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Apollo?

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LOXY1 · 15/08/2016 19:58

What does everyone think of this name?

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AnchorDownDeepBreath · 15/08/2016 23:02

I know an Apollo. He's not amazingly good looking or charismatic or intelligent - I've never really thought about it before, but I think he carries off his name because it's all I've ever known him as! I've never heard him getting bullied for it, but I think I must live in a really nice area, nobody was bullied for their name at my school.

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LOXY1 · 15/08/2016 22:54

Dropyoursword

Xavier's middle name is going to be Zeus!Wink

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DropYourSword · 15/08/2016 21:17

I genuinely prefer Zeus to Apollo! Goes better with Xavier

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 15/08/2016 21:13

Also, think about your family name.

It will go something like Apollo Johnson, or Apollo Brown, or Apollo Wallace or something.
Not good.

PunkrockerGirl · 15/08/2016 21:07

Awful. Poor kid.
Just because you like it, doesn't make it right to subject a child to a lifetime of ridicule Hmm
As a pp said, change your own name to Apollo if you like it that much and see how you get on, but ffs give your child a proper name.

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 15/08/2016 21:03

Too big a name to bear.
Why not go to Zeus and be done with it?

Memoires · 15/08/2016 21:03

No. No one will take it seriously and he would have to grow up to be fantastically good looking and really really fit and gorgeous, or everyone will be thinking "he doesn't live up to his name". You're really setting him up to fail.

Don't be mean.

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 15/08/2016 21:02

Also, Apollo's twin was a Sister, not a brother-Artemis.

Ellieboolou27 · 15/08/2016 21:02

Agree with creed, soon as I saw the name I started humming eye of the tiger.
Nickname could be app Grin
Honestly it's not a good choice

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 15/08/2016 21:01

Although nn Polly might worry me.

DropYourSword · 15/08/2016 21:01

My friends have a dog called Apollo Blush

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 15/08/2016 21:01

I like it.

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 15/08/2016 21:00

But the 'pollo' I'm Apollo sounds nothing like polo?

Mrs5boys · 15/08/2016 21:00

Mind you I knew someone who called their baby Scott and I thought he'd get called snotty Scotty but he's 20 now and no ones ever called him that ,,, different strokes for different folkes hey !

SoleBizzz · 15/08/2016 20:58

I know horse called Apollo.

TroysMammy · 15/08/2016 20:58

A mint with a hole in it.

Mrs5boys · 15/08/2016 20:57

Word of warning we recently called our cat this but whenever we called his name out it sounded like "a polo" so then all I could think of when i called him was does anyone want a polo !!!! We since changed his name !

gingerbreadmanm · 15/08/2016 20:54

RHOA and i love it but agree its a bit out there.

Lunar1 · 15/08/2016 20:54

Change your name to Apollo, give your child a proper name.

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/08/2016 20:52

Apollo will be very jealous of his twin brothers normal name.

peppercold · 15/08/2016 20:31

Creed

SpidersFromMars · 15/08/2016 20:30

What do you think of Orion?

FoxesSitOnBoxes · 15/08/2016 20:16

Awful!

WorryingExperience · 15/08/2016 20:14

What are we up to? 14?

IslandLife · 15/08/2016 20:13

I like it a lot. And please don't get disheartened if people are rude on here... If you love it, go for it!