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?

Are you feeling alright?! 😂

Sorry OP but this made me laugh. You can definitely call your baby ducky but please give them an actual name as well 🤣 I call my baby ducky sometimes but she does have a human name

What the Duck?
I think I've just dislocated my eyelids from eye rolling.

Round here everyone gets called duckie so they’d still have that problem

I’ve tried really hard to find passable names that are also breeds of duck:
Elizabeth
Kaiya

You could then have ‘Duckie’ with a get out if needed.

Don’t be that parent
setting your child up for years of ridicule

It's awful.

Only if you hate your child.

You do know that ‘duck’ is what people call each other in the East Midlands? As in ‘hey up me duck’ and ‘you alright ducky’. But it’s not a name. Just imagine how much your teenager is going to hate you.

Only in private.

If you lived where I live they would get called Duckie anyway, at least by the dinner ladies at school.

That cute phase where you can dress your baby/toddler as a duck only lasts so long. Then the tantrums start. Then they won’t want to be a duck. Or be called one.

Judge Duckie Jones?
Professor Duckie Brown?
Hello, pleased to meet you, I'm the manager, Duckie Williams?
No. Just no.

The name brings back memories of the film 'Pretty in Pink'. Jon Cryers character was called Duckie, he was a great character but the name is a definite no no though 😬

I assume you hate them already

What’s your surname? Please say it’s Pond.

@Catterbat Best. Reply.Ever

Yes, it’s a lovely name and your child will never be bullied for it - and will look great on a cv when older 😳

It's a lovely pet name and do use it at home, but not as a Christian name.

Absolutely Not

Please don't OP!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iw0-BJXPyOc

Duckie compilation (Pretty In Pink 1986)

I very rarely veto a name as I love the name mona

but duckie….no. Nickname yes but could you ever imagine a judge called duckie…..

Naming a child is a huge responsibility.
I think celebrity "branding"
Has encouraged the wider population to be more daring with names - often to the child's detriment.

Classic names are classic for a reason.
The others are trends that will one day seem very crass and dated.

If you want them to live a life of misery

Not unless you’re from stoke, where it’s used as a term of endearment… 🤣

@Wheelz46 I was thinking that too, and I love the film so much, but I was always Team Blaine, even though he was a wet blanket