Ziggy

[abitfunny]

I am expecting lots of no's but we really like it. Have another son called Bodhi.

It definitely goes with bodhi.
My answer would be no.
How about Zigismund (Sp??) or Sigmund or a varient on bc so at least there is a more ‘perceived to be adult’ name available to him.

@CatteStreet

Well then you may as well leave your child nameless and let them decide as they get older? It's a name at the end of the day. It's not going to be the be all and end all of their life.

Everyone is going to have a different opinion on it. I see 'popular' names and think 'how boring and uninteresting' yet the majority love the popular names that why they are popular.

I don't think the OP's child is going to hold anything against them for it.

Give me strength

Sorry OP

@CatteStreet

Terriblecreature - then they are free to call themselves Ziggy (or whatever), of course. The point is they have the choice. (And you would have been free to call yourself something else. When younger I knew someone with what was then a very fusty German name who called themselves Candy).

I wouldn't raise an eyebrow at (to take an example above) Isaac known as Ziggy. Ziggy on the birth certificate cuts off that option.

Surely then if a child grows up and doesn't want to be called Ziggy then they are also free to change it to a more normal (and boring), name.

With my common accent it sounds like I’m asking for a cigarette

What about zachary Ignatius, ziggy.

BC and nn i mean

I like it. I used to teach a ziggy which was short for zigmund and he was a very nice hardowking boy. Never ever heard anyone making fun of his name, and I think it's very cool sounding.

[quote Terriblecreature]@CatteStreet

Well then you may as well leave your child nameless and let them decide as they get older? It's a name at the end of the day. It's not going to be the be all and end all of their life.

Everyone is going to have a different opinion on it. I see 'popular' names and think 'how boring and uninteresting' yet the majority love the popular names that why they are popular.

I don't think the OP's child is going to hold anything against them for it.[/quote]
The point is, if you change your name from (say) James to Ziggy, you're likely doing it as a positive, creative act of self-expression. You're unlikely to have suffered previously from having been called James. Whereas if you change from Ziggy to James, it may well be because being called Ziggy meant you had a couple of decades of explaining your name and putting up with raised eyebrows and other people's (yes, ignorant, juvenile, deplorable) mocking and assumptions behind you.

I do understand what you’re saying @CatteStreet although my name is unusual, particularly so when I was growing up. I always had funny comments especially in school but would I have changed my name? Absolutely not. I’m glad I didn’t have the same name as 2/3/4 other kids in my year group.

@abitfunny

I do understand what you’re saying *@CatteStreet* although my name is unusual, particularly so when I was growing up. I always had funny comments especially in school but would I have changed my name? Absolutely not. I’m glad I didn’t have the same name as 2/3/4 other kids in my year group.

And I do understand that too (especially as five children, including her, were given my dd's name in the (large) country I live in the year she was born...) - but there are unusual names and there are, for want of a much better phrase, non-names. The difference between being called (say) Ambrose and Ziggy.

Great dog name. Not sure about a baby, though. A colleague's step-grandson was called this. I just said ''oh OK'' when she told me. I think it'd be a good kind of nickname but not a proper name!

I used to work with a Ziggy.

Lots of personality in the name. It's individual and won't be the same as others. Absolutely love it!

@EssentialHummus

Another vote for Zephyr. Ziggy to me is the short form of Sigmund, not sure that's what you were going for!

Please don’t call a child Zephyr. It would make life very difficult for anyone in my family if they met the child because in our family zephyr is a fart. A warm gentle breeze, we are ultra refined.........

@viques
Ha ha, I couldn't name a child of mine Bobby, because when I was a kid 'doing a bobby' was having a poo. I was an adult before I realised not everybody called a poo a 'bobby'.

Did you go for it OP?

@abitfunny I like ziggy I also like Bowie 😆

I think names need to have some history, meaning and substance to them, even if they aren’t conventional names, because naming someone is a big deal really.

So when people give their children joke names like Ziggy, I think the parents are thinking of themselves not the child.

I used to have a crush on the character Ziggy Greaves from Grange Hill. And have always had affection for the name. I wouldn't use it as a given name, but as a nickname it's very cool.

I like it and I love Bodhi! They go perfectly.

Lovely for a puppy. Absolute joke of a name for a human.

Yes there’s a girl in Home and Away called Ziggy. It makes me think of ciggie and smoking too. Bodhi is a lovely name.

Imagine the people here being the person who reads your son's CV when he applies for the job of his dreams.

Why would you deliberately make his life harder?

Depends if he's going for a job as a guitarist in a band....

It just reminds me of those brilliant Irish puppet brothers Zigmund and Zagamuffin (from Zog) - better known as Zig & Zag

Zachary, nn Ziggy. On it's own, no.