Thoughts on the name Brick?

[Names00]

Just heard it on TV, I quite like it? What could it be short for?

[BettyDraper1]

knit

[RainIsAGoodThing]

I've now read the word brick so many times its lost all meaning, so at the moment it seems a perfectly reasonable name to me.

[ProfessorPickles]

I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.

[KnitFastDieWarm]

I KILLED A GUY WITH A TRIDENT!

[ProfessorPickles]

Hi, I'm Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I am polite, and rarely late.

[Cguk81]

Beautiful Baby Brick...such a sweet name

[pollyblack]

I remember watching that show and liking both Brick and Axel. I wouldn't use either of them IRK but I did like them- in the end used a name similar to Axl!

[SanityClause]

But I think Americans can carry that kind of name off better than Brits...

Hmm, no. You wouldn't want to be a Brit Brick.

[HarryPottersMagicWand]

Oh it's fantastic and so original. You will be congratulated on giving your child a name that definitely isn't in the top 10.

No not really, don't be so fucking ridiculous!

[BertrandRussell]

Were you watching Outnumbered?

When I was a student we elected an actual brick President of the Union. His slogan was "Vote Brick- safe as houses"
Ridiculous name, by the way.

[TendonQueen]

I like The Middle a lot, but I thought the joke was that they've pretty much lost interest by the time third child Brick comes along, hence the 'taken for granted' daft name. It screams 'not really bothered'.

[Missgraeme]

Yeah. Nice solid name!!

[mumsnit]

I used to know a boy called Brick, short for Brychan which is a Welsh boys name.

He wasn't teased about his name as much as you'd think!

[EreniTheFrog]

No. Just, no. And it's perilously close to Brock Whathisface, who got pretty much let off from rape because he was a posh white athlete.

[Twiceover]

Does anyone else remember the Shadwell poem about a brick? It went something like...adopts string Welsh accent
'Hello brick, what have you been doing today?'
'We'll nothing, I'm a brick aren't I?'
'Oh...Yes.'

That's what I'd think of. I may be in a minority of one though.

[RJnomore1]

I quite liked lintel.

[IoraRua]

As in Samantha, she of divine beauty? Lol. No.

You could get away with Brock, maybe...

[Owlytellsmesecrets]

..... And it rhymes with prick!

[iklboo]

I've gone all wibbly remembering Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

[MindTheGarp]

I know a Breck if that helps

[RepentAtLeisure]

Paul Newman played Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, one of my favourite films. But I think Americans can carry that kind of name off better than Brits...

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

Please don't do that to a child. A categoric no

[Roussette]

Yes, and Blanket. Michael Jackson's son. He doesn't call himself that anymore either. hardly surprising

[BakewellSliceAgain]

And turned out the image of Frank Sinatra!

[BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington]

Isn't one of Michael Jackson's kids called Blanket?