Fowey - boy or girl?

[OneAliCat]

As in the Cornish town. Pronounced Foy. Considering as a middle name since the place is special to us.

Would you think of it as male, female or gender neutral?

As a resident of Cornwall I'd think you're probably the type to ignore all the fearsome notices at the top of town telling you not to drive down the hill, and that you have at one point or other got your colossal shiny black wankpanzer wedged in that tiny narrow street in the one way system, with a look of stony horror on your face. That type.

But I also think that you can give your kid a weird and wonderful middle name, it's not like a first name that gets used constantly.

Ventongimps
Cocks
Ding Dong
Greensplatt

Or you really freak English people out by using it's actual Cornish name : "Fowydh"

Yes, David Cameron did indeed give his daughter the same name as a cheese (St Endellion Cornish Brie, it's delicious) 😆

Don’t do it. No one will be able to pronounce it and it’s ugly, sorry.

Please don't saddle your child with this

Man, i bet Jr is glad you’ve never been to Polyphant.

Interesting, at all of my hospital trips in various departments I've never once been called by my middle name (and my name is so common that there was another with the same first and surname in my primary school so not unlikely there are other with the dame name on the system). I've always had my identity checked on check-in with first name, surname, DOB and address/ postcode.

There are nicer ‘place’ names. It’s not a nice sounding word/name. My kids’ godmother lives in Fowey. Lovely place. It’s not name worthy though.

My friend used the Tamar river as a middle name. I love the Hebrew name Tamar (Tuh-mar), but as Tay-mar, the name isn’t really all that nice.

Light engineering company?

I hear phooey (no pun intended). I get you think it’s cute but consider how pronunciation and a kid who is most certainly going to get teased because of it will feel.

I suppose it makes a change from Wet Wang or Cockermouth...

I have an uncommon middle name that sounds male and not pronounced how it’s spelt. I’m a boring middled aged woman who really doesn’t even suit the name . It’s come up a few times in my life but not many . I’ve even been asked “What’s a xxx” ?

This name is peak MN.

Why don't you pick some more Cornish place names? How about Perranarworthal, Quoits, Sticker or Rock?

I think use of middle name varies quite a lot. Every single time I've gone to give blood, they've read out my whole name (I have 4 middle names, luckily not all of them are recorded on the blood donation system!). I remember the second-hand embarrassment of various people's names being mispronounced at matriculations and graduations (my first matriculation was my first real time outside a majority Catholic environment; it came as a surprise to me that well-educated history professors wouldn't know how to pronounce Xavier or Aloysius) - tutors do not typically check with you before launching in. And I've had a couple of work colleagues who would always call people by their full name, as though it were a double-barrelled first name (both had a first language/culture other than English). I guess you never know when it's going to come up.

Ooh. My pharmacy asks my postcode but I don't recollect my hospital asking. Apologies if I'm misremembering. Maybe there is an NHS employee on Mumsnet who can quote the relevant guidelines for hospital outpatient admissions? Google isn't helping...

Any Curb Your Enthusiasm viewers here? Foots Zeckelman. Ziggy Zeckelman? Anyone?

I'd think it was a typo. Get a grip OP. It's ridiculous.

It wouldn't surprise me if different hospitals all handled it differently (or even different departments in the same hospital!)

As a resident of Cornwall, I'm a bit insulted.

Resident or Cornish? Perhaps I should have called DD Snozzell. In your heart you know anyone local would smirk if ever you said it out loud. It would probably fit in nicely at a London day school though.

Thanks for the many opinions and assumptions - not bothered by those who aren't keen, I'm sure some people don't like your kids' names either! For those suggesting Skegness, it's nothing to do with a few nice holidays or conception.

General consensus seems to be masculine or neutral which is what I was asking. Thanks!

Please don't mention Snozzle - someone will pick up the idea and run with it, forever cursing a small child with the name of one of Cornwall's top crap towns.

I agree with you about the name, and like you would welcome restrictions on SUVs, Range Rovers and similar vehicles. I think just requiring anyone who wants one to take their driving test again but in one would reduce numbers greatly.