Jove

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What do you think of Jove for a boy?

I like it but I’d spell it jovie like on the elf film.

Prefer Jovi if you had to but you'd get "are u a bon jovi fan" all the time

God, no!

Awful.

But it's not Jovie, it's Jove. It wilt be like spelling Jude as Judie.

Awful.

Awful. He would have people making by Jove jokes every day of his life

The most mumsnet approved names seem to be:

Charlotte
Alice

James
Alexander

I would pronounce this Juv, like love with a J and that sounds awful.

I'd rethink this name OP.

I would pronounce this Juv, like love with a J and that sounds awful. It does.
Why would you pronounce it like that?

To be fair to @ResponsiblePopcorn, -ove words can be like move/prove, or dove/shove, or cove/stove. There's no way to guess if you haven't heard it before!

Ha! My name and my two children there.

Most people seem to be reminded of My Fair Lady ("the rain in Spain") but Jo (or someone anyway) used to say it in the Little Women books I think, among others!

Thats exactly it @MoralOrLegal

Of course I'm familiar with By Jove as a saying but I wouldn't think of it as a standalone name.

@HugoThatway

That would go for most words, and you can easily look up words and names and their pronunciation.

Poor kid.

Nope. Go with Joel unless you want your child having to correct/explain to each person that asks him his name for decades to come.

I think the expression is from 'My Fair Lady'.... might be wrong. Silly name anyway.

Absolutely beautiful name!

You got me doing a bit of research! Actually it turns out Shakespeare deployed it in the late 16th century in Love's Labour's Lost. And it has a lively usage history between then and now.

Exactly 🤣

OP has obvs no idea what it means. 🤦🏼‍♀️

It's not great.

How about Jobe
Jude
Joe
Joel

by Jove - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

It was in use for over 300 years before Alan Lerner wrote the libretto for My Fair Lady.