I’m pregnant with a baby boy due on [name_f]October[/name_f] 11th! If you’ve read any of my posts, you know I’m really into boys’ names, so this put me over the moon. I love a lot of different names, but my husband has turned out to be extremely, extremely picky and anal. He doesn’t like much of anything, and doesn’t give much of an explanation for why. He has hated everything I’ve loved. In addition, he overthinks initials, so we have had to compromise on the middle name I wanted, which was to be my maiden name, because of certain letter combinations. There’s just no way I will get anything I love otherwise, and I don’t want the story of our child’s name to end up being, “Well, we both could live with it, so…”… All emphasis on sentimental value or personal meaning ultimately goes out the window when almost everything is vetoed outright. He also flip-flops on whether or not he likes things, and seems to have contradicting views i.e., nothing too “out there” because the child may be teased (and his version of “out there” and tease-worthy is not mine, or based on current popularity standings…), and yet all reasonable, familiar names I have presented to him ([name_m]Timothy[/name_m], [name_m]Peter[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_m]John[/name_m]…) are just outright denied. So it feels I can’t win with him. Not to mention, he hardly wants to talk about names at all, and if he does, jokingly suggests ridiculous things like [name_m]Tiberius[/name_m] or Gregorius or [name_m]Octavius[/name_m]. (These names are ridiculous to us, anyway…) Last night, I finally got him to talk about it seriously for a little while. I said we could choose any middle name if it went with the first name. We have agreed on three names on the list for right now.
[name_m]Cormac[/name_m] [name_m]Alan[/name_m]
[name_m]Conor[/name_m] [name_m]Patrick[/name_m]
and
[name_m]Dawson[/name_m] [name_m]William[/name_m]
The only name I feel very strongly about is [name_m]Dawson[/name_m] [name_m]William[/name_m], because [name_m]Dawson[/name_m] means “son of [name_m]David[/name_m],” and my husband’s name is [name_m]David[/name_m]. He didn’t used to like it, but he says it’s grown on him. However, he doesn’t want it for a first child if there could be a second… The other two combinations, I like fine, but I am more into plainer, more common or “traditional” names now than I was when I first fell in love with [name_m]Cormac[/name_m] or [name_m]Conor[/name_m]. Lastly, my father-in-law says he doesn’t like [name_m]Dawson[/name_m], and my mother-in-law says she doesn’t like [name_m]Cormac[/name_m]. That doesn’t matter much to us, but it’s on the table, nonethless. I have been over the Social Security Top 1000 countless times, going through everything that is even mildly appealing to me, and I’m tired of looking at it, and then being told no to everything.
Does anyone have any ideas, maybe based on the ideas above, so we can have more to talk about? Our last name is [name_m]Kane[/name_m], but spelled a little differently. Avoid monosyllabic names, names that end in “N,” or names with a hard “k” sound at the end. However, none of these are absolute deal-breakers.