I don’t like a single boy’s baby name - do I just go with DH’s favourite?

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I am a week away from my due date and I’m getting concerned that there’s no boys’ name that I truly love. I could come up with a shortlist of say 5-8, but I’d be about 50-70% on them. I’ve done all the apps, I’ve scoured the top 1,000 names lists, I’ve even bought a book. I just think boys’ names are all a bit meh!

DH has one name he absolutely loves. To the exclusion of all others. It would be on my shortlist but if I’m honest I’m not totally in love with it.

Do I just acquiesce and go with that?

Yes
If he loves it and you don’t have anything you like more then of course

If youre definitely having a boy I would, only because if you're just 'meh' then that is not an outright no and he really loves it

He loves it, you love none and don’t mind it so go for it (unless it’s Gary).

Yes, I would in this case as it is on your shortlist and you don’t have anything you like better. Is there a cute nickname for it which you like/could start to love?

What sort of names do you like? What's your favourite girls name? I wouldnt commit to a name untill you see him. You might look at him an think he's a (insert name). When my little brother (now 40) was born my parents took him to visit family and different people on different sides of the family suggested the same name for him. He just looked like a xxxx.

Yes, I would if it's on your shortlist anyway.

I'd wait until the baby was born.

So many people don't like any boys names, it's a bit depressing.

This is how I felt too OP. I was very sure on DD's name (DH liked it too so that was easy!), but with DS I had none that I really loved.

So he suggested a few boys names he liked, and we whittled it down to maybe three that I was OK with. DD (4 at the time) overheard us talking and said she liked X the best, and that was it! She announced she was going to have "baby brother X" to everyone and it just stuck. DH was thrilled because it was his favourite too!

Yes go with that.

Yes, it’s definitely a boy. 😊

I said to DH at the weekend that we need (he needs) more of a shortlist, because what if he comes out and doesn’t look like the name DH loves?

His response was that that’s not a thing, a baby can’t look like a name, and if that happens it just means the parents didn’t like the original name enough 😂 So I have tried to get him to expand his list with the hope if we both had one at 70% it could grow on us but he just said it’s the only one he likes.

In fact he said when he has thought about the baby he uses this name. Which was quite sweet.

He is 100% on it and I suppose I am 70% so in the absence of anything else I need to go with it?

I think it’s deeply weird. Why wouldn’t you like a single one of the many thousands of names you might plausibly call a baby boy? Or is this kind of person the type to have been naming their baby girls since they were playing with dolls, and loves frilly, ‘pretty’ names, hence is baffled and bored by names that aren’t?

We had a couple of names lined up for DS if he happened to be a boy(we didn’t know the sex before he was born) but in the delivery room we didn’t think he looked like either of those names and came up with one we had never considered before! So it does happen (might be the gas and air impact!)

He's got to be called something and if you like none, and he loves one, then I'd say that's the answer.

I with your husband I agree that a baby doesn't look like a name. They just grow into their names. Even if they did look like a particular name when the were born they change a lot even during that first year. And you are not just naming a baby you are naming w full grown man who will look completely different from when he was a baby!
I was never sure about my son's name which was my husband's choice but I couldn't think of one. And I was unsure if it when he was a baby. But now I can't imagine he being called anything else. It's his name.

I feel your pain, I don't love many names at all. Have got 1 boys name and 1 girls name (don't know the gender) but if they don't suit it I don't know what we'll do!! I suppose if you don't detest the name your husband likes then it's a good contender but you'll probably have more of a feel when he's born! X

The best advice I can give is wait until baby is born. We really struggled to find a boys name we loved but had a list of a few we liked. When he was born one of the outliers just really suited him & can’t imagine anything else now.

I think you’re the one who’s “deeply weird” to post something like that on a thread like this. It even shows you haven’t read my OP because there are names I like, just not one I love. Maybe take your weird assumptions and issues elsewhere, cheers.

that’s not a thing, a baby can’t look like a name

It absolutely is a thing; my daughter was to be called Rachael until the moment I saw her and she didn't look like a Rachael at all!

What’s the name your husband likes?

Can you try to find a name either meaning gor you?

Try researching your family tree
Think back to childhood friends
A great character from a book

If it helps I didn't care for my son's name but my FIL died the year before he was born and it would have broken my DH not to use FILs name.

Now of course because I love my son - I love his name. It grew on me very quickly and I now can't imagine any other name on him.

He's right.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

He loves the name, you have no strong feelings against it - so do it.

I went with my DH's favourite name for our son. I did like it but wasn't 100% in love with it like he was. I've grown to love it since giving it to my son and now I can't imagine him being called anything else, so it can work.

Yes, use his name! I was the same. Nothing I loved, but one husband at the time loved consistently from the start. I was 50/50 but went with it and I fell in love with it in the end! It took a good year but now I love it!

It definitely is a thing. Sometimes they just don't suit that name. You don't have to have a name for a good few weeks after the birth. Something will seem to feel right in that time.