Perspicacious for a boy

[SaskiaRembrandt]

I know the practice of giving babies' grace names has fallen out favour, but I've always loved it. Bearing that in mind, I'd love to hear your opinions of Perspicacious for a boy. It means ''having a ready insight into and understanding of things' which are qualities I'd like my child to have. Saying that, I'd appreciate feedback.

My son's called John. All the plastic tat says Oliver.

If plastic tat and uniqueness in naming are key considerations may I suggest Madeinchina as having a nice ring to it.

To the pp that said Gordon 😆

Christ imagine practising name writing in reception with that. Think his mates Tom and Sam might have a bit of a head start

Perspicacious and his little sisters, Hopeful, Graceful and Patient.

@DuneFan - I think Madeinchina has a very good ring to it.

Nah, I think the OP is going the right way with the adjective. Girls get nouns for virtue names (Faith Hope Charity Felicity), boys get adjectives (Clement Pious Felix Innocent).

No, I don’t know why either.

Well, he'll certainly stand out among all the Teddys, Albies and Archies.

I like Invincible, could always shorten to Vince

It's bloody ridiculous

Perspicacity Kingdom Brunel is actually quite splendid

Definitely wouldn't use that name. Setting him up for a lifetime of cruel name calling.

Bloody-Ridiculous Sidebottom
That could work.

How ridiculous.

Do you really have to ask?

You are about to saddle your child with a silly, really hard to pronounce name and likely to be shortened to something like Percy anyway by the majority of people rather than used in its original form.

Not to mention it will mean endless mocking from other kids when he is at school and a lifetime of having to repeat and spell his name several times time when he introduces himself or gives his contact details to someone...

Not comparable to Hope or Patience either. Those are fairly common names and easy to spell and pronounce.

I mean this one could be the name of a Harry Potter wand spell ....the opposite of the The Confundus Charm...

Or it could be a piss take?

I have recently taught a Majesty, a Prince and a Triumph. I kid you not.

I’m not a fan… imagine learning to spell that at school! I’d use as a middle name if you’re dead set on it but please don’t saddle the child with it as a first name, he will be forever correcting the pronunciation and having to spell it out.

Ugly snorted my coffee 😂😂

Triumph?! Please tell me they have a sister called Doreen 😊

Of course it is! Along with some other words used like gestation and cursive in their posts I would say it was/is someone having an extracting the Michael time.

Nickname Casey? Could work 🤣

The nickname would be Perp, of course, at least in school.

As in US crime shows.

Well, not you, perspex, 😂
Howling here

Call him Perspiration instead, has the same first 6 letters and is actually a recognisable word. Means sweaty which he probably will be as a teenager.

I just tried to pronounce that, and my dog just flew across the living room! Give your child a normal name for fuck sake 🙄

This was my very first thought. Dreadful.