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Opinions on this name please!

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2020summer · 08/07/2020 17:57

We are considering the name Hodge for a boy. However we have gotten some negative feedback that has us second guessing it. I just want to reach out for opinions before we remove it as an option completely. Thanks in advance!!

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zingally · 10/07/2020 11:51

When I opened this thread... I was ready for almost anything... But certainly not Hodge!

Da fuq? It's AWFUL.

He'll hit secondary school, and Hodge will become Hog, and Hog will become Piggy. I can foresee it now.

TooBusyBeingYoursToFall · 10/07/2020 10:32

Oh dear god no... there is literally not one nice thing I can say about this name. It's truly dreadful and I feel terrible for any child who has been lumbered with it. Sorry Blush

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SenorPeabodyEsq · 09/07/2020 02:52

Hedgehog vibes.

ElizabethMainwaring · 09/07/2020 02:48

@Grinchlywords

Hodge was Samuel Johnson's cat. A very fine cat indeed.
I came here to say that! (It's a bloody awful name for a child.)
stopchewingeverything · 09/07/2020 02:44

Please don't, it's awful.

Mashingthecompost · 09/07/2020 01:38

In Brazil, Rs are pronounced as Hs (so Roger Gracie, BJJ champ, is Hodger). Are you Brazillian? Or in Brazil? If not, I say nah. (I do quite like Renzo though, pronounced Henzo - one of the other Gracie brothers. Look them up if you want inspiration.)

POP7777777 · 09/07/2020 00:36

It's really not a great name, imo.

ohflourofscotland · 09/07/2020 00:35

Please can the middle name be heg so Dick King-Smith gets a nod

Allmyeye · 09/07/2020 00:32

Awful. First thing I thought about was the children’s book Hodge the Hedgehog.

QuentinQuarantino · 09/07/2020 00:31

OMG I went to primary school with triplets, Hodge, Podge and Rodge!

Unfortunately Hodge was sick on photo day.

Opinions on this name please!
123Dancewithme · 09/07/2020 00:27

Haha. Awful.

MintyCedric · 08/07/2020 23:19

Just makes me think of this Michael McIntyre sketch...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=uJEqXJRK4Q4

Cindie943811A · 08/07/2020 23:11

I came across this name in a Restoration Comedy when I was at school. Character was a rustic village idiot.

CorianderLord · 08/07/2020 23:09

Hideous - Hodge Podge. Makes me think of fat flabby things

Fulmar · 08/07/2020 20:22

Hodge - used as a name for a typical English agricultural labourer. See Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies.

NancyPickford · 08/07/2020 20:00

Where ON EARTH did you find this name, or did you make it up? It's got a horrible sound to it, it doesn't even look nice in print. He'll get so many nicknames - in fact, it already sounds like a nickname a boy would get at school. "Oi, Hodge!"

Emelene · 08/07/2020 19:51

Hodge ... I thought hodgepodge too. I wouldn't.
What about Roger, Hugh, Hudson, Harry... have you got any other potentials on your list?

MrsJoyless · 08/07/2020 19:48

Thanks to studying John Betjeman for English 'O' level, I know it's a nickname for Roger, but it is used as shorthand for a rustic character.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 08/07/2020 19:43

The Hodgeheg.

Sixtonskip · 08/07/2020 19:42

It's a no from me.

AllTheWhoresOfMalta · 08/07/2020 19:38

That’s not a name. It’s hardly a word. Hard no.

Pieceofpurplesky · 08/07/2020 19:38

The baddie in the Shadowhunters books

Goodgollymiss · 08/07/2020 19:37

Hahahahahahahahaha

cptartapp · 08/07/2020 19:34

That's funny OP. Tell us some of your others.

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