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Gatsby for a boy?

62 replies

PerksOfBeingAMum · 01/12/2014 23:30

General but polite opinions on the name Gatsby please.

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Behoove · 01/12/2014 23:47

Great!

No.

DramaAlpaca · 01/12/2014 23:46

No. It just doesn't sound nice as a first name.

HenriettaTurkey · 01/12/2014 23:41

If you want to go literary how about Atticus?

That's a cool name!

ThrowAChickenInTheAir · 01/12/2014 23:39

Er..no.

McFox · 01/12/2014 23:38

No, absolutely no.

Mutteroo · 01/12/2014 23:36

Don't like the abbreviation of Gats which is highly likely to happen but I weirdly love Gatsby. Totally pretentious & bonkers - just the sort of name I would have had on my list but would have been vetoed by DH.

Teeb · 01/12/2014 23:36

Feels a bit of a faddish name with how recently the film came out.

pieceoftoast · 01/12/2014 23:35

(sorry, not bring mean, but Gats also reminds me of guts Grin)

pieceoftoast · 01/12/2014 23:34

Gatsby. Gats for short. Somehow reminds me of slang terms for vomit and/or testicles.

Gatsby is too much of a mouthful.

TywysogesGymraeg · 01/12/2014 23:33

It's a surname, not a first name.

beavington · 01/12/2014 23:32

Dont like it sorry. Dont think it has a nice sound to it and seems a bit pretentious (not sure i would think that about other literary names though so it might just be me)

chickydoo · 01/12/2014 23:32

No....very odd

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