Thoughts on the name Ajax??

[JammieDodger94]

I know it's known as a cleaning product etc etc but that doesn't bother me. I think I quite like it as it's unique.

What are your thoughts on Ajax?
Nickname AJ

Goes with my other little one so Otis and Ajax?

Never heard of the cleaning product but I did think of the football team. And the trojan wars warrior. The biggest issue I'd see would be around pronunciation, you are pronouncing it quite differently. I prefer Axel!

Calgon for a boy.

It sounds like a cleaning product. How about Ajay or Jackson instead?

Hector? Achilles? Paris? Patroclus nn Pat? Odysseus?? All heroes and none of which you clean the toilet with.
Or how about Troy?

Oh god I was in a shop recently and there was a little boy of around ten there called Adonis and it did not suit him.

Well it’ll be easy to know which chore to assign to him when he’s older. The bathroom will be super squeaky clean!

Sorry OP but it is really awful, especially if pronounced “Ay jacks” which is the cleaner (Aye axe is slightly better)

Jay, Jack, Alex, Zack sound similar but are far nicer!

You can’t be serious, it’s a shit ‘name’.

I would assume you were Greek. But then it should be I-axe. I don’t mind it but can you be bothered with all the gags. Do you like Atticus? Is Greek, used to be pretty trendy, I don’t know where it stands today. Goes with Otis.

Just no 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ajax was a great Greek hero, yes, but he went mad at the end of the Trojan War and killed himself. Not a great association for a child to have.

Dispiriting to realise, btw, that one of the best known brands in the UK when I was growing up is now totally unknown to younger MNers. Makes me feel oooooold.

Funnily enough, we discarded "Bertha" as a potential name for a similar reason: the "Big Bertha", a German siege cannon from WWI!
No, thanks.

I think it’s pronounced ‘cif’ now

Cleaning fluid. No.

Literally the only reference most people will associate with the name is the cleaning product.

Please rethink.

Look up any thread featuring an Irish name and you'll have your answer.

What about cif lovely name

OP this is a joke yes? I’ve read some mad things on MN over the years and this is right up there.
For the love of god don’t call your child Ajax.

Good grief, no!

Sorry, it might be a name of long and noble provenance, but everyone will just think of lavvy cleaner. I know I did.

I like Hector too

It is not pronounced A-Jacks. Not anywhere. It’s Eye- Acks.

In my head it’s the same as contemplating calling a child Domestos or Spurs.
Ajax is either a cleaner or a football team to me, so it would be a hard no I’m afraid.