CLAUDIO-BOY

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CLAUDIO-BOY
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Sat, 10-02-2004 - 9:59pm
My DH wants our son to be named after him and his father....i dont like it. I feel people are going to laugh at him..I am even embarrased to say that his name is going to be Claudio. He says there is no way around it though!!! HELP
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Registered: 11-04-2003
In reply to: guti
Sat, 10-02-2004 - 10:28pm
There's really nothing truly wrong with it. Granted it sounds a bit dated, but a lot of old fashioned names are coming back these days, why not Claudio?

The only thing I can think of that's remotely bad about it is that is sounds really similar to the feminine name Claudia, which isn't heard much these days anyway, so the chances of him having a Claudia in one of his classes is pretty slim.

If you hate the name *that* much, you can tell him that you'd be willing to use it as a middle name but there's no way in heck you'll make *THIS* kid a third. You'd have to be really firm about it and I know more than 1 guy who'd really put up a fight about it but it could work. Maybe instead of a third, you could flip the names around? That way Claudio would be his middle name.


All in all, it's not a terrible name (Adolph or Genghis would be far worse, IMHO) but I also think that a child should be named by BOTH parents. Using a name you detest is a form of cruelty, in my book and he should be willing to compromise at least a little for the sake of harmony within your relationship.

I'm sure my opinion on using it as a middle instead won't be the last one so you should wait 'til you get a lot of responses and then show them to him.. that might change his mind and/or make him amenable to compromise some.

Good luck, dear!

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: guti
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 12:44pm

Claudio isn't terrible.







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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: guti
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 12:49pm
I agree that parents need to name child together...

But if honoring family tradition is that important and you do compromise to use Claudio -give him a J middle name. CJ is so darn sweet and fits a little boy and an adult perfectly...I don't like a lot of inital names but CJ is one I love!!! I would just call him CJ his whole life personally.

Good luck!

Amy

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In reply to: guti
Mon, 10-04-2004 - 2:34am
I stopped a family tradition on my dh side. My first son was supose to be named after my dh father. I didn't like his name so I said this tradition stops here. His brother was also supose to name his first son after his father but they didn't do it either. Some traditions need to stop. We did name our first son Christopher and then I used my dh first name (not my dh fathers name) Rocco as his middle name. If both my dh and his brother followed their naming tradition we would each have a boy and girl with the same name. So I agree with the others that Claudio would make a great middle name. Tell him your ds deserves his own first name.