Why is my husband being so mean about this ?

Is there a reason he loves the name so much? I mean he’s entitled to a preference for his baby’s name but it’s a two party decision at the end of the day. I do love Niamh though 😊 I’m Irish too and never met a Niamh who wasn’t lovely xx

@Sarah aww thank you for your opinions, it's quite a new thing in the last 6 or so month because he's applied for an Irish citizenship, he's gone absolutely nuts for Ireland recently, and now even going for names now (last 4 months he's gone crazy for Niamh). I mean it's nice but it's not enough love for me for me to want it for a first name, if that comes across right. We have previously agreed on names as well that we do both like and now he's vetoing them :( xx

That’s totally fine! I completely understand. My husband was obsessed with Augusta and I flat out said no 😂 There’s so many sweet meaning Irish girl names, maybe see if another rings for you as a middle name compromise. I don’t use my Irish name much (I’m a Sorcha) but they all do have lovely meanings. Choose a first name you both love though xx

Niamah you mean gift in arabic or other name?

@April Niamh, it’s old Irish and mythological name meaning bright and radiant. It’s pronounced like “neev” 😊

This is like My other half Only liked the name Alex and that was it. Didjt like any other name I put forward, luckily I did like Alex but I loved so many other names he didn’t!

@Sarah nice but its very nice but even in arabic its only for grandmothers now 🤣 its old around the globe so i recommend praying that he change his mind as this what happened with me thank god 🤣

I agree, it’s not a one person decision what to name a SHARED child! I feel like it’s majorly important for both parents to agree on a name together and it’s never fair or okay for one to give an ultimatum like this

You have to both be happy with the choice I think he needs to accept it if you don’t want it to be baby’s first name

I’d need to know the back story of why he’s so hellbent on that specific name. Like does it have meaning to him? Cause if it’s an Irish thing there are plenty of other names to put into the hat. I personally wouldn’t budge cause if I’m gunna have to say the name daily I’m gunna like it lol but also my parents named me Jazz. JAZZ. If I could go slap them for equally agreeing to that I would. Also no hate to the name but I thought it was pronounced like “Naomi” and so that alone seems it’ll be an issue the kids whole life and nobody likes to have to explain their name every time. Lol

A way to help the convo settle down until a later date is suggest you both make a 3-10 name list and you decide together after you first visually see your born child.

My fiancé got like this. He really liked the name Noah and had his heart set on it, even though I told him repeatedly I didn’t like it. He would tell other people to get validation it was a nice name, which it IS, but I didn’t like it enough. He was stubborn and would say no to every single name I suggested, and although he denied it was because they weren’t Noah, I know for a fact it absolutely was 😂 luckily we both heard the name Archie, and liked it, so eventually, months later, he let Noah go and we called our son Archie.

He doesn’t get to insist on single name, unless it’s a sentimental name that he discussed with you before you even became pregnant. You both need to agree on a name

@Jade thing is we have previously made a list and there is ones for girls we both like, and now doesn't listen to them and blinded by this name instead :(

@Emily Hernandez thank you, it took ages to find my son's name but we kept at it until we both liked it, which is normal. He's saying I'm not the one compromising taking his name preference which is not nice, makes me feel my opinion is invalid

@Kathryn 100% common sense, there's so many nice girl names that previously we've had agreed on for him to say no cause it's not the name he came up with, just don't ever see it stopping which is zapping the fun about having a child 😞

@Jazz honestly I wish there was a back story I then would understand it, it's just a name he's thought of and it's stuck with him, only link is he's now considering himself very Irish to the point he's obsessed, getting Ireland merch, food, getting citizenship, booked a trip to Dublin now. So now all he hears is this name due to the links and he just likes it a lot. Only hope I have is he was also this way with "Mikel" for our son and eventually cause I didn't like it it never happened, so I'm trying to stay positive. 😞

@Parker 又 this is a good idea. We shouldn't talk names until he's going to be fair and level headed anyway, all he's hearing now is that name so it's no point making a list, he's that petty with this he would write each name as Niamh at the moment. But we will come back to names at a later date, maybe 🤞

@Levi oh bless you, I can feel your frustrations, sounds like my husband so much 😥, but good to see a positive ending in the end 🤞 praying this happens for us 🤣

@Rebecca thank you, these are my thoughts exactly 😞

You can always do what my granddad did and go off to the registry office without him to call the baby something else 😂🙈