Thales

[TheHorseWhisperer]

Thoughts?

Came across this name in my ancestry and I've fallen in love with it.

I worked there when the company was RACAL , they merged with Thomson and became TH (start of Thomson hence the hard T pronunciation) AL (end of RACAL) ES (engineering systems).

We had a whole hour long presentation about the new name

My uncle works for Thales so I'd have to say no as a dc name.

As in Thales of Miletus?

As long as you pronounce it correctly, I guess. So not 'Thails'.

I don't like it I'm afraid. As others have said, to me it's just a big old corporate company. Pronounced Ta-liss. Like calling your baby IBM. Ok not so bad. But if you google the word Thales it's the first thing that comes up.

I like it, never heard of the company.

Although I'm not always a huge fan of names ending in s, as it can end up sounding like you have more than one Thale. But in this case not so much.

If it's a Greek name it should be Thay-Lees not Thails. Either way, poor kid will have a lifetime of telling people how to spell and say his name.

I quite like it pronounced properly. If it was a common name people would know how to say it and wouldn't associate it with the company, anymore than they associate Philip and apple.

Depends if you feel like reinstating a name and teaching people how to say it correctly.