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[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Why are there FAR more females posting to naming forums? Both the name hobbyists and the actually expecting parents tend to be girls/women around here. Every once in awhile a expecting father will post something, but it's rare.

Why aren't men interested in names?

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[tagban.livejournal.com]

Urm..I posted a huge entry a few days ago. Most guys are probably under the assumption that the girl is the one incharge of all that since she's carrying the baby.

I really love my girl, and I agreed with her on the names we picked.

To be honest, I don't think guys take the names seriously enough, or sometimes they're so stubborn that they can't think outside of their own name pool.

~john

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

My husband came up with his own shortlists when I was pregnant, although they were a lot shorter than my lists! He chose the middle name we wound up using. I think he took it quite seriously, although he didn't have a lot of imagination - not so much stubborn but just blithely unaware that there are 'weirder' names out there IYSWIM. He was pretty receptive to the less common names I threw out for discussion: although we did wind up choosing two 'Biblical' names, one of them is far less common than the other and wasn't one he initially knew.

[adifferentday.livejournal.com]

that makes me wonder what you chose! :P

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't like to actually give them out, I'm afraid, but you're welcome to try working them out. They both have associations with angels; the less common one is from the Apocrypha (which is why my husband didn't know it, incidentally). Both have been used in English for centuries, but the less common one was more popular 3-400 years ago than today.

[adifferentday.livejournal.com]

haha! That just made my curiosity stronger! I don't really understand your concern for saying them, but I'll respect that. There's no way I could figure it out though!