Nox for a boy

[misslucy92]

My DH and I love Nox for a boy. Is it usable? Please be honest, I won’t be offended.

It means ‚night‘ and we got it from a book.

My concern is that people may spell it Knox or that it’s too unusual.

Sister is called Ruby.

But it says nos, not nox. That doesn’t sound nearly the same to me.

This is what I first thought of too. Not really nice for a name.

Yeah I know. I was responding to someone who said nitrous oxide was referred to as nox. I just said I'd only heard it referred to as nos. I like the name Knox. I'm on your team 😜

First thought was Harry Potter. Nox and Lumos.

I think it would be really cruel to give a child a name like that. They will get teased constantly at school, and will be really embarrassed when they are older and trying to be taken seriously at work.

Nox is a spell from Harry Potter. Means to put a light out. I wouldn't.

thank you :)

NOx is shorthand for oxides of nitrogen, horribly polluting gases. As a scientist that’s the only thing I think of when I see that!

Knox is a bit out there but ok. Nox isn't. It looks like it's short for noxious.

I read Harry Potter several times but somehow didn‘t remember it. So it doesn‘t really bother me but thanks for pointing it out!

I do remember lumos very well, though.

Knox (apologies to Knoxes everywhere) seems to be a Lowland Scots surname. Famous Know was John Knox, an incendiary preacher who was, to say the least. a misogynist.

Absolutely nox. I mean, not.

I'd go for something more normal like Noah on the bc and then have the nn Nox.

Nutty Noxie
Poxy Noxie

Don't do it, OP.

Pretty awful, what's wrong with Knox, not great either slightly better at least looks like a proper name unlike nox which someone already been pointed out rhymes with pox, and well kids get to a certain age they can be cruel. At best it just sounds like a shortened version of noxious.

Very Harry Potter.

My car is nox and he is grey

Cat not cat

Agghhhhh

I wouldn’t because I immediately thought of the rhyme. Pox.
Kids are awful, especially from secondary age.

Cats nickname is naughty noxy btw.

What about Esra/Ezra? Or Blake?

Would assume you were a Harry Potter fan

😂

My first thought was nitrous oxides - in chemistry NOx is shorthand for Nitric Oxide and Nitrogen Dioxide, the Nitrogen oxides that contribute to air pollution.

As others have said:

1. Name of a goddess (night) , in the same way that 'Aurora' is the name of the goddess of the dawn, Venus is the goddess of love, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow etc etc.. Only use it for a boy if you'd also be happy to call a boy Aurora or Venus or Iris etc .
2. All round the world, in many different mythologies, night has been seen as female. So Nox really is an odd name to choose for a boy. (In contrast, the sun, and the sun-god, have usually been seen as male, hence names like Apollo and Inti etc etc...)
3. Grammatically, it's a feminine noun, not a masculine one.
4. Dangerous drug slang (whether chemically accurate or not)
5. JKR is very inventive etc etc but Harry Potter names are a rag-bag taken from many different cultures. It's not always a good idea to use them out of context.
6. Knox is at least a human surname and there is a long tradition in parts of Scotland of using mother's surnames as first names for second or third sons. But as a previous poster pointed out, John Knox - certainly, in Scotland, the best-known person with the name - was an extremely argumentative and intransigent character. In his own opinion he was steadfast, but to many today he appears bigoted and misogynistic.