Jove

[TheGreatStupendo]

OH read an entire baby name book last night and this is what he came up with. Thing is, I quite like it

It's too silly, right?

Yes. It's silly.

It is very silly.

It sounds like an exclamation from a surprised elderly relative. "By Jove!"

By Jove, that is a really silly name.

Isn't it short for Jehovah? I think it was a way of sort of blaspheming without saying the whole of the name.

Ah, apparently another name for Jupiter.

He was the most powerful of the Roman gods, or something like that, according to our baby name book.

That sounds about right (I have very little classical knowledge )

It would be like calling a baby Zeus. ie bonkers

yep, another name for jupiter.

You'd get sick of "By Jove" jokes.

by jove 'jove'

By jove! PLEASE DON'T.

Nn for jovan? [ clutching at straws emoticon]

By Jove was the first thing that came to mind. I have an Irish friend and she says this all the time.

Please don't inflict this name on your child.

By Jove!

No.

Jupiter is vaguely useable depending on where you live and what your surname is.

Jove is just a bit daft.

How about Jonah, Jude or Joel?

You guys are no fun

PP, I quite like Job but OH not a fan.

No, not Job The child will get called big job at school.

Big job? Blow job more like!

Joe?

An Australian friend called her DS Jove. Have lost touch so don't know there were repercussions!

Jove is bad but Job is awful - boob job, blow job, hand job, Saturday job, good job, bad job - nonono!

(You know Job is pronounced Jobe, yes?)

I know, but seeing it written down will call for a lot of derision from the unenlightened and especially children.