WheatenLover
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- Location
- Georgia
My husband didn't like any of the name I did. We ended up with what I call "white bread names". While I was in the hospital, I had to fill out a form for the boys' birth certificates I seriously considered giving them names I liked. But I figured that wasn't fair, and that he would get very angry. So, the boys kept the names we agreed upon.
Two of the names I wanted were Maximilian and Augustus. I haven't met any kids with those names. I can't remember the third name I chose.
Then I claimed "the right" to name my daughter. I didn't have a computer, and I'd given away my baby name book. The first name I chose for her was Octavia. i should have stuck to my guns, even though no one liked it. So I decided on another name. It seemed like every other kid we came into contact with had that name. Once, I took the kids to the playground when my daughter was a toddler, and there were 4 kids there with her name, and one of those kids even had her middle name.
Then we got a dog, a collie. I registered him as Holly Jolly Collie (like the song about having a holly jolly Christmas). But the name we used was Teddy, courtesy of the kids.
We got another dog, and again the kids named him a popular name. I didn't care that he is an Irish breed, or what the name meant, I wanted to name him Jetson. If I had a dollar for everyone whose said to us that their son is named Aidan, I'd be rich.
I figure names are not a hill to die on, as long as they aren't horrible or embarrassing.