Draco (yes, as in Malfoy)

[CannyFradock]

So after months of wallowing in the shit-we-have-no-ideas abyss, DH announces yesterday that he has decided that Draco is the perfect name for our little'un. He is now set on it and to be honest I'm so tired of arguing that I'm quite willing to go with it. It is quite cool. Are we mental? Shall we just call him "boy" and be done with it? Where is the tomato puree? I just don't know anymore.

Yes, it is bonkers.

Really, utterly bonkers.

Sorry, but I think "boy" sounds better than Draco.

It is not cool - it is the name of a character from the most popular films/childrens books of all times.

And it's not a NAME - it's like Dragon misspelt or Drake misspelt.

Call him Drake (if you must) but please, not Draco.

DH went through a phase of anting to all ds1 Anakin. That was a crap* idea too.

Seriously, there are millions of names about: I have 4 boys and there are still names I would have liked to have used. You will find one.

• If the mother of the little boy alled Anakin in the park a few months abck is here sorry if I offended you but really, why?

You can't call a baby Draco, it is made up and everyone will think you are wierd for using a name from a kid's film.

How about Drake or Drew instead?

What about Dracula?

Severus would be much better

no, it isn't cool it is bloody stupid and cruel.

I'm sure there was a Draco in an Australian 90's soap called Heartbreak High, can anyone else remember this or am I going mad?!

Not keen on it myself, made me think of Count Dracula.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(constellation

I think it's quite cool :)

It may be pregnancy hormones but I quite like it...

Draco isn't made up - he was a totally mad Roman emperor who institute one of the harshest penal codes ever (HH have done him, twice I think). Not a good association, really.

No, it is not cool.

If you are going to take someone from Harry Potter, at least use one of the "goodies" not the meanest boy in school.

Any excuse for an HH link: here is .

i love it

but i am tempted to call my firstborn Bismarck (as in duplessy) so what do I know?

or du plessis even (quick google)

Mind you, Liz Hurley got away with Damien.

And HH again on a .

Go the whole hog and call him Voldemort. That way if you decide later that you don't like it, you can just call him He Who Shall Not Be Named.

thanks for the laugh but no, it is beyond the pale.

I quite like it. And Draco turned out to be not-so-bad after all.

Yeah.... No.
I'm all for the Potter love, especially Malfoy appreciation but naming your child Draco is a bit... Go for drake.

Now Blaise I like he was a fine upstanding Slytherin. What about Blaise?

If Harry Potter was not the phenomenon it is, and you were choosing it because if the constellation or because it is the Latin for dragon (and you say had a dragon in the family crest or some such) you could possibly get away with it. But being as HP is HP and from now until the forseeable future all in the western world will associate it with Draco Malfroy?

No. Absp-bloody-lutely NO!