Middle names for Fox

[crimsonowl]

firstly i dont want any comments on the name this is dd’s baby, ive suggested other names but she wont budge from Fox and has bought personalised things etc

She hasnt got a middle name in mind, our surname in Joseph and shes out of ideas

Any ideas will be appreciated

I'm quite liking Fox Indigo. ✅

I know an Alister, who's last name is Fox.
Fox Alister would work.

But this child may care when he’s older and he is the one who has to live with it. This is real life but so many people seem to treat naming children as yet another way to get attention.

Fox Gregory Joseph
Fox Liam Joseph - probably my favourite
Fox Alexander Joseph
Fox Lachlan Joseph
Fox Oliver Joseph

I'd avoid one syllable middle names as Fox is one.

Fox Joseph goes well together. People rarely call your middle names so it's nice it has a good ring to it as that's what will be used every day.

Presuming this is a real post, I wouldn’t be interested in what middle name such a lunatic gave the child because you don’t hear of middle names often, and more importantly with a first name like Fox it doesn’t really matter anyway.

I know a child called Fox, based on that I would do all I could to change her mind

Do not go with an “A” middle name for the love of god.
Initials would be FAJ.
His mates will be shouting show us ya FAJ at him throughout high school.
Hairy FAJ.
Smelly FAJ.
Don’t do it.

Fox is a great name! I think Fox Joseph sounds good all by itself. Does he need a middle name? Tbh there are so many options… I think it just has to be another name she loves or something with some meaning - a family name or similar. There isn’t a middle name that immediately sounds like a natural suggestion to me. I would say be careful about initials… I’m not sure about FAJ. Or FOJ, FIJ or FUJ tbh. Maybe avoid a vowel middle name!

& Hounds?

Fox Alexander Joseph.

Fox Patrick Joseph

Fox William Joseph

I’d really avoid an ‘A’ name for all the reasons above. I might try for a ‘J’ name and hope he wants to be called ‘JJ’ or by just his middle name. Other than that I think I might talk at length about how much I LOVE the name Fox… in the hope she’ll change her mind. I’d be most worried about him ending up with the pet/nickname of Foxy…

Jonathan
James

Agree it should be a long one, like Alexander.

Fox eliza
fox matilda
fox athena
fox tallulah
fox delilah
fox eden
fox calliope
fox adeline
fox luella
fox penelope

Show your daughter this reply and tell him he is going to go through school and life with this joke constantly being made.

Poor kid.

He better be a physically big, confident and popular kid. Cos if there is anything about him that makes him a bully magnet, that name is going to seal the deal.

Unless she sends him to a Steiner school. She may need to do that.

I considered a similar unusual name for my first. The best advice I got was fron MN when someone said , the names ahe thought sounded cute when pregnant, just seemed ridiculous with a real live child’. I agree. I can’t tell you how glad I am now that didn’t pick such a name for him. Often throughout his childhood I have looked at him and thought how ridiculous the name would be on him. He has had bouts of low level bullying and they probably would have stuck as long term or higher level bullying if I’d given him a daft name as an extra stick to beat him with. .

I like someone’s idea of ‘Fox Alexander’.

I actually went to a kids party a couple of years back & there was a ‘Fox’ there as well.

At first I thought how ridiculous, but after a few minutes I actually quite liked it. It’s a strong name.

They don’t though, do they? I have met adults with names that very much don’t suit them. That’s the problem with very evocative nanes. The parent is projecting onto their child the sort of person they think they will be. And they may not turn out to be that person.

It's a male.

Fox Trot

@RudolphRNR , OP hasn't particularly given much opinion on the name so your "But if she hasn’t asked, keep your beak out!" is uncalled for.

Mulder

I’d pick a family name, something “normal” or ordinary in case Fox wants to use that when he’s older.

Trott-Oscar

My opinion is that a middle name should remember or honour someone in the family, say a loved grandparent who is no longer with us. Also think if it could be used instead of a first name.

As for the first name, it is cruel and I hope your DD can be persuaded to see sense.

This is OP’s Grandchild’s name. Not her choice. She’s asking for thoughts on middle names that mitigate the choice of first name.