FLAME ME BUT I LOVE THE NAME

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Elvis 😍😍😍😍😍

Can’t stop thinking about it

I know some really big Elvis fans but even they didn’t go there! They did however have. Presley and an Aaron which are great names

There’s a guy works down the chip shop….

@UhtredRagnarson Costello is the secondary association for me, would still come to mind but he doesn’t just go by Elvis and I also assumed chose the name after Presley?

@Youaretoocool I’m 26... everyone has heard of Elvis. It’s like everyone knowing about the Beatles!

Nooooooo

I like it! My DSis nicknameed her baby bump Elvis and got used to it, then couldn't think of any names she preferred for a boy, she ended up having a DD but I like to think that Elvis would have stuck if she'd had a DS!

It's so condescending to say the name is "unusable". Of course it's usable, if OP likes it, she'll use it!

I met an Elvis through work once. When my colleague and I saw his name on an email we were dead excited, imagined him to be some sort of cool hipster type with very forward thinking parents. I was very disappointed to meet a humourless man in his late forties who stooped so much he seemed to be trying to make himself fold in half and disappear in front of me.

I realised then when you give a child a whacky name they either rise to the occasion, or (like him) the name overshadows them and is a source of embarrassment for life. Unfortunately you don't know camp which your newborn will end up in.

Only as a girls name

No no no

i worked with a man called Elvis, but he was from somewhere in the west Indies, where it is not so unusual i think.

I know a SE Asian Elvis. And I have to mention him in meetings (I'm the one that works with him solely) and every time there's a comedian.

Every

Single

Time.

I used to know a bloke called Elvis too! He worked down the local chip shop.

I'll get my coat. I'm not even sorry though

@UhtredRagnarson

Snap hahahaha!

I like it and think it's usable. Often on MN names are judged on how they'd appear to the parents (or even older) generations, but said kid's contemporaries will have totally different references. It's a cool name.

(In fact, DH and I realised we liked it a few weeks after our baby was born. Luckily we had a DD! Her name is a 2-syllable E name so don't think we'd ever use Elvis, but I'd love to meet a little one.)

Three strong thoughts -

1. I definitely don’t think it is a ‘cool’ name - very far from it.
2. Objectively there nothing wrong with it.
3. It’ll bring your son (and you) a lifetime of baggage. A lifetime of having known that and gone ahead type baggage for you. Seems remarkably attention seeking ? More than many similar names.

Your decision. Congrats btw.

I used to work with a chap who’s son was Elvis and his daughter was Lisa-Marie. He was Greek Cypriot and absolutely nuts about Elvis.

@DoreensEatingHerSoreen my point exactly! Not sure why everyone’s crying about it so much. I feel like once you know an Elvis, you can’t unknow them. It’s uncommon and I think that’s why everyone’s got their backs up. I still bloody love it 😍

I have a friend whos son is named Elvis he is 15 now. It really suits him and I love it. He gets called El by some of his friends in school.

I like it. A lot.

Isn't it a Welsh name anyway? I believe E. Presley had Welsh roots. So does one famous person having it mean the name is forever unusable? I suppose because it was an unusual name it became associated just with him, but he didn't have sole rights!

Go for it, OP

@UhtredRagnarson

I don’t think that’s the case - Elvis Presley died in the 70s, over 40 years ago and almost 20 years before I was born, and he’s still 100% the association.

That’s funny because my first thought was Costello.

And I was about to ask is there any other famous or not so famous Elvis's, because the association is still Presley to me.

I think it will be a while before its usable in the UK.

I was at school with an Elvis, so he’d be early 40s now. Don’t remember any of us being particularly about his name. We also had a Kylie, and we were too old for her to have been named after the Aussie pop goddess.

Yeah I love it too but I wouldn’t use it. There is a 7 year old at my ds school with the name though so people are using it

Uh-huh-huh

I know an 8 year old Elvis. Seems a nice kid.

I love it!

The world has enough Jacks. Go for it!