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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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moondog · 21/02/2008 15:47

I can accept people passing judgement via the anonymous web 9and lets face it ,it's terrific fun to do so) but can't imagine the utter rudeness of family and friends in doing so to yuor face.
Tell 'em to fuck off.

PuppyMonkey · 21/02/2008 15:47

Aunty, actually Heap is a really good name for a baby like Uriah Heap from that Dickens novel..

HellHathNoFury · 21/02/2008 15:46

agree expat.
Asking for feedback is pretty much inviting criticsm.
Let's be fair - even a name as innocuous as Matthew will be loved by some, hated by some.

Personally, I have never heard of anyone called Ianto, and I would think it odd, but as I can see some find it totally normal.
I would find the Captain Jack bit mildly hysterical and I might pity the boy when he gets old enough to watch pirates of the caribbean.

If you don't want to hear negative opinions, don't ask.

What matters is that you and DH can agree on it. Which you can't.

mummydoc · 21/02/2008 15:45

haven't read whole post, but I wanted to call dd2 Ptolomy if she was a boy , after the lovely architect/historian chap on "restoration" and got loads of greif over it ... where do other people get names from ?? books/ plays / etc. I am named after a shakespere character , my mohter had studied the play at school and liked the name, loads of ideas/names etc come from the culture at the time, BTW i think it is a great name.

ShakeysGirl · 21/02/2008 15:45

I cried over nothing then? Real tears to! (Sorry cantsleepwontsleep)

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:43

Jack Sparrow from Pirates, but Jack Harkness from Torchwood.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:43

Yes he is Expat.

My "Jack" is Ianto Owen Captin Jack Harkness not Sparrow.

Ooops got to go!! I promise not to get upset at any further derogatory remarks entered on thread. You've actually been really helpful - I could have named DS after a rubbish heap if you hadn't helped me thus far!

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:42

Why ask for feedback, though, AM, if you get upset about it? I mean, if you like the name, go for it.

But it's not to everyone's taste.

Also, you've made up your mind, so asking for feedback is a fruitless endeavour.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:41

BBC3 I mean.

Ok sorry again Enid.

And sorry for any potential offence to Expat, really wasn't intended.

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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:40

Wait a sec here. Isn't Captain Jack Sparrow the bloke from Pirates of the Caribbean?

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:40

Owen isn't "dead" as such, I watched the BBC episode as well so no worries there

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HellHathNoFury · 21/02/2008 15:40

far fetched for me
but I didn't say it was rubbish.
Anyway, you did ask.

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:40

Grrr ShakeysGirl - no spoilers! I haven't seen yesterdays yet .

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:39

She was indeed. I am flattered that you are looking me up. I am not cross with Expat, it's just that she responded as if the comment I made to you was to her.

My sister is the Mumsnet member. Not me. Although I will probably post more when Ianto Owen Captain Jack Harness (surname) is born.

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moondog · 21/02/2008 15:39

I also have a nephew called Bo.
How bizarre.

Blandmum · 21/02/2008 15:39

It isn't a stupid name in wales, where people will recognise it and will know how to say it.

why add the Owen and the Tosh? that just makes it sound faintly crazy in Wales or anywhere else.

What next? Captain Jack Rift In The Space Time Contiunum Jones?

ShakeysGirl · 21/02/2008 15:39

I love the name Yanto! I said to dp the other week that if we ever had another son i would be choosing that name! Not really much point having Owen though, he got shot and killed last night!

TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 15:38

but Torchwood is cack

[puzzled]

surely that is common knowledge?

TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 15:38

and I am not the same person as Expat

in fact you should remember expat as she was very helpful to you on your only previous thread two years ago

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:37

I wasn't being nasty HonEnid. Really. It's just that you called my names "stupid" and my favourite programme "cack". We don't all have the names like and dislikes you know. Feedback usually means something more constructive but thank you for your opinion anyway & I apologise for offending you.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:35

How can an ordinary welsh christian name be "far fetched"?

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TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 15:34

if its a joke she is getting quite nasty about criticism

which makes it even more pathetic

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:34

Bo is a good name. You could go with that. And since Captain Jack is the Face of Bo, you could then miss the Captain Jack bit out of the name.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:34

Oh are you the same person as HonEnid Expat?

Sister has gone to make a cup of tea before she shoves me off to do online banking. Momentary reprieve.

I have dropped the Tosh didn't you see?

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HellHathNoFury · 21/02/2008 15:33

Pissing myself

Has to be a joke. Please tell me no-one REALLY wants to call their kid captain jack/tosh?

Ianto is a bit far fetched for me too

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