My husband and I are very religious, we recently found out we are having a boy and are very excited. I had told my husband he could pick the name, he came home with Jeramiah which means raised by God and I was ok with it, BUT he wants the middle name to be "Ariel" and it means Lion of God. Ariel is a unisex name, much like Tracy and Dawn(Don) which happens to be my name but Ariel sounds like a girl. My husband is set on this and will not change his mind. While I know it is my child too, I don't want to spoil this for him, what should I do? I can live with it but I really don't like it.
2006-10-16 09:34:57 · 25 answers · asked by momie_2bee 5 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Bless your heart! I feel for you deeply. I also told my husband he could name our son whatever he wanted and he came up with Jose' Olage. I hated it!! I didn't want to ruin it for him either! So my 9 year old sons name is Jose Olage! I can't see him having any different name! He looks like a Jose Olage. Let your husband name him. A name is a special thing. The proper pronounciation for Ariel is R I ELL. That sounds all boy to me. And congratulations on a little boy, there is no more special bond that between a mother and her son.
2006-10-16 09:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is so funny, before I know that i was having a girl, I had decided to name him Jeramiah, great name for a boy. Well make your husband understand that you are not happy with that name and he can pick any other name you guys can agree with. Ariel is a more of a girl's name, tell him that they will make fun of him since Ariel was the name of the Little Marmaid and surely he does not want his son to be teased when he grows up.
2006-10-16 16:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by Susanna06 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am having a similar problem. My boyfriend and I agree on the name we chose for a boy but disagree on one for a girl. He wants Madelyn Coralette. I can handle the middle one because it is a family name and important to him. I want a different first name. He refuses to budge.
My plan is to just talk to him about it. I will let him know that I would really prefer to keep our options open for the first name if we have a girl. Once we start looking, I'm hoping he will find one he likes better that I like as well. If not I'm pulling rank. He got to pick the middle I get to pick the first. I would never pick something he would hate. (ok I would try)
Maybe you can consider a compromise. Ask him if you can use a family name for the middle name or he gets to name this one and his name becomes Jeramiah A. ___ (middle name never to mentioned in front of his friends) and you dibs on number two. Many people have middle names they hate (hello Coralette) :)
2006-10-16 16:54:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a tough one. It's going to be up to you as far as how hard you want to push him to find something else. There are some names that are 'unisex' that I think 'girl' when I hear, like Dana and Ashley, but I went to school with a guy named Ashley (though he went by AJ). Since Ariel would be the middle name, it would be less obvious to the general public, if that's any consolation. But heck, sometimes people end up with very gender appropirate names as middle names that they'd rather the world never know about either, so...
2006-10-16 16:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by desiderio 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I've looked and there aren't any other names that mean the same as Ariel. You could just point out all the cons of naming him that. Such as it's more of a girl name, it's the name of the Little Mermaid, ect. How about Moses or Israel? Those would be really cool middle names. Congrats on your little boy :-)
2006-10-16 16:37:25 · answer #5 · answered by CelebrateMeHome 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ariel is a gorgeous name. One can pick the first name and the other the middle name. You can have three names if you want. This is a wonderful time. Congrats!
2006-10-16 16:40:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried really discussing this topic with your husband? Since he decided the first name why not see if you can have a part in it and decide the middle name. You are right this is your child too, and from expirence I didn't get the name I wanted on my last child, but I lived with it and it grew on me. See what the two of you can decide on. There are many names in the bible. My son's name happens to be andrew, which stands for "he who is like god."
2006-10-16 16:40:24 · answer #7 · answered by kh100104 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only Ariel I know of is Ariel Sharon (a man) so really I'd never think of it as a girl's name.
2006-10-16 16:43:26 · answer #8 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont suggest naming him Ariel...even if it is just a middle name. Kids will make fun of him for it. Trust me. I had a guy friend whos name was Ariel and he had it legally changed when he got older so now its his middle name, but he never tells people because he gets name fun of for it even as a middle name. Please dont do that to your child. Kids get meaner and meaner.
2006-10-16 16:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by Jenn ♥Cadence Jade's mum♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he will change his mind before the baby is born. Or have you tried talking to him about how it's not your favorite name? My boyfriend and I have the same problem and I changed his mind by finding another name close to the one he chose, but one that I liked. We dont know the sex of our baby yet ( we find out in 2 weeks! ) but if it's a boy, we're naming him Aaron. Goodluck and congrats on having a baby boy!!!
2006-10-16 16:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