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Lottie Gibbons & Conor Gogarty

Dad 'refuses' to call baby the name chosen by his girlfriend

A mum is in a dispute with her own boyfriend over the baby name she has chosen.

Taking to Mumsnet, an anonymous user wrote: "We had chosen a name. She had a Baby names you'll find more here than anywhere else - and they're very Bristol!

"Now that she's here, he is refusing to call her the name we had picked, Sophia, and is saying she looks like an Audrey or an Arden.

"He appears to be leaning towards Arden. He's refusing to call her Sophia and I'm at the end of my tether.

"She's two weeks old and she doesn't have a name. I wanted Sophia, Alice or Sophia Skye."

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The mum claimed her partner has been "babbling on" about Sophia being an overly "popular" name.

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She added: "It's completely thrown me off track as we had planned to get her letters painted for her name and my parents are asking the name and every time I say Sophia, he says we haven't really chosen and it's just getting to me!

"He wants Audrey, Delilah or Arden Katherine. Am I being unreasonable to say that we chose Sophia so she's Sophia now?"

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'I don't think he's being ridiculous'

Her rant prompted a big response of varying opinions.

One parent responded: "I think you are not being unreasonable. He can't randomly decide her name is Audrey of all things.

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"I love Sophia, even if it is popular. Even the most popular names are not "everywhere". There is no Amelia, Olivia or Sophia in dd's (darling daughter's) class."

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Another said: "I like Sophia as a name, but I know two and would avoid it for being too common.

"It's unfair if you had already 'agreed', but if you dislike his current choices so much, you just need to start again."

However, a third wrote: "I don't think he's being ridiculous. He's gone off the name for your daughter, which is fair enough.

"I do think you both have to agree on another name. It's really not relevant how many posters like Sophia, the baby's father does not want to call their baby that."

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