Honest Opinions on the name Finnick?

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Hi! We are 21 Weeks with our first born son and have settled on the name Finnick. We were originally looking at Finnigan but much preferred Finnick. Really not keen on Finley and wouldn’t mind if it was shortened to Finn but want more than just Finn as his name. I know it’s a character in hunger games and we wanted a name that is really unique for him without being too weird - short backstory I went to school with a girl with the same first and last name as me and she was popular so I was deamed “unpopular xxxx” which wasn’t fun so I always said I wanted a unique name but I don’t want to push it too far and it be weird. Thanks ladies - P.S hormonal preggo here so please don’t be brutal.

Hunger Games or finicky. He'll be just Finn, so why do this to him.

Fenwick is pronounced (“fennick” so not far off your preference

I'm not keen sorry. It sounds more like a surname, and makes me think of "Finicky".
Why not just go for Finn?

Is it even a name? I assumed it was made up by the Hunger Games author.

character in Hunger Games is brave but has a dark story.

I think it sounds like finicky so I wouldn't use it.

There are lots of lovely less common names out there. But remember that names go in and out of fashion. I have a name that was incredibly popular when I was born, and there were two other girls with the same name in my class at school. So I was determined that my dc would have "uncommon but not ridiculous" names.

With DS 26 years ago, I loved the name Noah but was talked out of it by my mum who was a primary head teacher. She said he would be horribly teased about such an old fashioned name. And yet within 10 years Noah became very popular.

Don't make up a name, just use a tried and tested one.

*Finnigan or Fenwick (I think the later is Cornish and great)
it's from Northumberland.

Your experiences as a child is not good reason to give your DS a name you hope no one else he encounters will have. Even if you give him a popular name it’s improbable he would experience what you did.

It’s a hard no.

i don’t like the other suggestions / variations on this thread either.

@NoSnowdrop , I'm the same. Finn doesn't need a longer version.

Thank you - my fave part of the country

I know of the name Finn as an abbreviation of Finlay and of Finbarr, and like the short version.
I'd not heard the name Finnick before. I don't dislike it. It reminds me of Fennick and therefore foxes (which I also like).

Awful. Really, really awful

As a name I don't dislike it but in terms of associations, the only one I have for it is the Hunger Games. And although that character is on the 'good' side, he's also the victim of sex trafficking and has his head bitten off by a giant lizard, so I'm afraid I struggle to see that as entirely auspicious.

Hell no. Don't saddle a small child with that !! What's wrong with just Finn?

It's ridiculous. And sounds like it was made up by a seven year old. As do many of the names in that awful book.

When I was a ranger at Monkey Mia, one of the young dolphins was called Finnick. He'd had an encounter with a shark. Hence, Fin nick.
So it sounds odd for a child to me. But there's nothing actually wrong with the name. If you like it, go with it.
Some people will love it, others neutral, others won't like it. That's the same for most things in life though.
And, congratulations!

It’s awful, sorry - much better suggestions above.

It sounds a bit like finickity, or the shop Fenwick. I'm not crazy about it. I like Finbar, Finton, Finley, Finn though.

If I had a boy I quite wanted to call him Flynn. Finnick is just a hunger games character to me.

I quite like it. Sounds Scottish to me.

I don't like it.

I like Finn, Finlay, Flynn though.

I like the sound of Finnick better than majority of the suggested alternatives like Finbar or Fenwick.

Every name was made up at some moment, and young people are used to all sorts of names now.

Sorry, OP, I agree it’s awful. If Finn or Flynn are not for you, Finnbar or Finisterre?

Finnan haddock was my first thought

Finnegan has an e in it, and is a great name although i would expect you to be a James Joyce fan.