opinions on Apollo

[blakeycakes1567]

I have a 1 year old daughter named Belle and she will have a little brother in August a name that keeps sticking on us is Apollo I like it as its different And id like to know your opinion.

Its generational though.

Apollo's peers won't even blink at it.

Apollo's peers won't even blink at it.

And you know that how?

brave is one thing. It's not the parent who has to suffer the consequences of being called a daft name.
it's the kid.
why anyone do that to their own babies/children is beyond me

Absolutely.

Soup, I've had this argument with you once already in the past fortnight. I'm not about to go into it again apart from to say, the variation of names is huge compared to what it was 20 or 30 years ago. Far more is acceptable.

Wasn't she a troll, Magenta?

I couldn't think of anything but Carl Weathers in satin shorts, slathered in baby oil. That's isn't something I want to think of, and neither do most people.

Go for Paolo or Pablo. They're unusual and a talking point while still being identifiable as a given name rather than a stage name.

Apollo was a Greek god. If you are really seriously contemplating using this name for your son, please please please spend a bit of time reading up about Apollo on wikipedia. He was not a good role model, let's say. None of the Greek gods were.

I know two gypsy cob horses called Apollo. It's a good name for a horse.

Nope. He'll be alongside a Rameses and Ptolemy. Both of whom are wishing they were called James or Marcus or something similar. Both in DS's uni group and both wishing for normal names as they get the piss ripped out of them - sneakily mostly - at every job interview they go for.

Really, Dusty? So that gives the lie to the constant MN refrain of "of course it's perfectly possible to become Princess Sparkle QC, what's strange about that???"

Cinemas, theatres, space missions, Greek gods... I can think of many more examples of why it does not make a great name for your average person

Sorry, if someone said 'Apollo' to me, I would think they were offering me a mint. I love Greek myth, and names, but this is not one of them, personally.

I would love to see Princess Sparkle QC as much as I would love to see Ptolemy Smith, bricklayer. Quite franky I'd be happy to engage both!

No idea Flogging. I'd just read the thread recently and remembered it.

Soup, I've had this argument with you once already in the past fortnight. I'm not about to go into it again

That doesn't make you right. It is still the child who has to be brave, not the parent. Personally, having grown up with joke after joke after joke, I wouldn't be that cruel to someone I supposedly love without question.

Thinking back over all the children I have known through my DC, there have been many many different and unusual names. None of them have been bloody stupid and "brave" though.

I thought this was going to be a thread about Halfords children's bikes ....

unlucky
arf!

To me it just screams of 'REALLY WANTING TO BE different '

I love it. I'm a real housewives of Atlanta fan and always really loved the name. Unfortunately my dp doesn't as I highly suspect its a boy were expecting.

I also like 'mr president'