September 2011 Moms
Is this a horrible name? Honesty please...
Hey Ladies,
Question--my husband and I found out that we are having a boy, and we LOVE the name Lincoln. We've considered other names, and it's the only one we come back to all the time.
The problem is that no one, and I mean no one seems to like it! Family and friends always suggest other names, and even those people who you think you can count on for a sympathy "Aw, that's cute!" let us down.
We need to know what makes the name Lincoln so horrible! We definitely don't want our son to get made fun of! Are we crazy or is everyone else? Help, please 
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Re: Is this a horrible name? Honesty please...
All I can think of is "Abraham Lincoln" when I hear it. Just NMS.
But it's your son! Name him whatever you want! There will always be dissenters.
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I have a friend at work who's son is named Lincoln and her last name is Kennedy. I think its a lovely name and as far as I know no one has ever commented to her about the name or anything.
This made me giggle. My LN is Marquis.. So I have to stay away from Names like Diamond, Licoln, ect..
I don't see anything wrong with Lincoln. There is a boy named Lincoln that goes to my church and I have always liked it. You should name your child what you want to name your child, and it doesn't matter if nobody loves it like you do. As long as it isn't some hideous name that will scar your child for life. Lincoln is a perfectly normal name. I don't see how anyone could think Lincoln was inappropriate.
I'm very finicky about names and I actually like Lincoln, I say go for it!
I like it too, my DH actually keeps bringing it up as a possibility for our LO and it's growing on me. It would be his middle name, but that's what he would go by.
The name Abel is also high on my list, so I'm into old, unusual names that haven't been around for a while.
This is why we aren't telling anybody (except TB) our name choices.
Lincoln is a fine name. It's your child, go with what you want. Everybody else will like the name once the baby is here. And if not, oh well. They will get over it.
Lincoln is an adorable name! I love it.
It has wonderful associations and is uncommon enough that he'll usually be the only boy with his name in class, but not so different that people will struggle with it. It's such a good choice!
When we told my Dad and sister our little boy's name (R?n?n), Dad said that it "sounds like the noise you make in the bathroom in the morning" and my sister was laughing so hard she started snorting. I just told them that they could get used to his name or they could get used to not seeing my son.
People suck sometimes, but it doesn't mean that you have to change the name that YOU love for YOUR child. If they really have a problem with your son's name, you're not forcing them to spend time with him.
My FI name is "Enoch" as in "son of Jared son of Seth son of Adam". For some reason he thought we'd start this trend following the pre-deluge names and our son would be Methuselah. O yes, my son, Meth. No way. We live in Amish country, so there's a lot of Abels, Calebs, Jeremiahs, etc...