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Hector or Bruno?

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Chocolocolate · 01/01/2011 21:11

Hi everyone,

just wondered what your opinions are on these names?

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zozzle · 03/01/2011 22:17

Hector is slightly better. Bruno - awful!

Lamorna · 03/01/2011 22:16

Neither, but I agree that they are lovely for a dog!

earwicga · 03/01/2011 22:10

Neither, unless you are naming a dog.

taffetacat · 03/01/2011 22:07

We chose Bruno for DC2 but had DD. This was before the film, though.

jem21 · 03/01/2011 21:53

i love bruno but my partner wont allow it.bruno is much nicer than hector.

poppydaisy · 03/01/2011 10:47

Dislike Hector. The word (to hector, hectoring etc) is so widely used that it is hard to focus on any other meaning imo. Also don't think it has any nice nicknames.

Bruno is much better, although I've only known dogs in the past with this name.

ensure · 03/01/2011 10:28

Hector is the anglicised version of a gaelic name, meaning 'brown horse' also, actually.
And anyway, the other origin of the name has the meaning 'to restrain' not to bully.

Puts away reference book

I don't like Bruno. It does just make me think of the film.

Meglet · 03/01/2011 10:18

I love both Smile.

DD was going to be a Bruno if she was a boy. My friend (who had lived in Italy for a few years) was telling me about a lovely hunky Italian guy called Bruno that she knew. And it's cute a cute name for a little boy.

washngo · 03/01/2011 10:15

I love both names. The character hector in the Iliad is brave, and pretty honourable (in the film troy he was the one eric bana played) so you can focus on that rather than the meaning if you like!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 03/01/2011 10:12

Love both.

ShoppingDays · 03/01/2011 00:36

I don't like either I'm afraid.

localcrackpot · 03/01/2011 00:01

Hector was a complete hero in the Iliad, great dad, loving husband, really noble - but he knows he has to go and fight Achilles and he will die. One really sad bit when he's got all his armour on and goes to say his final goodbye to his wife and their son (think he was called Astyanax, there's a name and a half!) and the baby's frightened by the waving mohican-style hair on the top of his helmet.
In short, great man, terrible fate.

My husband was nearly called Agamemnon. Glad that he wasn't a)because his dad would have been following the tradition of pretentious archaeologists b)because he has (and now I have) one of the world's weirdest surnames and it would have been TOO CRUEL and c)because Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter to the gods, cheated on his wife, brought home a mistress and then was all surprised when she murdered him.

Bruno makes me think of Frank Bruno.

littleElif · 02/01/2011 22:04

hector makes me think of a german shepard. I think bruno is far better!

hulabula · 02/01/2011 21:48

Don't like either, but if I had to choose it would be Bruno.

My main issue with Hector is the lack of nicknames - Heck Grin?

highlystrung · 02/01/2011 21:06

My DD was going to be Bruno if she'd been a boy (obviously). Marvellous name and underused in my opinion.

ZZZenAgain · 02/01/2011 20:45

sorry to say this but really can't warm to either name.

Deaddei · 02/01/2011 20:41

Vile names.

evamummy · 02/01/2011 20:41

Yes, but in English it means 'Bully'.

Highlandgirl · 02/01/2011 20:38

In Greek Hector means 'Steadfast' or "Holding Fast'

Bruno is a dogs name..please pick Hector...! Smile

evamummy · 02/01/2011 19:32

Hector is awful - meaning and nickname potentials.

Bruno is much nicer imo.

upahill · 02/01/2011 19:32

Hector's house anyone? (probably just me!)

Sarsaparilllla · 02/01/2011 19:30

Don't really like either, Bruno reminds me of that horrible Sasha Barren Coen film

Like Valiums idea, Victor is nice and along those lines, or maybe Vincent?

AnnOnimous · 02/01/2011 17:54

Hector is fab.

ValiumTinselton · 02/01/2011 00:40

My son was almost a Bruno. My x didn't like it much but I almost had my way!

Not keen on Hector but I really love Victor. I know a few Hectors now. I think Victor is the new Hector. Wink

hester · 02/01/2011 00:22

I'm fonder of Bruno, but that's because it's a family name.

Come to think of that, whenever there's a name on these threads that (a) is out of middle Europe in the middle of the last century, and (b) everybody hates, I can claim it within my family. Hedwig, Felix, Candida... just waiting for us to get on to Pincus.

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