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I want to call my baby Ianto after him in Torchwood: why is everyone on my case about it??

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 14:54

I am having a boy in a month or so's time. I really like Torchwood and I want to call my boy Ianto (pronounced Yanto) after that lovely guy in Torchwood. In fact the plan is to call him Ianto Owen Tosh (and surname). Whats wrong with this? DP is being very funny with me over it and I am really starting to get the hump. They are all proper names! I am not calling him after a football team, or Ikea or Nintendo or anything!

My parents aren't speaking to me over this. And my sister says I am losing it and should not be naming my child after people in weird cult spin-offs in which people constantly have sex with anything which happens along, male, female or alien especially when it has nothing much to do with the plot. Which is really HER going off on one in typical style!

They are just names. And I LOVE them, as I love the characters.

Please give me some feedback. I am on my sister's PC so probably won't be back to thread until later this evening but it people could give me constructive feedback in the meantime I would be most grateful.

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AitchTwoOh · 21/02/2008 19:18

ianto is a lovely name, if you are welsh. and not winding everyone up rather magnificently.

PuppyMonkey · 21/02/2008 19:12

I still like Heap

cass66 · 21/02/2008 18:56

my kids want to call my current bump darth vader. they will be disappointed!!

sparkybabe · 21/02/2008 18:45

Cassandra? Fang or Kodos?

PortAndLemon · 21/02/2008 18:42

Ianto is actually nice, but I prefer Davros, or possibly Omega.

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RubberDuck · 21/02/2008 18:38

As an aside, I hadn't watched last night's episode yet - am gutted that there's a major spoiler on this thread

Califrau · 21/02/2008 18:37

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collision · 21/02/2008 16:56

I totally fell for it until you put in the Captain part!

I do quite like Ianto.

Glad I was the first to spot the wind up!!!

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 16:48

I DO have a funny sister.. but she wasn't posting. Twas me. Under name of AuntieMable of course.

Sorry. Was avoiding writing an essay.

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marmadukescarlet · 21/02/2008 16:47

Tosh, what was your last fave TV prog The Bill (Tosh Lyons)?

I suppose it could be a worst (couldn't it?) at least the first name is a real one, spelt in the traditional Welsh fashion.

TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 16:27

does that mean you dont really have a funny sister

I liked her

TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 16:27
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welshmum · 21/02/2008 16:23

Am I too late to say that I've got a gorgeous little nephew called Ianto (nothing to do with Torchwood) In Wales it's a pretty normal name with maybe a dash of funkiness associated with it. He gets called little Iants (yants)
It's not straightforward calling a child anything out of the ordinary, ours have both got Welsh names, we live in London and some people do find them more 'challenging'. Sod 'em say I if I have to deal with 'Dayjurnay' and 'Michelmas Daisy' then they can deal with a bit of Welsh.
But to be honest I find that people are less and less fazed by unusual names - in London anyway.....
Go for Ianto - it's lovely

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 16:16

(DO like the name Ianto tho.. not that am in market for any more children.. childbearing days are WELL over, thank God!)

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 16:15

Yes sorry.. was kidding.. just wanted to see if anyone would swallow fact that someone might name their child after almost an entire line up of a Dr Who spin off

And Enid's repsponses were expected and appreciated

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hercules1 · 21/02/2008 16:10

I like the name, Ianto. Never seen torchwood though. I agree that if you want to call your child an unusual name you both have to be in complete agreement.

I have a very unusual name and have hated it all my life. Fed up of being in my 30's and still having to explain it to strangers on a regular basis. I expect I'll have to explain it for the next 50 years.

DualCycloneCod · 21/02/2008 16:10

adn it si a twatty name imo

DualCycloneCod · 21/02/2008 16:10

the kdi will spend his life HATING haveign to spell hsi name

Nancy66 · 21/02/2008 16:08

What about R2D2? Or Darth Vader?

MrsBadger · 21/02/2008 16:03

only if you are welsh and/or live in Wales.

Ianto is a pukka welsh name, nowt wrong with it, was on our list.

Less convinced re the middle names

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:58

Without doubt lapin.

stanleysmother · 21/02/2008 15:58

Good God this is unreal. You surely can't be serious... and if you are, how old are you? This is the sort of thing Channel 4 make documentaries about!

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