How many parents allow the cat food brand to put them off Felix?

[Pansy0926]

I love love love Felix, though all everyone online says is ‘cat food’. I can’t help feeling that once baby is here, no one will mind it so much.

There’s quite a few kids with unusual names whose parents I know says that they were almost put off by other people’s reactions, but now their kids are older most people agree that they couldn’t imagine anything else and they don’t get a double take. For instance, ‘Noa’ for a girl , ‘Koa’ for a girl (unrelated), ‘Phoenix ‘ for a boy and ‘Zelda’ for a girl in our nursery alone.

Everyone seems to like it for their own children and then sigh “but the cat food brand...” and go with something else.

It’s so hard to pick something that is unusual and yet the child won’t be bullied for...and at the same time, with all of the above names and many other unusual ones just in our small town, surely kids are less likely to be bullied for unusual names? I mean I’m not talking about names which are obviously embarrassing, kids would get bullied for being called Gaylord or Jesse etc no matter what where I live, but something simply unusual might be less of an issue...

anyway....Felix, yay or nay?

I like Felix, and I know quite a few ranging from 28 to 2 years olds, so it doesn't put off everyone!

I know a few blokes called Felix but I tend to associate as a mainland Europe name. The guys I know are in their twenties and trendy. ( into DJing and have beards!)
I like it. I wouldn't even think of cat food.

A few years ago the cat food thing would've put me off, but not any more. I think it's more 'normal' as a name now...

Ha, we are having exactly this discussion now!

Unborn DS was provisionally Freddie but every bugger and his dog is called that nowadays so I suggested Felix. We both like it, and the meaning, but DH keeps going "but cat food....." sadly.

I just think no small children will be aware of pet food brands and also tbh the brand might go bust or be bought up and change name at any time. And then no one would remember it after a couple of years!

I love Felix ! as mentioned upthread more European maybe. Brands come and go, don’t let that put you off a good name.

Yay. Great name.

Me. I thought about Felix for DS2 and think it would have suited him. But... cat food. So I went with something different.

Ds was going to be Felix. I was put off by the cat food - I don't like cats and detest cat food, but mostly hate the tinkly voice in the ads. Decided the ads wouldn't be around for long, but then we realised that Felix was very hard to say with the surname and created embarrassing initials, and a friend had a Felix a few months before us, so we used a different name, middle name Felix.

I wouldn't let the connection bother me. It's a nice name, and a bit different to the popular style of name just now, which I see as a positive. Go for it!

I love the name Felix.

I nearly around and about. I don’t know what I think about it really. I guess I live in quite a middle class area so when I hear it I tend to associate it with a certain type of parent 😬

*i hear it around and about

It’s so hard to pick something that is unusual and yet the child won’t be bullied for..

No, it's actually quite easy because there are thousands of names outside the top100 that are classic, normal names that kids would just accept.

Felix is a well known cat food brand in the uk as well as a cartoon character, Felix the cat. Kids may we'll find that tease worthy. But if you live the name that much, use it anyway.

Why would a child be teased for Jesse? Am I missing something? There’s a few boys called Jesse round here.
We liked Felix, but I did hear it and think cat. The power or branding and advertising!

Felix is ok. Jesse is too similar to Jessie, and this:
jessie
ˈdʒɛsi/
nounBritishinformalderogatory
noun: jessie; plural noun: jessies; noun: jessy
an effeminate, weak, or oversensitive man.

Aside from the cat food thing Felix is a bit wet sounding to me. So it would doubly put me off.

I do associate felix with a cat. But if I met a human one my second thought would be that they must be incredibly upper class/own a stately home. It’s like Boris and Bartholomew and Lettice and Arabella to me. Names that the owners would have the shit kicked out of them for unless they go to private school. Sorry, this is probably reading as really classist and I don’t mean to be, but I can’t imagine a Felix on the council estate.

I love the name! Wouldn't care about the cat thing at all. I wanted to use it for DS1 but OH veto'd it :(

I don't know how many people decide not to use it simply because of that connection, but I know that just under 700 people used it last year despite it. Go them.

I know a few Felix’s (Felixi? Felices?) and I’ve never considered cat food. If you were thinking about Mr Go (see how old I am!), or Whiskas, then maybe - but Felix is clearly a human name.

It is the very best boy's name imo and dd would definitely have been Felix if she had been ds. Use it! Kids of this generation won't watch ads in the same way that we did when we were kids anyway. I would never even think of the cat food.

Love Felix but DH vetoed it for the cat food reason. However, I have taught a teenage Felix and on a recent Nursery visit noticed 2 pegs labelled 'Felix' so it can't be that bad! I say go for it!

I have a Felix. He's a boy. Not a cat. If you love it go for it.

I like Felix. Think there would be some meows at school though.

I love it. Go for it. And even if people do think 'cat' so what? Cats are lovely! It's not like Felix makes people think of a dung beetle.

We have a Felix - 18 months and someone I work with also has a Felix-16 months.