Did you/Would you let siblings pick the name?

[littlelamb]

My dd (3) has been insistent that this bump is called Jack from day 1! At first I dismissed it, but the more I think about it, I think it would be nice to include it somewhere, perhaps as a middle name. Is this weird?! I'mnot sure how I'd feel if I had been saddled with a name because my brothers picked it

No, because DD would have been "Batwoman Chocolate". Honest.

Have read whole thread and am still ROFLing at misdee's baby-to-be Lemon Sponge. Will add that to my list for DC3 (has the advantage of being unisex).

My answer to original qu is "no" as DS1 currently wants to give DC3 (if a boy) the same name he has himself...

I know a family that let the older child choose the new baby's name. Baby is called Maisy Dora - wonder what influence that then?

But Jack is a much more longstanding name.

my DD2 was named by her big sister.

when I was pregnant, DD1 was bought some dolls for a xmas pressie........both of which had holly-print dresses on. dolls were then named holly and polly (DD1 was then very into rhyming words) and she then went on to call my bump 'holly-bump' and the first thing she said when DD2 was born was .....'oooh, it's a holly-baby'.

name stuck (thankfully we loved the name anyway and it suited her), and it is now a lovely story we tell.

thankfully, DD1 and DD2 love them name and story too..

DS is determined that the bump's middle name is Nut. So no, I probably wouldn't let them choose

When I was around 36 weeks, DS was adamant that DD would be called Lesley. He was absolutely distraught when I told him that she wouldn't be (Me: DS, why do you want to call her Lesley? DS: Because that's her name...).

Almost I considered putting it in as a middle name so that DS would feel involved... then I remembered that his previous naming ideas had been Mummy, Cow, Ladder and Chair, and reckoned he would get over it (he did).