My husband’s out-there baby name suggestions have left me in tears – I know we’ll never agree
NAMING your child comes with a lot of responsibility.
Chances are they’ll have to live with your choice for the rest of their life, which is why so many parents play it safe with their name options.
This expecting mum wanted to stick to traditional names for her baby boy, but her husband had other ideas.
Sharing her frustration on Mumsnet, revealed that she felt hopeless and couldn’t see them ever agreeing on a name.
Her husband kept suggesting names like Ozymandias and Balthazar.
“Mine are more traditional like James, Isaac,” she shared.
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“I’m open to more unique names but he won’t stop with these bloody out there names.”
She continued: “For context, we live in the UK and there’s no interesting heritage to warrant names he’s choosing.
“I asked him for a ‘normal’ name and those were his normal names.”
Although the Mumsnet user said she was sure it was just her hormones, she said she’d cried over the clash of ideas.
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Other parents were in similar situations: “We argued for weeks about son’s name.
“Were still arguing about the middle name while waiting to see the registrar,” one user said.
Another gave the mum some advice: “Remind your husband that your son will have to learn to spell his name once he gets to school. He’s not going to thank you for a 12 character name with a Z and 4 vowels in it.”
One user didn’t mind the uncommon name choices: ” I love Balthazar and Isaac.
“When we were thinking of names we found it hard to settle on anything,” she shared.
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And this mum empathised with the user: “My partner wanted to call our son Loki.
“I hit the roof. As if a kid is ever going to be able to get a job interview with a name like Loki on his CV.”