Opinions on this name please!

[2020summer]

We are considering the name Hodge for a boy. However we have gotten some negative feedback that has us second guessing it. I just want to reach out for opinions before we remove it as an option completely. Thanks in advance!!

Roger, nn Rog (pronounced Rodge)?

This is my all-time favourite bloody awful name post on MN. Well done OP, have a

Awful. Don’t do it

That's funny OP. Tell us some of your others.

Hahahahahahahahaha

The baddie in the Shadowhunters books

That’s not a name. It’s hardly a word. Hard no.

It's a no from me.

The Hodgeheg.

Thanks to studying John Betjeman for English 'O' level, I know it's a nickname for Roger, but it is used as shorthand for a rustic character.

Hodge ... I thought hodgepodge too. I wouldn't.
What about Roger, Hugh, Hudson, Harry... have you got any other potentials on your list?

Where ON EARTH did you find this name, or did you make it up? It's got a horrible sound to it, it doesn't even look nice in print. He'll get so many nicknames - in fact, it already sounds like a nickname a boy would get at school. "Oi, Hodge!"

Hodge - used as a name for a typical English agricultural labourer. See Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies.

Hideous - Hodge Podge. Makes me think of fat flabby things

I came across this name in a Restoration Comedy when I was at school. Character was a rustic village idiot.

Just makes me think of this Michael McIntyre sketch...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=uJEqXJRK4Q4

Haha. Awful.

OMG I went to primary school with triplets, Hodge, Podge and Rodge!

Unfortunately Hodge was sick on photo day.

Awful. First thing I thought about was the children’s book Hodge the Hedgehog.

Please can the middle name be heg so Dick King-Smith gets a nod

It's really not a great name, imo.

In Brazil, Rs are pronounced as Hs (so Roger Gracie, BJJ champ, is Hodger). Are you Brazillian? Or in Brazil? If not, I say nah. (I do quite like Renzo though, pronounced Henzo - one of the other Gracie brothers. Look them up if you want inspiration.)

Please don't, it's awful.

@Grinchlywords

Hodge was Samuel Johnson's cat. A very fine cat indeed.

I came here to say that! (It's a bloody awful name for a child.)

Hedgehog vibes.