What do you think of these names?

Question

If we have a girl my fiancee wants to name her after his mother(deceased). Her name was Patricia Dawn. If we have a boy he wants to continue a tradition and name him John Thomas Roy III. I find these names a little old fashioned. What do you think?

Answer 1

You and your husband are going to have to compromise on this. You both have to be happy with the name you give your child because you will be screaming that name for at least the next 18 years. : ) Give your child a name you think s/he will like too. Names are something you have for life and if you dont like your name...well that would suck.

Answer 2

They are too old fashioned. You don't have to name them after your husbands family you know. It is your baby also. Don't feel pressured into naming your child Patricia Dawn or John Thomas Roy. If you are happy to partly name them after your husbands family then do so. An example could be: Emily Dawn or Emily Patricia or Sarah Dawn or Sarah Patricia and for a boy: Daniel John or Michael John or Michael Thomas. These are nice names which tie in some of the names. Good luck!

Answer 3

There are still a lot of Johns running around in daycares....still pretty popular. Patricia might be a little old fashioned, but you could use it as a middle name. You can even choose to have 2 middle names.

Whatever everyone's opinions of how old fasioned these names are, I do think it's really important to find a name that both mom and dad can be happy with. Get creative and try to find some middle ground. My husband's father is deceased and we did not use his first name. It was hard to say that I didn't like it....but I really didn't. We compromised by using another family name of his that I liked much better. Congrats on the new baby!

Answer 4

well, my husband has a very traditional family name thing too, but i agreed to stick with the initials, I made the initials the same but i chose different names because a name should be unique to that person not the same as everyone else's... As for memorializing a deceased loved one, use on name or an alternative of that name, such as patricia (middle name) or Dawn (middle name), Pat, patty, or you could use them as a middle name simply by hyphening them (Patricia-Dawn).. My grandmother who i was very close to had the name Rosalie and I have chose the name Rose-Leanne for my daughter to honor my grandmother but also allow my daughter to make her own name special.

Answer 5

I think it's far too old fashioned , you could incorporate the names in the middle.. I am glad I have both my father and grandfather's first name as a middle name.. I am also glad that I don't have it as a first name as I would have had the same name as my Great, Great,Great Grandfather, I would have been #6.. I am a 1957 job and my parents stopped that tradition then.. I thank them for it as I have "my own name"... Good luck with everything... Love and Light.. Blessed Be )O(

Answer 6

I totally agree that they are old fashioned. People would call your daughter Patty and John is just too old fashioned- how about honoring your husbands family by trying to tie these names in as middle names? Or maybe he'd understand that just because you don't use names that others have used, or names from loved ones, that doesn't mean you don't care about them or your family...

Answer 7

I love them...I am sick and tired of these rediculous oddball names that young women are naming their babies recently. The names you chose are great..strong, traditional....and easy to pronounce and that any kid will like when they grow up. My son and daughter in law just had a baby girl and they named her Rose Angela after my late mother who passed three years ago. I love it..she looks like a beautiful pink rose..so beautiful. We are all thrilled. We will endearingly call her Rosie like they called my late Mother.

Answer 8

def odd fashioned..i read an article today about getting away from jennifers and johns and thinking of something not toooooo weird bc they do have to live with it but they suggest taking a kinda new /popular name and maybe changing the spelling...im naming mine jayce but i have a few ideas for you....aiden, hayden, jayden, colin, preston, peyton, ethan, jordan, logan, landon, skyler, riley

Answer 9

The mother should name the child. Just don't curse them with designer names.

Answer 10

I personally think that both of you should agree on the names. If you think it should be different names, then tell him. Ya'll 2 should agree with it. Not just one of you.