Bodhi

[MrBobLobLaw]

He'd be a brother for Dexter. What do you think? DP and I love this name, with Bo as a nn.

Interested to hear the general consensus!

I really like it

I like it and it goes well with Dexter.
Go for it! :-)

Love it, was patrick swazyes character in point break and means awakened or enlightened

I know a few baby Bodhi's. I love it 😁

Bodhi has been on the rise quickly for the last few years. Don't ditch the spelling. People don't assume every girl names Zara has an Arabic connection... Most people won't know its a buddisht name anyway so I wouldn't worry about that!

I’d pronounce it more like Body. It definitely isn’t pronounced Bow-Dee! Seems an odd choice if you have no Buddhist connection and don’t speak Sanskrit etc.

I like it..cute Bodhi and Dexter, Bo and Dexter. Nice

just make sure your DS never travels to my home country where his name would mean bra.

There is a brand of microfibre towels called The Little Bodhi.

It's very popular in UMC America. Oodles of twenty something and under surfer dudes and snowboarders and skateboarders are called Bodhi.

Pronounced Beau-dee. Nothing like 'body'.

Would you consider:
Elliott
Marshall
Rieffe
Fintan

I know a Boaz who goes by Bo, would that work?

Rafael is my favorite from your list though.

I prefer Rafael.

Love Rafael & Ellis

I’d assume you’re Buddhist or a very spiritual, enlightened family.
Bodhi and Dexter do not go at all together.

Brodie?
Beau?
Or just Bo on its own.
I know a lovely little boy named Beau.
Beau and Dexter is very cool.

I like it but it far too used where I am. I think it's because they did a (crap) remake of the film where it originated from and became cool in the 90's...point break.

Interesting that some people take offence to the Buddhist connection. Must admit that on my feeble googling, when I first thought of the name, the Buddhist thing didn't come up, just that it was a Sanskrit name.

It wouldn't put me off using the name, rightly or wrongly. I agree with a PP who said that people use all sorts of 'religious' names for their kids and have no connection with the religion themselves.

How is Boaz pronounced @SleepWarrior?

Also surprised people are saying it's really popular where they are! I haven't met one Bodhi at any of the squillions of playgroups I've gone to with DS. Maybe it's just not popular in my part of SE London. Anyway I'm not that bothered about it being unusual or whatever, my name is vvv unusual and I've still met 2 other people with it. There's always gunna be another Bodhi!

There is already another thread about this name, which caught my eye as there is a child called this in my daughter’s class. It’s akin to calling your child “eejit” for people who actually know Sanskrit.

When you say the pronunciation is "bow", do you mean like the hair accessory or the formal greeting?

I know a bodhi here as well aged under 2

Ahah is it really @mumdom? I was under the impression it meant 'enlightenment' or somesuch. Reminds me of when I went to Iceland and was taking about my Niece, Isla, and our air bnb host couldn't get over the fact that our niece was named 'vomit' in Icelandic!

And yes like a hair bow @RubaiyatOfAnyone.

Forgot to add the really amusing part to my vomit/Iceland story which was that immediately after her telling us that Isla mean vomit, her dog threw up on the floor and the host was like - look, Isla!

Boaz is pronounced Bow(as in bow tie)-az(as in Aztec).

I don’t like it at all ... sorry OP! I also think it’s quite naff and faddy- it’s suddenly very popular and won’t date or age well. To me it says ‘wanted something different but I'm not very imaginative’. I know four under 3!

The name is still well outside the top 100 names so he’d almost certainly be the only Bodhi in his class and school. But it’s not a wacky totally out there name

I really like it and had it on my list. Goes perfect with Dexter

If you look at the actual number of Bodhis there are still only 282 boys names Bodhi in 2018

Compare that to any of the names in the top 100 and it’s not even close.

I'd think Point Break but it's a nice name.