Middle name for Forest?

[mamah2019]

Says it all in the title really.

I have an idea of what I'd like to go for but I want to make sure I've looked at all options before locking a middle name in. I would love to hear some other people's suggestions please.

It's for a little boy :)

Thank you!

@puppychaos Alex is a good choice, just ignore the idiots.

@puppychaos it's a gorgeous name and I said that before you even posted (see upthread)
I'm so sorry to hear about Forrest ❤️

@MrMucker

Sense of humour vaccum. I see no callous, mean, nasty posts about the name. Piss taking, yes. Humour, yes. Opinions, yes. But nobody has said "eeew, your baby is horrible" That is mean.

Some people have said "If you have nothing nice to say then say nothing at all". So basically they are wishing for a thread like this-
"What middle name shall I give me baby Forrest?"
"Ooh, love that name"
"Amazeballs!"
"Alexander or Oakley!"
"Love it!"
"We love your baby and we love how you have chosen his name"
*etc etc end of thread

Some people don't like it. They are not bullies, they are giving an opinion and they have a sense of humour.
Unclench please.

"Im not bullying."

"Im just laughing at you."

"Get a sense of humour."

Yeah. I'm pretty sure i heard that as a kid from people trying to belittle and humiliate for their own amusement.

Im very unclenched. I can just know bullying is often dressed up as 'just having a laugh'. Its not really a good defence tbh. It wouldn't go down well with a teacher if the kid who was the target was upset.

One of my dc has a name regularly slated on here. It was actually a cultural family name for us but a celeb used it just after so it became more popular & everyone spells it the same way as the celeb which is slightly different to how my country would spell it. He can handle it no problem though.

@puppychaos

Goodness. I know it's not really a big deal but my baby who died was Forrest and for some reason, reading pages and pages of people taking the piss out of the name is pretty hurtful.

Forrest is a lovely name, ignore the idiots trying to be funny.
Sorry for you loss

@puppychaos I'm so sorry to hear about your beautiful Forrest! You have fantastic name taste clearly.
This post has kicked off way more than I ever expected and I'm so sorry if it's upset you. Some people have been made out of order.

I haven't even asked for opinions on the name as that's his name, I just wanted options for a middle spot.

Thank you for taking the time to comment today.

Congratulations on your baby, OP.

Round here, he wouldn’t stand out at all. Going by the more positive comments on his thread, he might even find himself in a class with several Forrests and end up being Forrest B or whatever. I reckon if you want an unusual boys name now, you need to go with David, Stephen, Matthew or Robert!

Forrest isn’t to my taste (mainly because the movie is so bloody awful and there’s no getting away from that connotation), but the world would be a dull place if everyone liked the same thing.

I don’t have any sensible middle name suggestions, except to agree with the PP who said to avoid Theodore - he’d basically be named Fozzy Bear (I mean, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I suppose...), and also avoid a second nature type name, e.g the suggestion of Forest Tree further back. I didn’t actually read that as a joke suggestion until I saw the responses to it. I think that’s the problem with slightly more out there names - some people will take it to the extreme and they sound ridiculous, whilst being totally serious about it.

@mamah2019 - Apologies for not reading the whole thread but
I don't understand all the fuss? Forest is nice enough imo. I like the nature names Heath, Fen and River and I don't see Forest as that different to them. Forest Gump isn't a particularly terrible reference to me and I think there have been a few other Forests in tv/film - I definitely remember there was one on Buffy and obviously Actor Whittaker, so it must be a reasonably well known name in the US at least.

As for middle names I'd stick with the classics - there are seven boys names that have never left the UK popular top 100 in at least the last 120 years - William, Thomas, Alexander, Charles, George, Edward and James. After the apparent divisiveness over his first name, I'd use one of them personally - pick whatever one you like best and that flows with Forest and your surname. Hth!

Also wanted to add, ignore the messages laughing at the name. It's a lovely name and guess what, no matter what you call your kid, other kids will find a reason to take the piss. I have the most bog standard name ever and still got ridiculed because my surname rhymes with a mild toilet humour type word. If you wanted to avoid this, you'd have to come up with something truly original, like Elon Musk and Grimes' baby. And even then, they're still being ridiculed! Like aspects of parenting, you really can't win!!!

@puppychaos I’m so very sorry. You picked a lovely name for your baby. X

I think it's a beautiful name. I love nature names. Many "normal" names have meanings pertaining to nature. Think of all the Poppies and Daisies and Lillies!

Many of these comments are both nasty and ridiculous; Forrest Gump won't mean anything to children of OP's son's age.

I think it's lovely. Kids don't even know which names are unusual and which are common. Plus it's not like the classrooms in the 90s , there is a much wider pool of names. When I was growing up it was all Emma, Jessica and Sarah, whereas now in my children's class most names are names that I haven't encountered before (diverse area).

For middle names how about:

Forest Benjamin
Forest Leonard
Forest Magnus
Forest Lucien
Forest Benedict
Forest Caspian

I don't get the major fuss that this name has caused?

Some people clearly live very sheltered and uneventful lives if this has given them so much excitement.

The OP got sick of the jokes within 7 minutes.
The child is going to have a lifetime of them.

@RunningFromInsanity

The OP got sick of the jokes within 7 minutes. The child is going to have a lifetime of them.

That's assuming people in real life (whether kids or adults) are as rude and juvenile as anonymous strangers on mumsnet.

Hint: They're not.

The child is going to have a lifetime of them.

Says who?

@SylviaPlath1984 totally agree!

It was the association with the KKK founder way early on in the thread that really got my goat. How bloody distasteful to say that about the name of an innocent little baby who has just been born. To his Mother! Revolting and offensive.

I hope this site just brings out the worst side of some people, and that there aren’t people walking around who are this vile all the time.

Nothing wrong with the name Forest, (except maybe a lack of obvious potential shortenings)!

I like nature names though and really wanted Star for DS if he had been a girl.

Forest Michael
Forest Luke
Forest Nathan
Forest Gabriel

Don't do it. You realise lots of schools have 'forest school' once a week.

How about:
Acer
Asher
Rowan
River
Ainsley
Wyeth
Roscoe

[quote SylviaPlath1984]@tilder

"Maybe.

I asked my kids what they thought of the name Forest. The response was 'as in Gump?'. None of them have seen the film, youngest is 7, they all made the connection.

If you love the name, go for it. With your eyes open as the Gump association is very strong. Not an easy one to live with*"

I'll take things that didn't happen for £500 please!! [/quote]
Really? You were there then and you know my kids? No? Thought not.

I think it’s a sweet name, but (and I mean this gently) you will need to give him a sense of resilience about it at least, and to chug on saying ‘he won’t be bullied’ is a bit naive. At school I knew a boy who’s name was Forrest, he didn’t go by that name, he went by his middle name “Sam”. He wasn’t bullied per se, but every time we had a supply teacher (I.E. those who didn’t know what name he went by at school) who called him Forrest he got laughed at and nicknamed ‘Squirrel’. He used to be in floods of tears over it which only encouraged even more laughs :(

@tilder what are your kids called? I'm sure my dc will have an opinion on their names too.

It's not my style at all but it is an extremely inoffensive name and nowhere near "out there" as a name.
All the people posting "joke" comments probably live in small villages and think Gabriel is an outrageous name because someone might shorten it to "Gay".
I would go for a very traditional long middle name such as Jonathan, Alexander, Sebastian or Benjamin.