FIL making fun of our child’s name

We recently informed my husband’s parents that we have decided on the English and Chinese names for our child. Being Chinese-ed, they complained that the English name was a mouthful, and my FIL even made fun of the Chinese name (he said that people are bound to make fun of our child in school with that name). I WAS SO FURIOUS, but decided to ignore him since my husband didn’t say anything as well. The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. I felt that he didn’t respect us enough as parents of his grandchild. I just didn’t want to rant to my husband because they are his parents after all. Anyone faced the same issue naming their child?

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Quite curious, what are the names? My FIL oso made fun of LO’s name but he’s always like that so we took it a pinch of salt. He never made fun of her name anymore when his love for LO grew.

5y ago

My FIL has always been a serious, no-nonsense person. Then he pulled that joke on our kid’s name. Which wasn’t funny IMO.