Parents...

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

How much influence did your parents have over what you named your child? Would you give your child a name that one or both or all of your parents hated? What if they hated it for a reason you disagreed with? (e.g. They told you that you shouldn't name your son Dylan because it was a girls' name, or that Jackson sounded like an old man's name, etc.) If you gave your child a name your parents hate, how did it work out? Do they call your child by your child's name, or did they immediately nickname him or her to get around it?

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[kjerlandsen.livejournal.com]

I wanted to name my first Ezra and got a crap load of funny looks and rude comments the entire pregnancy. The week or 2 before he was born, I had given up and didn't have a name for him. He was born and he was clearly not an Ezra.

8 years later, we named our 2nd son Ezra. My mom and every one else seemed to get used to it. Which they didn't have a choice this time around because my husband was dead set on it. My MIL though, would constantly email me name suggestions. So obnoxious!

This time around, our boy name isn't loved by many, but we love it and that's all that matters.