Brodie...

[Birthhippy9]

What do you think for a boy?

Not a huge fan of the surname as first name phenomenon.

Sounds like a character in an American soap.

Ooh, friend in Scotland has just had a Brodie (boy), I like it and it helps of course that he is the cutest wee baby!

Surnames as first names are so popular in Scotland. But they always have been. If you look up historic lists of famous Scots then you'll see it has been going on for hundreds of years.

I can understand people from other countries seeing the concept as naff though.

(DS has a surname-y name and DC2 will have one if they are a boy)

Love it. Unusual but not too out there.

There's one at nursery, he's lovely. I like Jackson Brodie from the Kate Atkinson books too :)

Really don't like it. It sounds very American to me and I didn't think it Scottish at all. I know of one little boy called Brodie who is 3.

I really don't like this name. To me it seems really American (even though I know it's Scottish). But if you like it, go for it-whatever name you pick there will be people who don't like it.

Homeland.

I love it. Had a thread on it ages and it was labelled "chav". Still love it though.

Lovely name, go for it :)

Surnames as first names are as old as the hills btw!

"Mac" means "son of", so "MacDonald" means "Son of Donald" (equivalent to Donaldson in English of course).

Patronymics (taking your surname from your father's first name) was very common in Wales also. The Welsh version of "Son of" is "ap", so you'd get names like "Morgan ap Thomas" or even "Thomas ap Thomas".

I love it but i am biased as my six month old son is called Brody. We get a lot of people also saying its a lovely name. Its not very common in my area....yet!

I know of a 2yo Brodie in Scotland. I like it!

I know of a 4YO girl called Brodie, and whilst I know full well it's a Scottish boy's name, on a girl it seems very American, of the Taylor, Harper, Madison, etc, ilk.

It's nice for a boy. Not my taste as it feels like an of-the-moment name to me, but still, I'd compliment someone I'd they told me their little one was called Brody/Brodie. :)

Brody is a sur name. It's ok. I don't dislike it. I would spell it Brody with a Y as with an 'ie' it just seems a bit made up and maybe too unisex, although that's not a big problem. Actually it's ok. It's grown on me. I am thinking of Damian Lewis though of course.

HOMELAND!

Sorry, got a bit carried away there. I meant to say that it is a very unusual name, a very popular television programme, and thus I think you'd get mighty sick of people mentioning it!

Makes me think of chief Brody in Jaws.. I think I like it :)