Ezra or Loki?!

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Both quite unusual names I know. Theory is choosing a name so that he is the only child of that name in his class at school. My 1st son is Jago and it really suits him. What do u think of these 2 names, I also like Phineas but worried it's a mouthful with our 3 sylable surname begining with N. Ideas welcome. Thanks.

CoteDAzur, The first I is an initial hamza (over an alif) with a kasrah? the second I looks like a 'yaa' or long i ?

I wouldn't choose phineas - reckon may rise in popularity because of phineas and ferb. Also sounds too much like other popular names like Finn and Finlay.

My ds1 is Tom. The only one in his R year - of 60 children! Though I fully anticipate that he'll be one of many Toms in the future...

I actually really like Ezra.

Jago is lovely. Any other cornish names that float your boat. Piran? Carne?

Agree with Enzo suggestion. Though both end in -o - might be odd?

Loki also sounds very like shortening of Lachlan/lochlan. I know 2.

Seriously bad names, poor child. I went out there little with my names for mine, but really.

Go on then littlebillie, do tell us your 'out there's names.

loki`s labyrinth is an attraction at legoland btw.

Oric's a great name. Not sure about your cultural heritage, OP, but it's of English origin and easy to pronounce... .

donki yes it is prn idrees in arabic cos its spelt إدريس
so not idriss, but maybe the welsh one is said like that?

Loki also reminds me of lochia so I'm not keen. If you love it why not name him Malachi and nn lachi? Malachi is a good Old Testament name he could use as he grows?

I love Old Testament name. Ezra is good but not my fav (not sure why, but it doesn't sit quite right for me). What about Eli (or Elias shortened to Eli)? It's pronounced Ee-lie. Jago and Eli is great.

DS2 was nearly Stephen.
DS1 has been impatiently trying hard to correct my pronounciation of Idris for ages and I could not hear what he was saying that I was doing wrong. Only with this thread is all revealed... if you can handle people like me who find odd names tongue-twisters and are bound to consistently butcher it, then fine :).

Personally I don't believe in there being only one proper way to pronounce most names, many forenames have been Anglicised, so what, why not?.

NEITHER FFS! What is the current obsession with giving 'individual' or 'original' names? Give your kid a normal name!

Hate all this modern 'cult of self' tendencies. So shallow!

There are two taliesins in my ds's preschool - bet the parents weren't expecting that.

I think Ezra might become popular, as part of the fashion for resurrecting old biblical (Jewish sounding) names. I vaguely considered it myself, but discarded it because I thought it sounded too grumpy old man. The associations I had with it were the Ezra in Daniel Deronda, and Ezra Pound, who I thought of as an anti-semite.

Go for John or David. He'll be the only one at school.

yy tryingtoleave ezra pound's anti-semitism is the sadly the first thing I think of when I hear Ezra.

I knew a Jago at Uni - we all thought it was a seriously weird name (even though it was full of oxbridge rejects). Still he was a lovely (if very intense) person.

How about Tristan?

"What is the current obsession with giving 'individual' or 'original' names? Give your kid a normal name!"

The whole point of naming something or someone is to IDENTIFY them so the more individual the name the more likely he/she will not have to share a name with hundreds of others. Last year more than 5000 boys names were used I think, so there is really a huge choice of lovely underused names.

Ezra is lovely and goes very well with Jago.

I like Idris, but it seems a bit odd with Jago (I also see it as a strongly Muslim name, fwiw).

Loki is ghastly. It reminds me of post-partum bleeding, sorry!

"cult of self"

I'm with you, candleshoe.

If Kate Middleton was named, uh, "originally", do you think she would be Princess Chardonnay?

DH is in recruitment, and you should hear the treatment those names get when their CVs are received.

Don't try to make your offspring "unique" by naming them bizarre non-names.

Idris is pronounced Id-riss in Turkey. That is why I thought it would be pronounced that way elsewhere, as well. The way it's spelled, that is how it would be read in the UK, I suppose. Or you could pronounce it Id-rees and give him a lifetime of "No, it's pronounced -rees, not -ris".

Out of your choices i like Ezra. My cat is called Loki!

Reading the thread though i really like Asher!

Idris is the name of the dragon in 'Ivor the Engine'!

CoteDAzur - I agree with you on cultural heritage, I love various arabic girls name, but would not use them, unless I was married to an Arab man, as I do not think it would fit with our welsh/english heritage.

I have some distant Jamaican ancestry (mixed race great grandmother moved to liverpool with white husband she'd met in Jamaica), and distant Irish ancestry. It would be a push to use a Jamaican or Irish name.

There are also names that I would not call child due to CV, although I think it is very short-sighted to dismiss interviewing someone because of their name.

Talk to any recruiter or HR manager. They receive so many CVs that they cannot read them all, and a certain amount of pre-judgement is inevitable, even necessary.

I don't know how it is in the UK but CVs don't have pictures or precision of gender in France, to minimize discrimination. Still, people get terribly judged on even their names & the spelling of their names. Unjust as it may be, the way our parents name us is a strong indicator of our background. Chardonnay and Bailey are very unlikely to go to Oxbridge and work in a high-powered corporate position, unlike Catherine and Alexander.

I prefer Ezra.

How about Ivo? Too rhymey?

Aran/ Arran
Aram
Oran
Otto

I would've called dd Ivo (ee-vo) if she'd been a boy. Was the name of my favourite Czech Student whom I taught English. I think it's cute but not sure it goes with 'Jago'. Still, they'll leave home eventually.