Baby Name Poll Results

Get a baby name book and let him go through it!

Tell him the child is both of yours.. you hate that name and then start with suggestions of other oler names.. and also remind him that dorcas will be shortened to DORK by almost every school child at some time and your daughter will have to go thru that pain.

Try to get him to look at other old names. maybe even do a poll here for suggestions.

Eek. I’m sorry.

How about:
Duncan
Dorian
Elliot
Zacharias
Jeremiah
Jonah
Cassidy
Quinton
Victor
Daniel
Micah
Henry
William
Joseph
Edward

Remind him that your daughter will be teased incessantly in school. He’ll get it.

make a game out of it, get 2 book, and two sheets of paper, both write down the names you like , then at the end get the list and star the ones that are the same. the matches make the final list!

and if all fail print out this pool and show him the negative comments and that name.

Edith
Esther
Laverne
Lavinia
Joyce
Viola
Agnes
Agatha
Nellie
Martha
Honoria
Aurelia
Arietta
Henrietta
Harriet
Laura
Vivian
Dorothy
Deborah
Florence
Sarelda
Sophronia
Seraphina
Brigetta
Jeraldine
Naomi
Dorah
Doreen

Do you like any of these?

Dora-Kate gives a similiar sound without being teasable.

what about Isadora ?

Tell your hubby that you absolutely can’t stand the name Dorcas. And I like the previous suggestion of making two lists from a name book or website and seeing if any of them match. Maybe make sure that you each have to pick at least 5 or 10 names... good luck!

Thanks for the ideas. I’ll try the lists thing.

it seems to work1 just dont talk to each other while picking names. lol

Have him go by the name Dorcas for a day and see what kind of response he gets...it would be an anthropology experiment for him. Put himself in the place of his future son. I’m sure within a few minutes of meeting people with the name Dorcas he would change his mind about that stupid name.

My husband and I agreed from the beginning that we wouldn’t use a single name that either of us hated. We’ve both had to throw out names we were pretty attached to, but in the end, we managed to come up with 6 full names that we both love (just to cover all our bases! Unless we have more than 6 kids, we’re good to go now!). Now we are expecting our first, and the name is already taken care of--we just need to find out if it’s a boy or a girl!

I know it’s a bit sad for both of you to think of having to give up names you’re really attached to, but in the end, I think you’ll both be much happier (especially if it means you DON’T have to have a daughter named Dorcas!!) In any case, it’s worked for my husband and me, and we love the names we’ve picked out--even more so, because we picked them together!