I can't decide if this name is OTT or not

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Spike. For a boy, obvs.

Is that too much?

They used to put peoples heads on spikes. Hate it. Definitely did not have a WW1 vibe. Bill, john, jack, freddie, wilfred, harry, henry .. Think they're ww1 type names.

Ridiculous. Sorry.

Awww love it!!

What is ye olde Victorian First World War exactly?

It's a terrible to call your child.

If you want a historic sounding name call him Alfred or John.

If you call him Spike and he's a quiet serious type of boy (or even if he's not) you run the risk he'll resentfully trudge off to change it by deed pool as soon as he can.
As a friend of mine did with her equally ill advised name.

It's horrible. I know one and his parents are definitely the too cool for school types.

It's not over the top but it is ridiculous. You should at least give him a name he won't feel silly using when he's 30 and then use Spike as a nn if you must.

Silly silly and silly

We call someone Spike, but that's because his surname is Milligan.
Spike Milligan's real name was Terence Alan and he didn't like it. He called himself Spike after a bandleader, Spike Jones, but his real name was Lindley Armstrong Jones.

I might call a child, or a pet, Spike, but only ever as a family nick name.

You can't give it as a first name. Ridiculous, sorry.

It's desperately 'look at us, we're so whacky'.

I'm not sure where you got the First World War vibe from, definitely not what I associate with Spike.

It doesn't sound like a real name to me and I'd be concerned that you would be forcing expectations of a personality on a child with a name like that.

Yes, 19th century literature teams with men called Spike.

Spike from Buffy's real name was William.

It's a bit 'I'm mad, me.' A nickname, perhaps, but not for a child and certainly not a grown man.

Sorry, TEEMS.

I'm actually getting bizarrely fascinated by how the OP possibly formed the idea that the name Spike was characteristically either Victorian or WWI-era...

I thought she was saying WWI occurred during the Victorian era.

But if Spike was a name associated with a conflict I'd plump for the Vietnam war. I can picture a maverick helicopter pilot called Spike. A soldier in the trenches in 1915, less so.

I love it and would totally use it.

I would say nickname... as in, the name his mates would call him down the pub becuase he did something stuipd that probably involved injuring himself with a spike...