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 like it, but would never use it. Also like Bear and would possibly use as a middle name.

I didn't say his friends would have cool funky names someone else did.

I love it.. DS insisted on giving the boys boring names so that they wouldn't be teased for them at school.. Apart from a 'Dan' they're the only ones..

Go for it..

poolo Zeppelin is so fucking cool.
Op, if you don't go with Huckleberry, go with Zeppelin.

I say do it.
There's always going to be two camps with unusual names.
Fwiw I wish I'd given my dc's a super unusual 2nd middle name.

Follow your heart.

I quite like it, but not sure if I would be brave enough!

Ah, queenmols, you really have taking this thread with v good grace

When we gave our boys v plain names (with more 'interesting' middle names in case they turn out to be rock starts or performance artists or The Next Bear) our thinking was that we wanted names that would not raise eyebrows in whatever walk of life they might find themselves later: High court judge or street sweeper - I did not want them to have to feel out of place due to their name.

I don't buy into the idea described in the song "A man named Sue" that going through hardship makes you stronger, necessarily.

Otoh, I totally agree, children, once born, own and inhabit their name, whatever it might be. I have been introduced to children with unusual names which made me deploy the Fixsed 'That's nice' Smile, but with time they just grow in to their names and that's that.

IME it is wise to not announce names before the actual baby is there…. (opinion poll on MN excluded, of course).

Go for whatever name you love (Huckleberry not being my choice ever is neither here nor there wrt what you might decide).

heart your post was certainly 'sunbstantial', it was 'substantially' dripping with unnecessary scorn (and bitterness?). Where do posters get off wording things in such an unpleasant way?

Actually I don't agree at all with your Primrose Hill vs Peckham analogy. I live in central London and kids from different postcodes and backgrounds routinely share the same 'unusual' names in my experience.

What I took OP to mean is she knows her area, her friends and what kind of names they are likely to call their children. Shock horror.

I was teased/bullied constantly about my surname as a child. It rhymed with a stupid word, not as bad as Huck though! School was difficult as I was very shy and introverted.
Unusual names are more accepted now though, I think Huxley (someone mentioned it before) is a great choice. It is a really cool name, Huckleberry is awful.

substantial

If he was lucky he might get called bez for short

sovery following that though, perhaps no Henry's -after all a Henry beheaded unfortunate wives......

I think you're overthinking it!

Ooh, Huxley is nice!

not rtht but glans ? Really ? I spend all week booking people's dogs in to have their anal glands emptied! That can surely not be real name ? might as well call your kid Anus.

And Huckleberry ? This is a joke thread right ?

Do you not like this child? That's a dreadful name to saddle it with. Definitely a good name for a pet.

You're asking for opinions and I have to give mine. In the name of all that is holy, step away from Huckleberry. I am just hoping that you are actually joking. You would be completely bonkers, let alone mean and cruel to saddle a child with that name.

Maybe just maybe he will be able to embrace that name and like it. But maybe he will be subjected to abject misery because of it. You don't know what sort of character your son is going to have so why take the risk of causing him some distress in the future?

As for someone saying they've never known children bullied for their name, good god - I was for my surname FFS. Times might have changed in that there are more unusual names around, but children haven't changed.

Plato?

I went through a phase of wanting to call DS Roxbrough.

It's a phase, keep going.

I think limitedperiod was teasing with Glans I mean, glands aside, it means the head of a penis.

I think Huckleberry is a very nice nickname, it wouldn't be my choice for a name that he's going to have to put on bank account applications for the rest of his life.

I knew glans had something to do with willies!
Just couldn't put my finger on it (so to speak).

Of course Glans and Areola were piss-takes

Just like Candida (although I know that's a real name) there are some words out there that sound nice enough, but their meaning excludes them from naming a child IMO.

I don't see Adolf coming back any time soon, either - although Joseph is fine (as in Stalin). Weird, really.