Thor

Not without Scandi heritage and preferably a Scandi surname.

He might carry it off, just, if your surname isn't something like Blenkinsop and he grows up to be a 6 foot 5 stunnngly good looking blond.

My son has a Norse name very similar to Thor

Thoughts on Thor.

It's a hard no from me. Please don't do that to your child.

I don’t watch Marvel or know which actor plays Thor to me Thor is a blond huge Viking type god.

Woild I Thor Bjørn Larsen work better for you?
Honestly I don't see any of the issues you are bringing up here.

With the wide range of names we are now using as society few of the generation growing up now will even raise an eyebrow of a name like Thor.

Good thing too we as a society are getting rid of prejudice.

@Babadook76

Yeah, but you can’t ignore the associations that come with a name like that. A 6ft+ muscular, god-like figure—it’s a lot to live up to! Like someone said below, what if he ends up looking more like Mr. Bean? Imagine being named Thor and turning heads for all the wrong reasons. That would be brutal.

And then there’s the career aspect. Picture this: he becomes a teacher. Can you imagine how well that would go down in a secondary school? The jokes would write themselves. Or worse—he’s a doctor. “Dr. Thor Smith” sounds like the name of a comic book character, not a trusted physician! And law? “KC Thor Smith” doesn’t exactly scream credibility.

And let’s not even talk about wedding vows: “I, Thor Odin Smith…” No, no, and no.

I really don’t understand why people think that if you have the same name as someone famous, then you have to look like them? Do people realise Chris hemworth is human and an actor? If you were naming a child after Thor for his looks, going by the original description he would have to be fat and ginger. I can’t imagine many people naming their child based upon what they may look like when they’re older, or what personality traits they may have. God forbid a child named after a fat, ginger, made up man turn out to be short/dark haired and like books??!! 😂

Personally I dislike Torben for me its on. Par with the Keith/Colin age here in the UK

Thor however imo is cool

Yet many here loathe it and go poor child.

Hahaha

I wouldn’t give him that name because if he doesn’t end up as the sort of man who likes going to the gym to maintain his muscly physique then he’s going to have the piss taken out of him.

I know people who have given their kids Marvel names but they’ve been middle names if super specific like Thor or names that are Marvel names but also used elsewhere. The names that I am thinking of are Logan, Parker, Stark…

We had Thorlac down for our youngest, named after one of DH's uni lecturers - he had a truly glorious name that must be a bugger to spell over the phone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorlac_Turville-Petre), though she turned out to be the wrong sex for it.

Conrad is a perfectly normal nice name. Believe me my potential names were WAY worse than that!

If you're not sure, what about as a middle name?

DD is named after a minor superman character. Not because of the superman link specifically, but because we were struggling for a name and in frustration DP just started reeling off names from her favourite show until we suddenly found on we could agree on.

DD likes her name, and she also likes comic book movies, so when we told her where we'd got the name from we thought she'd enjoy the little connection.

She hated it, she didn't want to be named after a fictional person, thought it was stupid. We had to explain that we hadn't named her after that character, just found a name we liked because of the show.

And that was with a perfectly normal name that isn't primarily connected with that character.

You call your kid Thor, and he's never going to forgive you. The primary reference for that name in the UK is that character. He's going to spend his life getting asked where his hammer is, or what it's like being an Avenger. He's going to miss out on jobs because of it, women will be put off him because of it.

In short, you'll ruin his life. Tell your husband to stop being a twat.

I work with Thor and Thanos 😁 though, sadly, they’re not based in the U.K. office…

Honestly, naming your child Thor might not be the best idea. Can you imagine the teasing at school? He’d be endlessly compared to Thor from The Avengers. Do you think your genes will give him the over-6ft height and god-like physique to pull it off? 😁

‘like Dante, which to me is what you’d call a racing horse.’

Dante is possibly the greatest poet produced in Italy, the first to write in the vernacular rather than Latin. The trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise has served as a model for subsequent poets in many languages and cultures.

It's terrible. If he grows up to be a 6'4" athlete, then it might be a pretty cool name to have. But if he grows up to a be a very slight, nerdy type of guy, it's going to be absolutely ridiculous.

Thor is a big name to have to live up to, I would never burden a child with that. Why doesn't your husband change his name to Thor instead?
Torben is unusual but would be a good compromise, or calling him Theodore with the NN Thor. Please don't call him Thorbjorn as a compromise, that's even worse! A right mouthful in English and just a really odd choice - you wouldn't call him Thunder bear in English so why would you call him that in another language?

3 of My children had names that are commented down on on MN my children are in their 20s they all love their names and are not horrified by the alternatives we had for them. Ds is Conrad a marmite name here. Dd2 and 3 have names hard to spell and people constantly go "you will set them up for a life time of spelling their name" neither girl mind this. I am in my 50s and I have a unisex name that's unusual and hard to spel

I hate the unisex of it always have always will
I dont mind it being unusual and I don't mind needing to spell it.

Yet on mn you constantly get told it's the other way around and people like unisex and hate spelling/being unusual.

A long time ago I did a post suggesting my own name (i have name changed since) and I had 20 posts going no way.. yet my parents liked it. So used it.

If you’re Scandinavian or just very into Norse mythology then I could see why you would choose it. It’s associated with strength generally, whether that was the original meaning or not, so if your son is a delicate type then it might not suit.

I grew up in Denmark it's a fairly normal name there. I dont mind it. I dont love it.
I like the THor pronunciation though poster above is right re it is Tor in Danish. One of the.few times a name is less harsh in English. (Despite so many stating Danish is a harsh language)

If you like it and dh loves it I would go for it.

I know a toddler Thor. His dad is really into weightlifting and that kind of metal/Norse look (but no actual Scandi heritage). People always say about unusual names that you’ll get used to it and it’ll just be their name but he’s 3 and a half and I still feel sorry for him…

I wouldn’t.

I think that is something not enough parents consider. We have no idea what sort of personality our children will have. Better to have a “boring” name, even if it’s shared with another at school, which an introvert wouldn’t be embarrassed by imo. An extrovert could always choose to go by an unusual nickname instead (plenty do).

A Thor might fit right in in parts of Scandinavia, but I’m not sure that would be the case in many places in the UK. I agree Torben is a better option (his Dad can still use Thor as a nickname) or using Thor for a middle name (then an introvert can always hope none of his peers find out).