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?

I immediately think of the cleaning product

Then the football team

If you don't mind your child bringing both to mind then go for it, although they likely won't thank you

Wasn´t he the one Athena tricked into thinking all his comrades were sheep and the chopped them all into pieces with this sword? It is also a Football club.

Football team and cleaning product - which means the name is far from unique.

Yes, that's the one. Sophocles wrote an entire tragedy about him.

Except you never made a valid point other than having a go at my opinion for some weird reason despite it agreeing with the majority consensus. But sure, you’re not offended 🙄

No, I’m not. Right now I’m slightly amused that you’re so convinced you know how I’m feeling.

Stannah

I can ignore the cleaning product and the football team but I'd have the line from the Flash Gordon movie ringing around my head everytime I heard the name:

"Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body"

In case it's not already been posted:

6 children in the UK were registered with the name "Ajax" in 2023 and 15 were registered in 2024. So not that "unique".

There's always "Gumption".

Football team.
Otis is a lift manufacturer so if you went with that theme then Schindler would be an option.

Or Cillit, as in Bang!

The connotations would make it a no no for me OP.

The was a child on tv with that name on Friday, with his mum and nan having a makeover if you want to been as a fishwife it’s a perfect name, it’s like calling your kid Harpic and thinking everyone will think it’s a great idea.

Just when you think you’ve heard them all 🤣

As an alternative, how about Feyenoord, Zwolle or PSV Eindhoven?

On the other hand, on the lift theme, I could well imagine Jacob Rees Mogg naming one of his children Paternoster!

Awful.

I think a lot of the ridicule on this thread is indicative of what your son might have to put up with, so there's def that to think about!

Amos from pp is a nice alternative suggestion OP?

There’s a kid at my school called Ajax and every time the mum shouts his name I think bathroom cleaner.

My child goes to nursery with a little boy called Ajax. I don't dislike it, but it does make me think of the powder my mum used to clean the bath.

Altogether now ‘Ajax. The bleach for unbleachables’. Or the football team or the area near Toronto.

And yes the Greek mythology. The first three spring to mind first.

OP just don’t. Seriously.

One of the characters in Wednesday (the gorgon) is called Ajax. So it might be in for an upsurge in popularity.

Ajax Amsterdam