Ok gloves off.....Finch......what do u think?

[DottieRose]

This is one that has been on the bottom of the list for some time but want to give it some thought before striking it off.....it's for a boy!

prefer fitch
if that's a name

It is a surname. And should be left at that.

Its a surname. Lets keep it that way.

It's the kind of bright-eyed little bird you get hopping on your bird table - not exactly very masculine! (although didn't some celebrity recently call their son Sparrow?)

Also quite hard to say and will get mistaken for Finn constantly (which is much nicer!)

Wasn't the horrible bully in The Office called something Finch or Finchy to his friends. Reminds me of him.

Its a little birdy not a little baby.

Bloody ridiculous.

Finn, perhaps?

No.

I'm going to be polite and say 'no'.

Its a birds name - you might as well call him Tit!

Awful.

Strike it off the list with confidence.

Been reading the Whiteoak Saga? I rather like it

American Pie?
I don't dislike it but it would make me think of birds all the time.

It's a surname. I get 'American Pie' quite a lot.

I like it. If Harper is a name then I think Finch can be too.

It sounds American east coast old moneyish to me; a boy called Finch would have a granny with an unlikely nickname and a great grandfather who was a major player in the Roosevelt administration, go to some very selective preschools and day schools, then boarding school; he would have his own sailing boat from about age ten, perhaps row for his Ivy League college...

Love it.

I love MN, because I'd never be able to respond to this without a emoticon.

And I say again

Hmmm. Sounds feminine to me. And not in a great way.

Also, Pointless was doing a round on "Tits and Finches" today and the presenters were sniggering childishly so as far as I'm concerned it now means fanjo.

It's not 'To Kill A Mockingbird' again, is it? The favourite book of so many people who had to read it at school and have never read another book since.

It makes me think of birds

I saw the name Flair recently in an American novel.

Flair is nicer. Unusual but not too whacky. Would it go well with your surname, OP?

Don't do it!