Partner being difficult about boy names

[RedRobyn2021]

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

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

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

Zack is the best of them all!

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!

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?

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

Thank you I'll give this a try

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.

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.

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

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

Cosmo ? That would be a no from me.

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

-Casper
-Ozzy
-Finn

Joshua

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.

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?

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 😄

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 🙄

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

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

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.

Cosmo is giving fairly odd parents 🧚🏼

if you know what i mean

Mac Mackenzie

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!

Love Otis