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Middle name for Oak

207 replies

notjudging87 · 10/04/2018 12:44

Just had my 20wk scan and confirmed we are having a boy. We had loads of girls names, but no boys names. My DP is Lithuanian, so would like Azuolas which translates into Oak. I really like Oak, but not Azuloas. Name would be Oak, not Oakley.

Can you think of a middle name to go with Oak?

I realise the name Oak is a little unusual and not to most peoples taste. Ideas please?

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LoveInTokyo · 12/04/2018 14:43

Thinking about it, I actually think Azuolas is an awesome name and you should just go with that.

Either that or a name which works well in both English and Lithuanian.

KanyeWesticle · 12/04/2018 14:08

Acer or Ash are better british tree names.

M0RVEN · 12/04/2018 13:56

There are plenty Lithuanian names that also work fine in English

Tomas
Alexandrius
Andrius
Lucas
Dominikas
Matis
Darius

( hope I’ve spelled these correctly )

Please dont call your child Oak

bandito · 12/04/2018 13:55

What about Azuolas Oak Surname? Then he can choose - I am warming to Azuolas Oak, it's got a ring to it...

KanyeWesticle · 12/04/2018 13:51

Or how about the Acer? Sounds very masculine, and it's cool and easy to spell - it's the genus of maple tree.

While not a direct translation, it means your son's initial is the same in both languages. Acer seems more of a name than "Oak" - because there are so many other "er" ending boys names.

bandito · 12/04/2018 13:51

Azuolas is nice and refers back to his heritage. Otherwise the poor kid's got years of people going "Uh?" and then calling him OK, or worse. Sorry.

StarUtopia · 12/04/2018 13:49

Oh gosh, please don't. Give that name to the dog or cat if you must, but please give a child a normal name!

KanyeWesticle · 12/04/2018 13:47

Azuloas is great. "Az" is a cool shortening. I don't think the translation to the English Oak works so well.

Azuloas as a first would be nice followed by a middle that's something classic and british like William, Oliver, Robert, Michael?

LovelyBranches · 12/04/2018 11:07

Deri is Welsh for oak and that’s a beautiful name

MinisterforCheekyFuckery · 12/04/2018 10:56

Fair enough if you don’t like a name, but coming up with little thymes to ridicule it is what school bullies do

That's the whole point, people are trying to alert OP to the kind of daft jokes and nicknames her child will be subjected to at school if she saddles him with a name like Oak.

Rednailsandnaeknickers · 12/04/2018 10:06

gilligans it's well known that "bear" is a family nickname from teddy bear as his actual name is Edward.

OP Oak is awful sorry. It just isn't accepted as a name like Rowan or Willow are. Use it as a middle name if you must but please think again about a first name.

LARLARLAND · 12/04/2018 09:50

K Fred?

IrianOfW · 12/04/2018 09:38

I quite like the name as it happens but the jokes were inevitable

Hillingdon · 11/04/2018 17:21

I love the name Spartacus but honestly wouldn't have the nerve to use it.

Hillingdon · 11/04/2018 17:14

Some of these suggestions are making me laugh out loud. Stop it please. it started with someone suggesting tree.....

Having said that I do rather like it. Whether I would have been brave enough to use it is another question!

Kittykatmacbill · 11/04/2018 17:10

Going against the crowd I love the name oak. There was a boy a couple of years above called oak ‘posh sounding double barrelled name’. Always thought it sounded so cool / glamourous.

cupcakesandglitter · 11/04/2018 14:57

@Emily7708 I actually howled at that one 😂😂

stopbeingadramallama · 11/04/2018 12:08

Furnitureland 😂

doodlejump1980 · 11/04/2018 08:31

@someotherday genius!!

gingergenius · 11/04/2018 07:31

Lahoma???

concretesieve · 11/04/2018 00:05

I like the Oakley suggestion.

I knew someone who swore that her DF had wanted to call her DB 'Quercus' (the Latin term for the genus) but her DM put her foot down about it.

miffytherabbit1974 · 11/04/2018 00:00

Aydokay?

C0untDucku1a · 10/04/2018 23:43

I teach at a multi-ethnic school. Nobody would bat an eyelid at Oak.

Tattybogle89 · 10/04/2018 23:30

Imagined a bit much there!

As you were.

Tattybogle89 · 10/04/2018 23:29

Imagine though..
Oak a cola?

But imagine though..
“Oak is the boak”
“Here oak, got wood?”

Then there’s unfortunate rhymings like, choke, folk, smoke and joke

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