Move over, Gwyneth Paltrow — this guy’s wife has got you beat.
A woman pitched “ridiculous” names such as Hoohee, Joejie, Yabba and Buza for her child, but her husband was hell-bent on choosing something more traditional.
“I’m a traditional man, I like traditional names with a rich history and profound meaning,” the husband reportedly wrote in a Reddit forum called “Am I the A–hole.” “My wife on the other hand wants to name our child something unique, something that literally no one else on Earth will think of.”
Her suggestions, though, might lend themselves to bullying later down the road, he wrote, vehemently refusing to name their child something so “ridiculous.”
“Anyone can see that these names are absolutely ridiculous, and she will probably never land a respectable job,” he continued in the post. “By the way, we’re both Caucasian so these aren’t cultural names or anything.”
He suggested the names Amelia, Ella and Sophia, but claimed that his wife argued they were “too common” and wanted something more unique. Even after their daughter was born, his wife dug in her heels, refusing to budge from the name Buza.
“I told her no one will take her seriously with a name like that and that she was just pursuing the novelty of a unique name without thinking about what actually works for her,” he wrote. “I saw that she was completely set on the name that she chose and there was no way I could convince her otherwise.”
In an attempt to save his daughter from future bullies and misfortune, he registered his daughter’s name all by himself because he was “worried” that his wife “would go and do it first.”
“I chose a really pretty name for her that wasn’t too old-fashioned and I thought my wife would be okay with it,” he said.
Of course, he wrote, she was “furious.”
“She said I was an a–hole, but I think she’d be the bigger a–hole for giving our daughter a name that could ruin her life,” he said.
Users in the comments agreed with the husband, some even going so far as calling the name Buza “child abuse.”
Going over his wife’s head resulted in doing time in the doghouse. Getty Images/iStockphoto“If your wife was 100% going to go with Buza and was simply not going to back down no matter what you said, I think you made the right decision,” one agreed.
“It’s like child abuse to name a baby something that stupid,” wrote someone else.
“They’d spend their entire childhood being relentlessly bullied and feeling like s–t with no hope of healthy self-esteem,” the comment read. “And then they’d spend their adulthood having their job applications tossed in the trash.”
When choosing baby names, this couple couldn’t compromise. Getty Images/iStockphotoOther users who grew up with uncommon names even agreed with the husband’s rash decision.
“As somebody with an awkward, long and hard-to-spell name that doesn’t fit me at all, I think you did the right thing,” one user wrote.
“My name has been like a millstone around my neck and a source of headaches my whole life,” the comment continued. “I was teased for it, it doesn’t fit on forms, nobody can remember it, it’s constantly spelled wrong. Ugh.”







