If the mother and father can't agree on the child's name, who gets the final say?

Question

Does anybody know? :-)

Answer 1

Its usually the mother who signs the birth certificate- and plenty of them have changed names without dad knowing.   The BC is filled out by hospital personnel and the mother is the patient not the dad!

Answer 2

The child is a product of the father and deserves to determine the child's name when there is a conflict.

Answer 3

you will name the child eventually or else you will just have a nameless child

Answer 4

Maybe an outside party, like a grandparent or something.

Answer 5

umm in the hospital the mom gets final say the mom could even leave the dads name blank on the birth certificate. She did carry the child for nine months after all. but I would say compromise because things like this can casue alot of resentment.

Answer 6

choose a different name all together.

yeah you have the argument that mum goes through the pain and c**p but i thing that's petty quite frankly!! What a friend did was take parts of the two names and made a different one, that way both get a say! they ended up with Sh'kyi (pronounced: shakiye) I think it's beautiful and relly unique.

to those such as fergus: go off and try and make a baby on your own, i dare you.

Answer 7

A third party.  Or maybe they should keep introducing new names until they agree on one.

Answer 8

I would take a vote of close friends and family.  Don't preface it with 'I like..., but he likes...' that might bias some opinions.  Just say 'we can't decide, which do you like better?'

Answer 9

THE MOTHER!

She's the one bringing the child into the world. I don't care about all the thumbs down I'll get, so yet er rip.

Actually, just another man, I would.

Answer 10

depends on the couple and who gives in to let the other give the name. however, if the father is not present then what say does he have lol so should and probably is the mothers. MY x wife wanted me to be the one to name our child and i did so with delight because it did give me a sense of being more than just some guy who got her pregnant. We planed to have our child and for her to let me name him or her was a good filling and gave me more of a filling of wanted to be a part of it all.

edit, you know what mizz if you was my x wife i would have been more than happy to not disagree with you either and let you name him or her with out a fuss. but at the same time i have a filling you really would not have in-clouded me in any of it as did my x-wife did.

edit, ah ok hehehe i just miss reading you then i apologize.

Answer 11

Combine them in some way shape or form?

lol I'd actually like to know the answer to this question. It might help solve some baby name problems.

Answer 12

My dad gave me my first name, my mom gave me my middle name.  Come to think of it, maybe that's why my mom always wanted me to go by my middle name.

Answer 13

who ever writes on the Birth certificate

Answer 14

I say if you have to go through the pain of being pregnant for 9 months and then giving birth to it you have all naming rights.

Answer 15

...the mother reserves the right to name her child. in fact the child takes to the name of the mother -not the father.

(it just so happens that when a woman marries, she takes the last name of her husband.. and makes it her own. this in turn she passes on to her children)

Answer 16

There is no hard and fast rule.  They'll have to compromise.  Perhaps one can decide the name for this child, and the other can decide the name for the next child.

Answer 17

The person filling out the birth certificate.

Answer 18

I agree with letting the child choose when they're old enough.

In the meantime, rock paper scissors, flip a coin.. whatever.

Answer 19

Paper, Rocks, Scissors?

My boyfriend and I have come up with names beforehand so we don't have to deal with that conundrum when it gets time for us to have children!

I would just keep coming up with names until they reach a compromise.  Or let one partner pick the first name and the other pick the middle name!  Relationships are all about compromise!

Answer 20

No one, you have to decide to put it on a birth certificate.  I guess whoever fills out the birth certificate form first could beat the other one to it.

Answer 21

the father in my family lol

but whoever feels more strongly about it

just  PLEASE dont fight over it baby would hate it if u fought over it's name.

just dont stress it.

Answer 22

i would say both because the the child is both his and hers, try to pick a name that you both agree on