Oyvind for a boy?

[mrleebob]

Hey folks!

What do you all think of Oyvind for a boy?

No

No no no no no no no no no

No child of mine will be called Oyvind!!!!!

It would be OK for a Norweigan boy, who lives in Norway.

God no. Horrid name.

I think it's great.

Well, it's certainly unusual in my neck of the woods.

Would prefer Oyvey [kvetch emoticon]

Not to my taste! The fact that it would be shortened to 'Oy' would also put me off.

I'd like to hear why you like it though, is it a special name to you (family name etc)? Is it a name from a specific nationality which you find appropriate for your boy?

no, hes just being awkward cause he knows i hate it!!

Actually, and this is gonna sound very shallow, Oyvind was the name of an ex Liverpool midfielder. The name has just always been a favourite of mine since I heard it. DP cannot complain about the source of the name though or its Scandinavian origin as she's giving serious consideration to Sami.

Hehe - realtime mumsnet domestic

Oyvind has 'Evan' as it's equivalent in the UK, which is quite nice.

Sami is not so bad, although he'd get a lifetime of mis-spellings.

Good luck with deciding!

Prefer Ortwin, if you are going in that northerly direction.

The Sami are the people previously known as the Laplanders.

Oy windy

I can see it now in the playground

They are indeed bellissima. However, it's also a Finnish name. As in Sami Hyypia.

I also like Toby but we have a snake called Obie. Apparently, if they rhyme it sounds stupid. We have another snake called Tinkerbell so Pinkerbell is out too for a girl.

Also a name yes - as is 'Roma' ( a name and a people) - but then what if child chose to work amongst the people.

(Okay, unusual, but I had a development related job which required me to go to aid committees for groupd including Roma. Would have felt a bit odd if that was my name!

sorry groups

to hear about Pinkerbell.

Oyvind is a little way out, he would spend forever spelling it out and being called Oy. How about Magnus/Marius/Markus?

How would you pronounce it? It's not pronounced Oy in Norway more a sound like French -eu-+ y.

Yes fine in Norway. Here it does not translate well and unless you are Norwegian a touch pretentious. And he will be called 'Oy'.

Doesn't do it for me I'm afraid.

If it is prounounced 'Euyvind' call him Evan.

Sounds like it is Irvine pronounced with New York accent

It sounds like Ivan said by a brummie with a cold.

I like Ivan a lot [prounounced 'Eevan' as in dh's language] but here it would just get pronounced with the 'I' and it would remind me too much of Ivor the Engine