Can I call my child Duckie?

[magicstar2020]

I really love it.
Is it the pregnancy hormones? Or is it as great as I think it is?

Good god no.

It’s a cute nickname, but I don’t like it as full name. For me it fails the ‘would I want this to be my name’ test.

If you want your child to be mercilessly bullied his whole life call him what you like.

Go right ahead. They will thank you for it one day, promise 🤣

you can call them whatever you like but no one wants to be called Duckie on official anything so please give them a proper name too

Its a beautiful, beautiful nickname
And fine for a baby, but doesn't work well for a grown up..
It wouldn't work well at a board meeting,

What about Dora it's a lovely name and Dora dick or Duckie would be fine for a nickname

As a nick name.... possibly, as a name name, God no!!

Oh god Dora duck!!!! Not dick

Not unless you want them to hate you forever.

A nickname by all means.

Duckie McDuckface would be better 😂

Nope, you can’t call your baby Duckie, it would be cruel.

I'd go with Donald....

Find a breed of duck that sounds like a name. Call child that, then use Duckie as a nickname.
(Or NCIS style change your surname to Mallard)

Calling your kid Duckie = disregard for your child’s feelings.

Don't be a silly sausage

No. That name would be dismissed in an application in a corporate environment.

What about Honky Tonks instead?

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No. You are naming an adult, not a baby.

This. This post is either a complete piss take or you're setting your child up for a lifetime of abuse. And that's on you.

It's the hormones - don't do it!

No.

This is honestly one of the worst and most ludicrous names I’ve ever heard

You know, I decided Thor was perfect and I was distraught when my DH vetoed it.

Luckily she didn’t look like a Thor when she came out and I got over it.

Them pregnancy hormones, eh?

Oh dear god I hope there is someone in your life (the father?!) to sit you down and sensibly explain why this must not happen 😫

Behave that's an awful thing to do to a person

I actually loled when I read the ‘she’

It depends. If you’re a Mummy mallard for example, I expect it’d go down well with the wider family but tbh I think when Duckie goes to school she might find seven more in the class. If you’re a Mummy swan then that’s just plain confusing as a given name and it has ugly duckling connotations so please don’t inflict it on your cygnet. I think if you’re a more exotic avian species of Mummy you could probably get away with it by describing it as a foreign name.

For all mammals apart from a duck-billed platypus (Duckie and Billie are fine here) I would choose something more species-relevant.