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Brother for Finnick?

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Elly88 · 12/04/2020 11:12

Names we like are Jacob, isaac, ewan, Jameson, Oscar but not enough lol 🙈 after something bit different like Finnick. Send help!

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Emthebaker · 13/04/2020 08:43

You sound like Katie Hopkins Grin

She never asked for opinions once - please work on your reading comprehension. You’re making yourself look silly when your intention is clearly to mock and belittle others.

I know three little ones named Atticus, it’s very popular and hardly strange! Maybe, if you spent a bit more time socialising and less time making fun of children’s names behind a screen, you’d see that people are no longer willing to be pressured into naming their children names that they don’t love because they’re scared to go against the grain.

You should try being kind to someone today, you wombat, it might cheer you up Smile

Iamthewombat · 13/04/2020 08:29

She asked for opinions onnames that were ‘a bit different, like Finnick’ - as if the children’s names were fashion accessories - and that’s what she got. Grow up.

Orion! Atticus! Castor! Poor kids, saddled with names like that. Do people think that giving their children strange names somehow makes them, the parents, look clever or creative? It doesn’t work.

Emthebaker · 13/04/2020 08:23

‘You shouldn’t ask questions online if you can’t deal with other people’s views.’ OP didn’t ask for opinions on the name Finnick! And @Elly88 is right about people on this site so often being awful to anyone who didn’t name their children Peter and Beatrice.

I think Finnick is a great name (not that it matters!) I think it’s go well with:
Orion
Atticus
Wren
Noah
Castor
Bennett

Good luck Flowers

Iamthewombat · 13/04/2020 07:52

...not one person I've told my sons name to has ever said anything other than that's such a cool name I love it.

Well, no, people tend not to overtly say ‘why did you give him such a silly name?’ IRL to the mother who chose the name. They just think it and express their opinions to other people.

You shouldn’t ask questions online if you can’t deal with other people’s views.

That’s a great idea about James and the Giant Peach. Anyone out there with a child called James: call your next son Aunt Sponge.

mathanxiety · 13/04/2020 07:08

Have any names caught your eye so far, @Elly88?

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Elly88 · 13/04/2020 07:06

Thanks for the serious suggestions, safe to say its the last time I use this website. What is wrong with people being so judgmental?! Wasn't asking for opinions on my current sons name, yes it does feature in the hunger games, it also actually features in a Disney film too, either way it's a name in its own right, do your research if you want to insult someone's name! I don't really think it's that outrageous as there are so many variations of the name Finn now - Finnbar, Finnegan, Finley, Flynn, Finnian etc.
If you picked the name James I wouldn't go listing all the other characters from James and the Giant Peach. What is wrong with people?! At a time like this, amazes me that people still can't just be kind. All so brave from behind your computers yet not one person I've told my sons name to has ever said anything other than that's such a cool name I love it. Funnily enough, I don't want the whole world to be full of James and Daniels etc, not like I called him Wednesday!! Don't see the problem with giving a person a slightly more unusual name. And if he hates it he can go by Finn?! Now either get back to the task if you wish of suggesting serious names or keep on scrolling please.

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mathanxiety · 13/04/2020 03:45

Dashiell

KrakowDawn · 13/04/2020 01:29

Auric was Goldfinger's name, wasn't it?

Crymblecrumble · 13/04/2020 01:18

Katniss?

WatcherintheRye · 13/04/2020 01:14

Finnick and Lachlan

Iamthewombat · 13/04/2020 01:11

For the love of God, and for the kid’s sake, not Auric or Crusoe (suggested upthread).

Iamthewombat · 13/04/2020 01:09

I was just coming on to suggest Haymitch but @Dyrne beat me to it!

Why not go wild and call the kid a normal name? I’m just spitballing here: Tom, James or something? Talk about revolutionary.

BabynameKiwi · 13/04/2020 01:08

We had this with my eldest who has a more unique name I wanted a name that was just as worthy :)

Heres some literary-inspired names that might be worth considering :)

Hawthorne
Atticus
Orrison/Orson
Crusoe
Sherlock
Rudyard
Beckett
Truman
Granger
Archer
Auric
Benvolio
Thorin
Gulliver
Huxley
Tolkien
Ludo
Hemingway
Dexter
Caulfield
Wilde
Huckleberry
Diggory
Kerouac
Dorian
Kipling
Orwell
Gatsby
Hardy
Amory
Sawyer
Salinger
Woolf/Wolf
Worthing
Holden
Caspian

WaxOnFeckOff · 13/04/2020 00:59

Emerson
Dorian
Aldrid
Austin
Struan
Nairn
Tiernan
Lyall

TinklyLittleLaugh · 13/04/2020 00:41

Finnick is Hunger Games isn’t it? Quite nice though.

How about Finnbogi? (actually a proper name).

Pomegranatemolasses · 13/04/2020 00:40

So Finnick is not actually a name, but comes from the Hunger Games? Just pick another name from the movie/book.

JaneJeffer · 13/04/2020 00:34

Desmond

JKScot4 · 13/04/2020 00:28

Jeezo, it’s from Hunger Games 🙄

Fantasiaa · 13/04/2020 00:26

Finnick
Tinnick
Binnick
Rinnick
Minnick

mathanxiety · 12/04/2020 23:45

Aldyn/ Alden
Bennett
Beckett
Anselm
Geraint
Hollis
Ivor
Shadrach
Ingram
Lennox
Merlin
Perrin
Waylon
Bryce
Colby
Mannix
Pax

Jossina · 12/04/2020 23:39

Roark
Adair
Rogan
Sidney
Tarquin
Sholto

Autumna · 12/04/2020 20:06

Maxwell
Maverick
Magnus
August
Aubrey
Otto
Leopold
Leander
Samson
Atlas
Tarn
Saxon
Cassius
Bram

FawnDrench · 12/04/2020 19:33

Merryck
Virgil
Constantine
Napoleon
Maverick
Aloysius
Artemis
Peregrine
Amadeus
Job
Julius
Steve
Colin
Dave

Treanor · 12/04/2020 17:43

Tyrone
Mitchell
Jacobi
Trent

Boireannachlaidir · 12/04/2020 11:33

Fred Wink

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