What do you think of Enzo for non Italian baby?

[Eleta]

Back again with yet another boy's name I find girls names much easier and have narrowed them down to 3 but so far the only name my husband and I both like is Harry, which is fine but another family member has this name ( doesn't mean I can't use it, it's my Grandad, but family will find it strange and think I have named baby after him) Also dd1 and dd2 have friends called Harry. Again I don't have big problem with popular names, but it would be nice to have something slightly more unusual but not weird.

Enzo just popped into my head today as dh used to know one and we both liked it but.....it is very Italian and neither of us have a claim on that heritage so is it ok to pinch the name?

Just made me think that alot of the names we use today aren't of English origin even ones we think of as being very popular names. Louis for example is fairly widespread in the UK now. SO can I have it?

YOur choice but i think it's no good for a non italian.

Sorry, I'd think ah, Daddy always wanted a Ferrari.

Nope - think it sounds daft and people will wonder 'Why??' IMO

I don't think that you have to explain your child's name - if you like Enzo then go with that.

Being Kiwi suprise! my first thought was of the mix up of the band Split Enz with the NZ Symphony ENZO

We have friends with an Enzo - love the name, no issues with pronunication, explanation or whatever. Some weird comments on here about acceptance and explanation - why? Maybe it depends where you live.

No way. Far too pretentious if you are not Italian.

BTW - I still think Louis an odd choice if there is no French connection.........so I'm not sure it has been totally adopted as an "english" name anyway

Ahem, as I said probably depends where you live. In London, Enzo wouldn't be considered remotely pretentious compared to some of the names we contend with. If I gave a roll call of dd's class, there would be much merriment and possibly some fainting, certainly a lot of ROFL and that's just a state school.

Enzo is an oil
it is also a type of ferrari

its ugly

imagine if yhour kid is ugly - its fugly name for a fugly kid. some kids are - i changed my dd's name at the last minute for that very reason - in case she was fugly - she wasn't - but one never knows

love it
think it so does not matter that its italian

say you named him after Lorenzo he of lorenzo's oil fame - who sadly died recently

I don't understand why people say you can't have a foreign name unless you have a connection eith the country. I don't see the problem. I think everyone should use any name they like.

I like Enzo BTW

Why is 'because my parents liked it' not enough reason to call him Enzo. If you called him John would he have to explain why he had the name?

DS2 is called Cooper, and we don't need to explain why. We just liked it. Not after the car, or either of the towns in Scotland

I think of Enzo Ferrari, and imagine a grizzly old man wearing sunglasses.

If you like it though, you should go for it. Never mind what anyone else thinks.

I like Enzo but dp is half Italian so we would have an excuse for using it. However, there's a family at school who have called their youngest Enzo, and they don't have any Italian connection.

I definitely agree with onceinalifetime that it depends where you live, and probably on the age of people 'judging' you as well. Ds2 has an Italian name and most of the people who have challenged it are of an older generation, and don't live in our neighbourhood either. There is such a wide range of names in our local school that no-one there bats an eyelid at any kind of name.

Also, the only reason dp and I have for any of the names we chose is that we liked them.

A friend with a DH who is ferrari mad just called their Son Enzo. I think it's nice. Doesn't matter if you don't have any Italian blood. So many names are just used these days because people like them.

i like luca, louis, enzo (lorenzo), sebastian and solomon. dante not too sure about.

I've jsut remembered that my ds4 has a friend called lorenzo. He was named after his Italian grandfather though. His name has been shortened to Loz rather than Enzo, which is rather nice and suits him.

i have an old-fashioned French name for no good reason and a surname that is associated with one country in particular, though my family also had no link to it either. i find it a bit of a pain actually.

Sounds like Mum or Dad is a Ferrari-loving, Top Gear watching fiend, who wanted to name their son after the car.

Don't do it, unless you want to go down the Ronaldho Ronaldino Beckham Pele route!

For info - Enzo was the most popular boys name in France last year. The country must be full of wannabe italians

i'm surprised the french allow it on their official list.

Our new baby is called Lucca - the added 'c' is because it's the name of a stunning town in Tuscany that Dh and I fell in love with when we visited in 2006. I'm half Sri Lankan and Dh is as English as they get, yet Lucca suits him, and I really don't think it matters that we're not Italian. DS1 has an Irish name, yet we're not Irish either.