Mine... nope! But my chinese coworker was telling me that it's tradition to have your parents approve of the name. Interesting.
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Definitely not. In fact DH's parents didn't like them because they weren't Bible names.
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Nope. We didn't even tell them until she was born.
I asked my Mom to give my LO her Chinese name though.
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All four loved our choice, we didn't tell them until a couple weeks before birth though. And we certainly didn't ask for approval!
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We wouldn't have cared, but everyone loved his name.
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Nope, I let them know the name we chose. They said "thats a ok name, I guess". I thanked them for the opinion and changed the subject. It has not been brought up again.
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I care about my mil's opinion on names.
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We don't share until baby is born, so if they don't approve, they'd never say! I'm pretty sure they love LO's name, though. It's a family name on DH's side, so I know they love it.
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We didn't share her name till she was born. Not one person has made a comment on it.
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I don't need approval from my parents for anything.
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We did not need it but all 4 loved our pick.
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@Coffee-lover: MIL didn't like our one girl name when we mentioned to her that it was our first choice about 2 years ago. Since then, she's really accepted it and are so excited about our pregnancy. She still mentions that we should name one of the kids after her. DH said she's joking but I'm not exactly sure... she has brought it up more than 4 times. I just ignore her.
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I wanted them to like it, but we definitely didn't need anyone's approval.
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@Smurfette: same with us. We didn't share until the birth!
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My daughter yes, my son no. My Mom really doesn't like the nickname for his full name.
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Nope! They liked it anyway (though I'm not sure they would say if they didn't), but I wouldn't have asked their approval anyway.
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@bluestriped bee: if I remember, you like Linnea? It's a beautiful name :). But now you are going to have to think of more names!!!
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My mom actively disapproved of our second daughter's name until she was born. Then she really liked it. This is why I don't typically share our names.
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@Mrs. Jacks: Close! We really like the name Lana.
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I really rwspect my mom's opinion, and she is one of 2 people I told the name choices to before baby was born. I was worried about my dad's reaction, but he loved it!
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Nope! Won't share til baby is here
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As much as I don't need our parents to approve of a name, I really do want them to like it. Nonetheless, I'm prepared for a disapproving wrinkled nose and frown from my mom.
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@bluestriped bee: lovely.
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We aren't sharing our name choices with anyone until the baby gets here!
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They didn't know it until after he was born. It's not a tradition in our family to share or request approval and I'm really glad that it's not!!
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Nope! But I gave my parents the rights to give my baby his Chinese name. They were nice and gave me a list to choose from so ultimately, I still picked.
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If they didn't, they've never said anything to me about it! they all knew before DD1 was born.
DD2 we haven't told anyone, I can see the mom's being a little more "Umm WTH?" My mom did make a comment after my sister said Evelyn (we are using Everly) and she's like "why would she want to use a name so close to DD1" ummmm well we are mom
haha the only common factor is the first letter at least IMO!
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No, there is no expectation on either side that my parents will like our baby name choices. We did not and will not announce until baby is born.
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We've told both sets of parents that we won't be telling them before the birth. They haven't voiced any objection over it, but I'm sure they're anxious to find out. They haven't suggested any names as of late, however, so maybe they've clued in that we want this to be our decision.
We are going with two family names (both sides of the family) for middle names, which I guarantee they will love, and will choose a non-family name for his first. I can honestly say I don't care if they approve of the name or not. They've had their chance to name kids!
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No way! My mom still whines that one of my sons isn't somehow named after her or her family, lol. I think your children's names are very much a personal decision.
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@bluestriped bee: no, but ILs would have loved that. FIL actually told us to change D's name to one that he chose after everything happened, he said if we changed it then God would bless him. I said if God would let a baby suffer because he had the wrong name then I wasn't interested in appeasing him.
Man, that got deep! Sorry
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No. We didn't even tell anyone her name until she was born. And thank goodness, because we got a few comments on my side but it was too late for me to care.
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My mom was smart enough to not give her opinion. My MIL, however, has disliked every name we have come up with. So, for our third we didn't tell her because she doesn't like the names and I can't un-know that, but then she asked our daughter what we were going to name the baby. GAH!
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Hahahahaha!!! No way. My ILs used to constantly treat us like kids and thought we should be running decisions by them - like having them help us house shop, grilling us about our mortgage length and interest rate, asking how much DH put in his 401K that year, telling us we are done having kids now that we have two, etc. Unfortunately we can't share info with them without them telling us what we should do and getting upset if we do not follow their orders. Only way around it is to not tell them about things.
So what I am saying, as you could probably guess, is that my answer is no.
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My father named all the boys part 1/2 Asian this name and then we picked out the other part 1/2 Asian that name. So my kids each have two asian names and an english name.
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None of our parents have any idea what names we've picked.
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@Mrs. Tiger: Oh, wow!
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We knew way in advance what our son's first name would be and both our families love his first name (its Biblical). We wanted DS's middle name to be Korean so we boiled it down to 2 choices, shared with my family at the hospital, and everyone vetoed one choice because they thought it was too feminine. So we went with the other choice and my Korean family all love it.
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I think everyone liked LO#1's name. My parents HATE what our LO#2's name will be, but my sister likes it so much that she was planning on the same name and nickname for her potential future daughter so was bummed that we had stolen it, lol. Both kids have really classic names, so I didn't think they could inspire strong feelings, but I was apparently wrong! We don't mind that they don't like it though.
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They do happen to love her name, but we absolutely did not need their approval.
haha the only common factor is the first letter at least IMO!
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