If we call our son Raven will he get beaten up?

[Ipp3]

We cannot agree on a boy's name. My husband has suggested Raven. My first response was ' Why on earth are you suggesting that? We have already agreed not to send him to a Steiner school!'. But Dh said it is actually an old English name and not a hippy name. I admit I quite like it but think this is a theoretical like and that I am imagining our son called Raven as the dark, brooding, but deeply charismatic, hero of some gothic teenage flick. When I imagine our son called Raven in the real world I see him being chased around the playground by a group of other boys flapping their arms up and down and shouting 'Caw! Caw!' What do you think? I am not so much asking if you like the name, I have seen enough mumsnet discussions to know how deeply divisive names are, just asking if you think life will be harder being a boy named Raven.......

My first thought was he will get called Claw because of Ravenclaw, but then I am a sad Harry Potter fan.

There more I say it though, I like it, for a girl or a boy.

As it is a name so strong in image, I think its type casting him before he is born, which later on might put alot of pressure in him as he feels he has to live up to his name, and that could potentially be disasterous in his teenage years.

I know a guy called Raven who definitely doesn't fit the dark, brooding stereotype, and he's never had any problems with his name. He's tall and well-built with light brown hair and blue eyes, and no one gives a monkeys that his name is supposed to imply a different appearance! There are plenty of Scarletts out there who don't have red hair!