Ptolemy. What do you reckon?

[Badgerina]

*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.*

Ha!

Oh, I love it. Love Tolly as a nn too.

You could just go for Tolemy and drop the P. I think you could be forgiven that- the P does make it look a bit odd.

I love it. There were a family at school with the surname Ptolemy and I always loved the way the word sounded. I didn't realise it could be a first name though until I stumbled across MN!

Flojo - because if you do that your DC will go through life with people saying "didn't your parents know how to spell it then?".

Awful. Pretentious and ugly.

Ptwatty.

No.

In that case... I think it sounds even more ugly than it looks, sorry

Popoozle u might be right but a lot of ppl spell classic names different these days. And I think ppl would say 'did your mother have a difficult birth, since she has burdened u with such a poncey name?'

Very 'try hard' and pretentious to the point of twatty.

I love it but DH vetoed it.

Awful and your child will be forever spelling it out to people.

Dont do it.

Only if you have a family connection.

lol family connection.

no

I know one, mainly known as Tolly. So it reminds me of him (and he's lovley).

Most names, whilst they may look odd initially, quickly 'become' the person whose name it is. I know a Siobhan, for example, and don't think twice about the 'odd' spelling.

Not for me, I'm afraid.

Thinking of using it/ know one?

Well I've already admitted to loving it! I just wasn't brave enough to use it for DS5.

Tolly for a nn is great.

It's totally a "Marmite" name isn't it! I don't think I'm serious about using it, but it does pop back into my (try-hard, pretentious, twattish, poncey) head every so often. I don't think DH would consent anyway.

I wanted Atticus - but DH said no.

I've decided to save it for a cat

Hideous and pretentious- as many names seem to be. And makes me think of 'Lobotomy'...

Atticus is a fabulous name for a cat, IMO .

I know, it's the only reason I want one

The only ptolemy I know of other than the famous one is in The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, Mr Ptolemy Tortoise, who fines with JF at the end.

I love that book but think he might find it a bit much unless you called him Tolly which I agree is lovely and I loved the Green Knowe series too. But why not go straight to Tolly.

Oh shush. It's henous and sounds like an infectous disease

Knew one, about 5 years ago. A wee chap. I wanted to weep for him because he'd been landed with such a wanky name. It has managed to achieve the double whammy of sounding like a medical condition and unbelievably pretentious to boot.

Honestly, I am amazed by the naming threads. What with Ptolomy, Cuthbert and the one that sounded like a stripper name there are a lot of parents out there who don't seem to mind inflicting terrible names on their offspring.