I think it was here that I'd talked about only having one boy's name chosen that I wasn't completely sold on and how I was trying to get hubby to at least consider other names even as a back-up. After a few weeks of getting no where I left the issue alone, and hen he suddenly brought it up out of the blue
Last week (or earlier this week) he asked if my dad would be offended if we used his dad's name for a first name and my dad's name for a second name. (David Trevor). I didn't have a problem with it and my dad will be delighted enough just to have his name passed on at all. But then in the end DH decided he'd rather keep David as a second name for our second son, as originally planned. But it got him thinking anyway, so today we had another name discussion and settled on a boy's name we both love
.
Unfortunately it also has him reconsidering our girl's names too
. I love the top name we chose, but I'd be a hypocrite if I don't agree to be open to other options if he's not 100% sold on it. He also decided he doesn't like Alianna, our backup name, very much anymore either.
Why do men have to be so difficult? LOL.
We may not change our girl's name in the end though. He doesn't
not like it, but he told me that as he doesn't know of anyone with that name he doesn't have any positive or negative association to the name so is having a hard time picturing it. Silly man is the one who suggested it in the first place, I never even would have considered it
I do agree about the negative associations - it's hard to give your child a name that is "shared" with someone you really don't like, and I think a lot of people operate that way. But to not want to use a name because you don't know anyone at all with that name does seem a bit odd to me. It's not like it's a made up name or anything and is ranked somewhere around 200 for popularity so it is a used name. I like names that are less common though for the same reason he doesn't like it.