'Wife wants to name our baby after her dead friend - but it creates a Nazi name'
A husband has admitted to marital strife with his wife after putting his foot down over her ‘distasteful’ name request for their soon-to-be-born daughter. The 28-year-old set the scene by saying his wife had met her best friend Eva at school and the pair had been inseparable until she died suddenly, a year after the couple got together at University.
He said: “I had met her a few times, and she was lovely. My wife was understandably devastated.” Two years ago, the couple married, and with his wife estranged from her own family, she took her husband’s last name, Brown, not knowing the trouble it would cause the pair when she got pregnant.
With the couple’s baby girl due in Spring, the husband admitted to being left ‘blindsided’ by his wife after she told him she wanted to honour her dead best friend by using her name for their baby, which he immediately said no to, due to historical connotations. “I said absolutely no way,” he said, reminding his wife of the historical figure, Eva Braun (pronounced Brown), who was married to Hitler.
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“She was the wife of probably one of history's most evil figures and I reassured her that we will tell our kids about Aunt Eva, and she'll always be remembered, but my wife refused saying it has to be her name. She says few will make the link to the historical character, and she won't be bullied at school.”
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However the husband admitted that while he didn’t agree with a child being named after someone they will always be compared to, the name could also cause him problems in his profession as he worked in a school, teaching the Nazis in his syllabus: “Not only am I extremely morally opposed, I work in a field where if there was wind that I named my child Eva Brown, my work could also be at risk".
To try to compromise he suggested alternatives: “I suggested things to do with Eva instead, such as her birthstone or honouring her through a middle name, or even names that had Eve/Eva in. Anything but Eva itself,” he confessed, however the naming dilemma had resulted in him sleeping on the sofa for the last two nights as the couple failed to reach a compromise.
After revealing his 'name shame' on Reddit readers shared their own stories: "I had my son's name picked out years before I was ever pregnant," said one, while another said: "I had a favourite girl’s name since I was a child and now it’s my daughter’s middle name. It made me very happy my husband liked it too."
However some sided with him over naming a child after someone deceased: "Kids are not living monuments to dead people. They deserve their own name," fumed one, while another reader commented "I think it's quite nice to give a child a name that's associated with love and fond memories. That doesn't make them a monument, it just gives them a nice sense of connection to someone they've not had the chance to meet."
One said the name wouldn't be a problem: "I have a cousin in the UK named Eva Brown. Guess how many people have teased her for having a "Nazi name”?" However, one was entirely opposed: "That's like having the last name Hitler and naming your kid Adolph."
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