Busby?

[MaggieBsBoat]

Yay or nay. Asking for a friend. Passé 1930s or due for a revival?

No that was Buzby, not Busby.

I believe the name is a place in Scotland, and was originally a Scottish surname. Personally, it's not a name I'd choose. It sounds like a surname, and as a first name is dreadful.

Busby?? Like the hat? I never knew it was a name in the first place to warrant a revival!

I had a silkie bantam cockerel called Busby once upon a time. It’s a very silly name for a person though!

Surely you’d have to be posh?

It’s a town near Glasgow.

Where are you living, Broadway in NY?

I know a human child called Busby and I thought it was a lovely name when I first heard it 🤷‍♀️

Not for a child, I think too out there

There’s such a monumental difference 😂

Busby was actually Post Office Telecom. He went when it was privatised and became BT

I quite like it! Busby and Trilby are both hats but both named after people/characters. I’d expect the parents to be fans of either Man Utd or golden age of Hollywood musicals. I certainly don’t think it’s any worse than other surnames as first names, although the Wheels on the Bus era might be a bit trying for the wee lamb.

It's only 1930's insofar as the choreographer Busby Berkeley goes. I haven't heard of anyone else called it either then or since - so it's not even passe. It wouldn't be so bad if your friend was a famous pop star or footballer as they're better able to get away with quirky (daft) names. Alternatively, it would be fine if she was having a labrador. Otherwise no.

Good god no! It was a birds name in a BT advert in the 80s.

Makes me think of that bird that advertised BT in the 1970s/1980s!

Naynaynay.

Me too!

I love it!

Bus for short? Just no

I know a teen Busby. Got used to it over the years and like it now.

Busby's was the name of the nightclub in Bristol where I met DH in the late 1980s.

Like the small town/village just outside East Kilbride 😂. Wild that you'd want to call your child that. Are you doing a Beckham and that's where they were conceived.

God this thread is so outing that I should‘ve changed my username!

BT bird!!

Guardsman's bearskin headwear. I think not.