Could I call a baby Wolfie in RL?

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

I'm 22 weeks pg with DC3. This is my first boy. Ever since I was pg with DD1 DH and I have had a running joke that if we had a boy we would call him Wolfie. Found out 2 weeks ago that this is indeed a boy, and the bump is now firmly called Wolfie. It was never meant to be serious, but the trouble is that I can't find a boy's name I like at all! Would Wolfie be so very bad, really, and if it is, what else might I like?

1. It has to be a real name and not a nickname/shortening of a longer name
   
2. I don't really like popular/mainstream names. DDs are Thea and Maia.
   
3. My surname starts with V and ends with O so V names are out, as are names ending in O.
   

I like Rafe (but my neighbour has a little Rafe the same age as DD2), Felix (can't get away from the cat food), Finn (but is now v popular) and Conor (v close to my dog's name so would be confusing).

[morethanpotatoprints]

alemci beat me to it.

Would you not be scared people would always say "Power to the people".
I know I would

[Martorana]

To be fair, she did actually ask for people's opinions of the name.......,

[sebsmummy1]

Luckily I was addressing the OP and not the people who have just come on the thread to express their dislike of her choice.

[Nataleejah]

Not really... More like a dog's name

[Beeyump]

I like the extra 'e'!

[Martorana]

Because that extra -e will make all the difference........

[sebsmummy1]

How about Wolfe? Normally a surname but can be used as a forename.

'Irish republican and rebel Theobald Wolfe Tone was commonly known as Wolfe Tone'

[sebsmummy1]

I really really like it, you've just got to work out how you can use it as a nn.

[Martorana]

My brother's step children refused to go to secondary school unless they were allowed to change their names to more "ordinary" ones.

[RnB]

Love simply Wolf with nn Wolfie. But I do also have a Fox and a Rex!

[LyndaCartersBigPants]

I think it's cute and have a friend who wanted to call her DS Wolfgang but luckily her husband wouldn't go for it!

Why not call him Wolf - less cutesy for an adult and can be NNed to Wolfie while he is little.

Better still, use it as his official middle name, call him that yourself but give him a fighting chance at school/work to have a less crazy name if he wants to.

FWIW my DSs both have quite unusual names (one more than the other) and both have recently said they wished they had normal names that people could pronounce properly

[JohnFarleysRuskin]

For a dynamic kid/adult wolfie works.

My dc are quite timid yet hairy. It would be quite difficult I think.

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Wolfie is cute but I think it really needs to be a nickname. I have a family full of people who are called completely different names to what they were christened though, so wouldn't find it odd.

I wouldn't use Wolfram - it's a fairly mainstream mathematical search engine, so a bit like calling your baby Bing/Yahoo.

[thegreatgatsby101]

Agree with pp. no. You can't.
You aren't naming a baby. You are naming a person. A teenager. A 40 year old. Who for the rest of his life will have to introduce himself as Wolfie.
Just. No.

[fussychica]

Oh please don't do it, you'll all live to regret it, especially him!

[Elfhame]

I think he is likely to get teased. All the other choices are lovely though.

[Yonineedaminute]

No, you cant call a baby Wolfie in real life. Because you are not naming a baby, you are naming a person who will have to use that name for the rest of his life.

I am imagining him being in a nightclub at the age of 19, chatting up a girl and she asks his name and he has to say 'Wolfie'.

[Migsy1]

Wtf?

[cafecito]

um, I've heard worse! I'm not sure I'd want my boss to be wolfie though. I think you should use it as a nn but perhaps. . .. er... I don't know.. it doesn't quite fit with thea etc which are both proper acceptable adult names ... but I do kind of love it...

[Velvetbee]

Funnily enough DD announced today that she wants twins called Buzz and Wolfie. She's only 14 but likes to plan ahead. She has some interesting ideas (there was once mention of a daughter called Nettle). I just tell her I would love any grandchild regardless.

[linney]

Well, let's hope little Wolfie goes to nigella's dd's school, not my ds's.

[NigellasDealer]

not a girl called Bob jbck?

[Jbck]

I know a Wolfie, not short for anything afaik. Was dubious when I heard it. But my DD has a boys name so I'm one to talk

[stillstandingatthebusstop]

My Mum is called Wolfi (it was a nickname that stuck and she changed her name officially 20 years or so ago). Great name.

I haven't read the whole thread but I love Wolfram with Wolfie for short.

[NigellasDealer]

ok i asked dd and she said 'I wouldn't really think anything I do not judge people by their first name but by the content of their character'