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Ziggy

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abitfunny · 10/11/2020 13:20

I am expecting lots of no's but we really like it. Have another son called Bodhi.

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ShoesEverywhere · 12/03/2021 11:33

My son is a Ziggy (not his real name but my grandma got mixed up when I had him and kept calling him Ziggy and it stuck). I reccomend it! He loves his name, it's easy to write and he has no excuse for thinking it's not me calling his name in a playground.

Also, he has a common/traditional name as a middle name (think John) though in case he decides to become a lawyer or something or just hates his name as he gets older.

HummusAndCarrotSticks · 12/03/2021 09:53

@abitfunny

Thank you both! I have tried to like other names especially when we have outside influences saying ‘don’t do that to him’ but we’ve stuck with it, plus our three year old is insistent that his baby brothers name is Ziggy!
I had a younger family member who was like this re my ds's unusual name. Honestly, just roll your eyes (inwardly if possible) and ignore.
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abitfunny · 12/03/2021 09:46

@Kiehl it is isn’t it! If I didn’t have the balls to name my son it then I’d give it to a pet! Wink

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bridgetreilly · 12/03/2021 09:44

Nn for Zigmund, in my experience.

Kiehl · 12/03/2021 09:42

Good dogs name

Mistlewoeandwhine · 12/03/2021 09:38

I like it. My DS has the Ignatius/Iggy thing as a middle name. I’m a massive Stooges and Bowie fan.

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abitfunny · 12/03/2021 09:36

Thank you both! I have tried to like other names especially when we have outside influences saying ‘don’t do that to him’ but we’ve stuck with it, plus our three year old is insistent that his baby brothers name is Ziggy!

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AnxiousAnnie86 · 12/03/2021 09:06

@abitfunny I think everyone's gets used to the name and it becomes them? Even if they don't like it, I know a little girl called tulip and everyone turned there nose up! But now it suits her so much!

HummusAndCarrotSticks · 12/03/2021 08:13

I know a Ziggy! He is just Ziggy on its own. I like it.

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abitfunny · 12/03/2021 08:01

@sammylilac - he’s not here yet, next month! We are sticking with Ziggy. Have been met with mixed opinions from family & friends but in all honesty we don’t care, we think it’s fab Smile

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midsomermurderess · 12/03/2021 07:48

Zachary, nn Ziggy. On it's own, no.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 12/03/2021 01:01

Imagine the people here being the person who reads your son's CV when he applies for the job of his dreams.

Why would you deliberately make his life harder?

Depends if he's going for a job as a guitarist in a band....

It just reminds me of those brilliant Irish puppet brothers Zigmund and Zagamuffin (from Zog) - better known as Zig & Zag Grin

RAOK · 12/03/2021 00:05

Yes there’s a girl in Home and Away called Ziggy. It makes me think of ciggie and smoking too. Bodhi is a lovely name.

SionnachRua · 12/03/2021 00:01

Lovely for a puppy. Absolute joke of a name for a human.

Drunkenmonkey · 11/03/2021 23:59

I like it and I love Bodhi! They go perfectly.

AndAllOurYesterdays · 11/03/2021 22:36

I used to have a crush on the character Ziggy Greaves from Grange Hill. And have always had affection for the name. I wouldn't use it as a given name, but as a nickname it's very cool.

partyatthepalace · 11/03/2021 22:22

I think names need to have some history, meaning and substance to them, even if they aren’t conventional names, because naming someone is a big deal really.

So when people give their children joke names like Ziggy, I think the parents are thinking of themselves not the child.

AnxiousAnnie86 · 11/03/2021 21:17

@abitfunny I like ziggy I also like Bowie 😆

sammylilac · 11/03/2021 21:13

Did you go for it OP?

Spidey66 · 11/11/2020 12:45

@viques
Ha ha, I couldn't name a child of mine Bobby, because when I was a kid 'doing a bobby' was having a poo. I was an adult before I realised not everybody called a poo a 'bobby'.

viques · 11/11/2020 11:53

@EssentialHummus

Another vote for Zephyr. Ziggy to me is the short form of Sigmund, not sure that's what you were going for!
Please don’t call a child Zephyr. It would make life very difficult for anyone in my family if they met the child because in our family zephyr is a fart. A warm gentle breeze, we are ultra refined.........
nuggles · 11/11/2020 11:52

I used to work with a Ziggy.

Lots of personality in the name. It's individual and won't be the same as others. Absolutely love it!

Spidey66 · 11/11/2020 11:48

Great dog name. Not sure about a baby, though. A colleague's step-grandson was called this. I just said ''oh OK'' when she told me. I think it'd be a good kind of nickname but not a proper name!

CatteStreet · 11/11/2020 10:59

@abitfunny

I do understand what you’re saying *@CatteStreet* although my name is unusual, particularly so when I was growing up. I always had funny comments especially in school but would I have changed my name? Absolutely not. I’m glad I didn’t have the same name as 2/3/4 other kids in my year group.
And I do understand that too (especially as five children, including her, were given my dd's name in the (large) country I live in the year she was born...) - but there are unusual names and there are, for want of a much better phrase, non-names. The difference between being called (say) Ambrose and Ziggy.
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abitfunny · 11/11/2020 10:49

I do understand what you’re saying @CatteStreet although my name is unusual, particularly so when I was growing up. I always had funny comments especially in school but would I have changed my name? Absolutely not. I’m glad I didn’t have the same name as 2/3/4 other kids in my year group.

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