Crazy name wont get out my head! lol

[Misssweetheart]

Have a lovely 8 month old boy named eric.
Pregnant again hoping for a girl... BUT if its a boy i need an AWESOME name again. And every boy name is not sparking any joy besides ONE...

Pheonix

I KNOW..I KNOW.. Usually id be the FIRST one to be like "oh come on...you cant call a child that"

HOWEVER...Ive become enchanted with the name. Ive even tried considering felix and looking up ALL the names...
Ive even tried sleeping on it... for a MONTH.
And i cant find a name that gives me the same...feeling...as pheonix.

Does anyone have any POSITIVE thoughts on the name? Or advice?

@wtheck

One of my neighbours has a kid called Phoenix - the other is called Storm.

She's a reading hippy though so it's not off the chart for her. Depends what your other kids are called?

Do you live in a town beginning with E?

There was a little boy at my son's nursery called Feonix. Some people shouldn't be allowed to name dogs, let alone children

Anyway I don't like Phoenix. It's a harsh sound, it's a name that leads to immediate judgements from some people and it sounds like someone who'd hang out with Axl Rose

What about Fenton or Fintan?
However I can’t see anything wrong with either a Phoenix or Felix but I dislike Arthur which I find stuffy

@donquixotedelamancha

I love this name Phoenix!
Eric the Viking and Phoenix of Carthage ... Now I am trying to think up some names for siblings on a historic sea-faring theme.
If I saw Phoenix (or Eric) on my class list, my first thought would be that they make a change from James and Alexander.

My close friend has a Phoenix - he's a lovely 11yr old now and I've always loved his name - go for it

I teach a sixteen year old girl called Phoenix and it has really grown on me . It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t ‘go with’ Eric . It’s only a tiny percentage of their life that they will be introduced as a pair of siblings . There is a Phoenix (5) in the same class as my son and she has a brother called James . Never crossed my mind that it is odd .

I taught a lovely boy called Phoenix.

Oddly enough I met a little boy called Phoenix last week at work
Even more oddly his brother was called Adam and his sister Isabella!
It was like they ran out of ‘normal’ names and just went far out

Mum was pregnant and said she was going to call baby Lexie-Mai

I’m not a fan but it’s your baby-I went with a marmite name with one of mine and he really suits it and loves his name

There was a little boy at my son's nursery called Feonix

We sometimes get letters or emails at work where everything is written as it sounds.

If I saw this I'd just assume the parents were pretty illiterate.

Phoenix sounds like Eric's alter ego or an human/pet adventure duo. They are so far different it sounds ridiculous tbh. Agree Felix could be a better option.