Boden - baby or shop?

[LittleMrsMama]

DH loves the name Boden, I’ve told him it’s the name of a shop and I feel weird naming DS (due next month) this as a result.

Because DH hasn’t heard of the shop (despite DD having loads of clothes from there!) and we don’t have one nearby he thinks I’m just being picky and nobody else will think of this.

AIBU or do you also think of Boden the shop?

This.

If you tell people your kid is called Boden they will honestly think you are joking, or they will mishear it as Bodhi, which just sounds like a middle class hippy parody so not much better

@MurderAtTheBeautyPageant is spot on. You being a customer makes it worse and I would see you as the middle class equivalent of naming yoir child Bailey or Chardonnay because that's what you like to drink.
Beauden (like the rugby player) would be much better.

It's a shop/catalogue and, in my part of the world, a fairly common surname.

Try AS-ing it.

Back in about 2010 Beauden was the MN in-joke name

It's a shop. They have a concession in John Lewis now so it will become more widely known than when they were mail order/online only.

I think 'shop'. What about Beau? Or other --den names like Hayden, Auden or Aiden?

I’m sorry OP but it sounds like the kind of parody middle-class name you’d find in those Catherine Tate sketches about the GOOD Brie and gooseberry yoghurt.

Definitely think of the shop straight away.

how about:

Bodhi
Brodie
Beau
Bowen
Bowie

There is only one Boden shop in the whole country (if you don’t count the odd John Lewis concession) so you would only have one nearby if you lived in a particular corner of Ealing!

I’m sorry OP but you can’t do that to a human child. It is the sort of thing a middle-class family would call their dog as an attempted ironic postmodern joke.

most definitely mail order clothes. Tell him it’s like naming your child Greggs or Tesco.

He. Cannot. Call. A. Child. Boden.

YANBU. I quite like Tesco though!

Second pp what about Bodi ( not sure how to spell)

It's a shop and also German for "floor". I'd avoid it.

I also dislike Bodhi.

What about Brandon, Brendan?

Thank you all so much!!!!! I just showed DH all your comments and he’s realised IANBU and that it’s a silly name given Boden clothing!

Thanks also for the laughs too, will add Joules and MamanBebe to the list 😂😂😂

It's a shop, but in his defence the only time I've ever heard of this shop is on Mumsnet. Do they have physical stores? I've never seen one. Are they all in London or something?

It has next to no shops, and never did.

Started off as catalogue only, had an outlet shop and use to have occasional "sell off the old stock" sale days in various 'naice' towns.

It has one shop in London (fairly recent - opened in the last 5 years?)

Almost entirely online

Ah ok. So it's really more like calling your baby Asos, not Primark.

Not Primark, and I'm not sure about ASOS.

On a level with: Joules, Seasalt, Waitrose, White Stuff, Jack Wills, the charming independent bookshop, the brilliant butcher and the real cheesemonger

Mostly I think of the shop. However, where I live Bowden sometimes pronounced Bow (of a ship) den or Bowden as in the ribbon. So might think it's a nod to that.

I'm Scottish and I've never heard of this shop!

Brodie?

Shop

Shop, definitely.

I'd raise my eyebrows at a baby named Boden, that's for sure.