Jack Daniel

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Can we do this? Or is it like calling your child Chardonnay? I don't even like the drink! But want middle name to be Daniel for family reasons.

Any other suggestions greatly recieved! Boys names are difficult!

No times a zillion times.....

Please, do not do it.

I know someone who called their child this because they drank a litre of it when pregnant and were still standing....

Chottie

It really doesn't amount to child abuse.

Jonathan Daniel, known as Jack.

Oooh, this is a great suggestion, lovelearning. OP, I commend you to it!

On the "don't use Jack as it's a popular name" thing: my DS has one of the most common names in existence, and I really like it. It suits him, he doesn't get confused with other kids, and it has the added benefit that he will be very difficult to google - or very easy, depending on which of his other names he also uses to build a professional life. This wasn't deliberate, but I really like that he will have this choice as he grows.

Agreed, Tardis, but the figure in 100 doesn't quite account for the fact that names tend to follow regional and cultural trends, so the concentration for some Jacks will be far greater. Twenty years' worth of Jacks is a lot of Jacks!

I repeat the point, however, that it is not only about school. I was born in the early 80s and have a name which was really popular in the seventies but was declining in popularity by the time I was born. I hardly ever encountered another throughout school and university but in every workplace I've had there have been numerous others, about ten years older than me.

My name was top 10 the year I was born, and the 10 years before and the 10 years after. Quite a few of my friends had the same name as me and I've met plenty of others throughout my life too.

Has never bothered me in the slightest tbh.

Yippee Yes, I agree there'll be regional variations, so some areas will be saturated with Jacks, while other areas will be Jack deserts. It's difficult to tell in advance which areas will be which though.
Just one example - my last workplace, out of a department including about 20 women, we had 4 Jill's of varying ages. Jill and Gillian have never been all that popular. Looks like Gillian, the more popular one of the two, peaked at about 15th most popular in about 1955 (google visual ons baby names since 1904. You can see an interesting interactive graph that shows trends of top 100 names between 1904 - 2015). Jill was the only duplicated women's name in our department, despite plenty of us having names that were statistically more popular, including me (my name sounds similar to yours in terms of popularity trends, although I've rarely encountered women sharing my name since finishing my education).

The point I was trying to make, with the peak Jack figure of 1 in every 33 boys in that year being a Jack, was:

Imagine you've got that peak Jack rate every year. Peak rate being roughly 3% or 1 in every 33 boys being named Jack every year. Imagine there haven't been any peaks or troughs in Jack popularity. So imagine, that on average, 3% or 1 in every 33 men in England and Wales is called Jack (as the ONS stats I'm basing this on don't cover other parts of the UK). This would be a lot of Jacks, yes. Just about everyone would know at least one Jack. But 3% of all men being called Jack would still leave an awful lot of men who are not called Jack, even in areas with high Jack concentrations.

My son is 18 and called Jack Daniel.
He loves it .
They were the only 2 names we were in agreement about.
We have a very unusual surname and it works with it.

How about Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray Gin or Bombay Sapphire?

Ron Bacardi?

No it will be the bain of his life. I have lived with a silly name until I got married and I cannot tell you how much easier my life is now.

I have a Jack Daniel.

I adored the name jack, his fathers name was Daniel and I didn't want to live in a house with 2 Daniels. Middle names generally only appear on forms etc - he doesn't walk around introducing himself as Jack daniel.

Out of curiosity I have just asked him what he thinks of the name " it's my name I like it" and if he knew there is a drink also named Jack Daniel..." awesome"

Can't get worked up about people's name choices call him whatever you feel happy with

I really liked this combination of names had dd been a boy, but when I thought of the link with the bourbon, I changed my mind. Purely because dh does occasionally drink a jd, and I would have hated people thinking that was why we chose it. So we settled on Max Daniel, which is really similar in sound and vibe I think.

They're both OK as names. I was being jokey earlier but I do like the name Remy Martin. Nearly everyone I know has a Jack or a Harry in their family.

Don't think I would use that due to its associations! Maybe James Daniel or Daniel Jack?