My feed
Premium
Please
or
to access all these features

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Baby names

Ptolemy. What do you reckon?

92 replies

Badgerina · 01/05/2012 21:09

Grin Brew

OP posts:
Report
Meglet · 01/05/2012 21:11

I know one. It's great and it suits him.

Report
AThingInYourLife · 01/05/2012 21:12

No

Report
ThePieSmuggler · 01/05/2012 21:12

Nope

Report
Stellan · 01/05/2012 21:13

Not for me. Spotted one in the Telegraph birth announcements recently though.

Report
GiantPuffball · 01/05/2012 21:13

Awful.

Report
keepthechangeyoufilthyanimal · 01/05/2012 21:14

How do you pronounce it?

Report
missmaviscruet · 01/05/2012 21:15

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

hellymelly · 01/05/2012 21:16

I know one too, and echo Meglet's post.

Report
EdithWeston · 01/05/2012 21:16

I think it's a gorgeous name (DH didn't)

Report
Bert2e · 01/05/2012 21:18

Love it (as a middle name)! I wanted to give it to DS2 as his middle name - but it didn't go with the only first name we could agree on :-(

Report
usualsuspect · 01/05/2012 21:18

Awful

Report
invicta · 01/05/2012 21:18

Wasn't there a tv historian with this name? The name grew on me then. I think it's pronounced Tolomy.

Report
BunnyLebowski · 01/05/2012 21:18

Oh it's hideous. Just a horrible sound. Doesn't sound at all like a name....more like a bacteria.

And pretentious beyond measure.

Report
AThingInYourLife · 01/05/2012 21:19

It seems like a name where you tried to think of the most preposterous, pretentious name ever but didn't even manage to be original.

All the poncey points, but none of the cool points for picking something unusual.

It seems like what the Modern Parents from Viz would call a son.

Report
pinkappleby · 01/05/2012 21:19

I like it.

Report
NannyPlumIsMyMum · 01/05/2012 21:19

No likey.

Report
iwantanoompaloompa · 01/05/2012 21:20

Wasn't there a kids' tv series in the eighties which had a Tolly in it?

Report
Stellan · 01/05/2012 21:20

TOL-ah-mee.

Ptolemy Dean is the one on TV.

Apparently means aggressive or warlike.

Report
Flojo1979 · 01/05/2012 21:23

Dont like it, then again I like names spelt how u say them! Why not call him Tolahmee?!

Report
iwantanoompaloompa · 01/05/2012 21:24

found it Grin Grin.

But apparently his name was Toseland, not Ptolemy.

It also had a girl called Linnet, which I also quite like.

But, in reality, I think Ptolemy will make you sound like a pretentious swine.

Report
BadDayAtTheOrifice · 01/05/2012 21:25

I love it.

Report
NorbertDentressangle · 01/05/2012 21:26

Ptolemy to me will always be 'Ptolemy=Ptwat' ever since reading that on a MN thread years ago.

Sorry

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

everlong · 01/05/2012 21:27

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

boringnickname · 01/05/2012 21:27

Id like it if it were P-tolemy, i always thought it was, otherwise, no

Report
NapaCab · 01/05/2012 21:27

Yikes, that's a bit of a name to carry, don't you think?

Did think for 5 seconds about classical references as middle names for our DS - Socrates or Hypatia if he'd been a girl - but lost my nerve...

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.