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How do you feel about this boy name?

57 replies

annaboo2 · 10/06/2021 06:32

Travis

and what type of person comes to mind, as a lad or an adult?

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suckingonchillidogs · 10/06/2021 13:24

Thanks Frogcorset and bimbimbap.

JulietBravo999 · 10/06/2021 13:21

I know of a Travis, siblings are Kaylan and Nevaeh. Read into that what you will.

Also doesn’t work if your surname begins with T. Grin

Synchrony · 10/06/2021 13:11

It makes me think of "Ten Things I hate about you".
I quite like it.

justanotherneighinparadise · 10/06/2021 13:03

Not keen. Bit Beavis and Butthead for me.

How do you feel about this boy name?
Nahhh · 10/06/2021 13:01

Naughty and scruffy

angelaEhen · 10/06/2021 13:01

Travis perkins, some sort of building firm. Not keen doesn't sound like a first name to me

VenusClapTrap · 10/06/2021 12:51

I quite like it. I also like Jarvis.
I am stuck in the nineties though.

Frogcorset · 10/06/2021 12:49

[quote bimbimbap]@suckingonchillidogs it’s called the great american bus ride[/quote]
Yes, and it's brilliant, if you like low-key travelogues about middle-aged women, armed with only a notebook, a couple of novels and a change of underwear, taking fairly rough longhaul buses around the US. It's as much about the people she sits next to and gets talking to generally poorer people as it is about the destinations, and IK herself is very cool. Thoroughly recommended.

SmallPrawnEnergy · 10/06/2021 12:48

You'll get derogatory comments on here as it's not a hooray henry type name. It doesn't fall into Middle Class safety net or unique faux hippie.
I like it.

Gullible2021 · 10/06/2021 12:46

I see a turn of the milennium emo kid with long greasy hair, grey skin, baggy shapeless khaki and black clothing, depressed demeanour, who only grunts to communicate and who has a filthy bedroom littered with dirty laundry, unwashed plates and cups, leftover pizza boxes and an awful stench of BO and mould. Travis' mother cannot wait for him to leave home.

KezzabellaB · 10/06/2021 12:40

Chavvy. Sorry!

sadpapercourtesan · 10/06/2021 12:39

Dave Lee Travis. Not a positive association.

SleepingStandingUp · 10/06/2021 12:36

Weirdly I think of the doctor on Grey's Anatomy that had a baby with Amelia

JamieLeeBee · 10/06/2021 12:33

I quite like Travers

bimbimbap · 10/06/2021 12:28

@suckingonchillidogs it’s called the great american bus ride

Seesawmummadaw · 10/06/2021 12:14

I know a Travis in his 20’s. He’s lovely.

RuthW · 10/06/2021 12:12

I've heard of a baby Travis recently. It's ok.

RuthW · 10/06/2021 12:12

I've heard of a baby Travis recen

suckingonchillidogs · 10/06/2021 11:59

@Frogcorset

It reminds me of a bit in Irma Kurtz’s book about travelling around the US on greyhound buses, where an exhausted, visibly poor, hillbilly teenage mother on a long overnight trip, keeps saying to her obstreperous child, ‘Where’s your coat at, Travis? Where’s your hat at, Travis? Travis, you are TROUBLE!’
Sorry to derail but what book is that Frogcorset? Love books about travelling round America! Sorry OP, as you were
user1493494961 · 10/06/2021 11:06

I agree with the Jeremy Kyle comment.

TatianaBis · 10/06/2021 11:01

Redneck

TheSpanishApartment · 10/06/2021 10:58

I think of an american hillbilly. Or someone scottish, probably because of the band. But mainly a hillbilly with no teeth. Sorry.

PeskyRooks · 10/06/2021 10:56

I think it's a surfer type name like someone off Neighbours

TakeYourFinalPosition · 10/06/2021 10:53

The 90s band.

I wouldn’t have said Jeremy Kyle at all. Perhaps it’s a regional thing!

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 10/06/2021 10:49

I like it, because I like the band