Help! Baby is three days old and we can’t agree on a name

[Anonymous]

I scrolled to the end just to see how ridiculous the name reveal was but I really like what you chose! Good job compromising. You’re a more patient woman than I, particularly after childbirth. Your husband and son are lucky lads! Congratulations on your sweet baby boy with a cool name!

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Anonymous wrote:I love it OP!!!! Caspian is great. “Cap” is a great nickname too

Or Caz. Agree with others that you made the best of a bad situation, OP. I would like to stick up for Ulysses though. That’s a fine name that’s common in both Greek and Hispanic communities. My kids have a friend with that name who goes by Uly.

[Anonymous]

Great compromise OP.

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Anonymous wrote:We ended up finding a name we both agree on and then started fighting about middle names. I’m exhausted so our kid now has three names. Oh well.

Caspian “Ian” Michael Odysseus

Looking forward to the day my kid googled his name and finds this. I hope he’s thankful.

Caspian, your mother loves you VERY MUCH!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also love Arthur Orion. Nicknames include Art, Artie, Archie, and Ryan.

Arthur is a great name with pretentious undertones that should please your husband.

[Anonymous]

I love it OP! Great job. Parenting hurdle #1 cleared!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is is about husbands that make them want to pick stupid names? Mine insists we name our kid Genghis Khan.

My ex husband pushed HARD for Velvet. I said only if you put a stripper pole in her crib. If she’s going to have a stripper name by god she’ll be the best stripper ever.


Her name is Margaret.

Im not sure you could not get more different than Velvet and Margaret. I can see why hes your ex.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We ended up finding a name we both agree on and then started fighting about middle names. I’m exhausted so our kid now has three names. Oh well.

Caspian “Ian” Michael Odysseus

Looking forward to the day my kid googled his name and finds this. I hope he’s thankful.

Ian Michael is a fine name, Op. You managed to make lemonade with this one. Congratulations on your baby boy, btw.

Great work OP! Agree with the lemonade comment!!

Seriously though why the obsession with Odysseus/Ulysses? My dad was a Classics Professor and he didn't name me Clytemnestra or Polyhymnia

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Anonymous wrote:Has to be a troll.

+1. No DH in the world is this crazy.

[Anonymous]

Another nickname for Caspian is Casper. And U bbn know it makes everyone think of the friendly ghost but I knew a kid in grade school who was named Casper and he was not made fun of any more than any other name.

I was just talking to my two second graders. There are a number of kids in their grade that have names that seem like they would be prime target contenders. But no one makes fun of the names. At this point I think that there are far fewer people using traditional names and a lot more cultural names , so most everything is normal. My kids said no 9ne makes fun if anyone's name because everyone had normal names, which really isn't true. But they are normal to the kids. When we were young the popular names were 10-20 times more commonly used than the most popular names today. The top 10 names now are about as common as the top 50-100 names were then.

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Anonymous wrote:Another nickname for Caspian is Casper. And U bbn know it makes everyone think of the friendly ghost but I knew a kid in grade school who was named Casper and he was not made fun of any more than any other name.

I was just talking to my two second graders. There are a number of kids in their grade that have names that seem like they would be prime target contenders. But no one makes fun of the names. At this point I think that there are far fewer people using traditional names and a lot more cultural names , so most everything is normal. My kids said no 9ne makes fun if anyone's name because everyone had normal names, which really isn't true. But they are normal to the kids. When we were young the popular names were 10-20 times more commonly used than the most popular names today. The top 10 names now are about as common as the top 50-100 names were then.

This is true here anyway. Just don't move.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE Caspian/Ian. So clever. DCUM, why didn't we think of that one?

Well done mom!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to decide on a method to decide. Some possibilities:

-you decide bc you gave birth
-pick a neutral third party to choose
-each write down your top 5, you each get 3 vetoes, the remaining 4 go in a hat and you draw one

+1.

Go with a neutral party who is normal and won’t pick any of Dh’s names. Ye gods.

[Anonymous]

Congrats OP. It’s a great name!

[Anonymous]

Great pick! Caspian makes me think of Prince Caspian from the Narnia books. And both Ian and Cas are good nicknames.