Bowie

[cjferg]

Literally only boys name I can think of...

Every one we think of either me or dh knows some chav we don't like with that name...

That’s what I don’t understand about MN if you call something chavvy you get called all the words under the sun but it’s totally acceptable to call people ‘pretentious wankers’ ‘try hard hipsters’ ‘middle class snobs’ and refer the ‘weak’ male names as ‘wet’ the list goes on... I’m a chav. I’m not going to rant and rave about someone classing a name as such.

But back to the point. I don’t like Bowie.

Howard from Take That has a son called Bowie, as does Paul Weller, and someone from Emmerdale.

What exalted company you'll be in.

Sounds like Jonathan Ross saying Barry

Surely Bowie should be pronounced bow like bow tie? Not bow like take a bow.

It's my dog's middle name.

my friend has a cow called Bowie

Just no. Apart from anything else, whichever pronunciation you go for, it will always get mispronounced the other way.

And that is the only name you could think of? You do know it was his surname anyway? Why not David?

As PP said, if it's inspired by David Bowie it sbould rhyme with Zoe so you would be mispronouncing it.

If you're bothered about sounding, err, too modern/different/made up (as your first post suggests) then this isn't the way to go about it!

Call him Colin and be done with it.

You do know it was his surname anyway

And it wasn't even....

Awful

Well indeed italian

Literally only boys name I can think of...

Think harder!

OP you don't pronounce it like that. It rhymes with Zoe.

Quite Italian

Op Why not call him Jones?

Does this mean his son was called Zoe? 🤔

There was a Bowie in my primary school in the mid 80s... I thought he was named after the Goblin King at the time.

Now I think it would be a bit twee/ try hard. There are so many better names.

It’s funny how people don’t call their children after dead female artists. I’ve never seen anyone suggesting Winehouse, Houston or Joplin as a baby name. It’s always Bowie, Hendrix, Corbain or Lennon.

Very true

Not sure about that bluths. I know Amys and Whitneys even. I think girls are more likely to be given first names than surnames.

I don't think it's chavvy. But it is 'try too hard', same as Jagger.

Awful, not coz chavvy but really try hard, I'd feel sorry for kid and think you're pretentious.

I love Bowie as a musician/person but calling a child by that name isn't great IMHO. Maybe a middle name if you must as a tribute. I tend to name my dogs after favoured musicians so I have had Marley and Ziggy.

Bowie is a dreadful first name.

Fgs - David Bowie’s son is, and has always been, Duncan Zowie Jones. His surname has never been Bowie because it was not actually his father’s surname.