Name negotiations

Ah, names. As much as I talked big about not letting DH have any say as long as he kept coming up with insane suggestions, I really did want him to have some say in it. The day of Matthew's birth, I point-blank told him "his name will be Matthew". And that was that. Luckily, he likes the name, so there wasn't a fight there. So that left the middle name as DH's.

Problem was, I already had a middle name picked out, and I was completely in love with it: Sebastian. I thought I could have it because it is a known name, but unusual and not used a lot. That was DH's biggest argument... that he wanted his kid to have a "cool" name that almost no one else had. So I thought Sebastian was an awesome choice.

Yeah, not so much, in DH's opinion. So we started hashing out the same negotiations we'd been having for the past week or two, with me vetoing 99% of his suggestions. He finally got stuck on Star Trek names, as we're both Trekkies (he vetoed the name Data though). His first suggestion was Khalis, and honestly, I kinda liked that. He was so excited that I actually gave a green light for it, that I thought that's what it would be. But then he decided to push the envelope a bit. His next suggestion was Locutus. As in Locutus of Borg. *sigh*

I mean, it isn't horrible, but at the same time, I didn't want my son to be fodder for bullies because we, his parents, decided to give him a weird name. So I asked him to research the name to make sure there were no real negative connotations behind the name, and this is what he found that ultimately led me to okay the name Locutus:

"I am Locutus... of Borg. Resistance... is futile. Your life as it has been... is over. From this time forward... you will service... us."

Appropriate, don't you think? Anyway, he also found that the name is based off the Latin word, which means "spoken, or having spoken". So not a bad connotation.

But at the same time, I was still stuck on Sebastian. So I pulled the "I just had major surgery to have YOUR child" card, and told him that Sebastian would be a middle name, regardless of what he thought. He could have two middle names. I thought it was only fair since DH supplied the surname. :) So we'd each get 2 names. I was even nice and let him put Locutus first. Aren't I a nice wife? 

The name is so long, that when Matthew's social security card showed up, Sebastian had the "n" left out. Yeah, he's going to hate us for giving him such a long name. But at least he'll have good reason to learn the alphabet early. :)