Tybalt?

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Hi,
I was thinking Tybalt as the name for the baby boy I’m expecting. I think it’s a lovely name but I’m slightly worried about the Romeo/Juliet implications as well.
For the middle name we were considering Ripley, so the name would be Tybalt Ripley, as again think the name is lovely.
Could we possibly get away with naming our son this without people thinking he’s the Romeo + Juliet character!!!

That’s the only thought people would have. Most have studied R&J at school and fully appreciate the name is from the play. I don’t think he would thank you for that name.

Um I mean I wouldn’t if I were you. It sounds ridiculous. I’m guessing you and your partner/husbands have normal names and have never gone through life being called the equivalent of Tybalt.

Tybalt immediately brings R&J to mind - I've never heard it anywhere else. If people haven't come across it there, it's a name he'll probably have to spell out EVERY time!

Tybalt Ripley is 50% a fantastic and amazing name but also 50% slightly crazy.
I kinda like it 😳

Could we possibly get away with naming our son this without people thinking he’s the Romeo + Juliet character!!!

No. Honestly - no. He’s also not the most attractive Shakespearean character either. (Mind you, I once saw someone asking if they could use Iago and it isn’t as bad as that!)

It sounds really mean and thuggish, probably because of the R&J connection.

But I suppose Tibby would be a sweet nickname 😆

Could you have it as his middle name instead?

Tybalt Ripley?
Perfect name for a sexy baddy in a bodice ripper book.

"Tybalt Ripley stalked across the office like a tiger. His perfectly pressed charcoal suit clinging to the outline of his biceps suggestively. He suddenly stopped at Juliet's desk and studied her with his amber flecked eyes. 'Remind me who you are?' He growled.,....."

No and Romeo and Juliet is still very popular both as a play and as movies (and offshoots of it Gnomeo and Juliet which doesn’t actually show him as a great character)

by all means use the name but you won’t escape it

I’d go Ripley Tybalt if you really must (but preferably don’t..)

Tybalt isn't the most positive of characters to be named after but to be honest I've heard worse. Most of the rough kids at school won't make the connection. As for Ripley as a middle name- well, I guess he might be talented if nominative determinism is real, though personally I'm not sure if I believe it or not.

It looks and sounds utterly ridiculous. Don't.

Use normal names like everyone else. You don't have to be "yooneek" and off the wall showy.

its a good name for a cat. I don’t think it’s very kind for a child / man.

I think it would be unkind to saddle the poor lad with such a name.

It will be shortened to Ty.

My first thought was something from the periodic table.

God I hope this is a delayed April fool. Ripley…have you got this name from the fictional conman/murderer? And of course everyone’s going to associate Tybalt with Shakespeare, it’s pretty much a standard text studied early in secondary school. How about Othello, at least they don’t do that til sixth form?

Aside from the connection to Romeo and Juliet it conjures it sounds rather brutish.

What if he grows up and is more Mr Bean than Jason Statham?

Named after not one but two literary murderers

😂

Peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
King of cats.
Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this. Thou art a villain.

Save Tybalt for the cat. The Prince of cats, obviously.

I would avoid Tybalt as everyone will 100% think R&J. Thibault however is normal name in France without the connotations. But unless you have a French connection might be hard to pull off and the pronunciation is different (nicer imo).