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I have fallen in love with a name, what would you think if you met a child called....

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DinosaursOnAnAdventCalender · 18/12/2012 18:20

Moriarty?

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KristinaM · 19/12/2012 08:30

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the concept of " I have fallen in love with a ( very silly or unusual ) name and I want to impose it on soemone else" . If you love it so much why don't you change your own name to this? It's perfectly easy to change your name, adults do it all the time. You use a deed poll or whatever legal device in your own country.

Why impose it on another person who is pretty unlikely to love it the way you do? Who Will have to deal with all the questions and comments? Who may be bullied because of it? You probably have the personality and looks to carry it off -they might not.

TwoSillyHatsWithBellsOn · 18/12/2012 23:02

I love it, but would use Art as the nickname. Most people I know whose DC have nicknames tend to use the full name when they've done something really wrong. If you can happily picture yourself yelling 'NO Moriarty, don't do that!'in a crowded supermarket then go for it, if that gives qualms keep thinking.

I didn't use one of the names I really liked for DS1 as I was worried about school and teasing, someone at his school has that name and isn't teased at all so obviously it was a non-issue really.

TenthMuse · 18/12/2012 22:47

Sounds quite sinister to me, because of the Sherlock arch-villain connection. Also the surname of the naughtiest boy I ever taught, who ended up in a behavioural unit shortly afterwards, so not great associations there!

MorrisZapp · 18/12/2012 22:16

Please don't name your kid after an unusual sounding character in a book or film. Your tastes will change and your kid will be lumbered with it for life. I would make a million assumptions about you, including you being very young.

Moriarty and Murray are completely different names btw. My wee boy is a Murray, it isn't short for anything.

nkf · 18/12/2012 22:09

Not keen to be honest. What would I think? Sherlock Holmes, I guess.

SomersetONeil · 18/12/2012 22:07

Moriarty is fine - well, it's fine when you compare it with Murray...

RyleDup · 18/12/2012 22:03

I'd judge you loads, and think you were poncey. And if I heard you calling that name in public I'd raise my eyebrows, nudge my friends and snigger in that really annoying way that people do sometines. Just Don't Do It. No no no.

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DinosaursOnAnAdventCalender · 18/12/2012 22:00

I just think its only fair that he gets a say in his sons name, would be really crappy not to let him have any input into it. Even if he does have awful taste, I'm just glad he is showing an interest.

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DontmindifIdo · 18/12/2012 21:51

If they are an exP, why are you not just picking a name you like?

Greensleeves · 18/12/2012 21:49

cuckoo bananas

but I quite like it

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DinosaursOnAnAdventCalender · 18/12/2012 21:48

I will try not to watch tv two weeks before my due date incase I take a liking to a Cbeebies character or something Grin

Back to the drawing board then still considering it though exp will start going on about Paidraigh again (Par-dric) and Murphy. Sherlock isn't a bad name either

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bellechristmas · 18/12/2012 21:45

I'd think you were a big Kerouac fan.

LaCiccolina · 18/12/2012 21:42

That he will hate u. Dreadful choice. Anyone with half an education will say "really? Poor u!" All his life.

And short is surely Art, not Murray.

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Yama · 18/12/2012 21:38

I love it but I would never bestow it upon a child.

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AlwaysHoldingOnToStarbug · 18/12/2012 21:35

I have a friend who gave her son Moriarty as a middle name. I kind of like it, as I like unusual names, but it's not one that I'd choose.

Like PrincessScrumpy said, I think people get used to names, and especially when child starts school they probably won't know it as a Sherlock name, it will just be your DS's name to them and they'll grow up being used to it.

GrownupGoth · 18/12/2012 21:32

I'm from Chailey Grin

Never fancied it as a name.

ChocFudgeCake · 18/12/2012 20:55

Should be ok as a middle name imo

PrincessScrumpy · 18/12/2012 20:47

Are you hoping ds is evil?

Seriously though, my auntie visited a village called Chailey when she was a teen and told her brother (my dad) that one day she would call her daughter that as she loved it.... a number of years later she did. No one thinks anything of it in our family now as it's just normal - although she's nearly 40 now.

I think people get used to names after the initial shock so go with it. I've heard worse.

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DinosaursOnAnAdventCalender · 18/12/2012 19:53

I'm reading all your words but its just not sinking in, I am still liking Moriarty Blush

Hopefully it is just a phase. I was mad on Merlin for a week, then Emerys (or however is spelt), had a Doctor Who phase when I liked River and Oswin.

Maybe I should turn the tv off Blush

Will be harder this time though as exp also likes Moriarty.

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YDdraigGoch · 18/12/2012 19:14

Apart from anything else, it's a surname.

VBisme · 18/12/2012 19:09

Isn't it a surname? Moriarty is James Moriarty.....

Ra88 · 18/12/2012 19:09

I thought ... Moron ha sorry Blush

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