Gaius. Yay or nay?

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For a boy, pronounced Guy-us.

Classic Greek name and features heavily in the greatest TV show of all time - Battlestar Gallactica.

(had to name change as thus would totally out me IRL)

But Gaius was such a spineless and immoral man. If you want to go the BSG route, I think Galen is a much better role model (although with equal teasing potential).

Vindicated! DH said no one has called their child Octavian for 2000 years and vetoed it. I'll have to tell him he was wrong, but its quite a few years too late for DS sadly.

Just call him Baltar! Mind you if you call him Gaius you could do the 'no more mr nice Gaius' gag every time he was naughty. I definitely wouldn't call him Galen, not a lucky name. You could call him Helo? Or Romo. Wy not call him Romo? He was ace. Or Saul? He was mainly ok.

But you're right - Gaius was most definitelyTHE BEST ONE. By a mile. Hence he got the happy ending.

Josie I think you need to rewatch. Gaius was the only one with a moral compass. Something eg Roslin and Adama lacked. Hence he got the happy ending, and they didn't.

My DP asks if you're a battlestar galactica fan?

X post with the ladies above.

Mater he is Romanian to be fair, but you don't have to tell DH that!

Caecilius est pater... Gaius was the baddie

Gaius - nay! For all the reasons above, including the Caligula one, so history drops you in it even further there.

Caius - would you be prepared to spell it Kaius? Coz, if not, you're choosing the name for pretentious reasons. Most people would call him K-us, anyway.

For the sake of his psychological health, please don't give him a name that rhymes with Nylon Pylon!

Marcus, Lucas, Camus, Romulus?? Magus, Saron, Druis, Bardus? History's choc-a-block with names that will make all your friends want to copy you without providing obvious schoolboy puns.

.. I take back Saron, they'll call him Sharon. May as well go for broke with Sue!

Lol-ing a lot at naming your child after the first sentence in a Latin primer

I sometimes wonder if there's a module in the NCT classes nowadays where everyone tries to outdo each other by coming up with a name for their offspring which has the most potential for piss taking at school, eye rolling from family and friends, and general abuse. Get real!

I think it's nice but please don't unless you arts planning on home ed as he'll be ripped to shreds at school

Glaik kids at ds's school won't even wear GAP clothes as they get teased for being 'gay and proud'

This is an essential task for DHs, preventing hormonal DWs from going utterly off the rails when it comes to baby names.

Gaius is a classic "thinking with my hormones" name.

(Though I still think that Eowyn and Celeborn would have been perfectly acceptable names if DH hadn't cruelly ripped the registration paper from my hand and substituted boring actual human names ).

NO.

I'm sorry but this is the absolutely most hilarious thread title of all time. It completely sums up the madness that is mumsnet to a T. I think mnhq should consider it as an advertising slogan. "Baby names. GAIUS - YAY OR NAY? www.mumsnet.com"

God I'm actually crying with laughter!

No, no and no again.
Agree with the other comments. I knew how it was pronounced and so will many others, but it'll still be twisted into the obvious at school.

Marcus?
Lucius?

DH's cousin named their child Gaius. Actually they named him Gaius Maximus, which could be the subject of a whole other thread in itself, none of it good. But even the Grandmothers of Gaius pronounce it Gay-us, and they're not doing it in an on-purpose teasing way. We've seen what happens to a child that hits school age with the name Gaius firsthand, and please, just don't.

I've seen what happens when a bit called gaius hits school firsthand too.

Absolutely nothing. And nobody mispronounces it.

It's a name. A solid, very ancient name. If you love it, use it.

Chubb-primary or secondary school?

Nay

Like Caius much better than Gaius, it's lovely- very strong. Also like Cassius.

I love the name but it reminds me of Merlin (BBC Series - which I loved btw and have the boxsets).

In fact I quite love Merlin or Emrys (New names to add to my baby list now!)