Ptolemy. What do you reckon?

[Badgerina]

Poncetastic, but I think some poncey names are still quite nice. I'd have to know & respect lots about the famous Greek Ptolemy to pull it off.

Probably best if you have Greek heritage.

I once didn't buy a house because I spotted the name "Ptolemy" on a banner in the poor child's bedroom. I thought, "I really couldn't live here, these are just not my people". The house was also bland, unimaginative and a bit damp. Just about summed it up really.

That is one of the wankiest things I've ever heard.

Knew someone who had a cat called Ptolemy and thought it was ridiculous, only thing worse would be to curse a child with it!

Badgerina, what is the wankiest thing - nocluenoclueatall's rejection of a house based on a child's name label or the name itself?

I have a Ptolemy. Just about to turn 1 and he's lovely . Mainly gets called Tolly. We thought long and hard about it and argued for 3 weeks but I wouldn't change it now. There are plenty of unusual names at nursery so he doesn't stand out. The spelling is no more strange that ones of Irish derivation. He has a "sensible" middle name so if he wants to use that in the future he can do. DS1 is called Milo and everyone thought that was odd when we used it but as he has grown up everyone has got used to it and now it is just his name. The same will happen to Tolly.

Good on you spiffy and Tolly is very cute!!

I adore unusual names although I can't quite make up my mind, I am leaning towards a bit too pretentious (no wish to offend spiffy at all)
It isn't as try to hard as Araminta, and I don't care who I offend if they've called their child that quite frankly.

I think it's nice for a cat

Oh god no, calling your pet something like that is even more pretentious.

I love it spiffy I've never actually met a Ptolemy!

I love Araminta too, it was in one of my favourite childhood books (Moondial)

Sorry spiffy I'm sure your Tolly is lovely . It was the house that was a bit crap really, not the name, but I got a bit carried away with the thread...

Note to self: refrain from voicing objectionable opinions on the internet. My grandpa used to say, if you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all and I usually follow that. Apologies.

S'alright noclue. If I took offence easily I wouldn't have called my child Ptolemy .

We might have to work harder on being a pretentious, poncetastic family though. I don't think we quite live up to the image...

spiffy Yay! I bet he really suits it too

P.s the "wanky" thing I was going on about was the rejection of a house based on a name label

I see noclue got carried away. Perhaps me saying "wanky" was a bit carried away too

I am never probably going to name another child, but this is why I hang around in baby names topic quite a lot, you lot are really nice and normal. There is not the AIBU attitude here.

Back to the Ptolomey subject. As much as I am now used to the name (DD was best friends with Ptolemy in nursery for a while) the name does conjure up assumptions. Next year when DD goes to the local school I have already warned her that it is unlikely that Ptolomey will be there. I assume, entirely based on his name, that he will be going to a private school. Unfortunately, it is a name that causes prejudice.