Poor child, please don't send him after an anime character. I knew someone who named their child Legolas Armand - and his last name was Thai and at least 11 characters. Just, don't.

SASUKE.

My favorite anime. Would not name my kid that, though.

my SO said if we had a boy he wanted to name him sauskae (or however you spell it) i guess its a naruto character or something i told h e double hockey stick no, now he dont wanna help with the name picking if its a boy??

Naming a kid something like Dragneel after a f*cking anime character is one of the most cringeworthy things I have heard in a long time. And I love anime.

I also wanted to add that I use their full names when stuff "gets real" and I am getting onto my kids so there is that too? But we also use hand me down middle names, my daughter has the same middle name as my grandma and myself and my last son has my dads (and brother) name as his middle name.

My dad, brothers, and my oldest son (because I was stupid when I agreed to name him after my loser ex) go by their middle names. My husband and I couldn't agree on naming our last one and he kept bringing up Tyler even though we have another son with that as his middle name. I refused though, cousins maybe, but not using my own kids name twice as a middle and then a first name.

Dragneel lmao I can't believe someone would try to name their kid that

Four of my brothers have my dads first name as their middle name. If I have a son he will also have my dads name as a middle name. But I can understand. My sister in law just changed her unborn sons name because Someone else in her family chose the same name.

Man, I'm so glad my hubby likes normal names

Lol ??

I feel your pain. If it were up to my SO all our children and future children would be named after anime characters ?

Leo Astor sounds really cute and I feel like you've already compromised enough by changing his first name. And if SO thinks Astor sounds ridiculous, but thinks Dragneel has a nice ring to it, he's no longer allowed to volunteer an opinion lol. Good luck with that...

P.S. Grayson was an awesome choice and your SIL is being an unreasonable brat. I mean that in the nicest way possible though. Totally. ?

Tbh, I would have kept his name as it was. My son's middle name is the same as his cousins first name and it's also one of my cousins middle name as well as my great grandfather's first name. If i was having a girl it would have been the same thing. My cousin had kids first and wanted to name them after our great grandparents and so did I.

As for the names your SO picked out, they aren't too bad really. I've heard much worst, and at least it's a middle name..if your son grows up like his dad he might think it's a pretty cool middle name.

My brother named his son William and my sister named her son Jesse William. (Wm after our deceased father) The boys are 6 months apart and now 18 years old. It was never an issue for them.

Lots of people go by their middle name....

And I think it's important for children to have their own name (:

Yes I know I'm going against popular opinion..

I like leo anyhow

Tamz, I work at a credit union where we see people's legal names all day long. It's amazing the amount of people that go by their middle name rather than first. So many! There were tons of people I've known for years that go by their middle name, and I had no idea until I started dealing with their banking.

My middle name is Makayla and my aunt named her daughter Makayla. Not a big deal. I love the name Leo though! But Dragneel is awful. ?

I've never heard of anyone being called by there middle name?

And I'm 33, so in my 33 yrs of life never heard of it..

I think it's crazy to not name your baby something because it's another baby's middle name, and definitely not because one day he MIGHT maybe want to use it as his first name?

If it would bothered him he won't use it....

I was upset at first because once I thought about it, a lot of kids around here like to be called by their middle name. My sister is called Jane by a lot of her friends, her first name is Tayler. My SOs step brother is called Jared, his first name is Christian. So I'm thinking maybe Chase will one day want to be called Grayson.

My sons name is leo :) . My brother and his wife wanted to call their child if it was a boy Carter but thought id be pissed because its my sons middle name. I didnt and still dont care if they wanted to but they had a girl anyway.

I know. I just wanted to respect her and her son also.

Who cares it's a middle name not his first. My sons name is Ryan Patrick and my husbands cousin just named her baby Patrick. We aren't offended or even care she did honestly I didn't even think twice about it. I think that's petty

Haha our babys middle name is after a dang Nascar race track...Bristol. for SO of course. Doesn't really bother me. He really wanted it, you don't often hear a middle name being used anyhow.

I'm not dissing fairy tale at all, it's just that's not a name to name my baby; it didn't sound right to me.

I love fairy tail. Were naming our son after a final fantasy character.

How do you know they won't like it? Not that it matters, you guys seem to have decided and are cool with the decision. I just want to know how you can read their future minds already. You know, so I can find out if my nephew and son are going to put my SIL and I in a home for giving them the same middle name. ?

@tiff I was thinking ahead in the future, what if my SOs son decides to go by Grayson? He's almost one, but I'm thinking around 5-10 years later he decides to go by his middle name.

Ok now I can get some sleep ☺️ night ladies.

@britt I understand where you're coming from, but my SOs sister and I agreed that it wouldn't be fair to the boys. I mean I'm a little upset, but I can't hold anything against her. I told her I respected that she let me know before actually naming him Grayson and the boys wouldn't like having the same name. Even though her sons middle name is grayson, not his first name. We thought about the boys first.

If any other BB comments, I'll see them in the morning. I'm exhausted and going to try to sleep.

I wouldnt change it bc someone's middle name, unless the kid goes by that name. People get flustered about middle names, or what the meaning of the name is or if its spelled according to what other people like; and idk why bc the kid isn't ever going to go by those things just like we as adults don't, so why does it matter Lol. My baby's father wanted to name our son Goku. Like he legit wouldn't quit bringing up that & some other name? but it didn't happen.

No it's just another story to get into about the whole break. But my mother made him feel like he was a horrible boyfriend and father. I only said to my parents and I quote "I wish I could communicate with him better and control my attitude" because we were arguing over a misunderstanding in communication. But my mother called him and was totally ride to him. I never said anything about him. I literally was talking about myself. But that did contribute to the break.

Is he ten?

You're on a break because your mom doesn't like him? Did your mom break up with him? I don't see the issue with the name Grayson, my son and my nephew were born 7 weeks apart and both of their middle names are Scott. Quit worrying about what others think and do what makes you guys happy, you only get one life.

Well him and I are on break due to a my family hating him for no reason. Literally. My mom says he doesn't treat me right. Him and I have our moments to where we argue, but that's very rare. He's a great fiancé, and a great guy. My mom doesn't even know him. I told her I changed his name to Leo because my SOs nephews middle name is Grayson. Wouldn't be fair to the kids. So she said the only reason why he wanted to change his name was because my mom thought of Grayson Lee, AFTER what I said about my SOs nephew middle name being Grayson. It's just ridiculous. They love to start drama. My boyfriend has never said one bad thing about my parents. My parents always thinks he's an a**hole. My boyfriend is a sweetheart. He really is. I'm just in a really bad mood today and what my mother said was really messed up

I don't blame you! I'd go crazy on my fiancé for wanting to name our son after something like that. He likes dragon Ball z alot?

Good call on the Dragneel! ?