Unfortunate name choice

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DS shares his name (first and surname) with a fairly well known person, who unfortunately has disgraced himself since.

I don’t really think I can change DS’s name but wondering if others would. The spelling is a bit different. But the name is identical.

Serial killer of men, was she in Bristol somewhere?

But anyway this isn’t a serial killer, it’s huw Edwards. Although we have the Hugh spelling!

If he's 4 I wouldn't change his name, but if the person is notorious enough to still be easily googled when DS is older, I'd encourage him to always use a middle initial professionally.

I think you're grand then. The spelling difference helps and they're very common names. He also won't still be notorious in 15 years.

I was thinking it was the paedophile lead singer of the lost prophets

Ohhhh huw edwards.
no I wouldn’t worry OP, he will not be long term ‘notorious’ I imagine.
could you use DS middle name?

Honestly OP, I suspect in a handful of years time a lot of people will struggle to remember what Huw Edwards actually did, let alone immediately think of him when your DS introduces himself.

Buy the time your son is old enough to even give it a second thought - Huw Edwards will just be some bloke that people vaguely remember.
Don't worry about it.

@Mostlyoblivious that was the name I had to Google. Then I was "oh yes I remember" and also remembered the issues H from Steps originally had by having the same name.
But the fact I had to Google shows how quickly people do forget news stories.

I thought it was a niche call from the pp (was a fan of LP). You’re spot on, it’s not something to be too concerned

I was going to say the same: granted he was known from the start as H, but it doesn't seem to have affected him too much.

Except for some horrified confusion at first, probably - but he and his evil namesake are/were both Welsh singers of the same generation; whereas I presume your DS is much, much younger than the disgraced celeb, and is unlikely to have much else in common apart from the name?

I was imagining a toddler called Jay Z

Some people are really thick, though.

I remember reading about a woman called Maxine Carr who moved to a new area at a similar time to when Ian Huntley's accomplice had been reported as having been rehomed in a new town - and some of her new neighbours believed that she must be the criminal.

Even though it was well known that the infamous MC had been given a new name and identity; and the innocent woman not only had a distinctive Scottish accent but was also black!

Oh don't change it, it's a lovely name. And apart from the different spelling, I can't imagine anyone making the association when he's older.

When you first mentioned a celebrity who had 'disgraced himself', my first thought was an ex-footballer who sells crisps - and that time when he slid across the pitch on his bottom with a horrified look on his face!

Granted GL can be extremely annoying, but I don't think he's actually done anything criminal or horribly shameful.

hehe I had assumed it was Russell Brand

Can’t imagine any four year olds called Gary 😂

Hugh Edwards will be fine. Edwards is not an unsual last name.

Maybe they did a REALLY good job with her new identity! Never know these days 😂(sorry, that is a horrible thing to happen to the innocent woman but also has amused me that people are quite that stupid).

It's Ian Watkins, isn't it? And he's an Iain.
If so, I wouldn't change it now. Obviously the name is associated with something horrific, but it's a fairly common name and I wouldn't worry too much. Let him decide when he's older if he brings it up.

Edit: missed your update.

That and H from Steps being described as a singer have made this a traumatic thread indeed!

Do people not read threads?

Has Ian Watkins done something new?

So sorry, I missed your update because I was bothering to reply to your thread.

@SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament but we didn’t cross post, I updated some time ago. Besides, how many four year olds are called Ian?

Who's the Joanna here?

I think your DS will be fine. Huw Edwards will be forgotten about in a couple of years.

I met a middle aged gentleman who changed his name because someone else with the same name was convicted of sexual offenses against children. Being about the same age and living in the same area he didn't want any confusion.