ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
How horrible it must be to have a child, and know, even as you're carrying them, that the choice of what to name them is not yours to make.
Out of interest, how do you know this is the case? Lots of people name their children after relatives, entirely of their own free will. My daughter is named Rosie Joanna, slightly adapted after my paternal grandmother (Rosena) and my mother (Joan). No one asked myself or my ex to give her these names, we did it as a nice surprise for my family (she has her mother's surname, so that's where her family come in).