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.

Love Huckleberry! It was on my shortlist but I had a DD instead. DH wasn't keen but I think I could have persuaded him.

Oh I don't mind people disagreeing with me that's the point of asking for opinions. I also didn't say that everyone had been rude

most people have disagreed but been amusing or informative. Which is lovely, that's what conversations should be like.

How do you feel about Iago op? Literary, Welsh for James, gets a bad rep.

My DH has refused it even as a middle name.

If it's a girl ? Strawberry ?

He/she is already having a Welsh middle name so didn't want to over dose on Welshness. Husband is Welsh but I'm not. And we don't live in Wales.

I prefer raspberry!

Sorry it just rhymes with Fuck and please please don't saddle your dearly beloved with such an outlandish name.

It's the opposite of Chardonnay,Chanel,Marley or even made up or misspelt names. It's a goddam ego trip for narc parents ! It's about the child not you. Give them a real name. Hilarious.

Are all names that rhyme with fuck off the list? What about Chuck or Buck? Actually I once saw a film called Chuck and Buck, it was bloody rubbish.

I know a Perseus, which I really rather like now

I think it is a fabulous name but wouldn't name my child it, DH would never agree!

I'd say no to both chuck and buck. Terrible.

Oooh, what's the middle name going to be Mools

I think any name that rhymes with Fuck is not ideal.

But I also have issues with names which can be anagrams of erm...sexual things.

I grew up with a difficult surname, shall we say and just couldn't do it to my child. Married last month and ditched that surname at the speed of light (yeah I know, terrible feminist, etc etc).

Chuck and Buck! I hadn't thought of that film for a long time, queenmools! It was rubbish, you're not wrong.

(I quite like Sherlock too).

I do despair of this Mumsnet theology of not calling a child a name because they will get 'teased in the playground' /yawn/

Why not just admit it and say, 'I won't call my child that because I think people will judge me'?

Because naming a child isn't just about you as a parent?

(no bitchy tone intended there!)

Would I name my own child Huckleberry? No.

Would I care if someone else named theirs Huckleberry? Also no.

Kids will be picked on for anything. If it's not their name it's their hair colour, their height, their sexuality, their choice in music, how 'nerdy' they are, how quiet they are etc.

However I don't feel like it has much nickname potential if you wanted to shorten it as it's rather long. Huck or Berry would be the obvious ones, but is there any others?

Some other 'a bit out there names' I like and you maaay like:

Silas
Ichabod
Emrys
Elias

Any of them nice?

Ignore the haters. I am sure their little Ralph and Jonathan gets teased for something (I hope not though, it's not nice for anyone) and their name choice had nothing to do with it. Or maybe it did - nearly every name can have a 'teasing' potential.

My name is Stefanie and when I was younger I had to endure all the fanny jokes from about 9-12 when they began to get bored of it. I wasn't particularly bothered by it, more embarrassed by the immaturity of my peers and they couldn't come up with a better insult.

What would your girls choice have been, out of curiosity?

The two middle names are most likely to be Arthur Ieuan. I actually really like Ieuan as a first name but didn't want to subject them to a lifetime of having to spell/ pronounce their name. It remains to be seen if I'm happy to subject them to a life time of being called Fuckleberry!
Do you think Chuck Berry had the same trouble?

I like Emrys. If I had a bit more Welsh in me, I might have chosen that as a middle name for my DS. Has anyone else read Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave trilogy?

One of the advantages of living in an English-speaking country is that we have essentially unlimited choice when it comes to naming children. In many countries, in order to register a child's birth you have to use a name that is recognized by the authorities as an acceptable name. And that is why at a party we recently attended, among a group of five Russian families, four of them had sons named Daniil.

When people say, "Oh, the only thing that matters is if the parents like the name they are giving a child," I think they are wrong. It also matters that a child has to function in the world, and an extremely unusual name may make things more difficult for that child.

OP, I think Ieuan is a lovely name FWIW.

I know of a Huxley-nn Hux. I really like it.

I know a couple of Huxleys too.

Ieuan has nearly all the vowels in it!

I bloody love vowels I do.

Why not use Huckleberry as his middle name and have a less unusual first name... and then call him whatever he looks like

I gave three of mine very traditional names and DS1 a much less usual name (tho now more popular). At first I wasn't sure about it, but he loves it (aged 7 the first time he ever came across someone calling his name, it turned out to be a man calling his standard poodle!!!) and he's 21 now, he was never bullied, it suits him and it has not affected his education or job choices!!!

My DS2's middle name is Emmerson ( after his grandfather and great greandfather) and I really wish I'd had it as his first name now as I love it!

Kids grow into their names , nicknames evolve...