What do you do when...

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-01-2008
What do you do when...
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Mon, 03-24-2008 - 4:49pm

...Your family doesn't like the names you chose?

We're narrowing our list down and about half of our family member say they don't like a single one of our options.

Would this/Does this matter to you?

(PS, many of you have probably seen a few posts from me already. Our options are:
Sebastian
Keegan
Beckett
Sawyer
Spencer
Jaxon...
give or take a few, lol)

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Registered: 06-14-2003
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 10:00am

Well, it did happen to us with our last baby.

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Registered: 06-26-1999
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 11:52am

Forget about it.


Your family will love the baby reguardless of his name, & w/that they'll learn to love his name.


You have a great list, but your list isn't as 'normal' as some people might be comfterable with.

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Registered: 02-01-2008
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 2:08pm

LMBO! You all crack me up! Good replies here!!!!!!! I love the advice too, thanks! But a few of you have me seriously laughing here.

Anyway, you're right, just wanted to see where others stand on the topic. Thanks.

As for the names we've chosen, thanks for the replies. They all were helpful.

And those new combo ideas... I REALLY like a few, a couple were already on my list even ;-) and there are some I'll be adding!!! THANKS!

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Registered: 10-21-2007
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 2:10pm

Ya know what you do??

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Registered: 02-01-2008
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 2:14pm

Actually, I'll be more specific.. Donna, I think?

I have these on my list (we were thinking alike ;-):

Sawyer Jaxon, Spencer Beckett, Jaxon Sawyer, Spencer Keegan, Jaxon Parker

And I'm loving these suggestions from you:

Sawyer Flynn, Spencer Truman, Jaxon Dominic, Jaxon Elliot, Sebastian Cole, Sebastian Archer

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Registered: 03-02-2005
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 9:41pm
Don't give up, Amy! Declan is a great name! I like it MUCH better than Cooper.

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Registered: 01-14-2007
Tue, 03-25-2008 - 9:47pm

We didn't have this problem. DH and I picked one name for each gender as a "final choice" and those were the ones we told family. Without knowing the list we worked from they had nothing to say about the final results.


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Registered: 10-21-2007
Wed, 03-26-2008 - 9:47am
I know.....I just love it.

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Wed, 03-26-2008 - 1:06pm

this is why you really shouldn't discuss your names except with each other and us anonymous folks on here. your family members don't get to choose your babies' names. although, I concede, sometimes when I read a post about a grandparent really disliking a name that's being discussed, I can't help but agree with the grandparent when the names are really awful, which does sometimes happen on here


in your case, there's nothing wrong with any of the names on your list - nothing outgrageous about any of them


my favorite of them happens to be Keegan, I love that name


the two I don't care for are Sebastian and Sawyer, but just because I happen not to care for them - they aren't offensive in any way that your relatives should push for you to not use them


I also like Spencer a lot, Jaxon is OK, I think Jackson is getting pretty popular and spelling it different really doesn't change that


I see Beckett on here, don't know any, I probably would never have it on a list (I'm a little too old to have a list, already a grandma, LOL), but again, it's not outrageous in any way that the family should be disliking it that much


pick YOUR favorite from that list and go with it - just keep it to yourselves until the baby is born


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Registered: 01-25-2008
Wed, 03-26-2008 - 8:11pm
Well, I told my mom what names we were thinking about and she was very opinionated about a few of them.