Banks

[Anonymous1098]

A little different, but what is everyone’s thoughts on the name Banks for a boy?

Hard pass.

Banksy isn’t a name though, it’s a deliberately anonymous pseudonym. Apparently it started with him signing his art as ‘Robin Banx’.

Nothing wrong at all with William (known as Bill) for a first name.

Dingsocieties IS a highly unusual middle name, I will grant you!!

Well, it's easy to spell, I'll give it that. But that's about all it has going for it. Apart from the 'Banks Wanks' thing, there's no immediate abbreviation (not that that is necessarily a problem), and it's - well, it's just a word. No particular reason it shouldn't be a name if you're dead set on it, I've heard worse, but it's just a bit... well, it's a WORD, isn't it?

I don’t think I’ve heard a Late Arrivals at the <whatever> Ball on Sorry I Haven’t a Clue for a long time.

They certainly do!

I'm reminded of that episode of Outnumbered, where they had the man called Brick (as his first name) - to which Ben asked in amazement "Is that a name?!"

In the USA, they also seem to give initials as names - not, say, Thomas James who is informally known as TJ, but his actual registered official name would just be TJ. That was the case with the famous singer JR Cash, who was told that he had to have an actual name (when joining the army, iirc), so he chose to be officially known as John/Johnny.

It’s a surname.

I dont hate it

Someone ... I think maybe Hilary Duff has a daughter named Banks

True, the word is an easy one to spell... but because it's so odd as an actual name, you'd be left clarifying "No, that IS my first name: Banks, as in Barclays and NatWest" - which would just go even further to frame the weird context for it as a person's name (and have people asking if you have a sibling called Postoffices).

Absolutely ridiculous and you must know that op.

Sarah Palin has a DS called Track. She also has a DS called Trig, which isn't even a full noun, but just an abbreviation of a noun that's usually only used by maths teachers. It's so bizarre giving your child a random noun as an actual first name.

Why don't they change their own names instead, if they're so set on somebody having to go through life with a wacky noun-name? Quite convenient for them to be called normal names like Hilary and Sarah, isn't it?

Don't tell me: "But Banks, Track and Trig are clearly boys' names; and we're women, so it would be silly for us to be called any of those!!"

Trivia -

Hilary Duff has a son called Banks.

The name traditionally meaning ‘edge of a river’.

I can’t imagine that Hilary gave birth to her son on a river bank but who knows, maybe that’s where he was conceived!

@SprayWhiteDung Trig is a boy's name of Scandinavian, Norse origin meaning "true".

Hilarious Duffs - Banks is a daughter

Very silly

Just please don’t. Poor child!

(although as a pp said then you could always have a sister called Library and even go on to have a whole high street - Chandler, Grocer and Ironmonger sound great for boy triplets, no?)

Ah, OK - thanks. However, does Sarah Palin have any links with Scandinavian/Norse heritage?

Bai Jian Li would be a perfectly normal-sounding Chinese name, but it would still be a very strange choice for a white British family, living in the UK, with no Chinese heritage or connection whatsoever to call their baby!

Of course, I realise that names DO cross cultures over a long period of time - I have a rather mundane Hebrew name, but I'm not Jewish or Israeli.

Thanks - I stand corrected! But that's still not really the main point about choosing it as a baby name...!

People are ridiculous sometimes.

Now that's just cruel. Poor kid.

Forever known at school as wanks or wanksy.

Don’t do it to the poor kid.

Please don’t. Yes, I think cruel kids will go for the obvious rhyme.

Just when you think "unique" names can't get any more ridiculous, along comes Banks. Seriously?

Just no. Think about your poor child.

You can’t be serious?

Hideous. Not a name. Rhymes with “wanks”.