Ulysses

[tummytickler]

Ok - this is dh favourite (mine is Cedric).
Is it at all useable? I just cant decide if it is too off the wall?

I came across a pair of brothers called Ulysses and Hercules in a local primary school recently so their parents clearly thought so.

How do you pronounce it?

Thinking Ulysses Grant here, he got away with it and it didn't seem to get in the way of success in life. Mind you that was a while ago.

I don't really know. Might work if your surname is reasonably plain.

Surname is double barrelled, sounds like Barmy-Monsters. So not that plain!

Ulysses Barmy-Monster?

Why not?

think it might be ok. Cedric is quite straight-forward and unproblematic

Terrible imho. But it's not up t me!

I think it's awful. Sorry

Cedric is quite cute, although reminds me of the dog in James Herriot.

I prefer Ulysses to Cedric

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Ulysses is a bit far out unless you live in the sort of area/move in social circles where it is quite the done thing to have peculiar names.

Where I live 1, he'd get the piss taken out of him, 2, no-one could spell it and 3, he'd stand out a mile.

Mind you I think Cedric is pretty awful too so you'll probably want to disregard my opinions

Beyond pretentious.

Awful - ridiculously pretentious and will sound even more tease-worthy with a double barrelled name

nobody will ever spell it correctly ahd he will get very sick of it.

i once knew a ulysses.
american though.
it suited him.

I would have said that Ulysses was OK if you hadn't said that you had a complicated surname. So I think you need to back-pedal a bit.

Cedric is awful, though. How about Edwin?

edgar
hector
paris
jonquil
jocelyn
tristan
tristram
augustus
phineas

I think they are both dreadful.

I think Ulysses is rather off the wall, and I really don't like Cedric. Saying that, I had briefly considered Eric when pregnant last time (my dh thought it was a rubbish idea, but the other ideas we had for a boy were equally absurd, so it's just as well we had a girl).

So have you decided? Is it going to be Cedric?

I was thinking I knew a guy who wanted to call his son Horatio. His surname is Nelson. I wonder if he ever did or if he chickened out at the last minute.

DIamondhead - that's what I thought too!
I will now have this in my head all day
(though better than that 118 247 ad, I suppose)
OP I prefer Cedric - Ulysses/Odysseus was a serial philanderer

oooh. No. I do know one though. HONESTLY. He's called Ully.

Ooo-leee-sss

We have a few around here. They are all French so I assume it's relatively commonplace there.

I quite like it.