Ptolemy. What do you reckon?

[Badgerina]

I know one. It's great and it suits him.

No

Nope

Not for me. Spotted one in the Telegraph birth announcements recently though.

Awful.

How do you pronounce it?

I know one too, and echo Meglet's post.

I think it's a gorgeous name (DH didn't)

Love it (as a middle name)! I wanted to give it to DS2 as his middle name - but it didn't go with the only first name we could agree on :-(

Awful

Wasn't there a tv historian with this name? The name grew on me then. I think it's pronounced Tolomy.

Oh it's hideous. Just a horrible sound. Doesn't sound at all like a name....more like a bacteria.

And pretentious beyond measure.

It seems like a name where you tried to think of the most preposterous, pretentious name ever but didn't even manage to be original.

All the poncey points, but none of the cool points for picking something unusual.

It seems like what the Modern Parents from Viz would call a son.

I like it.

No likey.

Wasn't there a kids' tv series in the eighties which had a Tolly in it?

TOL-ah-mee.

Ptolemy Dean is the one on TV.

Apparently means aggressive or warlike.

Dont like it, then again I like names spelt how u say them! Why not call him Tolahmee?!

found it .

But apparently his name was Toseland, not Ptolemy.

It also had a girl called Linnet, which I also quite like.

But, in reality, I think Ptolemy will make you sound like a pretentious swine.

I love it.

Ptolemy to me will always be 'Ptolemy=Ptwat' ever since reading that on a MN thread years ago.

Sorry

Id like it if it were P-tolemy, i always thought it was, otherwise, no

Yikes, that's a bit of a name to carry, don't you think?

Did think for 5 seconds about classical references as middle names for our DS - Socrates or Hypatia if he'd been a girl - but lost my nerve...