Is Disney a silly name?

[GuyForksAndKnives]

I think it is. I'd be mortified if I was named that.

Yes it is a bit silly.

Not great but I’ve heard worse…. Someone I know called their daughter “Selfie”…

Yeah it’s terrible I have someone on my Facebook who’s named their daughter that too. They have an awful double barrelled surname too that makes it sound even worse !

You can guarantee both parents would be “Disney Parents”.

These do too they might be the same couple!

It's a brand not a name? 😂

It's a brand named after it's founder Mr Walter Disney.
So it is technically a name.

It’s a surname. Walt was happy with it.

As I said earlier in the thread the family name was actually d"Isigny.
A french name meaning "from Isigny" (a place in France).
The family anglicised it presumably when they settled in the USA.

Our cat is called Disney, because we found him (& his mother & 3 siblings) in our garden on the return from a trip to Disneyworld.
I, personally, wouldn't call a child Disney.

@GuyForksAndKniveshope so it means less people inflicted the name on their kid 😂
I do love it for pets though it’s really cute for a little kitty 🐈‍⬛

I prefer more out there names for pets. I don't want a cat called a common child's name like Callum or Olivia, a cat should be called things like Agamemnon or Boudica.

There were 20 people named "Disney" in Scotland in the 1901 census, presumably because it was their mother, or another relative's surname.

As a middle name, with the explanation that it's a family name? Not silly.
As a first name with no explanation? Silly.

@chalkpaint The name isn't anything to do with the characters from Bread and one character from Top Cat is it?

Jimberly is worse

There is a village a few miles from me in Lincolnshire called Norton Disney, named after the D'Isney family who had vast land holdings thereabouts in the middle ages. I believe Walt visited many years ago to explore his roots in the area. So it had been anglicised centuries ago, like plenty of family and place names.

Actually he came in 1949, and there is a home movie showing him and his family meeting the vicar, looking round the village etc. He used the village crest for Sleeping Beauty.

To be honest I wasn't sure if it was his particular branch of the family that changed the name.
That's a lovely thing about the village crest.

@GuyForksAndKnives omg yes !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 small world !

"What's the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney? Bing sings and Walt disnae!"

Double D then!

Snap! 🤣

I'd just have Tommy Roe going around in my head every time somebody mentioned the child's name:

Disney
I'm so Disney, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends

Yes.