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Original poster

Dickon - yes really!!

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inconceivableme · 08/12/2014 18:15

Today at work I came across a 30 something guy called Dickon. Who would do that to their child??!!

Hid surname didn't exactly help either, though not sure any would?

(Having looked it up, apparently Dickon is Old English for Richard.)

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AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves · 12/12/2014 13:35

The thing is, you don't pronounce Dickon the same as Dick On. It sounds more like Dicken. Unless you have a surname like Fire, I doubt if most people over the age of 12 would even notice the name included the word dick.

I like it.

Theas18 · 12/12/2014 13:54

Love Dickon. Grew up with one - few years older and idolised.

HollyBen · 12/12/2014 16:55

I used to work with a Dickon. He more than lived up to the first 4 letters of him name

BarryGoosey · 14/12/2014 21:28

Whatever his surname is, it can't possibly be as baamd a name combo as Dickon Stainer, current president of Decca Records. But clearly it's not done him any harm!

TimelyNameChangey · 14/12/2014 21:30

Dickon Sprickon.

Dickon Head

SnoringNorma · 15/12/2014 00:22

I'm with OP. Ghastly pretentious name. Yuk.

TimelyNameChangey · 15/12/2014 11:01

How is it pretentious? It's old and classic!

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/12/2014 12:03

Aethelstan is old but that doesn't get much use either. For less understandable reasons than Dickon.

DuchessofBuffonia · 15/12/2014 16:36

I also went to school with a Dickon. He'd be 29-30 now. He was rather cool and never got teased for it. I don't think we even really noticed the mocking potential because he was just too cool.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 15/12/2014 16:39

When I first read the name I thought it sounded like a sex toy but having looked at the pronunciation my mine has been changed

Dickon · 01/05/2017 23:31

Well as a genuine Dickon, (not a Diccon, Richard or Dickey) I can say that there are few of us about, but I have never met another one face to face.

Growing up school was a nightmare, but then having organised a few old school reunions I found out that just about everyone at my school was bullied or felt they were bullied, so I guess my name made me no more of a victim that anyone else.

The negative aspect of being a Dickon is that certain over zealous obscenity filters on websites block me from even using my own name as a user name, another was that there were certain girls and bully boys who sniggered at my name, and never quite took me seriously - but as I grew older and wiser I realised that it was actually a good way of weeding out the worthy from those I would be much better off ignoring, thus it saved me a lot of time.

Abroad there are a few names like the asian name Dickson, which is a fairly common name and as they dont use call the male member a Dick, for them its not any kind of insult at all.

All in all, it was hard growing up having something that even the stupidest and most unimaginative dullard could use as an insult to poke fun at me, but seriously after I got past my early 20s it ceased being any kind of issue and all through my 30s (and now my early 40s) all I ever hear now is compliments on having such a unique name.

raspberryblush23 · 01/05/2017 23:34

I went to school with one too, would be about 30 now. It was a fairly affluent school and I think his parents were doctors. He was a bit of a class clown in a clever sort of way.

OdinsLoveChild · 01/05/2017 23:41

My ds loves this name and is saving it for his first born son apparently His favourite book was the secret garden as a young child and he has never forgotten the name.

Joeybee · 01/05/2017 23:57

I actually really like that name, reminds me of the Secret Garden. I don't think I'd think the name was terrible if I heard it, the opposite really, I think it's a sweet name...but I wouldn't use it!

MrsEricBana · 02/05/2017 00:15

How about Bear Payne then?

pipilangstrumpf · 02/05/2017 08:37

I actually find Will/Willy much worse!

Rockaby · 02/05/2017 10:39

I like it a lot. It's more like dicken than dick on anyway, as pp said.

BertrandRussell · 02/05/2017 10:41

It's a traditional abbreviation for Richard. I've only come across it spelled Diccon.

scaryclown · 02/05/2017 10:47

I knew one.

He was really embarrassed, and insisted on an alternative pronunciation.

I'm not sure 'Dyecoon' was any better

Firenight · 02/05/2017 10:51

I love it and it was in my shortlist. Only know one adult Dickon though. I also like the name Dick as a diminutive of Richard; not one you hear on anyone under the age of 60, sadly.

buttercup54321 · 02/05/2017 19:31

The Secret Garden story has one

spiderlight · 03/05/2017 11:48

I remember filing it away as a future son's name when I read the Secret Garden as a child, but I'd never have actually used it! (Although I did actually use the other boy's name I filed away at the same sort of age!)

TinfoilHattie · 03/05/2017 17:07

DH used to work with a Dickon, unsurprisingly he was known as Dickhead.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 03/05/2017 17:11

I knew a Dickon growing up, he'd be nearly 40 now. I also knew a Richard Head - you would think his parents wouldn't have been so bloody cruel.

halcyondays · 03/05/2017 17:14

It was a nice name in the Secret Garden but I would never consider using it nowadays. I doubt there is any man under the age of 50 who shortens Richrd to Dick.

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