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Originally Posted by Montana Moe
We had our daughter's name chosen right away, it's a combination of family names that we wanted to honor. I told some co-workers the name combination we were choosing, 1 month before my daughter was due one of the V.P.'s had a daughter and used the same first and middle name!
I have never seen my wife more pissed, I don't think that lady will ever be safe from her wrath...
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That's a pr*ck move if he did it on purpose (likely), but I often wonder if you aren't going to hang out with the family does it really matter? I had friends who got upset that friends of theirs also named their daughter Olivia. It was the most popular name of the year, but they assumed it was because of them and it really bothered them. They hardly ever see each other ... seemed strange to me. Not saying you don't have a right to be mad, I just don't totally get it. Then again I named my kid Liam so originality is clearly not at the top of my list of importance.
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Originally Posted by The Goon
What he means is to not tell people what name you've chosen for your baby before the baby is born. People are too quick to give their opinions and shoot down ideas, but once the baby is born and named, they back off.
We went through this last year when our son (William) was born.
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Exactly. My sister-in-law has (what I consider to be) odd baby name preferences. She listed off 5 names she loves and 5 she hated and I thought she was screwing with me. Now there's nothing wrong with that, except that she's very vocal and judgmental about them. She talked a coworker out of naming her baby "Annabelle" because it's "gross". I kinda thought it was a cute name. Regardless of your association or opinion of a baby name my position is to just shut up and mind my own business.
Our kids middle name is a little unique, but it's the middle name of my grandfather who I was very close with. If somebody told me they didn't like it I'd have a hard time not taking a swing at their crotch.
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Originally Posted by COGENT
I'm actually scared to tell people the names my wife and are thinking for our kid. I passed one of the names we had for a girl by some girls at work and it got tore apart.
My wife wants to name our kid (if it's a boy) Felix. One, all I think of is Felix Potvin. Two, I think a Felix isn't born an ass kicker.
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That's funny, we named ours "Felix the Fetus" because we needed something to name it so we'd stop calling it ... well ... "it" all the time.
I like Felix, cool name.