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Saxon?

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Tabbsi · 17/02/2025 22:09

For a boy. Thoughts?

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IdaGlossop · 18/02/2025 13:24

HabitHoarder · 17/02/2025 22:11

Just go with Daxton . Saxon is a bit odd.

Daxton is too close to Dachshund.

HolidayHattie · 18/02/2025 13:27

IdaGlossop · 17/02/2025 22:44

I have only once met a Saxon. I like it. Solid, unusual, definitely male.

I've also only once met a Saxon. She was very much female.

Pinkywoo · 18/02/2025 13:29

thehorsesareallidiots · 18/02/2025 11:24

Good name for a big dog. Awful name for a human.

I knew a lovely jack russell named Saxon, he thought he was a great Dane.

AnglerWrangler · 18/02/2025 13:57

Saxon is a great name for a big strong dog
Daxon sounds like a breed of dog.
Jaxon- just No.
So that's three Nos from me.

Greenfencebrowntree · 18/02/2025 14:06

AnglerWrangler · 18/02/2025 13:57

Saxon is a great name for a big strong dog
Daxon sounds like a breed of dog.
Jaxon- just No.
So that's three Nos from me.

You have sounded the klaxon!

ShillyShallySherbet · 18/02/2025 14:07

Please don’t…

JanetareyouokareyouokJanet · 18/02/2025 14:08

A truly awful name.

flyinghen · 18/02/2025 14:13

Honestly it sounds likes like the name of a town not a person. Sorry!

TreeChangeFarm · 18/02/2025 14:24

I’ve got a Saxon 🙋🏻‍♀️

Definitely not bullied at school (and is now a teenager) and no-one has ever tried to change it to anything else.

We are definitely not white supremacists 😂 I’d met two adult Saxon’s before having DS though. I really liked them both, and that probably had an influence on my choice. I’ve met one other since DS was born, he was a few years younger.

I still love the name and get compliments on it quite frequently. It suits him and he is never mixed up with other children at school.

Milodon · 18/02/2025 14:25

Definite white supremacist vibes. Strong no from me.

I agree with PP that a Saxon name like Harold or Alfred is better.

Snorlaxo · 18/02/2025 14:28

The Aldi toilet paper is a shame and would put me off.

I know a Dexter (Dex) who is 18 and never been called Sex so I wouldn’t be put off by Sax and Sex being close.

Unfortunately it’s a difficult name to pull off if he’s petite and not the gym going type. If he’s blonde then he could get some white supremacist comments too.

thehorsesareallidiots · 18/02/2025 14:39

Pinkywoo · 18/02/2025 13:29

I knew a lovely jack russell named Saxon, he thought he was a great Dane.

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😁 I guess he's really working that Big Dog Energy.

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 18/02/2025 16:08

Awful. Although there is a boy at DC's school called Cosmo so it could be worse!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 18/02/2025 16:09

Love it

penguinbiscuity · 18/02/2025 17:27

AnxiouslyAwaitingSpring · 18/02/2025 16:08

Awful. Although there is a boy at DC's school called Cosmo so it could be worse!

Cosmo is much better than Saxon.
It's an actual name for a start, if unusual. It's been used in the UK for centuries.

Mydadsbirthday · 18/02/2025 22:32

Ah haha @WitcheryDivine yes Paxton Hall-Yoshida! Love him!

MirandaBlu · 18/02/2025 22:47

Greenfencebrowntree · 18/02/2025 14:06

You have sounded the klaxon!

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I was just coming here to suggest "Klaxon" as THE name ...

UnderHisEeyore · 18/02/2025 22:49

Sax-On,Sax-Off - it's weirdly Karate Kid that comes to mind?
No from me.

oakleaffy · 18/02/2025 22:53

Heavy metal band from a long time ago!
Motörhead?

oakleaffy · 18/02/2025 22:54

Jimberly!

LondonFox · 18/02/2025 22:59

SnakesAndArrows · 17/02/2025 22:12

Absolutely not. It’s an Aldi toilet roll and a dodgy 1980s heavy metal band.

Oi Saxon is not dodgy.
But yeah, first ring was a HM band.
I'd go with something more traditional

EUmumforever · 18/02/2025 23:09

White supremacist vibes

TinyRebel · 18/02/2025 23:15

WitcheryDivine · 17/02/2025 22:41

It’s an Alsatian in Hot Fuzz.

For a person it depends whether you’re white supremacists? If you’re not, do you want to sound like you are?

sorry OP back to the drawing board I think.

Agreed. Loved the name olde English name ‘Wulfric’ (Wolfy for short) too, but as DH is a big hairy metalhead/biker, we decided we didn’t want it to have any of those connotations - even though couldn’t be further from the truth!

Purplecatshopaholic · 18/02/2025 23:17

I really like it! Defo couldn’t it though, now I know Elon Musk has a son with that name.

BitOutOfPractice · 18/02/2025 23:21

Like the hair rock band?

Saxon?