To think this name is a bit too unusual...

[jarhead123]

I was being nosy on FB earlier and saw someone I went to school with.

She's had a baby boy and called him 'Chip' - it's definitely not short for anything, I saw the birth announcement. That's his proper name.

I'm all for variety, different names etc but thats too far isn't it?! Or am I boring?

It's certainly not the most unusual name I've heard! I know an Ocean, a Blaze, an Indigo and a Phoenix. I also have friends who have given their babies the cutesy forms of names rather than the formal ones as their official names. I have a friend whose baby is Charley. That's his actual name. Not Charles, shortened to Charley. I'm trying to picture a 60 year old solicter named Charley. But to each their own. Chip is a very old sounding name that isn't common today really, but if they like it, they like it.

The poor child, what an awful name to go through life with.

Isn't Chip usually a nickname for a child who has the same name as their father. As in a "Chip off the old block", or Junior?

I wouldn't have picked it, but when you think about it, all names are just a collection of sounds, so what deems one sound to be more worthy than another?

Chesney Hawkes' dad was known as Chip when he was the singer with the Tremeloes. His real name is Len.

Unfortunate if the surname is 'n'pin' or 'butty'.

Chip is NOT a common first name in America! it's used as a nickname, a diminutive for some names and as an alternative to 'Junior' when someone is named after their father (i.e. 'chip off the old block'). It's a bit 'preppy', imho. Same with 'Biff' or 'Buffy' or 'Kipper'. You don't see many of them in the US lower or middle class (which aren't the same as the UK lower or middle classes).

Not on the lists at all for 2016 which means 2 or less boys were given it. Definitely unusual! But there's definitely worse. It's phonically sound, it's readable and spellable. Might end up being a bit of a chip on his shoulder, but it's a name.

I've never heard of anybody being called Chip. It's a ridiculous name. Totally batty. It sounds horrible too even as a nickname.

It is a totally awful name, and thankfully not common.

Biff, Chip and Kipper did spring to mind, as did Chip Shop.

Home Fries surely? Sorry bout that.

And when someone gives him a piggyback, they will literally have a Chip on their shoulder.

Reminds me of Rachel's teen boyfriend in Friends - the one who was very late for the prom. I like it as a nn but not as a given name.

Isn't Tom Harry's father known as Chip or Chips? I love Taboo and he and Tom Hardy helped write it, I believe. Yes, Chip is an unused name, but not objectionable.

That should read "unusual."

Is her name Mrs Potts.

I never realised it was from "chip off the old block". So I've learned something

I too would love to know where trinity lives that she thinks it's a common name

Definitely got to be a Disney fan.

Chip is a nickname for a carpenter. We had an Uncle Chip as a nickname because he was a chippie on the railway.

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Yeah, bloody harpies, evil witches, hysterical opinionated cow-bags.

Calm down dear, people are just expressing their opinions

I wonder if he sleeps in the cupboard with his brothers and sisters.

Biff is short for Biffany, surely?

It's pretty 'out there'. But one of my old schoolfriends just named her newborn 'Pippa'... It's becoming accepted to use diminutives as first names. I guess a lot of names first came about in that way.

@etap harsh, very harsh. 'Horrible judgy hags.! Fucking hell, calm down! No-one has been nasty; just a bit 'eerrrrmmm.'

CHIP as a main Christian name/forename is a bit weird IMO. Not awful, but a bit weird.

I think it's OK as a nickname but not a full first name.