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?

Only if you live in Nottingham I believe.

Really? You really need to ask?

However, here it is ... No. Unless, of course, you want to set your child up for a lifetime of bullying and subsequent therapy.

Quack

Well it's no worse than "Sonny" which is weirdly popular round these parts.

nooooo, she will be picked on forever for this :(

If it makes you feel better OP, we know quite a few Fox’s and Wolf’s, pretty standard names where we live.

It’s too familiar and off-putting. It’s like calling a person honey, or sweetie.

Imagine the name tag -

Hi, my name is Duckie

People will take this piss, chuck the job application in the bin thinking it’s a prank.

This can't be a serious question. Surely. 😂

It's one of those ones that would sound so cute with a toddler, and possibly carried off by a sufficiently debonaire and tough middle aged man, but when you start to envisage a large teen boy having to live with it? And a girl.... I'm afraid kids will go straight to the rhyming possibilities there.

Only if she's a cartoon character.

You could give your child a normal name, but relocate to The Midlands and then your child will be called Duckie permanently. Just don't actually call them that and then move there otherwise your child will be permanently confused.

I prefer Goosey.

I think its lovely! I'm the only one I see! Drakes allowed! And Kitty, both of which I also love. Id call her Duchess with Duckie for nickname I think.

You can't imagine it being murmured in a moment of passion, can you?

(Nor does it pass my other test, could you put Prince or Princess in front of it?)

Aww really, I don't remember that. Awful name but I feel strangely disappointed that Duckie was actually called Philip, feel almost cheated 😆

This must be a joke, but a rather good one. Thank you, Mummy Mallard.

Well it's quite a nice regional term of endearment in the midlands. Be grateful you arent in parts of Lancashire or you might be naming your child "Cock".

How about Pet? Or Luv?

And even he was really called 'Phil ...'

Noooo

If you do this school will be a nightmare for your child. Put your child first and don't make your child's life difficult.

As a teacher it's not the craziest name I've heard
It's kinda cute lol ( . ❛ ᴗ ❛ . )

Henry V111 called Ann Boleyn’s breasts duckies.

I suppose the question is would you like to be called Duckie? As a teenager, would you have liked to introduce yourself to people as Duckie?

I think it’s a cute nickname, but I wouldn’t use it as a baby’s official name. Chose something else and refer to them as Duckie at home.

Have you been watching the land before time?