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.

I love huckleberry. Reminds me of huckleberry finn. A boy up for adventure

Fuckleberry Finn has just made me snort . For that reason alone you should totally go for it.

I'm another no voter on this, it's just too bad/bonkers/cruel to call a child.

I also quite like Sullivan, but mostly cos it makes me think of Sully in Monsters Inc which was one of DS favourite films.

Huckleberry ? A dog, yes. A real living human being, no. Please no.

Quite like Finn as in huckleberry Finn. My boys have traditional names but Finns quite popular finlay etc huckleberry though not sure !!

Sullivan is ok but what if the OP's other child is Gilbert?

How about Samuel Mark, for the author?

Maybe my husband is Bear Grylls in disguise!
Mrshawk1ns I love Moriaty too but both dh and ds have names beginning with M so I've ruled it out.

Mintyy, I have a relative who used to work next to Elvis Costello at the Giro in Bootle

Ah Squoosh, now Jesse I could get on board with. Poor, plain Jesse

I wanted to call my son either Beck or River. Husband pointed out that he would just get ragged about it at school so in the end settled on a conventional name.
If it had been a girl I wanted Luciani but husband said that sounded like an Italian restaurant.

Moriarty's a bit common, don't you think OP? Have you considered Blofeld?

Eeeeeeeeek Bof!

And don't hear "at the Giro" much now do you?

Husband pointed out that he would just get ragged about it at school so in the end settled on a conventional name.

I haven't heard of anyone getting 'ragged' in school outside of a 1930's boarding school story!

I knew someone who had a Barnaby (Barney for short,.
The consensus seemed to be that it was cool.
I think using an unusual name normalises it within a social group generally.

Bet the elder one is Atticus. Why not go for the whole hog and call the next one Tennessee?

How about Augustus if your DH likes Marmaduke? A bit less out there but still a good name for future potential DCat.

I like it but not sure I would dare use it.

One of my choices is Barney.
I work with two Blofelds so can't go for that.

On second thoughts, Blofeld's not great for nicknames...

My heart is slowly breaking because Bear Grylls isn't really called Bear...(and I'm feeling a bit dim I didn't realise). DH quite liked Huckleberry until I mention Fuckleberry from previous post. I remain unconvinced....

No my son is not called Atticus. I do like it though, maybe I should just become a mad cat lady.

Oh and when I said my son's name was not very common I meant commonly occuring.

Bear should be called Dick for giving his kids such stupid names.