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?

Nope unless you want your child to hate you growing up. Use it as a pet name until the baby is born and then never say it gain.

My dad used to call me duckie, so I have fond memories of it. I would never use it as a given name, and he wouldn’t have done either.

It's the nickname of Dr Mallard on CSI... it's more like a nickname for Duke, than a name, though.

"Duckie" is an endearment and would make a lovely little nickname for you to refer to your baby

I thought you meant as a term of endearment, but you mean as a legal name.
I'd say no. Have a thought for the poor child. My Irish father picked up this term when he came to London - a cockney thing I think, and used to call me it which I loved. But that is totally different from what you are suggesting.

I used to be friends with a girl called Shindy, her Ecuadorian mother named her that after her Irish father exclaimed that the labour/birth was "a right shindy!" So basically she's called a noisy bedlam. It was quite fitting and it is actually a lovely sounding name.

I also worked with a girl who's legal name was Tuppence as her parents couldn't think of a name when they came to register her. Although she went by another name at work, she really liked it and that's what all her family called her.

Despite everything people have said above, if I actually met someone legitimately called Duckie I probably wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Tuppence is even worse... but I suppose there was a time they thought nothing of calling girls 'Fanny' either.

Girls used to get all sorts of funny names like bunny or bunty. There used to be a female Olympic skier called Picabo (peekaboo). But then "serious" names like prudence or earnest are just as strange if you think about it.

Wish I had those pregnancy hormones. All feels right in the world.

It's not a great name for many reasons.

Buy them a lovely stuffed toy duck instead. X

Duckie may be cute when he's a newborn and a toddler it's kind of like an affectionate name like my little ducky or my little lovey.
It's when he gets to school and you know what's going to happen in the playground. I
hope you won't have regrets when your child goes to school.

Call your child whatever you would like.
That being said, it would be better as a nickname. I have a child I call peanut and one I call honeybee. They are teens now and I still occasionally will call them that.