Tyga - thoughts? How do you imagine the parents to be?

[caroline890]

My best friend wants to call her baby boy Tyga (after an American rapper apparantly). Never heard of him but I just hate the name...
Tbh I think it sounds really chavy.
I'm really surprised as my friend herself isn't chavy lol, she's from a very middle class background and has a professional career.
She asked me for my honest opinion of it so I just told her I really don't like it. I'm more into traditional "solid" names like James, Daniel, Stephen etc. Tyga just sounds "made up" and well, tbh, rubbish.
What do others think of this name?

@IAmDaveTheSerialShagger

Mumsnet snobbery at its worst

Cautioning someone against naming their child after a distinct celebrity whose claim to fame is dating a teenage girl when he was in his 20s? Yeah so snobby.

Tyga is quite well known among the younger generation, and I think he will stay fairly known (unless you think the Kardashian/Jenners are going away anytime soon…)

It’s awful. I would imagine baby tyga has a heavy gold bracelet on his poor little wrist and the mum looks like a Jeremy Kyle reject.

@IAmDaveTheSerialShagger

Mumsnet snobbery at its worst

Are you the friend?

First thought was Amanda's store from Motherland. I wouldn't know if it was pronounced Tiger or Tigger (I'd assume the latter). Tbh I think it's better than Fox which seems to be an acceptable name. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear it.

@Synchrony

First thought was Amanda's store from Motherland. I wouldn't know if it was pronounced Tiger or Tigger (I'd assume the latter). Tbh I think it's better than Fox which seems to be an acceptable name. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear it.

Hyena or Weasel would be worse. As names that is , I rather like weasels as animals.

Terrible.

Leaving the spelling aside, why is it acceptable for girls to be named after things but not boys?

Iris
Willow
Honey
Poppy
Autumn

All fine

Tiger
Fox

Deemed dreadful/naff/chavvy

I don't like it but I prefer traditional. I always put myself into the mind of recruiters etc - could you imagine hiring someone called tyga for a corporate position, a lawyer etc? My old boss filtered out people with silly names or just ones she hated, we would get 250+ applications for each position so couldn't interview everyone!

Dreadful

It's not snobbery to think this is a totally awful name.

Tiger as a name is pretty bad although probably just about manageable, but an invented spelling of it is worse, the fact it is after a rapper is even worse and the fact the rapper has a dubious history with underage girls is the final nail in the coffin.

I often only ever hear the name and somewhat unclearly (after school activity assistant working in a noisy sports hall) and not see it written down so I would tend to assume this was Tadhg and write it thus, or possibly Tiger, and I'd wonder if the parents are golf fans. If I got to see it written down I'd just be so grateful that the management had given me a class list for a change I really wouldn't have time to judge the parents. And frankly, I couldn't care less what a colleague or manager is named. What matters is if they do their job.

I have a hen called Tyga, she is striped like a tiger and lays very white eggs. She is named after a female character in the children's novel 'Halo' set in ancient a Greece. So the name had nice associations for me but I wouldn't give it to a human, they might carry it off if they're lucky to have lots of charisma but otherwise it's s burden.
Dh's colleague called his baby son Wolf which is bad enough, though dad is built like the proverbial brick latrine building so no-one is going to argue and if the soon takes after his dad he'll be fine. I think Tyga is as bad.
Bear Grylls pulls his name off ok, lives up to it and did it, but then it was a nickname that stuck which I think it's the camp this kind of name should stay in, cos that's giving the poor kid some big boots to fill.
Can't she call him John, Tyga as a nickname if he suits it?

@motogogo

I don't like it but I prefer traditional. I always put myself into the mind of recruiters etc - could you imagine hiring someone called tyga for a corporate position, a lawyer etc? My old boss filtered out people with silly names or just ones she hated, we would get 250+ applications for each position so couldn't interview everyone!

That's likely to be racist and sectarian, as well as stupid.

I doubt you got 250 applications for a role as lawyer. Whatever the role, discriminating on the basis of names would fall within the remit of one of these:

Northern Ireland - Fair Employment & Treatment (NI) Order 1998
Scotland, England and Wales - Equality Act 2010
United States of America - Civil Rights Act of 1964

Other jurisdictions have similar legislation.

I love the name Tiger. Dh vetoed it though. He vetoed all my interesting suggestions.

Not a fan of this spelling at all and I think it would cause endless mispronunciation/misspelling, but I actually quite like Tiger!