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?

Why do so many posters want a ready made "nickname" for their babies?

I've seen some threads where the "nickname" has been chosen first and the poster is asking for names that the "nickname" might be derived from.

Ajax??
Why not Flash for a boy or Zoflora for a girl?

This! However with the younger generation there will be much more association with football.

It hasn't been marketed in the UK for 20 years. No-one of this child's generation will have ever heard of it and their parents might only dimly remember it.

I went a bit loopy with baby names at the start of my second trimester. My dc don’t know how close they came to Cuthbert and Etoile

I would hope that most people would be at least vaguely familiar with the Trojan wars and the Iliad, if only through films. If they are not, then that doesn't say much for the British education system.

What about
Celtic - nn: Tic
Bayern Munich- nn Bay
Galatasaray- nn - Ray
Olympiacos - nn: Oly

Its a football team.

With two completely different pronunciations as well.

Nigella Lawson’s son is called Bruno. Her daughters Cosima.

Jesus Christ..... Please don't call your child after a cleaning product!! There's so many lovely names in the world, pick one of them instead for the love of sanity!

Bathroom cleaner. Definitely not!

It is quite a random choice IMO. Ajax only became prominent because Achilles was refusing to fight, anyway. What about Achilles if you love Greek warriors, OP? Or Patroclus? Or switch your allegiance and go for Hector? At least that's a recognisable name!

Achilles is such a petulant, whining brat, though!

What about Lysander, @JammieDodger94?

Because so many 5 year olds are Seinfeld fans 🙄 .

I always think the parents of kids who bully others about their names crawl out of the woodwork on the baby name threads.

I'd say Eye-Ax and it is a football team to me

I don't see how it can be pronounced Ay-jax?

Yeah the Seinfeld comment was lighthearted but obviously went over your head 🙄.

Also, people giving feedback when asked on baby names isn’t bullying if they disagree ffs. If you paid attention you’ll see most people are against the name.

But you go off carrying on getting offended for no reason lol.

I like it which is a first for me on MN re 'unusual' names- it's cool!

Because there's a J in it, and in the Anglophone world, that letter is pronounced like a soft G.

AJax….. AWot

How about Bleach, Bleachy or Bleached.

Twins could be called Shake ‘N’ Vac

Cool names 😎

I would say 10-15% of the population at most would have a passing familiarity with the Trojan wars.

I'm English and I know it as a cleaning product.

@JammieDodger94 , naming your child is not the time or place to show everyone how clever and unique you are. Would you like to be called Ajax? Of course not. So don't foist this name onto your poor son.

Please don’t

It’s pronounced i-axe

I’m not offended. And yes, I guess your point went over my head just as mine’s gone over yours.

It is if it's the Dutch football club. Not if it's the cleaning product. The usual English pronunciation of both cleaning product and Greek hero is Ayjacks, which is the Latinised version of his name. The Classical Greek version is Aias, pronounced Ayass.