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My Wife Is Set On This Baby Name

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Maffew · 27/03/2010 21:40

Hi

I know this place is for ladies but don't shoot me down.

My wife and I are having our first child, a boy, in May and she is set on calling him Piers.

I have tried to suggest other names but she is having none of it!
I can't stand this name, in my mind I keep imagining Brighton Pier and then worse...Piers Morgan.

What can I do to persuade her on a different name? She just won't listen

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LeSingeEstDansLarbre · 27/03/2010 22:17

i like ladies.

Ivykaty44 · 27/03/2010 22:18

why don't you let her call the baby peirs and then just call baby Tom or clare and not worry about what is on the birth certificate - lots of people have doen this for centuries now, most probably in your position.

My mil is called Megan but every one in her family called her Noddy. In my family we have the same my boyfriend is named anthony and soem people call him Michael -his middle name and others call him tony and others call him Bill?

LulaFortuna · 27/03/2010 22:20

Piers is the sort of name on would associate with a City lawyer... does your wife really want that for your first born?

piprabbit · 27/03/2010 22:21

Piers? Examples of the word Piers in day-to-day usage.

Piers Morgan

Sarfend Pier

Piers through the window

After 10 pints of lager, Jack and John are mighty piers.

No. Please. No.

(BTW - the spelling mistakes are deliberate....)

Ivykaty44 · 27/03/2010 22:21

I just keep thinking of peirs in the cot or piers round the corner

lockets · 27/03/2010 22:27

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seashore · 27/03/2010 22:29

Hi, I do sympathise because a few times now friends have picked names (which secretly I didn't like, not that that matters, but either did their dhs) I vote that you just show her this thread, BrahmsThirdRacket's comment should finish off her determination to stick with Monsieur Morgan's name.

Good luck.

Quattrocento · 27/03/2010 22:31

Think it's sensible for both partners to have a right of veto

Maggie00 · 27/03/2010 22:37

I like it. I don't think of Piers Morgan immediately like everybody else seems to though.

ravenAK · 27/03/2010 22:41

Middle name...?

Agree with her that you choose a first name you can both live with, & an additional name each.

Bucking the trend, though, I had a great Uni mate called Piers & so actually rather like it!

My grandmother insisted on calling her second son Richard. Grandad thought it was ghastly, who knows why, 'yes dear'ed all through the pregnancy then went to the Registry Office & triumphantly put Alan on the birth cert.

30 years later my uncle was still answering to either Alan or Dick, depending which parent he was talking to.

Much better to agree a compromise!

sparkleshine · 27/03/2010 23:03

Not for me at all. Though maybe a middle name at a push.
She definately needs to discuss this seriously with u. Both parents need to like their childs name.
How would your child feel if he knew u hated his name...
Have u bought a baby name book and had a look through it? How about the internet for choosing names.

Quattrocento · 28/03/2010 00:06

Just to let you know that Maffew is a very dull troll from a US forum who have been overexcited by the reports of pirate sex etc on MN and organised a board raid.

Maffew, the first rule of trollery on MN is that you have to be funny. You failed.

Lame-O

catinthehat2 · 28/03/2010 00:15

Q any links or pics? Must say that was the troll equivalent of erectile dysfunction.

legscrossed · 28/03/2010 00:15

just agree you both have a vito..........n thats yours!

Quattrocento · 28/03/2010 00:22

this is another board raid thread If you go from there to the other board, you'll see that some nut on there started this thread.

ROFL at cat. Indeed. Ponderously unfunny bunch over there.

catinthehat2 · 28/03/2010 00:33

Blimey, I thought the other one was pretty feeble as well earlier.

I don't think they've got the hang of this troll lark at all.

DandyLioness · 28/03/2010 00:47

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piprabbit · 28/03/2010 12:03

Not sure how he thought a thread about baby names was going to turn into a raunchy, confession-filled pirate-sex thread?

How odd.

Tyson86 · 28/03/2010 12:08

Why wont that link work now??

Rockbird · 28/03/2010 12:09

Just for anyone reading this who might actually be considering the name, my BIL is Piers and it never occurred to me to think of Morgan.

Elsa123 · 28/03/2010 16:43

My DH likes Piers and I don't...LOL! Role reversal! I'm also trying to gently persuade him away from Bronte (for a girl), Neela because it just doesn't go with our surname and Giles- see Piers. I have no advice, just sharing .

Quattrocento · 28/03/2010 22:11

Link doesn't work now because thread was rightly deleted.

SparklyJules · 28/03/2010 22:14

Erk, no, what a dreadful name! I agree with the others - you have to choose a name you both agree on. What about Peter? It's not a million miles away from Piers is it?

kalo12 · 28/03/2010 22:18

what about Pierre?

Rockbird · 28/03/2010 23:05

And Pierre is better than Piers??