Today, I learned that the hardest part of marrying a historian is choosing baby names. His top choices derive from two Roman magistrates, two abbesses, a tenth-century author, and an obscure Greek official. I already let him name our pug, for whom he chose the name "Tertullianus." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, me and my husband are having our first big marital argument. Our baby still doesn’t have a name, all because I want to call her a normal name and he wants to call her some obscure name from an anime he really likes. I’ve never seen him this stubborn about anything this stupid. FML
Today, my boyfriend has had name ideas for his future son and daughter even before I met him, but so have I. He disregards my ideas and suggestions, and is hell bent on giving our kids names because he likes "the way they sound." 'Hippopotamus' sounds good, but who’d name their kids that? FML
Today, my husband and I were talking about names for our expectant child. I told him since I named our daughter he could name our son. He's decided on a name from 'God of War'. My son is going to be named after a make-believe cartoon character - Kratos. FML
Today, my French wife chose the name of our unborn baby girl. She wants to call her Fanny and won't change her mind. FML
Today, I learned that I'm expecting twins. A boy and a girl. My husband, upon finding out about this, immediately suggested that we give them Star Wars names. But not Luke and Leia. Oh no. He wants to name them Darth and Vayda. And he is absolutely serious about this. FML
Today, we got a dog. My husband was adamant that we should name him Gonit, so I agreed. A friend asked what the name meant, and my husband said, "Why wouldn't you name a dog Gonit?" Then I got it. FML
Today, I had to yet again tell my mother-in-law that I wasn't going to name my unborn baby "Ermintrude" after her late mother. My husband told me to stop being difficult, and that he agrees that it would be nice. FML
Today, we got our daughter's birth certificate. Turns out my husband thought it would be funny to give her a middle name, which we never discussed, and he picked one to sound funny. Not actually going to tell the internet her name, but it’s as bad as calling a boy Ben Dover. I’m furious. FML
Today, my girlfriend of three days asked if we could start naming our future children. FML
Today, I found out why my wife insisted on naming our first child "George" if it was a boy. It was her first love's name. FML
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jay_south 19
Turtle-y anus?
Elban 20
Far out baby names, might wanna dial it down about 50% and come up with a something more acceptable and serious, like Tiberius
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heartlessn0b0dy 13
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So the man's smart I don't see anything wrong with it I think that's a great thing!
brianna1494 27
That's not the issue; the issue is that they want to name their kid something stupid that no kid would want.
mszjred2013 4
frankly its not about what the kid wants vs having a meaningful name....
chrisbeaudoin 26
Might be a meaningful name, but it won't be fun getting bullied later in life cause of it.
mackdeezy 22
The concept of "meaningful name" has been farfetched for some. For example, Le-a, which pronounces Lay-dash-uh *shudders*
APres321 2
If she wanted to really be accurate, she'd make sure people called her La-hyphen-a
Elban 20
Far out baby names, might wanna dial it down about 50% and come up with a something more acceptable and serious, like Tiberius
TheAspieDork 27
Or maybe something that can be shortened into a more common name. A friend of my dad's named his son Leonidas (after the guy from 300, of course) but they just call him Leo all the time
1known_fml 8
Well you can't say that Tertullianus wasn't a serious man, especially if you are Christian. Check out Wikipedia. As for acceptable, there are names much more stupid than this one.
victoria_lynn17 2
Tiberius isn't exactly a great name for someone when you think about the Roman emperor Tiberius
Allornone 35
but it is a great name when you consider Starfleet captain James Tiberius Kirk
stormy0307 16
Well Leonidas was an actual King long before they made 300...
Mortoli 30
or jecht? lol
sarianna 10
Aim for reasonable, but if it's still weird, make it a middle name. Kids get embarrassed by middle names even when they're completely normal. I went to school with a girl who refused to tell us her middle name for years... and it turned out to be Claire.
jay_south 19
Turtle-y anus?
askullnamedbilly 33
And since it's pretty hard to yell Tertullianus at a misbehaving dog, I'm about 85% sure the poor thing's nickname is Turd.
Bunnyluver 20
He'll be the butt of everyone's jokes.
arano 29
Ter-tool-e-ah-ness
BodyElectric 18
I'm pretty sure that everyone's going to call him Turtle-anus anyway.
lifes_rough23 8
I honestly think its unique to do that. i can see how it can be a bit extreme but better than some of the names I've hears these days.
nix1993 41
Naming a baby after someone else is literally the opposite of unique.
anon133744x 5
Yeah but naming after someone with a unique name is pretty unique.
Arkham_Callabero 15
#44 Do you even know what unique means?
Bunnyluver 20
You can still be unique even if someone else has the same idea. Sometimes People take ideas or perfect them. It stops being unique if people are doing it for a trend.
PrincessShiraz 11
How does "naming after someone else is literally opposite of unique" have upvotes? How does the original comment have downvotes? One of the definitions for unique is "unusual," and even if it wasn't an official definition, you all know perfectly well everyone uses it that way and it would be in the thesaurus. Sounds like the kid would go through its entire life never meeting anyone else with the same name, and everyone who ever meets it will never have known anyone by that name before. That's a unique name.
astrodick 15
Op it sounds like you don't have a choice in choosing baby names.
Red_Head_sortof 5
you have the best partner ever!
bethitybeth 6
you can't be too mad. that's a good name for a pug! just set boundaries on the baby names
gracehi 33
I can't even figure out how to pronounce the pug's name.
ragnarok1540 39
If you have twins, you could name them Romulus and Remus. Unfortunately you would have to abandon them in the woods to be raised by a she-wolf. Then one twin would kill the other, but take solace in knowing that the survivor would build the capital city of one of the grea... [gets interrupted by Kanye West] "I'ma let you finish, but Genghis Khan had one of the greatest empires of all time! One of the greatest empires of all time!"
domolovesyoshi 33
I actually love Romulus and Remus , although you'd get asked all the time if you named him Remus because of Harry Potter
ashyash90 8
Sounds like a teacher I had once. Her first son was named Mitchell but then her husband let her name the next two and she chose Athena for the girl and Tiberius for the boy!
MidnaLink 35
Well, Athena's not so bad. Tiberius, now that's a different chapter.
Lalala579121 28
I would go with Odin and Freya but that's just me.
pandalover69 26
Freya is pretty and simple but Odin is just asking for your kid to get bullied.
Lalala579121 28
One word: Zantetsuken.