Be honest, what would you think if you met a baby boy named...

[LaWeasel]

Hunter.

DH loves it. I actually do like it too, but living in ruralish England think everyone will think we are bloody bonkers.

don't like it at all.

I like Hunter and know a lovely 7 year old one.

Rhymes with cunt
Is the name of a person who kills things either as a job or for fun.
Is try too hard look at me I'm a cool whacky person.

I thought of the writer Hunter Davies. Despite him, I'd assume the holder was from the US. It's not a name I like, sorry.

i had thought along mc lines too, but no. seriously. so. much. worse.

I know a person named Hunter. Very successful and fun 40-odd year old guy. Super name.

Strong name conjuring up images of rugby playing child with freckles and messy hair. Don't know why. The rhyming connotations would worry me if I had a child with a fragile disposition who wasn't able to give as good as he got in the playground.

Even if you're not of a fragile disposition, having a name that rhymed with cunt would get very waring after a while.

most children today will have never heard of Gladiators (and I as an adult have zero idea of their names) so that reference is definitely irrelevant.

I don't see anything wrong with it. Names like Hunter and Archer have a long history.

The rhyming isn't great but what name doesn't have some stupid rhyme or slur attached to it?

i think re the cunt thing, that a forty year old hunter will not have bumped up against the word quite as much as a child now. of course it's always been in use, but nowadays it's more akin to fuck, so would be like calling your child mucker or hucker.

i do LIKE hunter btw, as a name, and think that if your maiden name had been hunter, for example, then you would be a lot closer to getting a yes from me. but with no family associations and given that he will be called cunty throughout his young life, i think on balance it's not a good name right now.

Yes if course kids can make something rude out of any name, but why hand it to them on a plate? If several people on this thread immediately madenthe connection,then the same proportion of people in real life are too.

And anyway, a hunter is someone who kills things. why is that a good name for someone?

i don't love it, but i don't dislike it either.

I know a guy called Hunter and he's lovely!

the cunt thing is really quite tenuous and a bit bizarre! esp given that cunter isn't a word

do you feel strongly about the names Annie and Nick too?

Hunters do not necessarily kill for fun; traditionally most hunters killed for sustenance, and did not waste any bits of the corpse, either.

I do prefer Heath, though, if you want an "outdoorsy" name.

do you think? up here, cunt is kind of a term of endearment among boys of that age, so i think it would stick really badly. it wouldn't necessarily be an insult, though. i can think of two pals with the surname hunt who were known as cunty and still are, when people are having a giggle at their expense.

We have a boy at our school called Hunter, he is 15 now and he has never ever been called anything other than Hunter. Lovely name.

I didn't say hunters did necessaarily kill things for fun- but they do kill things. And that's nor an association I would like with my chd's name.

I actually had a cousin called Heath so that's out.

The hunter's kill things part really bothers me the least of all the things that could go wrong. I'm from a very hunting is totally normal culture that's all about sustence/not wasting a single part of the corpse, not a hunting for the sake of it type culture.

I guess DS probably wouldn't be impressed if he decided to reject all that and become veggie though!

I'm so sorry but Really awful. I can't stand this craze for surname firstnames. I'm from the country and I think of Hunter Wellies. And so American as a name (my ultimate insult), please don't! You sound like a nice educated normal person, so dont give your son this dreadful name, you will regret it.

I wouldn't think about job interviews or anything like that, but I really don't like it. I think it's a bizarre thiing to call your child! I think the same about Parker and Harper really, but Hunter is kind of aggressive.

I would be expecting to see little sisters Madison, McKenzie and Riley, and brother Chad.

It's a bit surname-ish. But it's not that way out. I do have some Hunter wellies, though.

Yes it's a bit like Parker, which I obviously think is a mighty fine name.