What do you think of Lux?

First thing I thought was Lux Interior but that was a stage name and he is dead anyway.
The next thing was the rhyming thing Lux fucks and all that!! Taunts do happen in the playground and that is an obvious one.
But guess it will toughen him up if you go for it.

Personally I wouldn't but your call!

Oh my god these comments are making me furious! I'm in my twenties and don't remember Lux soap at all. It's only old biddies who will think that, not the new generation which your child is entering into.

Washing powder-don't do it!

TV show called Life Unexpected. Main character is called Lux.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1442109/

My first thought is the washing powder my mum used when we had a twin tub!! I can still remember how the flakes flet and the smell, my second thought is the unit of brightness.

I hope this is a wind up! it would be like calling your child persil or metre.

No no no

No one is going to remember the soap?! That comment in itself is ridiculous!

Lux soap is still readily available if you google (lots of shopping site hits, some from high street retailers). And I've just had a nostalgic moment with some ads which are on YouTube.

Lux soap flakes vanished a little while ago (think DriPak had squeezed them out), but in their daythey were such a synonym of soap flakes you find references in all sorts of household books.

Magsaloof

The name is special to you & you both agree. You can't make the decision on other peoples opinions that don't know it's significance.

First thing I thought of was light - I like it

Lux is Yucks. Oh fucks.

Yep first thing that came to mind was The Virgin Suicides, that book and the subsequent film are both perfection! I think it's a lovely name and if I had a daughter I was thinking of calling her Lux, we have a son on the way though so a bit feminine for him! The only people who will remember the detergent called Lux are the older generation and does that matter? I'm 23 and don't remember it. Go for it! It's a beautiful name and unusual in a way that isn't too 'in your face'. Most of all, if you feel in your gut it's right choose it.

I like it.

Lux was a soap about three billion years ago. Everyone is mentioning it because they don't like the name particularly, and are casting around for the only negative association that can be dredged up Not that it's even particularly negative!

It is a marmite one, for sure, but it's beautiful, so once people are used to it and just associate the name with her, they will love it - same as was your reaction to it being your friend's name.

I prefer Luz to Lux, which sounds sort of vaguely pharmaceutical and weird.

As I said before I love it.

I have 3DC with names that will never appear on the 100 names list. You just have to be prepared for veiled comments like "oh, that's um interesting" which actually means "I hate it but am too polite to say".

I like people who are more forthright. My line manager said when I was pg with DC2 "So are you going to give this one a weird name too then?" And I said - of course :)

My DM went to buy DD1 one of those name signs were you buy the sign and separate letters to stick on. She got to the till and the blokey said "excuse me, but you do know these letters don't spell anything?" My DM then set them out to spell DD1's name and the bloke still didn't get it. My DM then got to trot out the most middle class pretentious rebuff ever "you obviously don't read much Oscar Wilde then!" (DD1 is named after an Oscar Wilde character.)

The best bit of your chosen name is that you are naming her after someone who meant something to you and you will be able to tell her all about her namesake when she is older.

Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy.

Lux -soap. End of!

I'm so sorry and not wanting to be insensitive, but when I read the thread title I did think you were talking about soap powder.

This name was discussed in Baby Names a couple of months ago thread here.

The reaction was nigh on universally negative there too.

OP: you must choose the name you love. And in RL, no one will say any of this to your face. And as long as you surname does not begin with F or S (for spoonerisms) then the obvious nasty teasing might not happen.

I would abandon thread now GymBunny - for some reason hardly anyone reads the threads on Baby Names so you will keep getting posts until it falls down the list of active convos.

I'm glad you still like the name.

Lux means light, I think. I too love Lux Aeterna. You can play it at the birth, it's very soothing. I do think of the soap as it is such a big brand, and still massive in Sri Lanka where dh is from, but I'm sure if I knew a person with the name the soap would go out of my head.

Pampers! Now there's a cute name for a cuddly baby. But might people think it was Pampas and assume the baby was the product of a swingers' party?

I think it's just that I know a lot of people who work in banking, who have done the working in Luxembourg/Zurich/pretty much every other tax haven at some point in their career and subsquently collected friends of friends from there along the way! Plus, when DH used to work in Germany, the flight I used to get every other Friday to go and see him was the one just after one to Luxembourg so I have seen "Lux" to mean the airport, not the soap a lot.