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Cedar, Calvin, Huxley or Tate

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BettyBi0 · 26/01/2016 00:20

I'm leaning towards Huxley but then I heard the pig song. Do you think anyone still gets that reference or just old people?

The other option - probably saved as a middle name is Atticus

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EssentialHummus · 03/02/2016 14:08

I rather like Calvin (obviously I assume your surname isn't Klein ba-boom-tish. Cedar isn't my kind of name, but I think it's OK. It wouldn't strike me as odd if I met a little Cedar.

Tate makes me think ....Modern / ...Britain etc.

Atticus - a bit too try-hard, maybe? As in Atticus Finch from Mockingbird?

EssentialHummus · 03/02/2016 14:08

I rather like Calvin (obviously I assume your surname isn't Klein ba-boom-tish. Cedar isn't my kind of name, but I think it's OK. It wouldn't strike me as odd if I met a little Cedar.

Tate makes me think ....Modern / ...Britain etc.

Atticus - a bit too try-hard, maybe? As in Atticus Finch from Mockingbird?

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toffeeboffin · 03/02/2016 13:09

Cedar = Tree.

Huxley =Aldous
Calvin = Cline or Harris
Tate= Tate and Lyle

paranoiddroid · 03/02/2016 13:06

I said between traditional and more unusual, not "totally out there". Things change over time anyway, I suspect Willow and Laurel were seen as pretty out there originally.

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tinofbiscuits · 03/02/2016 12:14

paranoiddroid people do often go for a bit more explanation and reasons than just "like" or "dislike" though.

paranoiddroid · 03/02/2016 12:08

so is Willow. I know several.

I don't personally like Cedar as a name but I'd rather hear it than another William, George, Harry. I just think if someone posts a thread suggesting an unusual name, the people who like William, George, Harry etc haven't got anything useful to add. Same as me going on the William, George, Harry threads and saying I find them boring and too common-place is also pretty pointless.

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paranoiddroid · 03/02/2016 08:26

The problem with these threads are that there are people who like traditional names and there are people that like less traditional names. The trad namers wil never like your choice and the slightly more unusual camp find all the standard names boring and dull. Do you care what they think?

unicornthong · 03/02/2016 00:56

You're worried that some of your choices are 'a bit too naff american' but you'll happily name your son after a random tree?

If you're going for 'cool', I think you've overshot it and landed on your bum in the try-hard camp. Huxley sounds like Pugsley (Addams); if you're a fan of the author Aldous Huxley, Aldous wins as a real name over Huxley any day.

Sorry to be so harsh and blunt but you're setting your son up for ridicule if you saddle him with an ambitious, 'too cool for school' name like these and he's got the personality of a Timothy.

Calvin's okay, at least it's a real name.

Crazypetlady · 02/02/2016 21:53

These are terrible sorry o.p Calvin is ok

Tartyflette · 02/02/2016 19:54

Cedar - Wood, he'll be called Woody at school.
and it's not really a name
Huxley sounds like a dog's name.
Calvin is the best option.

Duckdeamon · 02/02/2016 19:50

All terrible apart from calvin.

Cedar trees are ugly.

Huxley sounds like muttley or dudley.

tickory2 · 02/02/2016 19:48

They sound like Farrow and Ball paint names to me.

MamaMotherMummy · 02/02/2016 19:35

Love Cedar!

cheekstime · 02/02/2016 12:43

Cedar x Huxley sounds like a labs name :/. Cedar tree, they a huge and strong and striking

Unfairestofthemall · 31/01/2016 10:22

I like Calvin ( but then again I have one so probably bias ) it's a nice name you don't hear often and although the famous association with pants no ones mentioned them in the 2 years I've had him. Calvin and Hobbes was where I got it from just hoping mine doesn't grow up to be as cheeky!

Unfairestofthemall · 31/01/2016 10:22

tinofbiscuits · 31/01/2016 10:11

Yes, that's because it's a tree, not a human.

Rowan, Ashley, Aspen, Hazel, Laurel, Holly and Willow are all tree names too...

mathanxiety · 31/01/2016 04:27

If you might end up in the US then I would go with Huxley. Huxley has the literary connection and also nice nickname potential like Hux, Huck, etc. It ticks the surname as name box too.

Tate fits in well with names like Logan and Cole and Levi and other cowboy style names that are popular in the US right now. However, if Tate would end up sounding like Twong when joined with the surname, then avoid it.

Atticus would be nice as a first name.

Snoop Dog's original name was Calvin. It's a sort of an unfashionable old mannish name in the African American community.

Cedar is too desert/New Mexico/ Alaska (Sarah Palinesque) fringe.

I would choose Huxley.

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Penfold007 · 30/01/2016 21:35

Cedar - a tree

Calvin - underpants or cartoon character

Huxley - pig or Aldous the author

Tate - murdered woman or art gallery

PufflesMC · 30/01/2016 20:32

Calvin, I like it!

FoxesSitOnBoxes · 30/01/2016 20:07

Calvin/Cal is fine I think. All the rest would make me (sorry!!)
Huxley Pig, Cedar Falls, Tate Gallery

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