‘I hate what my wife wants to name our baby - she should save it for the dog'

“I told her our son would get made fun of for it, but she got defensive and told me it was a good name,” frustrated Isaac shares. 

Isaac isn't happy with his wife's baby name choice. Source: iStock

It’s only a few weeks until Isaac* and his wife, Laura* will welcome their son into the world. 

It’s been a fantastic few months for the couple, but they have recently hit a snag after weighing up baby names. 

When attending an ultrasound appointment, the American couple decided to find out the baby’s gender there and then. 

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Isaac isn't happy with his wife's baby name choice. Source: iStock

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They thought it would be unwise to consider any potential names only to throw them away once they found out the baby's gender. 

So as soon as discovered they were having a boy, the couple sat down to begin drafting a list of names. 

“Almost all of the names she suggested were normal,” Isaac told Reddit, but one proposition threw him for a loop.

“She suggested we name our son Mune,” he wrote, adding, “She told me the name was from this movie she watched when she was younger and that it always stuck with her.” 

Sentimental or not, the name was not right for Isaac, who rejected the idea. “I told her the name was a little out there, and he would get made fun of for it,” he said. 

She disagreed, however, arguing it wouldn’t cause any trouble, but eventually agreed to scrub it from the list and “picked some that we liked.” 

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Weeks passed, and the couple were celebrating their baby shower. “It was fine for the most part until we started to open the gifts,” Isaac explained. 

“Most of them were normal baby things like diapers and bottles until we got to her mum’s gift.” 

Laura opened her mum’s gift, a “blue handmade blanket”, which seemed “normal enough at first.” However, as she unfolded the blanket, Isaac spotted interesting stitching in the bottom corner. 

“Behold, there was the name Mune written on the blanket,” the shocked man wrote. “When I saw it, I was pissed but didn’t want to cause a scene, so I stayed quiet.”

Not only was he deeply confused about the surprise gift, but he was also embarrassed. Family members approached him and asked why he hadn’t revealed the baby’s name earlier. “I didn’t know what to tell them as I didn't have a clue about this either, and just had to embarrassingly tell my family that, which pissed me off even more,” he said 

After the baby shower, Isaac decided to ask his wife about the name situation, but Laura instantly “got defensive” and told Isaac it “was a good name” and he was “overreacting about it.” 

After bringing up “the earlier points” about the child potentially facing bullying with such a name, he blew up and told her he thought it was “a stupid name for a kid.” 

“If she wanted to name something Mune so bad she could use the name for a dog,” he added. 

That was the final straw for Laura, who told her husband she “wouldn’t be coming back for a while” and went to her mum’s house, leaving Isaac racked with guilt over his reaction. 

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“Mune means ‘breasts’ in Japanese … has your wife done any research on this name?”

Offended or not, the majority of people on Reddit agreed with Isaac’s assumptions about the chosen name. 

“You do not name a child something your partner does not agree with,” read a comment. “You find a compromise.”

Others wondered why Laura and her mother thought it would be a good idea to go behind Isaac’s back to create the blanket. 

“You don’t name someone for [the] rest of their life just because someone put a name on a blanket,” someone wrote. “If [Laura’s mum] handmade it, the name can be changed,” another added. 

“This is a child, not a goldfish,” someone agreed. “There are consequences and repercussions to choosing a name that is very unusual to begin with. To go behind the other parent's back and tell a grandparent what the name is going to be, is unacceptable.”

“Sorry, son, but your 13 years of daily beatings at school were unfortunately unavoidable, even though we realised your name would attract exactly that kind of attention,” read a humorous hypothetical comment. “You see, it was already on a blanket.” 

It wasn’t just the betrayal that got people talking, however. “It’s a terrible name,” read a no-nonsense comment. “Straight up bad.”

“Has your wife done any research on this name?” a person pondered. “Mune means breasts in Japanese. Does she even like your kid?”

But the name's Japanese translation didn’t mean much to others. "It also means peaceful in Hebrew," a person shared. "Most words have weird translations in different languages, that's not a good reason to reject a name."

“If you’re going to start ruling out names that have meanings in other languages, you’re just creating unnecessary headaches,” read another comment. 

“Name your kid something appropriate for the country or society you live in and be done. Nobody’s got time to be cross-referencing linguistic dictionaries.” 

*Names have been changed

Originally published as ‘I hate what my wife wants to name our baby - she should save it for the dog'