I met a little boy at Ds's school the other day. I'm so sorry for him, his name is ...

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Lucifer

Eek

Bet he's a little devil tho

Strike a light!

I know a little girl called Bambi (I think her mum should be shot )

Noooooo!

Lol at shooting Bambi's mother!

It's about time we adopted the Dutch system and had an approved list of names!

Oh nooooo. Poor boy. i'm not too judgy about names but LUCIFER!!! how many bets he changes it when he's older??

Lucifer
Perhaps they got it confused with Lucian?

No way... why do that to a child?!?!? Wonder if their is a brother called Leviathian and a sister called Demonica?

Now I think Beelzebub is jollier somehow.

Lol at a sister called Demonica!!! Oh played upon the harmonica

OP - please come back and tell us that you asked the mum why she chose that name.

i do rather like Lucifer as a name but agree that it has gone beyond the reach of usability. you just wouldn't, would you? except of course someone has.

pmsl @ Bambi.

Not to keen on Lucifer either...

Lucifer? good grief, thats one heck of an association to carry through life. did you spot any horns?

I know a Morticia

oh good grief, I bed he's soft as putty too bless him

Poor kid!

Might as well have called him Judas!!! The best names I heard recently were for twins - a boy and a girl - called Sport and Spring - yikes!

terrible!!!!!!!!!

we know a Tiger which ds2 thinks is hilarious!!

Trust he's shortened it to Luc which is OK...

Ooh, Gossipmonger, there was a little boy on some property show on the telly the other day called Tiger - I wonder if its the same poor little lad - surely there aren't two!?

Lucifer actually means bringer or bearer of light, but obviously, like cyteen says - it's gone beyond usability.

Normally I'm pretty non-judgy, but Lucifer! Why oh why would you think that was a good idea?

When we registered DS2, the lady commented that she liked his (good solid) name, and said that they'd recently managed to dissuade a couple from the name Lucifer - the father's idea, apparently.

And I knew a tiger years ago - had to stifle a laugh when the mother insisted on staying with him at DD's party as 'Tiger's a bit nervous at parties.'

lol at nervous Tiger.

Lucifer, though? Are they mad? Or Satanists? Or so careless they don't actually know what it means?

Even without the Satanic associations, poor kid is bound to be nicknamed 'Lucy' which is not at all helpful for a boy.