[name_m]Hi[/name_m] everyone! Thank you for all your suggestions! I wish I’d brought up [name_m]Robert[/name_m] nn [name_u]Robin[/name_u] with all of you months ago, because at this point I’m less worried about lots of people thinking our son is named for [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] [name_u]Robin[/name_u] and more that [name_u]Robin[/name_u] is firmly stuck in my head as The [name_f]Winnie[/name_f] the Pooh name. With [name_m]Julian[/name_m], I’m less worried about him being [name_m]Julian[/name_m] B. in all his classes and more that it had a big leap in popularity and now it’s going to date him. As someone with a “classic millennial” name, I might be over sensitive to this!
I am really loving the suggestion of [name_m]Rupert[/name_m], which seems to fit so nicely with [name_m]Peter[/name_m] and sounds good with [name_m]Christopher[/name_m]. We haven’t really considered it, so I’m going to have to see what the husband thinks. (He’s even fussier than I am!) I also adore [name_u]August[/name_u] and [name_u]Rowan[/name_u], and he’s rejected both. (Sigh!) However, they were kind of silly rejections ([name_u]August[/name_u] sounds “incomplete,” if we name our kid [name_u]Rowan[/name_u], people will think we named him after trees). I might also have him mull over [name_m]Daniel[/name_m], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m], and [name_m]Philip[/name_m]. I love [name_m]Edward[/name_m] but it’s my dad’s name and I love him dearly but I don’t really like shared first names across living family members. Especially since [name_m]Peter[/name_m] isn’t named for anyone, I don’t want this baby to feel like we dumped our naming obligations ALL on him! Tbh if it were up to just me we wouldn’t bother using [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] either, but it’s not!
Thank you again for helping me. [name_m]Peter[/name_m]'s name was such a breeze, we knew it was right from the moment my husband suggested it until he was born, and we just had fun choosing his middle name. This way is so much more frustrating!