Thoughts on Forest/Forrest???

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Thanks it would be a middle name.

Gump obviously. Though as a middle name I don't see why there'd be an issue? Hardly anyone would know.

Gump immediately springs to mind.

As a middle name its ok, I couldn't even tell you what any of my friends' childrens middle names are. I wouldn't use it as a first name, poor kid will get a lifetime of "run, Forrest, run".

Gump springs to mind - but by your DS's contemporaries' standards, that would be quite a dated reference.

I love it. I think of Forest Whitaker more than Gump.

Run Forrest , run !!

Please send him to forest school so you can say "forest goes to school at forest school" :)

I like it

It makes me think of the pro-smoking group

www.forestonline.org/

bleurgh!

sorry OP.

As a Notts county fan I couldn't do it

Please not forrest. A mispelt name is a nightmare.

Run forest, run

@IrritatedUser1960 do you realise that Forrest is the correct name spelling? It's like saying Scarlett is a misspelling.

I love it!

And I'd actually consider it for a first name !

Yes, for a middle name.

Don't hate it, but don't particularly like it. The Forrest Gump association won't go away in the forseable future, but personally it makes me think first of Forrest Hoglund, a gas pipeline engineer who clued people in to the Enron scandal. Neither of these associations are negative, though.

I knew one (we were both born in 1960s). Frosty for short. He was very popular with peers & self-confident.

I thought Whittaker at first too. I kind of like it.

Would always be Gump to me, but maybe you're a fan (or a Nottingham Forest fan) so that might be what you were after

Run, Forest, run! was my first thought.

You can have almost anything as a middle name though. It never gets used.

I love it and it was on our list of potential names. I wasn't brave enough to use it as a first name but it's definitely fine as a middle name.

It's OK as a middle name. I'd use the Forrest spelling.

Too Gumpy by far.