Gaius??

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What do you think?

I love it

Dh's suggestion is scipio africanus.

I would think of Richard Wilson in Merlin.

No, it's poncy and awful. Potential for gay-related teasing is astronomical.

Also, shouldn't it be pronounced Gheeze (hard G, rhymes with sneeze)? Like Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge?

What's wrong with just Guy, anyway? or Angus/Magnus/Fergus/Rufus if you like the two-syllable rhythm and the "us" at the end?

Actually, if you stick to gaius, then if you have a girl later you could call her lesbia. It's very poetic, you know...

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

re Gonville and Caius - the guy was named "Keys" but when he gave his name to the college he decided to keep the pronunciation but make it look a bit posher by spelling it Caius.

battlestar galactica everytime.

Trillian, I never knew that! A sort of reverse Hyacinth Bucket, then

Do you want him to be the butt end (forgive the pun) of homosexual jokes throughout his late childhood and adolescence?

I love it and want to call DS2 this. Sadly DH is a "little" more conservative than I am, so we have settled one Guy (but in my head I will add a little "us" at the end!)

I know one, gets called both Guy and Gus. Tis actually quite cool.

He will be called gay arse.

Do you mean the name Caius? It's fine with a k sound.
I think Gaius will be bullied endlessly about being gay..

Unfortunately the real name of the incestuous emperor Caligula.

However also the first name of Julius Caesar.

DH has a cousin who named his child Gaius. It is much ridiculed all around. It probably doesn't help the middle name is Maximus, either.

I quite like it but it is maybe going a bit too far on the Roman names front. Having said that I know of a child called Trajan which is the best name ever.

at Gaius Maximus. Why would they do that to their child, why??

In that case, frankH, a sister could be called Drusilla.

Gaius Maximus is surely from Life of Brian?

I know a girl called Gaia which always makes me think of Gaius.

I was going to say Gay-Arse. The same reason we've had to veto Titus (tight-arse).

I love Gaius and find it so annoying that it really wouldn't pass muster in a modern school. Teenagers seem to naturally mispronounce it (even with Merlin to refer to). Having said that, kids get used to unusual names and can deal with them. I taught a Hardik once...

Have you considered going for one of the early (and later disused) Roman praenomina, e.g. Kaeso or Numerius?

Another one here who's reminded of the brilliantly execrable 'is-he-or-isn't-he-a-Cylon' Gaius Baltar.