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Is this name just asking for trouble or perfectly okay?

119 replies

KnittedC · 07/02/2013 19:48

I'm currently 38 weeks pregnant with my first (don't know if we're having a boy or a girl) but I'm not sure whether one of the names we are thinking of is too out there or not. The day we found out we were pregnant I suggested this name for a boy and DP was adamant there was no way; but since then it has sort of stuck and now he is even more keen on it than I am! The name we are thinking of is Grover.

Because we've discussed it back and forth for so many months I'm not sure if I have clarity anymore over whether it's horrible or not, but we both really love it and it just feels right. It also goes well with the surname. What does everyone think - would it be unreasonable to call our son Grover?

Of course, it's possible that after all this we have a girl and this is moot Smile

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noblegiraffe · 07/02/2013 19:49

Like the muppet???

FellatioNels0n · 07/02/2013 19:49

Wasn't it a character from Sesame Street? I don't mind surnames used as first names, but I'm not wild about it. I could tolerate it though.

LineRunner · 07/02/2013 19:50

As in Grover Washington?

Do you live in New Orleans and move in jazz circles? Otherwise, I wouldn't tbh.

ArbitraryUsername · 07/02/2013 19:50

Actually I like it. Sure it's a Sesame Street character, but I think it's still quite a cool name.

aftermay · 07/02/2013 19:50

Not keen but only because it sounds like grovel.

deleted203 · 07/02/2013 19:51

I have to say that if your DS grows up and goes to the secondary school I teach in his life will be hell...

BabyRoger · 07/02/2013 19:51

Oh sorry, but you are asking for trouble in my opinion. Grover is a purple muppet!

IMHO it's not a nice name for a child.

AngelaCatalano · 07/02/2013 19:51

Have you ever seen Sesame Street? That's all I can think of, sorry. He's nice enough and all, but he's, well, a blue puppet.

Still, if it feels right... Or maybe as a middle name?

JaneLane · 07/02/2013 19:55

It's quite nice but does remind me of the puppet.

However I don't know if his generation will also make that association.

Wildwaterfalls · 07/02/2013 19:56

Sesame Street associations here as well. I really wouldn't do it!

seeker · 07/02/2013 19:58

You can't possibly. Sorry.

KnittedC · 07/02/2013 19:59

We know about the associations with the Sesame Street character, Grover Cleveland, and Grover Washington; but none of these have been enough to put us off the name! I don't want to give my child a cruel name but we're both massively drawn to it and I really don't think it's too dreadful. I suppose we just have to wait and meet him and see if it still feels right then.

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UserNameAngst · 07/02/2013 20:00

Grover Cleveland was a us president wasn't he? I quite like it... But it is quite out there.

Littlefish · 07/02/2013 20:00

Don't do it.

twentythirteen · 07/02/2013 20:02

I like the name, but I also think of sesame street, and also the potential play on words "groper".

ladymia · 07/02/2013 20:02

I quite like it but then again I have never seen the muppets or sesame street so don't made the above associations

Bunbaker · 07/02/2013 20:03

"The day we found out we were pregnant"

The day I found out I was pregnant. Apologies, I just had to get that out of my system - men don't get pregnant Smile

Not keen on the name choice, sorry.

TicTacSir · 07/02/2013 20:03

I like it! but then I did want to call ds1 Elmo

ArbitraryUsername · 07/02/2013 20:05

I don't think it's cruel at all. Our kids won't have seen Sesame Street and having an old jazz type name is fairly cool really. There are plenty of loopy oscars everywhere, and you aren't all imaging they live in bins.

This is why you never tell anyone your chosen name until you're introducing the baby.

meditrina · 07/02/2013 20:05

It's a name I associate strongly with USA, and I'm not sure it sounds right in UK.

My strongest association is to the satyr in the Percy Jackson books.

BoyMeetsWorld · 07/02/2013 20:06

I prefer Elmore

nemno · 07/02/2013 20:06

I don't like it. It seems like ugly words start with 'gro' , too close to growl, grovel, grot, gross, groper etc.

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MrsMaryCooper · 07/02/2013 20:12

At best he will be called groover at school at worst groper - or possibly grocer.

Don't go there.

Call him Dave.

Snazzynewyear · 07/02/2013 20:13

Not keen, sorry.

DonderandBlitzen · 07/02/2013 20:14

Groper is nice though.

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