Middle name for Oak

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Just had my 20wk scan and confirmed we are having a boy. We had loads of girls names, but no boys names. My DP is Lithuanian, so would like Azuolas which translates into Oak. I really like Oak, but not Azuloas. Name would be Oak, not Oakley.

Can you think of a middle name to go with Oak?

I realise the name Oak is a little unusual and not to most peoples taste. Ideas please?

Oak eedokey

I don't really get it doing a translation ... DD's name means Gazelle in English but I wouldn't call her that ... my sons name translates to crooked nose ... again it'll remain in its native format ... why change it to English?!

No!

He’ll get called Boak in school.
Don’t do that.

I have a non-English name. I grew up with correcting spelling and pronunciation but also people uniformly appreciating the unusual name and asking me about the heritage.

I would say about 30% of people I know pronounce my name correctly now and I answer cheerfully to the Anglicised version but I love having a name that reflects my heritage.

Pick a reasonably pronouncable Lithuanian name and be done with it.

Arolina?

Hum all ye faithful?

Azuloas is great, really funky and cool. Oak is very boring in comparison and sounds quite ugly.

Imagine though..
Oak a cola?

But imagine though..
“Oak is the boak”
“Here oak, got wood?”

Then there’s unfortunate rhymings like, choke, folk, smoke and joke

Imagined a bit much there!

As you were.

I teach at a multi-ethnic school. Nobody would bat an eyelid at Oak.

Aydokay?

I like the Oakley suggestion.

I knew someone who swore that her DF had wanted to call her DB 'Quercus' (the Latin term for the genus) but her DM put her foot down about it.

Lahoma???

@someotherday genius!!

Furnitureland 😂

@Emily7708 I actually howled at that one 😂😂

Going against the crowd I love the name oak. There was a boy a couple of years above called oak ‘posh sounding double barrelled name’. Always thought it sounded so cool / glamourous.

Some of these suggestions are making me laugh out loud. Stop it please. it started with someone suggesting tree.....

Having said that I do rather like it. Whether I would have been brave enough to use it is another question!

I love the name Spartacus but honestly wouldn't have the nerve to use it.

I quite like the name as it happens but the jokes were inevitable

K Fred?

gilligans it's well known that "bear" is a family nickname from teddy bear as his actual name is Edward.

OP Oak is awful sorry. It just isn't accepted as a name like Rowan or Willow are. Use it as a middle name if you must but please think again about a first name.

Fair enough if you don’t like a name, but coming up with little thymes to ridicule it is what school bullies do

That's the whole point, people are trying to alert OP to the kind of daft jokes and nicknames her child will be subjected to at school if she saddles him with a name like Oak.

Deri is Welsh for oak and that’s a beautiful name

Azuloas is great. "Az" is a cool shortening. I don't think the translation to the English Oak works so well.

Azuloas as a first would be nice followed by a middle that's something classic and british like William, Oliver, Robert, Michael?