Banks

[Anonymous1098]

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

Absolutely awful along with many other 'american style' childrens names for either sex.

I wonder how and when chandler did get accepted as a forename? Maybe because it’s not often used nowadays - not many candle makers, and most people (especially in the non coastal or very urban swathes of the us) have little call for a chandlery.

It’s always been a completely acceptable surname that originated as a vocation name, just as Baker, Smith etc. are. It seems to have become a forename via the American trend for making surnames into forenames.

Yes; what I’m wondering about is why that one isn’t so obviously weird as a forename versus some of the other ‘trade names’.

Is it the financial-sounding solidness of it that you like OP?

If so have you considered:

• Cheque
• Overdraft
• Loan
• Isa
• Debit
• Interest
• Statement, or
• Standingorder

?

They’d all go well with a familiar surname like Smith, Brown, Thompson, Robinson etc

Awful

Why not call him Road, Station, Bowl or Shop

Lloyd? It’s a bank

This is one of the most unanimous ones I've ever seen in here

Ridiculous 😂

Pregnancy hormones are wild!

Spare the poor baby. All rhymes and near rhymes are bad: wank, spank, crank, dank, manky, hanky panky. Banks is a surname - Nick Banks, Pulp drummer.

When Friends first came out it was seen as a very weird name - I think he jokes about it in one of the early episodes. I’ve still not come across it used by anyone else.

Didn't Phoebe's brother and his partner name one of the triplets that Phoebe gave birth to for them, Chandler? And that one was a girl I think.

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Well yeah but obviously that’s named after a person - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampson_Lloyd
as is Lloyd’s of London via the name of the eponymous coffee house owner Edward Lloyd.

So is Barclays.

OP, don’t call him Barclays whatever you do. Having a Barclays in rhyming slang is as bad as calling the poor sod Banks.