I suggest Grace, Anna, Lydia, he suggests Yvette... I'm thinking the problem is bigger than babynaming....have you had any suggestions from DH/DP that made you choke on your cereal?

[Jackaroo]

fortunately this was idle chatter about a not-yet conceived child, so we have time to work on it....

Dh and I had problems like this - he like longer "literary" names for boys and I liked short "manly" ones. It took us a long time to agree on one in the middle.

Funnily enough for dd, our positions were reversed - I liked longer names and dh preferred shorter ones. We ended up with the first name we thought of as we never came up with a better one.

My Dh likes Ghengis for a boy and Boudicca for a girl. Seriously! I think he has forfitted any right to be taken seriously on the matter.

I liked Miranda, Lucinda or Belinda (do you see a trend here? ) - he wanted Christine, Stephanie or Alison

(This was 26 years ago. We compromised on Jessica )

Dh was keen to have another Archie in the family but determined that he would be Archibald on the certifcate. I wasn't impressed. In the end we settled for other Scottish names for Dss 1 and 2 with a Scootish second name for Ds3.

Sorry, that should be Scottish! It's too late now for sensible typing.

Dh suggested names which were very common when we were at school - Susan, Jane, Christine, Louise, Christopher, Paul. Nothing wrong with them, just a bit ... stuck in the 70s.

I wanted Rose or Freya. He was horrified by the idea of Freya, just too far too weird for him. Rose we kept as dd's middle name.

We ditched everything which either of us disliked, and found one we were both happy with from the remainder of the list.

waht about yolande maxine or hazel or isabella or emma oe siobahn or zelda or gildah dont know how to spell it they are all favourites of mine at different times

Dh wanted Loki (Norse god of mischief) for a boy and Trinity for a girl. I disagreed. Strongly.

In fact, in the middle of my emergency cs one of the staff asked us if we had a name yet. Dh said he liked Trinity and everyone in the operating theatre burst into laughter and said "Oh nooooooo!"

Dh looked quite taken aback. I felt slightly sorry for him, even though I was the one in the middle of being sliced open

Played this came once and only once with DH before I was ever PG.

He suggested Beverly for a girl.

Never played again and swore blind he was having no hand in naming any child of mine.

When trying to think of a name for ds my dh suggested...

'Blakey'

(yes, as in On the Buses).
He still maintains he was serious. Fool.

What about Lisette? It's pretty and french!

My partner suggested Gillian and Karen when I pressed him to come up with a girls name he liked. Sigh.

My dh will only pick names of comic book characters.

what is it about blokes thinking it's hilarious to come up with rubbish names? DH and I bickered for about 8 months about ds' name... he came up with Enzo, Magic (wtf??) thor (ditto) Hercules (oh Lordy) and a variety of ridiculous names mostly those of Italian footballers. Fine if you're the bronzed adonis captain of the Italian national side, not so great if you're a little boy born in Tooting!

I think Gillian and Karen are lovely! My dd1 who is 8 has a good friend called Karen, and ds (6) has a Gillian in his class. I like these kind of plain, decent names!

dd2 bf wanted their little boy to be called G

Chelsea.

I really like Gillian and don't mind Karen but they just sound like names of people my age (nearly forty) to me.

Dh liked fawn, then he found kasia.

I compromised and kasia is dd's middle name.

DH wanted Kiki for DD2.

It didn't happen.

My DH refused to even discuss girl names first time round, so confident was he that he was going to have a son and name him Jarrow !?!

We had a girl. Ha ha ha

Oh this makes me feel SOOO much better Thanks all - I think you're right about some of his suggestions just being a bit 70's. Maybe he was thinking of first crushes (although I hate to think where Brenda came into it.........)

J

Yes exd/h gave me a name and I declined - unfortunately I found out two months later that saud name was the same as his mistress.........
We divorced before baby arrived and I named baby.

OMG IVY

Imagine if you hadn't found out and named your baby after his mistress.

WHAT A COMPLETE AR*SEHOLE