Atticus, is it too much?

[yorkshiregirl29]

We LOVE the name Atticus but we've been getting lots of negative feedback.
What are your opinions?

My granddaughter goes to pre school with a little boy called atticus

Sounds like the name for a company one of the candidates on the apprentice would make up. Sorry

It's a great name

My Siamese cat is called Atticus, it suits him down to the ground.

I don’t know any human Atticus’ but I think it’s a lovely name and not at all pretentious. If you like it OP, you should go for it.

wineymummy Exactly this. My OH is a Manchester lad who's lived in London for due to the nature of his work. When the little un was born, his then missus wanted to call him Sebastian. My OH put his foot down very firmly and said more or less what you've just said. "When l take him back home (visiting family) he'll get a massive amount of piss taken."
He prevailed and little one was given an lrish name with the lrish spelling (lrish surname, too).

(Not Daniel O'Donnell, though)

My cat is called Atticus too; but his name was chosen after a philosopher rather than Atticus Finch. I think it's a great cats name`

For a child I don't think it's too bad and prefer it to many modern names. If you love it OP then use it!

"When l take him back home (visiting family) he'll get a massive amount of piss taken."

I think that says more about the family: how sad that they are so judgemental.

I feel conflicted. I adored Atticus and it was very high on my list but the way that TKAM has been reinterpreted now would make me too uncomfortable. This is a great article and sums up why I wouldn't call my child after Atticus Finch. It's worth a read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/the-contested-legacy-of-atticus-finch

Guess the OP's flounced off cuz we weren't all impressed with their clever name choice.

It's my cat's name. We adopted him with it. I wanted to change it but he alsready responded to it so it stuck.

My friend's dog is Atticus. I wouldn't personally use it for my child, but if you really like it then why not.

i haven't read the Mockingbird sequel but I thought there was some chat when it was released about 'horrified parents who named their sons after Atticus Finch find that in the sequel (prequel?) he's actually a racist'

Might be worth looking into (You probably have, but just in case ;-)

This thread has led me to start calling my cat Catticus Finch. He is looking quizzical. 😼

But Go Set a Watchman isn’t a sequel, it’s an early draft of what would become To Kill a Mockingbird — that’s why publishing it with only possibly partial consent from the elderly and unwell author was such a betrayal.

The publisher to whom Lee sent the first version thought the flashbacks from the adult Scout to her childhood were the best parts, so she reworked it all from a child’s eye POV, and changed virtually everything, including the character of Atticus Finch. So segregationist Atticus actually evolves into admirable Atticus.

Ah yes. The annual Atticus thread. We look forward to these. It's always amusing to be told what a pretentious wanker you are!

OP has disappeared, yes. I've always half suspected these threads are started by frenemies of the mothers of Atticuses, as a lure to discover their user names. There can't be that many of us. With the added benefit of perhaps causing humiliation by stealth, by stoking a predictable onslaught of group scathing. I reckon some of you would feel very at home in Maycomb.

Obviously, I have an Atticus. He was born well before GSAW (published without Lee's compos mentis consent). He has experienced exactly zero negativity or bullying about his name, unless you count my own mother's and MIL's reactions before he was born - should have referred them to MN for support). Though once, while rifling through the clearance rack of damaged items at a garden centre, I thought I heard several of the uglier ornamental trolls sniggering at him.

If you are real, give your baby the name you love most. Just don't tell anyone before he's here!

tammytoby l didn't word that well. He didn't mean by the family, he meant by the kids up in Manchester.

Not a name I'd choose op but your baby, your choice. If you love it then go for it.

GSaW is the original book, it isn't an early draft of TKAM. HL was told to drop GSaW as a story but develop the back story alluded to, that backstory became TKAM.

Confession: I've only heard the audio adaptation of GSaW; the manuscript may be rubbish. But the actual story is superior to TKAM in my mind. I don't like perfect heros. I like flawed ones better.

Atticus - don't hear it often. Scout's father in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' had that name, there was also a character in Downton Abbey (Rose's husband) called the same.

A Guardian crossword compiler was called Atticus.

I don't know if I would use it, entirely up to you of course. Does it go with your surname?

He would be called, 'Atti' for short.

I Love it and had it on the list for DS2. A friend who had her son the same day down the corridor in the same hospital used it.

i wouldn't use this name at all, but it's what you like that matters, Does it roll along nicely with your surname more so.

@Crookedme that was my cat's name. DH refused to phone the vets because it was too embarrassing.

Atticus is beautiful, my friends young son has this name, and he’s delightful

I like it. I would never ask for opinions on MN about names as it’s so personal to you. Who cares what anyone else thinks?

Use it. But don’t tell anyone before he is here.

My Dc all have names that I love - not Fitzwilliam for example but close - they are unique in their schools and have zero bullying. Please choose what you like. For anyone who takes the ‘piss’ out of someone’s name shows far more about them then you.