What do you think of Tasker?

[Buntyray]

Anyone know another Tasker.....?

[yellowcircle]

Ridiculous

[birdofthenorth]

Makes me think of Talisker, which is a bit like naming your baby Glen Morangie. Sorry!

[remaincalm]

Not for me I'm afraid.

[Pineapplechunks]

Awful.

[venusonarockbun]

stupid-sounding beyond belief.

[Sophie78]

I knew a horse of this name!

[jabberwocky]

MrsJohnson, love Amelie. You may want to consider your own thread as it will be hard to sort out which responses are to you and which to the OP.

[RoseWater]

Name of a shop in nearby town

[MrsJohnson]

What do you think of these names? Our surname is Johnson......

For a girl: Amelie Florence

For a boy: Iestyn Miles

Appreciate your thoughts x.

[thereyet]

Tasker? Sounds like a lower managment job title at multi-national monolith corporation. Have another go.

[Buntyray]

And Sonnet - so pleased to hear there's another and yes, we pronounce it the same.

[Buntyray]

Love the comments! And he's 10 months old. It's Welsh. The head of the RFU used to be Sir Tasker Watkins. He has a statue in Cardiff. It's a name I came across with DH a long time ago - about 15 years in fact - long before we had kids. And my mother also used to talk about Tarka the otter which used to give me very cold feet, but now that Tasker is here - it all seems quite normal. And because we live in the Middle East - everyone has such funny names, noone bats an eyelid.

[Sonnet]

I know a Tasker...I always presumed he was called after a "surname"

But the Prep School Mums called hiam Tasker ( not Tarsker) even though we're in the south!

(He is a lovely boy BUT Don't do it I say!)

[Toggy]

Surely you can't choose a name based on these sharp comments?

Look up Sir Tasker Watkins for a truely inspirational Tasker

[mathanxiety]

Hang on, that's Tuskar.

[mathanxiety]

A big rock off Wexford with a lighthouse on it.

[MaggieMaeve]

I agree with Duchesse! got to be one of Sarah Palin's children!

Normally I don't like 'er' names (sur names) as first names. I could rearrange my face in to a bland 'oh that's nice' for some of them though. Spencer and Fraser are nice. Cooper ,Carter, Thatcher,Parker, Hunter, all dreadful.

[Ziggurat]

[paisleyleaf]

I know a girl called Talisker (after the distillery I guess)
LOL at multi tasker!!

[duchesse]

Oh god, Ziggurat just said it before me.

[duchesse]

Yuk. Sounds like one of Sarah Palin's boys.

[thumbwitch]

just remembered that one of the Hogs in Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather is called Tusker - a bit too close for comfort.

[Ziggurat]

Makes me think of that penchant some Americans have for choosing random nouns and assigning them to their children as names.

See Sarah Palin for the definitive list of said nouns:

Track
Trig
Bristol
Willow
Piper

The last 2 not as bad, but the first three? Come on...