To call our baby Huckleberry?

[queenmools]

We are really struggling to think of boys' names for our second baby (due in 3 weeks.) We have no idea if it will be a girl or boy. The girl's name is all sorted but we already have one boy and have kind of peaked with naming him. My husband came up with Huckleberry and says he is not joking. I really like it but don't know if I'm brave enough. We are not American and feel it is a very American sounding name so maybe would be out of place. Also would it work for an adult? Would an adult named Huck sound like a complete tosser? I should point out that we live in a very alternative area with lots of unusual names around.

William Roache's actor son is called Linus.

Sorry. Just seen that someone else has mentioned that.

And they are not weird

ok...

I know a 7 year old Linus.

Does always make me think of Charlie Brown though. Funny the associations we have for names.

I know 2 Corneliuses - they are both in their 90s . Surely Cornelius is due a come back, no?! I quite like it - it has gravitas.

Lots of old men in Ireland with names like Cornelius and Thaddeus

"CORRRRNNNYYY" hollered across the playground

Cornelius sounds like foot corns yuck

Horny Corny! (teenage taunts)

Nonono, Cornelius must always be called Cornelius
'Cor-NEE-lius, come here, now!'

Huck is too prone to rhyming slang, I am afraid.

If you like literary names what about Atticus, Scout or Jem?

Corny reminds me of Hairspray and James Marsden, singing and dancing.

Dunno about the they'll be called such and such in school as a reason not to call a child a certain name.

Surely any name can be made into some wankery nickname?

What a silly name.

For the love of cheese and kittens, please don't call your baby Huckleberry!

Anew - are you in Kent by any chance?

Having waded through the whole thread I'd say go for Huckelberry if you want - preferably shortened to Huck.

Had I gone for names for DS from my origins he could have been :

Winter

Silver

Helier

And I am sorry that I didn't give him Helier as a middle name & blame ex(D)P!

Huckleberry - too much leads to typos!

Waltzes off to bed singing 'my Huckleberry friend'...............

Helier? I quite like that one.

Cornelius isn't weird? Linus isn't weird? Uncommon perhaps, but certainly not strange.

My DH wanted to call one of ours 'Titus', which I thought was bad enough!

No read everyone's responses as I suspect MN will frown. However I live in an alternative area and wouldn't blink twice. Other similar names could be Willoughby Barnanby

other alternative nick name for Huck could be hew/hugo/hu

Merlin? (Still love huckleberry though). Ptolemy?

I don't like the conservative piss-taking. You all remind me of my mil.

Seriously I do not believe that for our children's generation this name facism is going to be an issue. Look how tolerant our kids are of difference generally, compared to our/our parent's generation.