Question!

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

Has your SO ever been stuck on a name that you've absolutely hated?

Example: My boyfriend and his brothers all have names that start with "J" (Jesse, Jerome, and Jonas). He has decided should he ever reproduce, his kids will also have J names. The two top choices:

Jesus (not with a soft J sound but Jee-sus)
Jedi

And no, he's not kidding.

Any takers?

Comments

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Tell him there's plenty of *decent* J names out there :D

Maybe he's just exercising his imagination, coming up with those names.. sort of brainstorming.. he'll probably come around if he happens to reproduce for real :)

For us, it's been mostly the other way around, names that I've liked which SO was dead set against (he's actually considered "too out there" perfectly legit names), but I've always liked his taste in names.

[chucklincanuck.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who did the exact same thing...also with the letter "J".
Her name is Jennifer, married a John (coincidence?), and had 3 children: Joseph, Jocelyn, and Jonas!

Um...Jesus I think is a bit much...because no matter how you pronounce it, it's still spelled the same way and that's what he'll have to tell people.
I did go to school with a Jesus (pronounced HEY-zeus), and he went by David!
Jedi seems a bit star-trekky (or is it star wars?) to me.

As the above person mentioned, there are plenty of nice "J" names.

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's Star Wars.

J names are just something his family is stuck on. His dad's name is Jerry and his siblings are Janie and Jack. Jack has two children named Jason and Jaclyn (not sure of the spelling).

[amyames.livejournal.com]

well since it seems to be so important to him, i would probably go along with the J thing. I would not however, allow him to name the children Jesus and Jedi. There are plenty of nice J names so you would have plenty to chose from.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Seconded; I'd call that a fair compromise. "I'll let you have J names if you let me pick them."

And either way, both parents ought to have unlimited veto power, just because it would be wrong for either parent to hate their child's name.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

Whatever you do, do not have children and name them Jesus and Jedi just because he has a thing for Js. There are a lot of nice J names out there.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

Oh, and to answer your question: my ex-boyfriend was into the name Jordan. I personally associate moronic girls who can't spell with the name Jordan (I have met several in my high school years) but I was willing to let it slide for a while. It's not that bad...and at the time, I really loved him. However, as soon as he started trying to blackmail me into having kids (he said that he only wanted kids now, if we didn't have kids now I would have to suffer never having kids), I took Jordan off the list. I also took him off the list of potential husbands. Cheerzzzzzzzzzz!~

[hells-librarian.livejournal.com]

My coworker's brother is insistent that his first son will be named Luke Skywalker [Long and difficult to spell and pronounce last Indian name]. Luckily, the first kid was a girl.

My SO thinks it's child abuse to give a kid a horrible or silly name.

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

I could handle Luke Skywalker better than Jedi, but I still wouldn't allow that either!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

OMG. Seriously? SERIOUSLY???

Okay, some suggestions, if he's totally stuck on the J name thing.

Jack
Jonathan
Joel
Jason
Jacob
James
Josiah
Joshua

[florallove.livejournal.com]

I know a family, the parents are Jayly and Jennifer, the kids are J.J., Jasmyn or Jazmyn, I can't remember, and Jenay. Their last name starts with a J, too.

There's also the Duggars...all twenty billion of them have J names.

I'm too young to even be thinking of marriage (and I don't have a boyfriend) so I don't have this problem. I would definitely put my foot down on alliterations of names because I hate it so much. I would also put my foot down on Jesus and Jedi.

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Well, Jedi could be a nick name for Jedidiah...

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Which is a great name!

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

when i first asked my boyfriend what his favorite name was, he said mckayla..which i really, strongly dislike. when i asked him how he wanted to spell it, he said: m'kayla!!!! D:
i was horrified. i screamed: NO!! i told him that m'kayla was a completely made up spelling. he doesn't know much about names though. haha.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Give the nurse $20 and tell him/her to put the name you want on the certificate, no matter what your hubby insists on.

