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Will people understand?!

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mariaallen · 27/08/2018 09:19

Hi! My husband is American and he recently brought up a name for our son due in September I actually quite like: Zero, as in the actor Zero Mostel. I've researched the name and it has a significant amount of meaning and history, it means so much more than just the number. We love it and think it's a strong name with an interesting history, but not everyone will feel that way---any thoughts? Thank you so much.

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GorgonLondon · 27/08/2018 19:47

whom I had never heard off prior to a quick google, probably because he died in 1977

So you've also not heard of Marilyn Monroe, john Wayne, Fred astaire, judy garland, groucho Marx, James Dean, or elvis Presley?

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AsAProfessionalFekko · 27/08/2018 19:46

Calling someone a zero isn't a compliment!

tootstastic · 27/08/2018 19:43

Absolutely, emphatically NO! Please give your child a name that won't trigger ridicule wherever he goes.

KingIrving · 27/08/2018 19:40

Poor child. Long life of misery ahead

MaisyPops · 27/08/2018 19:20

No. Poor child.
What's wrong with normal names? Why does everyone need to be youneek?

woodfires · 27/08/2018 19:18

I am torn between thinking you cannot be serious and a concern that you might be. There are no positive cultural connotations to being called zero.

Honeybee79 · 27/08/2018 19:09

Seriously?!

No. Just no.

TheMonkeyMummy · 27/08/2018 16:51

That's just a bit silly, in my opinion. I wouldn't do it. Poor child, having to live with that!

PasstheStarmix · 27/08/2018 16:42

TeaAddict235 The name is for a boy

TooTrueToBeGood · 27/08/2018 16:41

I would worry that it would encourage him to be noughty.

TeaAddict235 · 27/08/2018 16:40

What about Jane or Emma?

PasstheStarmix · 27/08/2018 16:38

instead if you *

PasstheStarmix · 27/08/2018 16:38

Why not go Zeno instea did you really like the sound of zero as it sounds similar but with a much nicer meaning.

userabcname · 27/08/2018 14:20

I actually do like it but I definitely think you will get negative feedback on it in the UK.

SilverySurfer · 27/08/2018 14:15

I suggest if your DH likes the name so much that he changes his own name to Zero and then give your DS a better name.

WhyIsntGeorgeCalledPeterOrPaul · 27/08/2018 13:05

I googled it and there is actually an American guy called Zero who has a whole page on his website dedicated to his ridiculous name

zerodean.com/about-the-name-zero-dean/

And he says this:

Explaining my name to every person who asks about it can be time-consuming. At one time I had this fear that if I continued to give an explanation to everyone who asked, I would look back on my life as an old man and realize I’d spent 1/3 of it explaining my name

So to make things easier on myself, I occasionally adopt “Dean” as my first name to avoid having to provide an explanation

In other words, it sucks for him.

WhyIsntGeorgeCalledPeterOrPaul · 27/08/2018 13:00

I know people with only slightly unusual names who get bored of the whole "oh that's an interesting/different name, what's that all about?" conversations they have with almost every single person they ever meet. Imagine what it would be like for poor Zero. Why condemn him to that for the rest of his life when there are literally thousands of names to choose from?

supercalifragilistic2 · 27/08/2018 12:24

If he turns out to be not very great academically he could end up with stuff such as zero by name, zero by nature etc.

It's not a great name.

villainousbroodmare · 27/08/2018 11:56

Nope. Nobody will understand.

PasstheStarmix · 27/08/2018 11:11

This has to be a joke? Why would you call your baby a name that means empty?

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 27/08/2018 11:09

LarkDecending - It's ok I didn't assume you were having a go I agree that just because the internet says it's a name it doesn't mean you should use it for a child. I just cannot get my head around how the OP could have done research and not realised how sad a name it would be.

Literally every listing of the word Zero as a name has a negative meaning including such delights as empty, lonely, void, alone and nothing not exactly a great name for a pet let alone a poor child.

ALittleAubergine · 27/08/2018 11:05

Noooooooo op, don't do it.

LarkDescending · 27/08/2018 11:01

HeadsDown I agree and I hope I made clear I wasn’t having a go at you. But OP says she has “researched the name and it means so much more than just the number”. I just hope she’s not basing that research on any of the nonsense people put online, according to which just about any string of letters is supposed to be a “name” with a “meaning” in one language or another.

PotteringAlong · 27/08/2018 10:58

Zeno
Zane
Hero
Heno

But not zero

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