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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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TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 15:33

lol at fury from torchwood obsessive

you DID ask

actually if I met your son and heard his name was Ianto I would prob think 'how unusual and interesting'

but if I heard it was because of torchwood (ie captain jack as middle names) I would ROFL

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:32

Well, I'd rather have my opinion be cack than put 'tosh' anywhere in a kid's name.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:32

DP doesn't like it. And says he has had enough of my Dr Who related obsessions.

Honestly The main is deranged and unreasonable. Anyone would think I want to call the child Face Of Bo or something!

Sister is shoving me off..

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:28

No. I live in Somerset. But Torchwood is in Cardiff.

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moondog · 21/02/2008 15:28

Oh ne er mind all that tosh about stuff being the diminutive of this and that or the Serbo-Croat for Wilfred.

It's all a pile of shite 9which is why everyone claims their child's name means 'chosen one' or 'gift from God')

If yuo like the sound of it,that's all that mattters.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:28

HonEnid I have to say I think your opinions are a pile of cack, given as they are, with no thought to any kind of diplomacy that most grown ups manage to master.

Moondog how FAB!

I am emailing DP at work, the newest compromise.

I think I will have to get off my sister's computer now but will be back a bit later.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:27

s'alright moondog - she's just 'avin a larff anyway.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:27

So, you are Welsh, Aunty M? Or your partner?

meridian · 21/02/2008 15:26

Ianto is apparently the welsh pet form of Ifan whish is the welsh form of John

moondog · 21/02/2008 15:26

Cannot however comment on Torchwood as never sen it.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:25

Ianto Owen Captain Jack Harkness (single syllable surname)?

I like it but it's a but longer than I have planned.

Hmm more food for thought.

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moondog · 21/02/2008 15:25

Ianto is a lovely name.It's a Welsh name actually.
I have a nephew called ianto. Oh and one called Owen too. They live in Francophone countries (also Anglophone ones) and have never had any grief.

TheHonEnid · 21/02/2008 15:25

Torchwood is such a pile of cack anyway

LadyMuck · 21/02/2008 15:24

People will think that you are also into Jack Sparrow, so I'd avoid. How about adding Harkness in as a middle name?

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:24
Shock
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expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:24

Sponsor a dog in a kennel. Call it Ianto.

You'll feel better and no one will get hurt.

expatinscotland · 21/02/2008 15:23

You're not only going to give the child a forename from a weirdy Dr. Who spin-off but also designate one of his middlenames as Tosh?

You are hormonal. It happens. I wanted to name my daughters Pearl and Calypso, so I've been there.

But please, don't let this passing phase affect your child for the rest of his life.

Listen to your sister. It's a naff name.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:23

DP wants John. No middle name(s).

And he doesn't do science fiction.

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booge · 21/02/2008 15:23

We've been wondering what to call our (old style) mini cooper and now I know Gwen

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:23

No AM, we don't!

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:22

Do people think Ianto Owen Captain Jack (single syllable surname) sounds ok even if not your specific taste?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:22

What name would your dp like to give the baby?

meridian · 21/02/2008 15:22

I would say if you really like the name use it as the middle name... so its Owen Ianto .. then you can call him Ianto but he also has a normal name that compromises with you DP but you get to keep the Ianto...

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:20

collision - 'I now think that couples should discuss potential names for children BEFORE they commit to each other!!)'

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:20

No really, I'm not kidding. We do have to agree on this, DP and I, as DS is due at the end of March

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