupert
Arlo
Leo
Tommy
Charlie
Hunter
Felix
Evan
Uriah
Henry
Corey
Jasper
Micah
Fraser
Ewan
Curtis
Noah
Jonas

Mouswife · 28/06/2024 13:34

Cosmo ? That would be a no from me.

Cryingout1994 · 28/06/2024 13:41

From the names you've said I feel like these are good middle grounders

-Casper
-Ozzy
-Finn

SquawkerTexasRanger · 28/06/2024 13:45

Joshua

TomatoSandwiches · 28/06/2024 13:47

I think his names are boring and overused.

I think you are equally allowed to veto names until you find one you can both compromise on, it's the only fair way really.

TomatoSandwiches · 28/06/2024 13:48

If he's your partner and not husband perhaps you can give him a bit more leeway with the first name if you give baby your last name?

Cryingout1994 · 28/06/2024 13:52

My son's dad and I couldn't agree on a name for our son. It was getting ridiculous everything I said he said no, then I found the top 1000 list printed it out highlighted every one I liked and added any I could think of that weren't on it and read them outloud to him 1 by 1 and I got "no, no, no, ew no"

finally I got an "ohh I actually quite like that" I was so shocked because it was a total wild card, but anyway we have a 9 year old son called Rex

try it it might work 😄

Wrongsideofpennines · 28/06/2024 14:00

We found boy's names hard. It took us a week to decide. I'm glad we waited until he was here though because the name I was so convinced I wanted just didn't suit him in the end, much to my husband's relief. It's OK to not have a name for them straight away. Friends of friends took the whole 6 weeks to decide.

We did have a (quite a long) short list though. Which we have done every time, and then chosen something from off the list anyway 🙄

Firsttimebabymummy · 28/06/2024 15:04

Really like Zach from the lists but I do much prefer his list, sorry! Also like Edward but nn Eddie not Teddy.

MistyHazelFox · 28/06/2024 15:13

I don't really like your list, but I also don't like his.
What about Magnus
Roland
Bernard
Barnaby
Lucian
Rafferty
Peter
Piers
Frederick
Jeremy
Finn
Rufus
Elias
Kieran

Namechanger385u4p · 28/06/2024 15:17

Oh i LOVE the name Cosmo, would call another son that! Magnus is a similar vibe, or Conrad?

Elijah is a middle point of both your lists.

Cryingout1994 · 28/06/2024 15:19

Cosmo is giving fairly odd parents 🧚🏼

if you know what i mean

PardonMee · 28/06/2024 15:26

Mac Mackenzie

muddyford · 28/06/2024 15:26

Cosmo is OK. But is that it? All the lovely names in the language and you have Woody, Milo and Otto, which sound like a gang of cockerpoos!

PardonMee · 28/06/2024 15:26

Love Otis

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