help me and my husband with this predicament please!!!?

Question

I am 6 months pregnant and expecting a boy. Only my husband wants to call him Armani!!! 1. I don't even like this name and 2. I could swear blind it's a girls name!! He keeps telling me it's a boys name. Is he right???

I know it is the name of a designer!!!! Yet I thought that was his last name!! Even so I still think it suits the first name of a female and I really don't like it but he's not even willing to compromise with me about it!

& I'm not black - I'm mixed race (half white & half black) but what does my colour have to do with anything?

Answer 1

My friend named her son that,I'm with you,i dont care for it,might as well call him Gucci

Answer 2

MMMMM, I would not be thrilled if my hubby wanted to call my baby that either. Boy or Girl.

Here is what I suggest. Write down a page full of names that you like. Go to a baby naming website or book for ideas. Have him mark off the names that he hates. Then you go back and circle the remaining ones that you like the most and then have him go over the list again picking the ones he likes the best and then just keep narrowing it down from there. If he is still insistent that the baby's name be Armani then tell him only as his middle name. He has to compromise with you.

Answer 3

You probably know this - but Georgio Armani is an Italian designer, with Armani being his 'last' (sur) name.
I don't know you or your hubby so can't really suggest how to go about it - - but can you talk with him about how you have to name your child something that 1) Isn't too 'different'. Names that are too unusual and 'made up' sounding are still looked down on in society. I know, I know: Who cares what society thinks? The answer is you should in - in this intance. You can teach the child to be an individual and not follow the crowd. But please don't saddle them with being 'different' from the get-go with a too-offbeat name. The boy will have enough challenges dealing with life. Leave the name out of the mix. and (2) It goes beyond childhood. A child has to put their name on college applications, resumes and job applications. Don't name a child something that an HR person/hiring person can't identify with or relate to on some level. Here again, too different simply adds a hurdle that isn't needed.
Maybe Armani could be your child's second or 'middle' name? ... Whatever, just talk calmly with your husband saying "I understand you like the name - but it's not a name I am confortable with...Marriage and life is full of compromises. Let's pick a name we can both live with - and that we both think is right for our son." You'll be making a LOT of dicisions from now on as to what you think is best for your son. Welcome to parenting!
Good luck.

Answer 4

ok. the real problem with this situation isn't whether its a boy name or a girl name. its the fact the it is his and YOUR baby. he doesn't have the option to not compromise. This is something that the 2 of you and not to mention your child will have to live with. i would try and persuade him to use armani as a middle name. then if he wants to call the poor boy armani he can, but the baby won't be stuck with that name forever. (and its not a first name, it is a last name) What names do you or he like that would go well with armani as a MIDDLE name? good luck, and congrats.

Answer 5

Regardless of whether it is a "good" name or not, you both need to agree on a name. My hubby and I made lists of names we liked, gave them to each other, and then we crossed of any names we did not agree on.

A word of advice...if you decide on an unconventional name, keep it to yourselves until the baby is born and named. Then, people will be less likely to question your choice. After all, it's already the baby's name.

Also, the mother fills out the birth certificate information, so in the end, it's up to you. I would not reccomend being passive-aggressive and putting whatever name you like on the birth certificate without the two of you agreeing to it ahead of time, but you can certainly say "I'm NOT putting that name on the birth certificate. Sorry. Let's find something else."

Answer 6

I am pretty sure he'd be a the top of the list to be teased about his name. And he would probably be nick named Manny. find a way to convince your hubby to consider some other names, too. And when your baby is born you can look at him and say, "He doesn't look like an Armani, he looks like a Jackson to me" and because you have gone thought the pain and trauma of birth your hubby MIGHT just let you choose. Good luck!

Answer 7

Well armani is the last name of Giofranco Armani, a guy fashion designer. Personally i dont like the name very much. Trry suggesting something else? Angelo? ummm i dont knoww just talk it over!

Answer 8

armani is a boys name i think as it is famously known from georgio armani the perfume an aftershave fashion etc but these days you can call your baby somethink unuasual an no one bats an eyelid, i do think thou that u BOTH have to be happy with the name as for the rest of there lives u will be calling them this name an if u hate it then that would be awful. but then again as long as your baby boy is healthy then thats all that matters. good luck

Answer 9

Why would he like that name? Does he plan to wear him around as an accessory? He sounds terribly immature. What happens when Armani goes out of style? Your baby is going to be stuck with it is what. Besides, I think it may even be worse while it is in style. It would be like naming your child Paris after Paris Hilton. Good luck with your guy, he sounds like a handful.

Answer 10

Its a girls name and anyway tell him to keep quite hes not the one having to carry him for 9 months!! Also dont get pressurised into calling him this if you don't like it you will only regret it. write a list of 5-10 names you like each and then swap lists. Cross off the names that are really hideous and you hate and then put your surname with the names you do like and say them outloud.

Answer 11

You've never heard of the designer? google the name Armani. It's a boy's name.