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Honest Opinions on the name Finnick?

106 replies

Louloumelon · 08/06/2024 07:07

Hi! We are 21 Weeks with our first born son and have settled on the name Finnick. We were originally looking at Finnigan but much preferred Finnick. Really not keen on Finley and wouldn’t mind if it was shortened to Finn but want more than just Finn as his name. I know it’s a character in hunger games and we wanted a name that is really unique for him without being too weird - short backstory I went to school with a girl with the same first and last name as me and she was popular so I was deamed “unpopular xxxx” which wasn’t fun so I always said I wanted a unique name but I don’t want to push it too far and it be weird. Thanks ladies - P.S hormonal preggo here so please don’t be brutal.

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stressedespresso · 08/06/2024 15:46

Really icky.

PurpleBrocadePeacock · 08/06/2024 13:55

Ironically, if you have a common surname is it also possible that there could be another Finn Jones (for example) in the classroom so you have managed both ultra-rare and likely to have a duplicate in the same name!

I like surnames as first names so Finnegan, Sullivan, Fenwick, Montgomery etc all sound good to me, but Finnick sounds like a nickname for someone who pesters you, and rolls of the tongue a bit like a Pillock.

FloofPaws · 08/06/2024 13:45

It's fine IMO, I prefer Fenwick and Fintan though. I don't like Finnegan

Badknitter · 08/06/2024 13:44

LadyMuckRake · 08/06/2024 07:11

Hunger Games

This

ginasevern · 08/06/2024 13:37

Horrible, horrible name. Finnegan is so much nicer.

Avatartar · 08/06/2024 13:37

The name conjured up an image of a remote mountain village in my head - not a person

SunnyFog · 08/06/2024 13:25

Finnan haddock was my first thought

Finnegan has an e in it, and is a great name although i would expect you to be a James Joyce fan.

UseOfWeapons · 08/06/2024 13:16

Sorry, OP, I agree it’s awful. If Finn or Flynn are not for you, Finnbar or Finisterre?

ZiriForGood · 08/06/2024 12:44

I like the sound of Finnick better than majority of the suggested alternatives like Finbar or Fenwick.

Every name was made up at some moment, and young people are used to all sorts of names now.

PurpleWhiteGreen123 · 08/06/2024 11:49

I don't like it.

I like Finn, Finlay, Flynn though.

Springwatch123 · 08/06/2024 11:03

I quite like it. Sounds Scottish to me.

seven201 · 08/06/2024 11:03

If I had a boy I quite wanted to call him Flynn. Finnick is just a hunger games character to me.

BobbyBiscuits · 08/06/2024 10:59

It sounds a bit like finickity, or the shop Fenwick. I'm not crazy about it. I like Finbar, Finton, Finley, Finn though.

AmytheDancingBrick · 08/06/2024 10:54

It’s awful, sorry - much better suggestions above.

IamMoodyBlue · 08/06/2024 10:48

When I was a ranger at Monkey Mia, one of the young dolphins was called Finnick. He'd had an encounter with a shark. Hence, Fin nick.
So it sounds odd for a child to me. But there's nothing actually wrong with the name. If you like it, go with it.
Some people will love it, others neutral, others won't like it. That's the same for most things in life though.
And, congratulations!

MistyGreenAndBlue · 08/06/2024 10:47

It's ridiculous. And sounds like it was made up by a seven year old. As do many of the names in that awful book.

LakeTiticaca · 08/06/2024 10:39

Hell no. Don't saddle a small child with that !! What's wrong with just Finn?

Persipan · 08/06/2024 10:35

As a name I don't dislike it but in terms of associations, the only one I have for it is the Hunger Games. And although that character is on the 'good' side, he's also the victim of sex trafficking and has his head bitten off by a giant lizard, so I'm afraid I struggle to see that as entirely auspicious.

FuckTheClubUp · 08/06/2024 10:35

Awful. Really, really awful

TeabySea · 08/06/2024 10:35

I know of the name Finn as an abbreviation of Finlay and of Finbarr, and like the short version.
I'd not heard the name Finnick before. I don't dislike it. It reminds me of Fennick and therefore foxes (which I also like).

Imnewtothisandnervous · 08/06/2024 10:34

WrongSortOfPoster · 08/06/2024 10:19

*Finnigan or Fenwick (I think the later is Cornish and great)
it's from Northumberland.

Thank you - my fave part of the country

WrongSortOfPoster · 08/06/2024 10:31

@NoSnowdrop , I'm the same. Finn doesn't need a longer version.

NoSnowdrop · 08/06/2024 10:24

It’s a hard no.

i don’t like the other suggestions / variations on this thread either.

Loopytiles · 08/06/2024 10:20

Your experiences as a child is not good reason to give your DS a name you hope no one else he encounters will have. Even if you give him a popular name it’s improbable he would experience what you did.

WrongSortOfPoster · 08/06/2024 10:19

*Finnigan or Fenwick (I think the later is Cornish and great)
it's from Northumberland.