Thor

[KirstieKaren]

Please can I ask people's opinions on Thor? TIA

Gosh thats a big name for a lad to carry off. Would your DH like to be called Thor? Too much. What if he is slight and bookish?

Mythological names aren't unheard of these days. I don't think there is teasing in the same way, kids these days are less bothered by unusual names. I've met two baby Atlases, and there are Odins, Lokis etc. Thor is fine - I do prefer Thorfinn though.

Awful.

Super outing but I have a Thorin (also UK and no scandi heritage). The other names on our list were very 'common' by comparison but as soon as we saw him we knew it that was the name for him! Personally I won't call him Thor but have accepted that as he gets older this is likely to be the nickname his friends give him.

I'm a real believer that if you love a name don't worry about what other people think. I also have a 'weird' /less common name that I have to spell a lot and it doesn't bother me. 😊

Not my cup of tea but would fit in absolutely fine among the range of names in this generation ☺️

A cat baby is called a kitten 🙄

There have been millions of Marks during time.

"Mark is a traditionally masculine name that means “consecrated to the god Mars.” It is derived from the Latin name Mart-kos. Mark has also been thought to mean “god of war” and “warlike.” Mark is a common biblical name, popularized by Mark the Evangelist who authored the second Gospel in the New Testament of the Bible."

The poster saying “it doesn’t bother me” clearly has very small children. It’s them that will bear the brunt of it not you.

My 18 year old is horrified by the more way out names i seriously considered when pregnant with her. She is quite a serious considered person and those names would have been excruciatingly wrong,

Thor conjures up the image of a big strapping Norse God, over 6ft tall, rippling muscles and a strong jaw.

What if your child grows up and looks like Mr Bean?

I think that is something not enough parents consider. We have no idea what sort of personality our children will have. Better to have a “boring” name, even if it’s shared with another at school, which an introvert wouldn’t be embarrassed by imo. An extrovert could always choose to go by an unusual nickname instead (plenty do).

A Thor might fit right in in parts of Scandinavia, but I’m not sure that would be the case in many places in the UK. I agree Torben is a better option (his Dad can still use Thor as a nickname) or using Thor for a middle name (then an introvert can always hope none of his peers find out).

I wouldn’t.

I know a toddler Thor. His dad is really into weightlifting and that kind of metal/Norse look (but no actual Scandi heritage). People always say about unusual names that you’ll get used to it and it’ll just be their name but he’s 3 and a half and I still feel sorry for him…

I grew up in Denmark it's a fairly normal name there. I dont mind it. I dont love it.
I like the THor pronunciation though poster above is right re it is Tor in Danish. One of the.few times a name is less harsh in English. (Despite so many stating Danish is a harsh language)

If you like it and dh loves it I would go for it.

If you’re Scandinavian or just very into Norse mythology then I could see why you would choose it. It’s associated with strength generally, whether that was the original meaning or not, so if your son is a delicate type then it might not suit.

3 of My children had names that are commented down on on MN my children are in their 20s they all love their names and are not horrified by the alternatives we had for them. Ds is Conrad a marmite name here. Dd2 and 3 have names hard to spell and people constantly go "you will set them up for a life time of spelling their name" neither girl mind this. I am in my 50s and I have a unisex name that's unusual and hard to spel

I hate the unisex of it always have always will
I dont mind it being unusual and I don't mind needing to spell it.

Yet on mn you constantly get told it's the other way around and people like unisex and hate spelling/being unusual.

A long time ago I did a post suggesting my own name (i have name changed since) and I had 20 posts going no way.. yet my parents liked it. So used it.

Thor is a big name to have to live up to, I would never burden a child with that. Why doesn't your husband change his name to Thor instead?
Torben is unusual but would be a good compromise, or calling him Theodore with the NN Thor. Please don't call him Thorbjorn as a compromise, that's even worse! A right mouthful in English and just a really odd choice - you wouldn't call him Thunder bear in English so why would you call him that in another language?

It's terrible. If he grows up to be a 6'4" athlete, then it might be a pretty cool name to have. But if he grows up to a be a very slight, nerdy type of guy, it's going to be absolutely ridiculous.

‘like Dante, which to me is what you’d call a racing horse.’

Dante is possibly the greatest poet produced in Italy, the first to write in the vernacular rather than Latin. The trilogy of the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise has served as a model for subsequent poets in many languages and cultures.

I work with Thor and Thanos 😁 though, sadly, they’re not based in the U.K. office…

Honestly, naming your child Thor might not be the best idea. Can you imagine the teasing at school? He’d be endlessly compared to Thor from The Avengers. Do you think your genes will give him the over-6ft height and god-like physique to pull it off? 😁

DD is named after a minor superman character. Not because of the superman link specifically, but because we were struggling for a name and in frustration DP just started reeling off names from her favourite show until we suddenly found on we could agree on.

DD likes her name, and she also likes comic book movies, so when we told her where we'd got the name from we thought she'd enjoy the little connection.

She hated it, she didn't want to be named after a fictional person, thought it was stupid. We had to explain that we hadn't named her after that character, just found a name we liked because of the show.

And that was with a perfectly normal name that isn't primarily connected with that character.

You call your kid Thor, and he's never going to forgive you. The primary reference for that name in the UK is that character. He's going to spend his life getting asked where his hammer is, or what it's like being an Avenger. He's going to miss out on jobs because of it, women will be put off him because of it.

In short, you'll ruin his life. Tell your husband to stop being a twat.

If you're not sure, what about as a middle name?

Conrad is a perfectly normal nice name. Believe me my potential names were WAY worse than that!

We had Thorlac down for our youngest, named after one of DH's uni lecturers - he had a truly glorious name that must be a bugger to spell over the phone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorlac_Turville-Petre), though she turned out to be the wrong sex for it.

I wouldn’t give him that name because if he doesn’t end up as the sort of man who likes going to the gym to maintain his muscly physique then he’s going to have the piss taken out of him.

I know people who have given their kids Marvel names but they’ve been middle names if super specific like Thor or names that are Marvel names but also used elsewhere. The names that I am thinking of are Logan, Parker, Stark…

Hahaha