Baby Name Disagreement?

The first week of June I will find out if I’m having a boy or a girl. This will be our first child and we are just thrilled! My partner and I have been trying to conceive for about four years now and in this time we have talked about baby names. Of course over these years they have changed but there is three little boys names that we have always came back to.





When we started to try and get pregnant I told him that I didn’t want our child to be named after my partners father as his family seems to have a lot of “Larry’s” , even my partners first name is Larry though he goes by his middle name (That was his mothers choice). My partners father passed away two years ago and now he is wanting to honor his father by naming our baby “Larry Junior” if it’s a boy after him. Yes, Junior is the actual middle name.





I’m open to our little boy having Larry as his middle name but I don’t want it as his first name. My partner is wanting to entirely name our child after his father and he thinks I‘m being selfish. If our child was named after his grandfather then that would make our child Larry Junior (Last Name) Jr. Not only would this be an issue but it would bring up why am I not honoring my father by giving our little boy a piece of his name. (I’m not fond of my fathers name either) I would like your honest opinion.

Baby Name Disagreement?
tell him that you want your child to have his own personality and uniqueness and you feel that will be taken away if he has the same name as severeal members of his family. remember to be kind and say that you would love it to be his middle name though.
Reply:I'm need keen on juniors myself, but would consider it if my spouse were, if they really wanted it. I would try to have a name of my choice inserted as a second middle name:


Larry Junior Anthony Last, for example. Then you get the best of both worlds: the dad and his side of the family gets honored, and the mom gets some input too. Compromise means alot, so I think you should really push for this if it means alot to your, since it's your child too.
Reply:Personally im not a big fan of the name larry. (no offense) you should be able to chose a first name then the middle name should be larry then the last name and then just havee Jr. at the end. =] HEy.. maybe you will have a girl. =]


How about....





Alexander Larry ______Jr.


idk what sounds good with larry





how abour benton larry ____jr.


mehh idk
Reply:relax, it is probably a girl anyway.
Reply:Pray for a girl! : )
Reply:i say that really we cant help u. u 2 have to sort it out.


( I'm not fond of Larry Junior) hope it is a girl :)
Reply:my husband wanted our first son named after himself. I went along with it until i got pregnant and now that is comes down to it, i dont want that. I told him the other day and he took it okay. Just tell your husband that he is being selfish, not you. You carry the baby for 9 months, you get to name it :) as well as you have waited to have a baby and you should get to like the name as well, hope this helps
Reply:I DO NOT think you are being at all selfish...


We went through the EXACT same thing when I got pregnant!


My boyfriends name is Jason Patrick.. he wanted to name a boy after him as well...


My brothers name is also Jason and at least 5 of our friends are also named Jason! So I told him it is completely out of the question to name our son that..


Then Patrick was suggested-- well his mom's name is Patricia so I didn't want anything sounding the same!


I told him as you did-- middle name we'll keep but NO Jason!!


( we ended up having a girl-- Evelynn Mae--) but if we have a boy finally agreed on Hunter Patrick!


anyhows I would just put your foot down... and tell him it's not an option and you are by NO MEANS being selfish!!


And who knows maybe you will have a baby girl! If he keeps being ridiculous what about something like Lawrence? ( tell him it could be Larry for short IF YOUR SON chooses )





Either way stick to your opinion because you are completely right and NOT SELFISH! if you ask me he is being selfish and stubborn for not being open to other suggestions. Understandable he wants to honor his father but He was named after his father already so why do you have to honor him again?
Reply:First thing to do is relax...........you've got a few months left before you actually have to name the baby. Leave the lines of communication open, don't let this build a wall between you two. Having a baby is a wonderful thing! It's a miracle! And if you ask Him, God will help you name the baby......


You can change your mind anytime you want to! My son and his wife just had a baby girl, and they couldn't make up their minds either on what to name her. Well, they finally agreed on a name, and it's the most beautiful name! Anyway, what I'm saying is, the two of you should be able to work something out between you, with God's help.
Reply:Tell him he can either take or leave it as a middle name and that there is no sense in giving your son Larry as a first name because you won't even be calling him that. It's about compromises and you have to meet in the middle which...is what you did but he seems to be missing. Hell, my uncle won't even go by Larry and no one else in the family has his name so he goes by Christopher (mn).





He needs to let go and be glad you're even offering it as a middle.