My boy and his wife are anticipating their 1st baby. They recognize through an ultra sound that they are having a boy. They’ve been searching for baby boy names since they discovered the gender of the baby. My daughter-in-law from time to time has very different ideas so I have concerned about what type of baby boy names she’s going to come up with. She purchased a book of names to find out different meanings of each name. She’s into psychology as well as the zodiac. She thinks that what ever you are named, this will be your fate. I tease her that she is going to give birth to the next messiah because her name is Mary. She perpetually complains about her common name. I believe this is the reason why she is spending a good deal of time looking at baby boy names. My son is stressing about this because he recalls teasing his classmates in school who had strange names. He concerns that if his wife insists on a strange name, his son will be made fun and called by a nickname. My daughter-in-law insists that whatever baby boy name they decide on, this is what everybody will call the kid and she does not want the child to be called by a shortened version or nickname. I’ve attempted to warn her that she can’t control what others decide to do. As the baby grows and ages, he may decide that he would instead have people call him something different than the name she gives him.

When my son enquired me for my opinion, I told him that my only wish for them is that their child is healthy. No matter what name they give to the baby boy, I will love him because he’s their son, and will be my first grandson.