Ptolemy?

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Just come back to this - it's a boy's name???

Even worse, a medical sounding name that sounds like it should be for a girl. Sorry but it's awful.

I love it. It's an interesting traditional name with a great nn.

I think it's lovely but it's a disaster when you have to bellow it across the playground. I was in the queue at a NCT sale with a woman who's Ptolemy was playing up. It sounds so daft 'No Ptolemy don't kick mummy......'

If you shorten it to Tolly you can maybe get away with it. Mind you that is the name of Debbie Aldridge's horse in the Archers.......

I STILL do not know how to pronounce it?

The P is silent like in pterodactyl or ptarmigan. So it is pronounced Tol-em-ee.

Not keen, sorry. Prefer Percy (similar feel for me)

Love it - wanted to use it for ds1 and for ds2 but dh wouldn't agree to it. grump. grump.

I like tol, tolo or tolly as a nickname for it but if your ds didn't like it, they could much later on go for something boring like PT (ie Pete)

I know a Ptolemy and he is as fabulous as his name.

Would expect baby Ptolemy's parents to be academic types.

It's a bit frilly for my tastes.

Actually it's way too frilly for my tastes.

I know a Ptolemy who get called Tolly. He's lovely and I like the name!

Sounds like a sneeze and the poor child will have to explain about the silent P ad infinitum for the rest of it's life.

no way!

now that I know how it's pronounced, I agree with this:

"I always think it sounds like something you commit, like bigamy or perjury"

don't like!

I really like it but I don't think I'd be brave enough to use it! Patrick Moore's cat was called Ptolemy; he was with him when he died.

Love Tolly as a nickname too but think I prefer it short for Bartholomew.

I know a lovely Ptolemy nn Tolly-he is 3.

It's certainly not one of the nicer classical names, but slightly better in its original form (Ptolemaeus or Ptolemaios). It means 'warrior'. The Ptolemies were the last independent ruling dynasty of Egypt. Highly incestuous - brothers usually married sisters. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy.

I love it, and it was on my list for DS5 but I just wasn't brave enough to face the wrath of the IL's if I actually chose it! I've never actually met one though.

I thought it would be a girls name, even bigger no for a boy then!

Wank-o-rama.