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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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AdamAnt · 21/02/2008 15:20

How about Josh?

booge · 21/02/2008 15:20

lol, this thread has really cheered me up.

Oliveoil · 21/02/2008 15:20

I like Gwen as most people will know how to pronounce it

Ianto, although ok name, will be forever called Eye-An-Toe, bet you a fiver, and not Yanto

I am forever spelling out my surname and it pisses me off no end

collision · 21/02/2008 15:19

very good windup Aunty Mabel!!!

SenoraPostrophe · 21/02/2008 15:19

hehe

dh wanted to call ds Darth. and he wasn't joking.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:18

Yes I could drop the tosh entirely which is a shame because I like it. And I love Jack obviously, he is such a wonderful character but with Jack being such a common name I has desregarded it previously.

You've been helpful already. I will leave the Tosh as I don't want any trash connotations attached to my beautiful boy and I hadnt considered it. Ianto Owen Captain Jack (surname) I LIKE!

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collision · 21/02/2008 15:18

what was the good idea CSWS?

crumpet · 21/02/2008 15:17

Actually a friend's son (who is half Japanese) has Toshiaki as his middle name...

CantSleepWontSleep · 21/02/2008 15:17

Oh good idea Collision...

'I, AuntyMable, promise to love, honour and worship MrAuntyMable, and not to enforce names of sci-fi characters on any future offspring'

KnickersOnMaHead · 21/02/2008 15:17

Message withdrawn

collision · 21/02/2008 15:17

I now realise this is a joke!

I am well and truly caught out!!

Well done!

bigknickersbigknockers · 21/02/2008 15:17

Think about the poor child, Owen is nice but Ianto and tosh are terrible. Sorry, I dont mean to be rude or nasty thats just my humble opinion.

sparkybabe · 21/02/2008 15:17

I think you're a nut - but I like Ianto, it's unusual. Tosh not. And Gwen Cooper sounds like a car.

moopymoo · 21/02/2008 15:17

not sure if you have the same definition of compromise as me! what worked for us - each draw up a long list of names you would like , then cross off what you really couldnt live with on each others then see whats left.

collision · 21/02/2008 15:16

We have an odd middle name for ds2 and thank goodness no one uses it! (obviously)

You could go with Jack Ianto as no one would use Ianto but you get your own way (he would be known as Jack!)

How would you feel though if your DH wanted to call him Maradona? And you had no say whatsoever?

Having a child is a commitment and you need to decide together what to call this child!

AdamAnt · 21/02/2008 15:16

Enid - I'd rather have a questionable taste in names than bad manners.

FWIW I think Ianto is a perfectly pleasant name. In fact it's growing on me the more I think about it.

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:16

Gwen Cooper is an very important Torchwood character!

Well they are all important actually.

I am wondering is Ianto Owen Captain Jack would be acceptable.

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Oliveoil · 21/02/2008 15:16

What about Exterminate?

jumpingbeans · 21/02/2008 15:15

Oh auntymable,what you call your babe is up to you, but pmsl when you said it got a bit nasty and you threw tea towels at each other,sorry but I do agree with cantsleep, you should both be happy with the name

collision · 21/02/2008 15:14

or Tardis........now that IS cool!!

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AuntyMable · 21/02/2008 15:14

Tosh his short for Toshiko, who is a beautiful lady in Torchwood. But she is a lady and my baby is a boy so I needed to make it more masculine.

I suppose I could compromise again and suggest Ianto Owen Jack. It's the Ianto than DP really goes off on one about but if I show I'm compromising he can stop kicking off can't he!

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bigknickersbigknockers · 21/02/2008 15:14

Sorry but I think you would be kinder to your DS in the long run if you did call him Dr Who.

collision · 21/02/2008 15:13

Great name for a dog though!

Gwen Cooper??? where are you getting these from??

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

Oliveoil · 21/02/2008 15:13

When picking names for my children I didn't want them forever spelling it out and explaining it all their lives

hence they have easy traditional names

Ianto does not fall into this catagory imo [diplomatic]

however it is up to YOU what you call your child so ignore your relatives if you wish

you cannot however dictate to dp, he has as much say in it as you do so you must come to some sort of compromise. Like Dave...

LadyMuck · 21/02/2008 15:13

I guess the issue is that the name will always conjure up a pop-culture reference, and Torchwood hasn't finished yet. What happens if Ianto gets written into some loon who goes round eating babies? Would that really be how you would want your ds remembered in years to come?

I think that you can get away with more with middle names (your children don't have to live with those every day), so perhaps Owen Ianto might work. Tosh seems an odd name to give.

Did your dp have any say with naming this child? Are you planning to being with him for a while? If so then I do think that he should have some say.