Please don't name your child Jesus. I say this as a devoted Christian and as a person who loathes mega-religious names on children, because what happens when that future child becomes something completely opposite of what their name implies? It makes for a sticky situation. >_<

Jedi... well... it's not as bad as I would think it would be. Granted, I know nothing of Star Wars, and I guess the references could get annoying every single day of that boy's life, but go for it.

Anyway, I'm not a fan of "theme names", especially when the theme is
letters (like the Duggar family and all 17 of their children have J names, and two of the girls actually have the same name. It's annoying.) just names that make sense together. And, well, you can always throw him a bone and use it as a middle name.

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to Joy-Anna and Johannah? Or what?

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Tell your boyfriend to get real. Either one of those names would create a lifetime of cruel jokes. He'll have to come up with some other J names.

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to get that through to him but he still doesn't get it.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Jedi and Jesus (Jeee-sus!) is probably the worst pair on names I have ever come across! Those kids would have to suffer through so many "I am your father" jokes.

[cathubodva.livejournal.com]

My husband's got his heart set on Egon (yes, like in Ghostbusters). I'm trying to convince him to let us use it for a dog or something instead....

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

I don't discuss names with my boyfriend because we are only 18. I jokingly told him some names I liked once and he kinda freeeaked out!

I know that he basically hates all the names I like...and I got out of him eventually that he likes Jamie for a boy [I hate this so much] and Chloe for a girl..which is okish.

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

USE THE FORCEPS, LUKE!

[idrinkacidrain.livejournal.com]

How tacky.

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

my boyfriend is stuck on Cadence. I HATE THE NAME CADENCE. we're also talking about getting married/buying a house first before babies, but Cadence, ugh. and our last name would start with a hard C.

i hate alliteration.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Is your boyfriend a teenager? If so, he will probably come to his senses if an actual baby is involved. If he is 30 and your guys are TTC you have a problem. Jedi could make a fun(ny) middle name...

In answer to your question, yes there are names my SO likes that I hate. Mostly because I find them very boring: Sarah, Leah, etc.

Have you talked to your SO about names you like?

[morgainlefee.livejournal.com]

We're actually in our early 20's with no plans for children anytime soon (that and I have some health issues on the gynelogical front I'm trying to sort out). I was just thinking about this the other day and thought it might be an interesting post.

I've told him the names I like, which he doesn't because most of them don't start with J. Strangely enough, a lot of my names start with A, just like my name. He was sure to point this fact out....

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

I love the name Jesus [HE-ZEUZ] nn Chuy [Chewy] but I think I'm going to save it for my next bunny rabbit.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend told me way before I was ever dating him that he'd always wanted a son so he could name him after his father, who passed away a few years ago. His father's name was Anthony Lee. I don't actually mind Anthony, but I hate hate HATE Tony. (Lee's fine. It's my dad's middle name, too, so maybe he wouldn't feel left out.) Once we started dating and it came up, I said, "I'd always call him Anthony. Tony could be your thing." Ugh, Tony. Ugh.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Oh jesus, I just got the shivers. Your boyfriend could be my ex-husband. Lol! I refused to call him Tony as well.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

My high school boyfriend wanted to have 3 boys: Spanky, Dragon and Hart. Needless to say, he was crazy (and not joking).

Thanfully my current boyfriend is not insane and we agree on most of the names the other likes.

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how could I forget?!  My good friend Amber has 5 kids with her boyfriend Jose: Jessenia
Jazmien
Jaiden
Jezebell (all w. Marie as MN) and new baby Jose (Aaron - he’s a Junior).

And believe me, I did everything I could to convince her that she should NOT name her youngest girl Jezebell, but apparently the boyfriend wouldn’t hear of anything else. 

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I love Jezebel...but only as a guilty pleasure. I'd never do that to a kid, though maybe a pet.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

My husband is hung up on the name Trevor. I don't even know why, but I can't stand that name. Okay, maybe I do know why. First, my godparents' son is named Trevor and I don't have the best memories of him. Second, I do NOT think "Trev" is a cute nickname, and my hubby does.

[idrinkacidrain.livejournal.com]

Eh, if he can't be persuaded, pick a proper name you like (and middle if you please), then chuck 'Trev' in the second middle name spot/middle (depending if you have a combo you love).