Do you like your H's name?

baby_mama88

I like my husbands name, but not the way it's spelled.

Jheremy.

Pronounced Jeremy. It makes it fun when I'm feeling annoying I call him   "Jeher-emyyyyyyy!" 

The spelling of DH's name doesnt surprise me though, MIL's more than annoyingly firm suggestion for DD#2... Jharri...ick.

veganxangel

I'm not a fan of my husband's plain name, but I'm glad its not something so strange that I would dismiss it as a possible future mn for one of our sons. His name is Michael John (Hello generic!)

ToBeMrsT

no, it's a unisex name and has caused so many stupid issues because everyone thinks he's a MRS. and not a MR.

SarahPLiz

FI's very Romanian name is Razvan. I am not a fan. It is, however, very unique, as it has no meaning at all, and was totally made up by the Roma in protest to Christian names and their Romanian equivalents.

Cabrita

Love his name--Charles.

Don't like that his parents call him "CJ" though--he doesn't like it either.

veganxangel

Cabrita:

Love his name--Charles.

Don't like that his parents call him "CJ" though--he doesn't like it either.

Gahhh! MIL calls Michael "MJ" and it makes me cringe every time. 

EastCoastBride

What's up w/ the spelling?  That absolutely, 100% just looks misspelled.  Your MIL is a whack job.

That being said.... DH's name is Jonathan and he goes by Jon.  I like it well enough.  Generic to a point, but solid all the same. 

We both have "H" problems w/ our names, though.  We're Jon and Sarah.  From people who don't know us well, I've gotten some correspondence that comes in as "John and Sara".   

Mama_SAS

No, because it causes problems.

It's a fine name and a common name. There are over 20,000 people in the US with the same fn/ln combination. He has the same fn/ln as his deceased father so we're constantly getting mail and bills that are not ours, even though we live far from where they lived and DH has a different middle initial.

We used his first initial to name DS, but did not carry on his first name. 

rsquaredr

DH is Ryan. I love his name. Although when he was little he got the nn Rybo. I absolutely cannot stand hearing it. His parents and grandparents still call him that.

IrishBrideND

Yes. Its classic. In long form, it can be formal. But it also lends itself to nicknames.

metzy144

DH's name is Shane Patrick. I love it!

Becky262

Love DH's name - Christopher  

sunnyday016

DH is Kevin. I don't hate it, but I wouldn't use it for my own child. Maybe give it as a middle.

3PupsAndABaby

hate his name.. it's richard.. his dad is a richard, and one of his brother's middle names is richard. rick wanted to name the middle name richard, i laughed in his face. probably cause i hate his whole family haha

HAFranklin

I love DH's name...Michael. Not as much a fan of Mike, which he prefers to go by.

grace782

I have no problem with it, but he hates it and doesn't use it (FN John, goes by his last name). He thinks it's boring.

dairygirl19

H's name is David. I like the name fine enough and we'll use it as a middle name for a boy I'm sure. I like how it's classic and ages wel. Not a fan of the nn that come with it though (H just goes by David unless I'm being annoying and then it's Davey..lol).

His mn is Donald though. David Donald. Horrid name, but he's named after his godfather so it works.

Leap08

My husband's name is James. I like it a lot, but I do not like Jim / Jimmy and neither does he. His mom and his older sisters still call him Jimmy, and sometimes I don't even realize they are talking about or to my husband. Jimmy just doesn't fit him at all.

scoutkate

DH is Winslow--it was his grandmother's maiden name, and I love it.  Unfortunately, his friends like to call him Slow, which annoys me, especially since our last name sounds like "goings." 

KristenRizz

DH name is Richard Allen, it was his fathers name i like it, he hates it though. HaHa.

streamtrax41

CabbageCabbage:

I like my H's name. It's William but he's always gone by Billy.  I used to say that I would never date a man who uses a "little boy" nickname. Of course, I ended up marrying a guy who goes by Billy 100% of the time.  It has grown on me.  I think it's hilariously country sounding for a guy who has never lived outside the Chicago metro aree but it suits him perfectly. 

Jharri is frightening.  Maybe you could name a fish or a houseplant Jherri and tell MIL, "Oh, dear.  I love it but it's already my fern's name."

This made me LOL. Awesome idea!

anna7602

Objectively, no. I of course now only associate it with him and I love him to pieces, but if you asked me if you should name your child after DS, I would emphatically say no.

I don't want to post his name because it is very rare and it would be too easy to find out my real name if you just googled our names together. Sorry to be so cagey.

But the reasons I dislike it are:

- It sounds "made up," although there are some very obscure references to the name historically, most of them outside the U.S. (and if you ask a person from the countries in question, they'll even say it's totally obscure and that they are unsure of the name's pronunciation)

- it's very rare yet sounds a lot like other common names, so DH is constantly being called by a different name when we go to parties or other situations where we meet new people.

- After clarifying his name, DH often has to spell it, but sometimes that doesn't even help since the pronunciation/spelling combo is not necessarily intuitive.

- People are ALWAYS asking both of us the origins/meaning/reason for DH's name. That gets tiresome. In addition, all we can say for reason is "MIL just liked it," a reason that, in my name nerd snobbery, just doesn't cut it.  

ae2409

My dh's name is Elliot and I love love love it! 

