AUDIO: VETOING A BABY NAME
The Huffington Post Parents’ Facebook community was asked for examples of why they or their partner vetoed a baby name. Here are some of the reasons:
– “I was set on naming our son Holden and let my husband choose the middle name, Atticus. And then we did the “resume” test: Holden A. Beer. Our last name is, really, Beer. We chose something different.”
– “My husband seriously wanted to name him Thorin Oakenshield (yes, after the character in ‘The Hobbit’). I told him no son of mine will be named Thorin Oakenshield Cuthbert.”
– “My husband would nix names based on what he called the ‘playground test.’ Could the whole ‘Banana Fana’ song be sung without a bad word?”
– “Our last name is Wood. Many things are slightly inappropriate. Morgan means ‘morning’ in German. That was a big NO.”
– “I had a list of cute girls’ names for when I had my daughter. My husband took one look at the list, handed it back to me and said no to ALL of them. When I asked him why, he told me they were names of girls he had kissed in high school.”
– “I always wanted to name my son Connor. As soon as I told my husband my choice, he said ‘No.’ He explained that with our last name, Raia, it was way too close to ‘gonorrhea.’”
– “Everyone thought it would be hilarious if we named our daughter Abigail. Our last name is Rhoades … ‘Abby’ Rhoades.”
– “My husband vetoed the name Sammy because, and I quote, ‘She was a bitch on Days of Our Lives.’”
* This story was edited by Ben Dover.
* These kids are lucky. There’s nothing worse than parents with a sense of humor when it comes to choosing your name.
* This is how you end up with Rumer Willis and Benedict Cumberbatch.
* Old joke: A guy walks up to a girl in a bar and says, “Hi, my name is Ma-ma-ma-ma-mark.
The girl says, “Oh, you have stutter?”
The guy says, “No, my father did and the birth name registrar was an idiot.”
CLIP: Marge and Homer Simpson pick Bart’s name.
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you veto a baby name? Why?
