Bay

[Cinderellarach]

Bay for a boy.Lovely or awful?

Awful

sounds like a dog's name

Weren't you considering this for a girl? FWIW, I think its ok. Wouldn't make me roll my eyes, anyway.

No for my 11 day old ds2!

Lovely.

Think Kirsty Allsopp has a Bay.

It is lovely.

I think it's a love or hate name.

Yuck.

Sorry.

For a girl I love it and wanted to give it to DD.

It sounds wet and ineffectual. I would expect a boy/man called Bay to be these things. It's just not masculine or attractive. And it sounds beyond pretentious.

Oh and it makes me think of these, this and him. None of which are good btw.

Oh I forgot these

Awful.

No. Really. I also think it's very insipid. And everything else BunnyLebowski says.

FFS just call him Alexander and be done with it.

Ellis and Alex, no.

Ellis and Xander, yes.

Ellis and Rocco gets my vote. Rocco is a gorgeous 'little brother' name.

5 letters each, 2 syllables, a doubled letter each, but still individual enough to set them apart.

Is it only me who finds Rocco really aggressive?

For a boy

No, I'd name a horse Bay and that was that, never a boy. No, no, no, nooooooooooooo. Don't like fora boy even slightly and I'm quite chilled on the name front.

I see it as a very Catholic name, and associate it with old Italian communities in the US -- there are loads of St. Rocco churches in nice old Italian neighbourhoods in eastern and industrial belt cities around the Great Lakes, the kind of areas where you find a great little trattoria, benches under the trees, delis stocked with lovely foods imported from Italy, homemade Italian sausage, old people speaking Italian to the shopkeepers, very inclined to adore children with red hair... It also says quiet and cool little churches in hot Sicilian towns.

St Rocco is venerated as a saint who cured people of the plague.

Awful, sorry.

I know one who was named for this

Tree. Horse.

I really like it - I think it sounds strong, not insipid at all.

Follow your heart and go for it, it's lovely.

my first thought is leaf.sorry

Well, at least you've got the gender right. I don't really know whether I like it or dislike it; it's a bit of a "meh" name. But if you like it, go for it.

I can imagine him getting called Ebay at school.