Is 'Isambard' child cruelty?

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Ever come across one in real life?

It's just awful.

I rather like it.

You could use Bard for short.

I wouldn't say its cruel but it would be context dependent, on some people and in some places it would work well, others, just no!

Be careful. I know plenty of people myself included that have called our children after much loved grandfathers or great fathers. Very often a shortened moniker can be used.

we have a family name on my mothers side going back 15 generations - I did seriously consider it for a middle name but in the end went for great grandfathers name. I’d prefer that then a made up name or a totally modern and new one - but I wouldn’t criticise anyone else.

we don’t have an Brunel name but I do know a Ezekiel, Zephaniah etc not mine and not in my family - but they are great little boys and great names (and not from very religious families either!). Likewise I know a lovely Ishmael and Bryon …..

Yes.

No of course not, it’s a great name.

I really like it

@GirlFromTheBackstreetsOfNever

Interesting you also have met a Chardonnay - I knew sisters called Chardonnay and Merlot - mum proudly told the other mums she wanted something classy (was was very young, too young to purchase said wives when they were born) it took a lot of willpower not to laugh.

I personally would not saddle a child with isambard but mine do have traditional bible names

Peter? Seriously? WTF is “cruel” about that? It’s just an inoffensive, slightly dated but otherwise entirely normal name that everyone knows how to spell and would raise very few eyebrows.

Mumsnet is a whole other universe sometimes.

Bloody hell it’s awful! Don’t saddle a child with that!

It feels extremely attention seeking on the parents’ part.

But, I think that comparable girls names might be lauded on here. So who maybe loads of people will love isambard for a boy.

Poor kid 😂

How about Isa?

No worse than a lot of the stuff touted as possible names on MN.

@Saschka
What's wrong with Michael Hunt?
(Sorry, I'm foreign and it just doesn't 'click' with me...)
(I assume the surname is what it is in any case.)

It's too much. OK for a middle name. If you are v keen on the Brunel connection, why don't you swap around Brunel's two first names so that your child would be called ... ah, well, perhaps not

Michael Hunt - shortens to Mike Hunt = my cunt.

People on here are weirdly vicious about name choices. Imagine being like that to someone's face! No-one would.
There's nothing wrong with Isambard at all, it's a cool, unusual name associated with engineering. Plus you could have the very normal sounding nickname of Sam if the kid wanted to blend in more.

No I don't like it, but then one of our local secondary schools is called IKB Academy (we are near Bristol).

Love it!

It's a great name. I'd use it.

I think people here have lost sight of the actual meaning of 'cruel'.

Cruel is calling a child Stoopid Smith, Ugly Jones, or Looser Thompson. Calling him an unusual name that happens to bring to mind a brilliant engineer is not.

We know one - he's about 9 and goes by Issy. When he was younger and had long curly hair I thought he was a girl called Izzy, but that could happen with lots of names.

I think you are being mean and snobby to snigger at Chardonnay. I know one lovely girl. Everyone just called her Char. Anything that’s not flipping Eve/Isabel/Grace follow the crowd tedium is fine by me.

I know one! He’s known as Bard. Schools are pretty diverse now, not everyone is called Dave or Susan.

It's just another slightly unusual name of which there are lots around these days.

It's fine, I wouldn't choose it personally, but there's nothing wrong with it. It can easily be shortened to Sam if they choose (and probably will). I quite like Samba as suggested above.