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Thoughts on the name 'Drake'?

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HopeWish · 08/05/2020 10:36

Basically as the title says.

DH really likes this name. I like it too, especially the nature connotation, but I know that it is more unusual.

I have never met a Drake, only know it from a TV show called 'Drake and Josh'.

What do you think of this name? Would you think it was a bit 'out there' if someone you knew named their child Drake?

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ikeakia · 08/05/2020 20:15

His birth certificate says I definitely do.

Pelleas · 08/05/2020 20:17

" ... a brother for Duck".

pinkpinecone · 08/05/2020 20:21

Just makes me think of the rapper. I'm not a fan.

Rhodri · 08/05/2020 20:26

It’s nice if you live somewhere where it’s pronounced Drey-ke. But if you live somewhere like Newcastle where the A would be pronounced flat then it sounds awful.

Maduixa · 08/05/2020 21:08

I'd just assume it was a surname-as-first-name (or a nickname for a little Draco, possibly with Harry Potter-crazed parents Grin). I don't really love the sound though - it seems a little harsher than Blake, Jake, or Lake to me.

helpmum2003 · 08/05/2020 21:12

Quack quack - sorry. Maybe as a middle name?

Sittinonthefloor · 08/05/2020 21:21

Dr Drake Ramorez comes to my mind.

paradisefalls · 08/05/2020 21:25

I'm 35 and never heard of the duck connection Confused I like drake, I'd call my child it.

MarinaMarinara · 08/05/2020 21:30

In my my 30s (and so probably around the same age as you and as the majority of the parents of your baby’s future classmates) and my brain goes:

  • duck
  • Friends (Dr Drake Ramoray obvs)
  • rapper.

Definitely rethink OP!

lucindalovescats · 08/05/2020 21:32

Sounds a bit chavvy , really sorry but its you're choice.

Crabbo · 08/05/2020 21:35

I know one. I personally dislike it but it’s your baby so if you like it go ahead, it’s not weird or anything.

donquixotedelamancha · 08/05/2020 21:35

"I have a Dracob"

Oh you do not.

Our school has had 3 Dracobs in 2 years. I think it's becoming more fashionable again.

LoKiMummy · 08/05/2020 21:36

It just reminds me of the rapper

ooooohbetty · 08/05/2020 21:37

I thought of the rapper and I'm a grandmother

LittleFoxKit · 08/05/2020 21:39

I thought of a dragon/wyvern type creature just a little smaller... but then I've been playing final fantasy again so...

daytriptovulcan · 08/05/2020 21:40

Very talented R n b singer, but a bit of a creep around the young ladies. Don't do it.

NaturalCleaningParticles · 08/05/2020 21:46

Rapper or duck.

Rhodri · 08/05/2020 21:52

I'm 35 and never heard of the duck connection
You’ve never heard that a male duck is called a drake? I suppose you’ve also never heard that a male cow is a bull and a male sheep is a ram? Geez, and you weren’t even home schooled under lockdown 😂

littlejalapeno · 08/05/2020 21:55

Hhhhmmmm what about Andre, Dre for short?

Londoner99 · 08/05/2020 22:50

Yep, also makes me think of Drake the singer/rapper, he sounds like he's stoned in all his songs 😬.

1forsorrow · 08/05/2020 22:55

Reminds me of Danger Man, TV series in the 60s. As part of the opening Patrick McGoohan would say, "Oh yes, my name is Drake, John Drake." The joke at the time was to say that line and then go "quack, quack."

Probably not many of us remember so won't be a problem. It is a fine name.

TheHarryFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 08/05/2020 22:57

Dr Drake Ramoray here too. Also a song from Words and Pictures in the 1980’s - ‘I’m Francis Drake and I’m looking for a lake’

saraclara · 08/05/2020 22:58

Dr Drake Ramoray! That's the first thing that sprung to mind for me!

And me. I started laughing as soon as I read the OP!

Choctimeout · 08/05/2020 23:00

No.

My thought is no.

EngagedAgain · 08/05/2020 23:04

No sorry, there's nothing nice about it at all.