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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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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Pinkanger 13
Let him choose the name
Tannasgh 22
Nothing like naming your dog after a sexually repressed Carthaginian Christian laymen...
I_Am_The_Cold 19
Puga are way cuter than babies, but that aside; I think you should let the exotic name happen, but only if it's easy to spell and doesn't sound like fodder for future name calling.
TeeRows 2
Just tell him...it's your child too, so you get naming rights this time, since he named the dog. (Just don't have any more kids if you can help it...this situation doesn't look good for that)
jvanevery 19
what you call the dog Tert? right dog names should be one syllable
Zombi Pandaaa 13
Thats an awesome dog name...But baby names, he may need to tone it down for.
Lyshandra 8
Calligula-Cesare-Brutus, come and give mummy a kiss!
jocamo 24
Don't forget to name the zazzy one Zazzles
iateapenguin 27
Hahaha this is weirdly similar to my situation (except I'm the historian - well, Classicist). Came to the realisation that nobody will ever let me name our child something Classics-related, so I'm planning on having a pug named Hector to fill the gap.
childproofpizza 19
Tell him if the kid ends up with a name like turtley anus he's gonna have a VERY hard time making friends.