Settling on names... without your partner.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Has any of you settled on a name you LOVE and WILL use regardless of your partner?

I know I have a girl's name I am not budging on (unless you know, my partner tells me that his mother was killed by someone of that name) but the boy's name I am open to changing when and if I have a boy. I've loved this name since I was 12 though and I've had several recurring dreams of my daughter being named this, not to mention they are family names.... 

So yeah, any of you have experience with this??

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[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

My mother wouldn't budge on my name - Desiree. She had told everyone since she was six yeas old she was going to have a daughter and name her Desiree, and so she did.

She over-ruled my father, who wanted to name me Kelly. He had an obsession with Kelly's Heroes. And I also already had a sister named Kelly, one was way more than enough.

I'm glad she put her foot down.


So yes - if I were THAT in love with a name that I felt very strongly about it, I'd use it. I might compromise and tell the father he could pick the middle name, but if I hit on a name I absolutely had to have, I'd use it.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I'm the opposite, I would comprimise on the first name but the middle is almost an heirloom that has gone to the first born daughter in my family dfor generations!