Bear

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Am I being totally ridiculous considering the name Bear for DS?

yes as its awful

The trouble with fashionable names is that they go out of fashion. Bear was fashionable a few years ago so now it seems really dated. What about Bruno? It means bear and is a recognised human child's name

Yep. Use it as a pet name, a term of endearment but do not inflict it on him as an actual name.

Don’t do it, pregnancy hormones making you not think right.

Yes it’s a bit silly. I love the suggestion of Bruno.

Would you really want to be associated with naming your child after Cheryl TweedyColeFandangoVermicelliPayne’s (even if you’re not, it’s what people with think)

I like it but it's not a birth certificate name..

@Theunreasonableone ha that's true but I still love the name

Even liked it before I got pg

It's really fucking stupid

We call my daughter Bear as a nickname. We obviously use her real name as real but I do get some odd looka when we call her Bear as people assume we have copied Cheryl.

It’s lovely for a dog.

I really like it. I like it so much I named my cat Bear. I now feel silly having a cat called a Bear.

You might feel silly having a child named Bear. You might not.

It would be a fabulous middle name.

Yes it's bloody silly, and I say that as someone who's given their DS the nickname Bear! Maybe find a name that either means bear or for which bear can be used as a nickname?

Bear Gryll's actual name is Edward.

Teddy?

I don't think it's awful...but I know some people who have named their dogs Bear...

I know a Bear. He's great. It also depends where you live- the Bear I know lives in an area where that name wouldn't really get a second look. Where you live might be different.

I think it’s awful. Don’t do it.

Having said what I just did...DD has a middle name I didn't dare give her as a first name, because it would have been seen as silly and ridiculous. I wish I'd given it to her as a first name.she could have map pulled it off and would have been the only one in her school class

I love it but would never use it in real life.

I really wouldn't. I actually find it ridiculous.

Or use it as a middle name. Have Edward as his first name, so then he can be Teddy Bear.

It's beyond awful. It's like calling your child Sloth or Wombat, plus it reminds me of a man best known for drinking his own wee on TV.

It's ridiculous, it's always been ridulous.
Don't do it.

My cat is called bear I honestly would never choose it for a child. My cat looks like a bear so name stuck not for a child tho

It isn't a name. Dreadful thing to lumber a child with. He will hate you when he's a teenager and you will deserve all the grief he gives you.