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Name too “superman”

33 replies

Loopsroo · 02/01/2019 23:20

Hi. Love the name Lois for girl and dh does too but I am a little dubious as surname would be Clark. Too “supermany”???

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dolly92x · 02/01/2019 23:26

Not at all! I think it's lovely!Smilex

riotlady · 02/01/2019 23:30

I wouldn’t have put it together as superman-related unless you’d said tbh!

JemAppelleLafayette · 02/01/2019 23:33

I’ve known a Lois Clark for over twenty years and the connection has never occurred to me until this thread!

Loopsroo · 02/01/2019 23:33

It’s just with superman’s real name being Clark Kent and girlfriend Lois Lane... I can’t seem to get it out of my head (but it is probably the reason superhero loving dh likes the name Hmm) can’t ask family / friends as we are not sharing the name until birth.

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BedraggledBlitz · 02/01/2019 23:34

Lol no it's great.

Unless her middle name is "Fliesatnightwith"

Loopsroo · 02/01/2019 23:35

😂 maybe I’ll consider that as middle name choice is next thing to do!

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mustdrinkwaternotwine · 02/01/2019 23:36

It would make me do a double take but I know many people with more "character" names and often the parents are oblivious having grown up in a different country or being a bit older or younger or not having read the same books or watched the same programmes. And then there are the ones where parents named a child and only later did a character get given the same name.

ZebraKid71 · 02/01/2019 23:53

It's totally fine, they are both normal quite common names so I don't see an issue at all. I really like lois.

clary · 02/01/2019 23:58

It's fine. If her name would be Lois Lane that would be odd, though I did have a colleague who taught James Bond 😂😂

Smile19 · 03/01/2019 00:21

Lois is a totally gorgeous name. Be brave if you love it. Congratulations and good luck.

Juliet89 · 03/01/2019 08:49

I actually know a Lois Lane! Lois Clark is fine.

Flamingosnbears · 03/01/2019 08:52

Fine name not at all too super hero quite refreshing actually...

BikeRunSki · 03/01/2019 08:58

It’s fine. Lois is a great name, although the Lous dd is friends with sobers a lot of time telling people she is not called Louise.

Let me share my experience. I share a name with a very well know rock star of the 80s/90s. He is still known (it’s an unequivocal girls name btw, man uses it as a stage name). It usually gets mentioned once the first time I meet someone, it might then get mentioned occasionally, if at all. Have a famous meme is not a problem, and Lois Clark is really a very tenuous connection.

Honeybee79 · 03/01/2019 11:32

It's fine and a lovely name.

Hernam3waslola · 03/01/2019 13:30

Clark is such a common surname people won’t think twice about it. I love Lois- so refreshing and pretty!

clary · 03/01/2019 14:38

Oooh Bikerunski I really want to know your name now!! Grin (starts guessing)

BikeRunSki · 03/01/2019 14:57

Famous rock star, female stage name
Not even neutral like Kelly
If it weren’t holidays you could go to the library to look it up, but it’s a shame School’s Out Wink

clary · 03/01/2019 17:03

haha I'm not at school any more thank goodness. I'll give it some thought

MyDisposableUsername · 03/01/2019 17:06

Seriously clary? You don't know it already from Bike's last post? Grin

MumUnderTheMoon · 03/01/2019 18:48

I think Lois is a lovely name but with your surname you will probably get people making that connection with superman. If it's likely to annoy you I would probably say pick another name. Or you could hyphenate it so there's always a buffer between the two something like Lois-Jane?

clary · 03/01/2019 18:50

aargh ok sorry Christmas brain, gotcha now 😃😃

indianbackground · 03/01/2019 18:54

Lois would make me think of superman whatever the surname, maybe because I don’t know any others called Lois. It’s a nice name.

daisypond · 03/01/2019 19:02

It's fine. I'm not sure I'd make the connection even.

MikeUniformMike · 03/01/2019 19:35

How about Clara instead of Lois. It is popular on here.

jessstan2 · 03/01/2019 19:36

Nice! You could have Kent as a second name :-).