LMS05

DH's name is Phillip Jacob and I like it. Jacob is his grandfather's name. I wouldn't use Phillip, but I think it's a nice name. We will use Jacob for a middle name.

streamtrax41

Well.... my husband's name is Huy (Vietnamese). It's pronounced "we". The upside is that at least I can pronounce it (Vietnamese is one of those languages with sounds that English-speaking people generally cannot differentiate nor replicate). The down side is it gets very confusing in general conversation. So, I call him Huyzel (weasel). He's long been a fan of people coming up with humorous ways to use his name. Huyzel was one no one had come up with yet, so when I called him that, it just stuck. His last name is Tang. When we met, he tried to convince me his middle name was Drink. Oh yes, he's hysterical. He uses words like huyk (weak), etc. And when our son was born, we started calling him Squeaks, which we spell Sqhuyks.

Anyway, I call him Huyzel all the time and I don't even think about how it sounds until someone gives me the side-eye when I call him that in public, lol. I just think of it as Huy-zel, not weasel. KWIM?

Some of my family and friends calls him Huyzel, some call him Huy. His family calls him by his Chinese name, which sort of sounds like Fye-e. So in a very long-winded reply to the question, my answer is no, I don't really care for my husband's name. It's just too damn confusing in an English-speaking country. It's kind of fun, though... my dad was very excited when we got married, because now we're all officially the "Huy Tang Clan!"

kategomu

My husband's name is plain but I love it. It's Adam, easy to say, easy to remember, easy to spell.

kategomu

My husband's name is plain but I love it. It's Adam, easy to say, easy to remember, easy to spell.

crystal959

kategomu:

My husband's name is plain but I love it. It's Adam, easy to say, easy to remember, easy to spell.

 

Mine too. No nicknames, no BS. haha

braveangel2

Wow, his parents really did him a disservice. That is the first time I've seen Jeremy with an H. I love how you handle it though!

I adore my husband's name. It's short, strong and masculine. It has history and fits him well.

Bonus: in Swedish, it's spelled, Jerk, so I can tease him for that when I want to.

Maddie*13

I love my husband's name, Graham. I'm so glad I didn't end up in a relationship with a one of the traditionally, over used in our generation, named boys.  I get all the mikes/matts/johns mixed up when I'm not paying a lot of attention (ie. talking while distracted lol) and I'm sure I would never hear the end of it if I called my husband the wrong name!

braveangel2

CabbageCabbage:

Jharri is frightening.  Maybe you could name a fish or a houseplant Jherri and tell MIL, "Oh, dear.  I love it but it's already my fern's name."

Hahahaha...that's an awesome suggestion!

Nanna

I love love love my H's name.  He's Vincent John, named after both of his grandfathers.  He mainly goes by Vince (and only gets called Vincent when he's in trouble with me!).  I love that it is a normal, strong name, but it easy to spell and not very common.  I wish he wanted a Jr because I would have loved to pass on his name.  Instead, we gave our second son his initials, Vaughn Joseph.

BethPSU

I like my husband's name, but it was way overdone in the early 80s.  We recently got a publication from our alumni college magazine and we had submitted DS's birth announcement.  Of the graduates in the early 2000's 5/7 of the new dad's had the same name.  Brian..

My MIL is always suggesting trendy names that she hears.  I think it is appropriate since she named her kids trendy names at the time.

alohamora

baby_mama88:

I like my husbands name, but not the way it's spelled.

Same here...his mother was trying to go for all children with the same first initial and wound up spelling his name uneekly to make it fit. 

tSquared1987

DH's name is Kyle and I like it. Simple and easy.

KMac2784

I dont love it, nor do i hate it. His name is Christopher Michael Timothy lastname. three super generic names. He hasn't even asked to have a namesake, he knows I like uncommon names.  

his brothers names are Nichols Shawn and Matthew Jameson.   Chris, Nick, and Matt.....Sorry MIL- boring!

mommydale

DH's name is John Ryan.  Thankfully he goes by Ryan.  Otherwise it becomes very confusing.  (John is his dad's name, ss's name, and his brother is Sean). I love his name though.

Jeremy isn't bad but that spelling hurts my eyes and I am thankful you don't like her suggestion!!!

skio

His name is Matthew, and I love it.

I had an ex-boyfriend named Andrea. Pronounces Ahn-dray-uh.

StellarStina26

I don't hate it.  But, I kinda do.  His name is Rick Edward.  Just Rick... And I get annoyed when people try to make it longer.  I will never name a child a nickname.

And he got the shaft in his family... in age order the kids are Sidney, Rick, Shawna, and Sabrina.  Odd one out much?  Thanks MIL.

citychicks

DH's name is Raymond. Kinda blah, but not a bad name either.

His short, fat, redneck, twatwaffle cousin calls him "Ray-tard." He still calls him that, even though they are both in their thirties and does so in front of our children (which obviously pisses me off). I'd wish him dead for being such an offensive waste of oxygen, but he has kids and probably doesn't have life insurance.

tusshie2004

DH's name is Trevor! I love, love, love his name for him (because it fits him) but I would never name our future son's Trevor.