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Anonymous1098 · 2025-08-17T22:16:30+00:00

A little different, but what is everyone’s thoughts on the name Banks for a boy?

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HelpMeGetThrough · 18/08/2025 17:03

ohbee · 18/08/2025 15:00

Lloyd? It’s a bank

So is Barclays.

OP, don’t call him Barclays whatever you do. Having a Barclays in rhyming slang is as bad as calling the poor sod Banks.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/08/2025 16:53

ohbee · 18/08/2025 15:00

Lloyd? It’s a bank

Well yeah but obviously that’s named after a person - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampson_Lloyd
as is Lloyd’s of London via the name of the eponymous coffee house owner Edward Lloyd.

Memberofstaff · 18/08/2025 16:52

Awful

Pemba · 18/08/2025 16:45

Didn't Phoebe's brother and his partner name one of the triplets that Phoebe gave birth to for them, Chandler? And that one was a girl I think.

Livingonbananabread · 18/08/2025 15:26

ErrolTheDragon · 18/08/2025 14:30

Yes; what I’m wondering about is why that one isn’t so obviously weird as a forename versus some of the other ‘trade names’.

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When Friends first came out it was seen as a very weird name - I think he jokes about it in one of the early episodes. I’ve still not come across it used by anyone else.

IdaGlossop · 18/08/2025 15:14

Spare the poor baby. All rhymes and near rhymes are bad: wank, spank, crank, dank, manky, hanky panky. Banks is a surname - Nick Banks, Pulp drummer.

hereismydog · 18/08/2025 15:07

Ridiculous 😂

Pregnancy hormones are wild!

TheHandmaidsSnail · 18/08/2025 15:04

This is one of the most unanimous ones I've ever seen in here

ohbee · 18/08/2025 15:00

Lloyd? It’s a bank

BeaLola · 18/08/2025 14:58

Awful

Why not call him Road, Station, Bowl or Shop

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 18/08/2025 14:41

Is it the financial-sounding solidness of it that you like OP?

If so have you considered:

Cheque
Overdraft
Loan
Isa
Debit
Interest
Statement, or
Standingorder

?

They’d all go well with a familiar surname like Smith, Brown, Thompson, Robinson etc

ErrolTheDragon · 18/08/2025 14:30

Miriabelle · 18/08/2025 12:54

It’s always been a completely acceptable surname that originated as a vocation name, just as Baker, Smith etc. are. It seems to have become a forename via the American trend for making surnames into forenames.

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Yes; what I’m wondering about is why that one isn’t so obviously weird as a forename versus some of the other ‘trade names’.

Miriabelle · 18/08/2025 12:54

ErrolTheDragon · 18/08/2025 12:41

I wonder how and when chandler did get accepted as a forename? Maybe because it’s not often used nowadays - not many candle makers, and most people (especially in the non coastal or very urban swathes of the us) have little call for a chandlery.

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It’s always been a completely acceptable surname that originated as a vocation name, just as Baker, Smith etc. are. It seems to have become a forename via the American trend for making surnames into forenames.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/08/2025 12:41

Miriabelle · 18/08/2025 10:21

Just please don’t. Poor child!

(although as a pp said then you could always have a sister called Library and even go on to have a whole high street - Chandler, Grocer and Ironmonger sound great for boy triplets, no?)

I wonder how and when chandler did get accepted as a forename? Maybe because it’s not often used nowadays - not many candle makers, and most people (especially in the non coastal or very urban swathes of the us) have little call for a chandlery.

tsmainsqueeze · 18/08/2025 12:27

Absolutely awful along with many other 'american style' childrens names for either sex.

PurpleChrayn · 18/08/2025 12:24

Hideous. Not a name. Rhymes with “wanks”.

midlifeattheoasis · 18/08/2025 12:18

You can’t be serious?

RaraRachael · 18/08/2025 11:19

Just when you think "unique" names can't get any more ridiculous, along comes Banks. Seriously?

Just no. Think about your poor child.

WaltzingWaters · 18/08/2025 11:18

Please don’t. Yes, I think cruel kids will go for the obvious rhyme.

HelpMeGetThrough · 18/08/2025 11:16

Forever known at school as wanks or wanksy.

Don’t do it to the poor kid.

Pemba · 18/08/2025 11:11

THISnewbeginning · 18/08/2025 09:56

I dont hate it

Someone ... I think maybe Hilary Duff has a daughter named Banks

Now that's just cruel. Poor kid.

UnimatrixZeroOne · 18/08/2025 10:53

People are ridiculous sometimes.

SprayWhiteDung · 18/08/2025 10:36

THISnewbeginning · 18/08/2025 10:14

Hilarious Duffs - Banks is a daughter

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Thanks - I stand corrected! But that's still not really the main point about choosing it as a baby name...!

SprayWhiteDung · 18/08/2025 10:35

PInkyStarfish · 18/08/2025 10:12

@SprayWhiteDung Trig is a boy's name of Scandinavian, Norse origin meaning "true".

Ah, OK - thanks. However, does Sarah Palin have any links with Scandinavian/Norse heritage?

Bai Jian Li would be a perfectly normal-sounding Chinese name, but it would still be a very strange choice for a white British family, living in the UK, with no Chinese heritage or connection whatsoever to call their baby!

Of course, I realise that names DO cross cultures over a long period of time - I have a rather mundane Hebrew name, but I'm not Jewish or Israeli.

Miriabelle · 18/08/2025 10:21

Just please don’t. Poor child!

(although as a pp said then you could always have a sister called Library and even go on to have a whole high street - Chandler, Grocer and Ironmonger sound great for boy triplets, no?)