What do you think of Bean?

[Carolinchina]

What do you think of Bean as a boy's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.

Just dreadful, cutsie and irritating.

Perfect for a ginger kitten, gobbin.

This is where I think you need to make the distinction between z name that is not your choice or to your liking bug is x perfectly useable name. For example I dislike z lot if names that begin with thd letter 'K' can 't explain shy just not my taste.

However, Bean as a name to go on z birth certificate is utterly ridiculous.

Really?! No. Just no.

As a cute random nickname it's fine. As an actual name? No!

It would be like calling your son Carrot!

My DSiS's BIL and wife gave their DS the middle name Bean (their nickname for the baby whilst she was pregnant). The family took the piss, a lot.

Sorrel, this happened in my family too - are you my sister?!

I have trouble with Sean Bean as well, Grimma. I always want to call him Seen Been too!

Bean is fine...
As a nick name. I could never use it as an actual name though!

Bean sounds like you got too attached to the pregnancy name to give it up. Almost as bad as naming the child baby bump.

It's my friend Nina's nickname. I think it came from us calling her Nina Ribena but I've known her for so long it's origins are lost in the mists of time!

Some names are ugly but are still valid names - Bean is a very ugly word and not even remotely a name. If my parents had done that to me I'd have changed it as soon as I could and probably never forgiven them. DON'T DO IT.

Eer, no.

If you do go for it, please make sure they have a 'normal' middle name to fall back on.

LimeLeafLizard Umm, maybe??!! Did you grow up somewhere touristy and now live somewhere else very touristy?

Nah! Sounds abit silly to me.

DS2 is 4 months old and I call him Squishy Boo Bean, but that isn't his actual name. I think of 'Mr' when I think of Bean.

Sorrel, well, yes, sort of. Grew up touristy-rural, now live near London.
My sister doesn't have any children - so if you do, the name Bean is just a strange co-incidence!

Ah, definitely not my DSiS then as we grew up near London and we have both moved away

So definitely no for a first name, but how about as a second name? It's not like we use our second names much anyway, right?

Are you having a laugh? You can't seriously want to call you kid bean, do you want him to get bullied?

But why?

It's such an ugly word.

Grimma, my sister calls Sean Bean Sin Bin because he's usually the baddie.

It's my cousin's nickname, but she's actually Hannah. :)

As a real name, just no.

No. It is stupid.

Imagine yourself going into a room and saying "Hi, my name is Bean." and then decide if you want to do that to your child. Even as a middle name it is daft.

You are naming a person not a dog.

dd's nickname is "bean." usually she gets immibean. not for a birth certificate name though.

dp said 'No. It's stupid. And in some countries would be illegal'.

He is right. It should be illegal here.

Um, there is being different -one of a few, and just plain odd. This is the latter.