Hector

[deliakate]

Am not preg yet, but DH and I quite like Hector. &CCedil;ould be shortened to Hec too, which I quite like.....?

Love the song "the first with a gun in his hand and the first to die".

I love it but I know of three Hectors born in the last 12 months. If you're looking for unusual then it's one to avoid.

Love it, but biased as DS is a Hector. We weren't looking specifically for an unusual name (just liked the classical hero / Scottish connection) but surprised that it seems to be becoming more popular (it certainly seems to be cropping up more and more often on MN threads). We didn't know a single child called Hector before DS was born but now know of several.

Sorry I really don't like it. It sounds very 'try hard' to me and I'm Scottish. It reminds me of the dimwitted Laird in 'Monarch of the Glen'

Love it, don't know any very young Hectors (but know a fab grown-up one!).

Hector = v good.
Hec = v bad.

imho

I had no idea it was Scottish! I thought it was Greek.

And of course the Morrissey song is a work of genius.

Awful.

I quite like it too.

Love it love it love it. I have an italian uncle called Hector. I didnt know it was Scottish either.

Love it. Had it on short list for ds2. Don't think it's going to be that popular really in the scheme of things?

oh heck

Love it, love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. I'd have called DS Hector, but DH said no.

Do it!

I really like it too but can see it becoming popular. I tried to avoid that with my three DC but feel I may have misjudged with my two boys names

it's Greek...or Trojan??

Achilles killed him, and dragged his body 9? times round the walls of Troy

HTH

(there's a bit in the Iliad where Hector meets his wife Andromache and their baby son on the walls of Troy, the night before he gets killed. It made me weep buckets at 17- don't go near it if you're preg, you'll be in tatters!)

Yes, its not scottish

I know two grown up Hectors. One is tall and broad, with full head of hair ( Think porridge advert); the other is slight, shy with thinning hair already. Hector really suits the big one but the wee one gets laughed at, his name is too 'big' for him IYSWIM

"Hector was the Trojan hero in the Iliad whose body was dragged around the city walls behind the chariot of Achilles. To hector means to bully or torment, especially with a loud voice."

Sorry, I don't like it because of the meaning of the verb.

Deliakate - not claiming Hector is Scottish in its origins. Obviously Greek / Trojan. But for whatever reason it has historically been more commonly used as a name in some parts of Scotland than in England. Knew a few Hectors (all older though) growing up there. It also seems to be pretty common in Italy (but as the Italian version, Ettore) and, randomly in Latin American countries.

hector is what I would call a spider

""To hector means to bully or torment, especially with a loud voice."

Sorry, I don't like it because of the meaning of the verb."

Me neither, sorry.

Really, is that the meaning of 'to hector'? That's really not nice....

There was a dapple-grey at the riding school I went to called Hector...