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Draco (yes, as in Malfoy)

55 replies

CannyFradock · 19/09/2011 17:44

So after months of wallowing in the shit-we-have-no-ideas abyss, DH announces yesterday that he has decided that Draco is the perfect name for our little'un. He is now set on it and to be honest I'm so tired of arguing that I'm quite willing to go with it. It is quite cool. Are we mental? Shall we just call him "boy" and be done with it? Where is the tomato puree? I just don't know anymore.

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Greensleeves · 19/09/2011 18:34

I think it is a nice name, in and of itself, but it's up to you how you feel about the HP association - will you get fed up with the wisecracks?

Calling it "cruel" though... perspective.

I know an Anakin btw - happy little boy, doesn't get teased.

PotteringAlong · 19/09/2011 18:32

Is your DH not just winding you up and seeing how long you will go along with it for...?!

Elderberries · 19/09/2011 18:29

Well it is in my name dictionary I think. But I'd seriously think twice.

AlmaMartyr · 19/09/2011 18:27

I love HP and wacky names but please don't use Draco. It is not a good association and is unlikely to go away anytime soon.

CalatalieSisters · 19/09/2011 18:25

Not Drake! Or you'll have to call your next daughter Duck.

TheRealMBJ · 19/09/2011 18:25

If Harry Potter was not the phenomenon it is, and you were choosing it because if the constellation or because it is the Latin for dragon (and you say had a dragon in the family crest or some such) you could possibly get away with it. But being as HP is HP and from now until the forseeable future all in the western world will associate it with Draco Malfroy?

No. Absp-bloody-lutely NO!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 19/09/2011 18:23

Yeah.... No.
I'm all for the Potter love, especially Malfoy appreciation but naming your child Draco is a bit... Hmm Go for drake.

Now Blaise I like he was a fine upstanding Slytherin. What about Blaise?

BluddyMoFo · 19/09/2011 18:22

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SamsungAndDelilah · 19/09/2011 18:22

I quite like it. And Draco turned out to be not-so-bad after all.

hester · 19/09/2011 18:20

Grin thanks for the laugh but no, it is beyond the pale.

CalatalieSisters · 19/09/2011 18:20

Go the whole hog and call him Voldemort. That way if you decide later that you don't like it, you can just call him He Who Shall Not Be Named.

scaevola · 19/09/2011 18:20

And HH again on a .

MardyBra · 19/09/2011 18:18

Mind you, Liz Hurley got away with Damien.

WillieWaggledagger · 19/09/2011 18:17

or du plessis even (quick google)

WillieWaggledagger · 19/09/2011 18:17

i love it

but i am tempted to call my firstborn Bismarck (as in duplessy) so what do I know?

BluddyMoFo · 19/09/2011 18:16

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scaevola · 19/09/2011 18:15

Any excuse for an HH link: here is .

MmeLindor. · 19/09/2011 18:12

No, it is not cool.

If you are going to take someone from Harry Potter, at least use one of the "goodies" not the meanest boy in school.

scaevola · 19/09/2011 18:10

Draco isn't made up - he was a totally mad Roman emperor who institute one of the harshest penal codes ever (HH have done him, twice I think). Not a good association, really.

LoveInAColdClimate · 19/09/2011 18:10

It may be pregnancy hormones but I quite like it...

WorzselMummage · 19/09/2011 18:08

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(constellation

I think it's quite cool :)

MatLeaveForever · 19/09/2011 18:06

I'm sure there was a Draco in an Australian 90's soap called Heartbreak High, can anyone else remember this or am I going mad?!

Not keen on it myself, made me think of Count Dracula.

SoupDragon · 19/09/2011 17:52

no, it isn't cool it is bloody stupid and cruel.

BrokenBananaTantrum · 19/09/2011 17:51

Severus would be much better

CoteDAzur · 19/09/2011 17:51

What about Dracula?

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