Fenix/Phoenix ?

Dylan, Miles and Phoenix is just... bizarre. It sounds like you had a head injury/personality rearrangement between DS2 and DS3! It would be like naming your DDs Sarah, Megan and Scheherazade imo.

Also Phoenix just sounds like a dreadful try-too-hard celeb name. I would feel quite sorry for a little Phoenix, tbh...

Dylan, Miles and Arlo
Dylan, Miles and Finn
...are wayyyyy better.

"Is your real name SoupDragon?"

Ha ha ha.

Seeker - I really need to know thise names! I got horribly bullied over mone - too 'posh' then as we got older, could be turned into a couple of sexual innuendos. Thanks, mum!

In the words of George (Eric) Orwell 'it took me years to live my name down'.

Seeker - I knew the same thing about a guy called 'Hari Krishna' by his hippie parents. As soon as he could he became Chris.

As I said, my nephew wasn't bullied. He just hated his name getting more attention than he did! He hated having to explain it and spell it every time. And he said that he wanted to be known for who he was, rather than "the boy called....." intstingly, as soon as he chqngednhis name, so didnhis sisters. I don't know, butni suspect that they didn't want to hurt their parents' feelings, but once he tool the lead they followed.

I'm sure there must be some awful bullying experiences behind some of the concern here and I honestly am sympathetic to this. Was bullied myself, just not for my name - which sort of opens up the point that kids will always find something to pick at, I suppose.

But I genuinely don't understand why a kid called Phoenix is going to get more flak than one called William or Richard, for example. Willy and Dick aren't exactly desirable nicknames.... Phoenix could use Nick if he wanted to blend in too, before he goes for the middle name option.

I just feel a bit that the message is that a 'weird' name will do lasting damage to a child and parents are cruel to do it, and it really isn't always the case. Especially when the names up for discussion aren't usually even that crazy.

My two sisters also have strange names and both are running their own businesses and being pretty successful....

Finn MacCool is a more interesting Finn to be named after than Glee's!

I love Felix, but as DD2 has an x and DD1 doesn't, it didn't seem fair to give DS a name with an x, as well.

Is your real name SoupDragon?

"Ah but they don't if they really hate it. They can say 'From now on I want to be called Tiffany or Blake or whatever'."

Except the damage may already be done. It was for me.

I would pronounce Fenix as Fennicks.

And it sounds like something you could buy in Boots.

Ah but they don't if they really hate it. They can say 'From now on I want to be called Tiffany or Blake or whatever'. If my DD asked that, I'd do it. Might be a bit about Tiffany though!

DD doesn't have a bonkers name BTW. Just one a bit unusual maybe.

You could spell it Feenicks.

I'll get me coat.

Fenicks is definitely how I would pronounce it. If you want Feenix you'll need the Phoenix spelling.

Fantastic if you work in the creative industries!

Janoschi- your experience is fantastic. But my nephew's is different- and his parents sound like yours too. You just have to be aware that you are making a major decision on behalf or a non consenting human being, and lit is that human being who has to live with your decision, not you.

Oh it's very cool

Finding I'm turning into the poster who keeps wading into naming threads saying 'Go for the weird name, it's fab!' as most others recoil in horror.

Sorry about that.

Just want to give the perspective of a person with a nutty name who's doing very well for herself and has never been bullied for it. Was bullied for other things but never my name, and I grew up amid a heap of Louises, Sarahs, Rachels and Toms (early-mid 80s). I don't get the issue about weird names affecting employment. Surely ANYTHING that helps you stand out is a good thing?

I do think seeker is being a little paranoid about odd names.

I've said it before I know, but my name is crazy. There's only one of me if I write it into Google (hence me not telling you what it is!), and now I'm married, I'm still the only one. It's THAT bloody weird.

BUT I love it. It's actually quite pretty, in a funky tomboy kind of way. It's short (4 letters) so I don't care about spelling it. Even when I do spell it, most people still get it wrong. I don't care about that either. I was painfully, agonisingly shy as a kid but I was never that fussed about introducing myself as ----.

It's done me endless favours as someone working in the film industry. I work both here and abroad a lot and my name is passed from studio to studio without even a surname and everyone knows it's me. I therefore get jobs above the normal John, Thomas, Sarah people even though they're just as good, because I spring to mind faster.

For the record, my parents were arty, nature-loving but financially destitute for most of my life.

It's nice to be an individual, honestly it is!

How about:

Ingo
Florian
Gerald
Sol

Finn is a lovely name - I know two brilliant examples - getting quite popular now.

Thickfinn is after the Norse god of self-tanning and is an entirely different name :)