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magicstar2020 · 2024-10-04T17:41:29+00:00

I really love it. Is it the pregnancy hormones? Or is it as great as I think it is?

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

ManchesterGirl2 · 04/10/2024 18:56

MagentaRavioli · 04/10/2024 18:50

It depends. If you’re a Mummy mallard for example, I expect it’d go down well with the wider family but tbh I think when Duckie goes to school she might find seven more in the class. If you’re a Mummy swan then that’s just plain confusing as a given name and it has ugly duckling connotations so please don’t inflict it on your cygnet. I think if you’re a more exotic avian species of Mummy you could probably get away with it by describing it as a foreign name.

For all mammals apart from a duck-billed platypus (Duckie and Billie are fine here) I would choose something more species-relevant.

😂😂

NoraLuka · 04/10/2024 18:55

There was a character called Ducky in NCIS. He was fictional though, and it was a nickname.

Disappearedwife · 04/10/2024 18:55

What is wrong with you?!?! Read your question over and over OP. You nutter

minipie · 04/10/2024 18:55

Dulcie?

Duckie is a hard no.

Nsky62 · 04/10/2024 18:55

Def no

EmpressaurusDeiGatti · 04/10/2024 18:54

Go with Quackers, it’s much better.

justasoul · 04/10/2024 18:54

DD has a friend who went by Duckie for a while - in primary school she was Rosie* and after the Duckie era she goes by Rose - bet she was happy to have the options

*not real name but something along those lines.

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AllThePotatoesAreSingingJingleBells · 04/10/2024 18:54

Drampa · 04/10/2024 18:49

I actually loled when I read the ‘she’

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We found out she was a girl at 10 weeks 😂

MrsMoastyToasty · 04/10/2024 18:54

Is your surname Mallard?

TinaYouFatLard · 04/10/2024 18:53

Dulcie with NN Duckie?

MadCatWoman7 · 04/10/2024 18:52

Your child's name should be able to carry it through nursery, school, board room, building site, and maturity. Can you imagine a CEO being called Duckie? Or a guy on the building site? Or a teacher? You can call it Duckie as your special nick name but definitely not for life's journey into the big wide world.

Faldodiddledee · 04/10/2024 18:52

Duck or ducky/duckie is a term of endearment, 'alright duckie?' similar to my love, sweet, so it will sound odd to anyone from the area that says that.

It is also, google says, slang for women's breasts as used by Henry VIII.

It's up to you, but I'm going with a no.

WonderingWanda · 04/10/2024 18:51

As their actual name? Or in a "Come here Duckie" affectionat nick name?

Definitely not a great name choice.

MagentaRavioli · 04/10/2024 18:50

It depends. If you’re a Mummy mallard for example, I expect it’d go down well with the wider family but tbh I think when Duckie goes to school she might find seven more in the class. If you’re a Mummy swan then that’s just plain confusing as a given name and it has ugly duckling connotations so please don’t inflict it on your cygnet. I think if you’re a more exotic avian species of Mummy you could probably get away with it by describing it as a foreign name.

For all mammals apart from a duck-billed platypus (Duckie and Billie are fine here) I would choose something more species-relevant.

Drampa · 04/10/2024 18:49

AllThePotatoesAreSingingJingleBells · 04/10/2024 18:48

You know, I decided Thor was perfect and I was distraught when my DH vetoed it.

Luckily she didn’t look like a Thor when she came out and I got over it.

Them pregnancy hormones, eh?

I actually loled when I read the ‘she’

Tontostitis · 04/10/2024 18:49

Behave that's an awful thing to do to a person

TheChosenTwo · 04/10/2024 18:48

Oh dear god I hope there is someone in your life (the father?!) to sit you down and sensibly explain why this must not happen 😫

AllThePotatoesAreSingingJingleBells · 04/10/2024 18:48

You know, I decided Thor was perfect and I was distraught when my DH vetoed it.

Luckily she didn’t look like a Thor when she came out and I got over it.

Them pregnancy hormones, eh?

FS90 · 04/10/2024 18:47

This is honestly one of the worst and most ludicrous names I’ve ever heard

HotSource · 04/10/2024 18:47

No.

corlan · 04/10/2024 18:46

It's the hormones - don't do it!

GroovyChick87 · 04/10/2024 18:46

Alalalala · 04/10/2024 18:45

Calling your kid Duckie = disregard for your child’s feelings.

This. This post is either a complete piss take or you're setting your child up for a lifetime of abuse. And that's on you.

Drampa · 04/10/2024 18:46

No. You are naming an adult, not a baby.

Attelina · 04/10/2024 18:45

No. That name would be dismissed in an application in a corporate environment.

What about Honky Tonks instead?

%3D%3D

loobylou10 · 04/10/2024 18:45

Don't be a silly sausage