to wonder if this is a normal name for a child?

[MrsHuxtable]

So today at work I came across a boy called Buster!

I've only ever heard it as a name for dogs so now I'm wondering whether I've missed something.

It wasn't said once like in a jokey way. The boy was repeatedly referred to as Buster.

jackjackmummy

I just had to check your profile as I thought we might be related,

I am related to a family who have a Buster in each generation.

I take it we're not?

Didn't Buster Gonads have unfeasible large testicles? (viz)

gonad

Not a proper name in my book, neither is Sonny. But I've heard worse.

What was Buster Keaton's real name? Incidentally I know two boys named Keaton!

It was really Joseph Frank Keaton apparently. :)

I know a Sonny!

The mental image I have of Buster is not one of slight proportion.

DSis wants to call a future DS Buster

YANBU

It's for dogs

I know of someone whose middle name is Buster. Must be early 20s now. There was a child in the paper today called Zoom. He was 12, the article confirmed it was his real name. I love it!

I know two Sonnys [Should there be an apostrophe there?I feel there should.]

It's a cracking name!

I call ds it a lot.

I use it as a nickname (is nothing like real name) however I know someone who called their son Stagger yes Stagger, that's the name on his birth certificate and isn't a nickname

Probably a nickname.

(Hope no one actually thinks I called my youngest DS 'Toad' - which is what we tend to call him)

I know a sonny as well, buster and buddy are 2 now. Cute as button, but they really are called that
Buster, luckily, is the big chunky one not the dainty one

Surely the name choices of Geoge and Lucille Bluth cannot be questioned

I think it's an excellent name, and have just added it to my potentials list.

I feel sorry for young Stagger, what's the betting he grows up to be a drunkard, or incredibly clumsy at least? (Isn't there a horse disease called 'the staggers'?)

When I had my first ds,the mum in the bed opposite me also had a ds and called him Buster,their surname also began with B ,to this day I always think about this little boy.

I have observed a tred

Dogs given human names ;

Bert, Dave, Simon

Children given dogs' names:

Rufus, Jasper, Barney

I make no judgment - I like dogs and boys

trend

My DP is a Barney. We have some hilarious moments in parks as people summon their dogs.

My childrens uncle is called Buster.
Hes a traveller.
I like it!

Rufus, Jasper and Barney were all on my list for DS2, along with Toby.

DH said "NO... they are all dogs' names" .

Yanbu, definitely a dogs name but then so are Barney, Max, Rufus and Bruce but people still use those Could have been a nickname though 'come 'ere Buster', makes sense. Not a great real name though.

Funnily enough I asked DP this when she told me that one of her colleagues was thinking of calling her DS this name as it was a family name. Actually she went for Arthur in the end but I quite like it as it happens.