Fenix/Phoenix ?

[DairyNips]

Ok so we are struggling for a name for ds3.

We have a Dylan and a Miles already.

Quite liking Fenix/Phoenix, opinions please

Quite like Finn..

I know a 2yo Vincent...

Arthur is on my shortlist should I ever manage to get pg again.

Seth or Joel would go well with Dylan and Miles.

Ooh, I love Joel.

Adam?

"But just for a minute imagine yourself as a short, shy, self conscious 11 year old introducing yourself to your new year 7 peer group as Phoenix."

What's wrong with that? Certainly the Phoenix I know is very cool/popular. Also, most kids take any name for granted (unless it's poopoohead or Willy ). In other words kids don't care if their mate is called Phoenix, Peter, Phinneas or Philip - they're all just names!!

Felix is defintately too cat-foody - those cans are everywhere (well, we have a cat).

Dylan, Miles and Phoenix - great!

Now look, listen here. Names for people are things like Jonathan, Edward, Sarah, even things like Calliope or Erasmus if you must

But words like Bear, Phoenix, Raven, Tiger are words for animals

Words like Mason, Tyler, Archer are professions

Names like Morgan, Harrison, Smith and Jones are surnames

And words like Fenix, Madilynne and Pompsycutebum are just made up

HTH

"I just meant they are not totally mainstream like Christopher or Brian or Oliver"

LOL - well I certainly know more children called Miles and Dylan than I do Brian of Christopher :o

I grew up with a daft name. Children do notice a name and it destroyed all my confidence.

Plenty of other great suggestions on the thread :)

Finn is a gorgeous name imho-maybe becoming popular but no negative cnnotations and easy to say and spell.

Actually, if you want something slightly unusual, go for Brian! I bet he'll be the only one in the school!

.......Apart from thick Finn on Glee

Definitely not Fenix.

Lots of lovely, interesting, unusual boy's names that you can have that can be spelled correctly with minimal fuss. And aren't made-up words and not names at all, like Fenix, Joode, Danyurl, Jiles etc...

Dylan, Miles and Jude
Dylan, Miles and Heath
Dylan, Miles and Finn (go for this, if you like it!)
Dylan, Miles and Leo
Dylan, Miles and Zack
Dylan, Miles and Yann
Dyla, Miles and Gus (from Fergus if not Gustav)

Thickfinn is making a comeback though isn't it?

Seeker makes a very good point!

We've given our DD a very, very unusual name. But we also gave her a middle name which is more usual, and known to everyone, and shortens to the same nickname. So, she is known as the short form, and has the option in the future of saying 'It's X, short for [well known name]' rather than 'It's X, short for [bloody odd never heard of it name].'

Hopefully it will stop her hating us quite as much as she would have done otherwise...

Dairy sorry, I didn't mean to be rude with my 'wannabe celeb' comment. It's just that whereas 30 years ago Phoenix would have been a lovely, gentle, yurt-dwelling, Tull-listening sort of a name; now it is the sort of name that one might well imagine orange people screeching across an Asda carpark.

Oh dear, they are both really, really horrible.

You've obviously got fantastic taste in names - I love Dylan and Miles, so please don't lapse on the third. Hasn't Scarey Spice got a Phoenix? That alone would put me off. There've been some fantastic ideas on here and little liking of Fenix (?!?!?!?). Please, i beg you, listen to the people.

BTW - my DD has a name as well. But we made sure that it was short for something so if one day she hated it she could have an incredibly conventional name. Think Kitka being short for Katherine. So far she's happy with it and the pitfalls haven't happened.
In the same vein we nearly chose Christian for our little guy so we could call him Kit. I still would use that for a 3rd.
Perhaps you could do something like that?

My dgs is Finn so now I am mortally offended at fickfinn comments

Finn is a lovely name - I know two brilliant examples - getting quite popular now.

Thickfinn is after the Norse god of self-tanning and is an entirely different name :)

Brian it is then seeker

I do think seeker is being a little paranoid about odd names.

I've said it before I know, but my name is crazy. There's only one of me if I write it into Google (hence me not telling you what it is!), and now I'm married, I'm still the only one. It's THAT bloody weird.

BUT I love it. It's actually quite pretty, in a funky tomboy kind of way. It's short (4 letters) so I don't care about spelling it. Even when I do spell it, most people still get it wrong. I don't care about that either. I was painfully, agonisingly shy as a kid but I was never that fussed about introducing myself as ----.

It's done me endless favours as someone working in the film industry. I work both here and abroad a lot and my name is passed from studio to studio without even a surname and everyone knows it's me. I therefore get jobs above the normal John, Thomas, Sarah people even though they're just as good, because I spring to mind faster.

For the record, my parents were arty, nature-loving but financially destitute for most of my life.

It's nice to be an individual, honestly it is!

How about:

Ingo
Florian
Gerald
Sol

Jano sounds like you must have a very cool name. Your parents sound a little like us

Oh it's very cool

Finding I'm turning into the poster who keeps wading into naming threads saying 'Go for the weird name, it's fab!' as most others recoil in horror.

Sorry about that.

Just want to give the perspective of a person with a nutty name who's doing very well for herself and has never been bullied for it. Was bullied for other things but never my name, and I grew up amid a heap of Louises, Sarahs, Rachels and Toms (early-mid 80s). I don't get the issue about weird names affecting employment. Surely ANYTHING that helps you stand out is a good thing?

Fantastic if you work in the creative industries!

Janoschi- your experience is fantastic. But my nephew's is different- and his parents sound like yours too. You just have to be aware that you are making a major decision on behalf or a non consenting human being, and lit is that human being who has to live with your decision, not you.

Fenicks is definitely how I would pronounce it. If you want Feenix you'll need the Phoenix spelling.