Sirius ~ cruel or cool?

[misswisteria]

I think I'm having some kind of reaction to old gentleman names ~ and my short list is getting more and more eclectic/potentially just plain odd.
One of the names I'm mulling around is Sirius. But is it completely cruel to use it ~ can it stand up on its own or are people only ever going to think of Harry Potter/Gary Oldman etc?

I LOVE it. i would use this as a first name. but that may noy be much help as i am noted for liking different names...

It's Harry Potter.

Silas is lovely, though.

People will think Harry Potter - and its not a great character really - and in the book he gets called Snivillus doesnt he??

Ignore me - I was thinking of Severus - must engage brain today.

Go for it

Showing my geek status here - I'm that I'm the first one to mention Sirius the dog star, which is a major association for me.
Harry Potter = secondary

It's a cool name but no doubt people will associate it with HP (or possibly the star, tho that's looking less likely)

I like it!! But I can't decide if it's the C21st equivalent of calling your son Bilbo or Gandalf from Lord of the Rings...

Saying that it is the brightest star in the sky, which is lovely. I'm very keen on names that mean Star for some reason!!

Star
Harry Potter

I like stars (!) and Harry Potter but I think it sounds very 'trying to be out there' as a child's name. Sorry.

Please don't.

I know a sirius, and it suits him. I have presumed he's named after the star rather than the HP character though.

If you do like HP... I like Remus a lot.

You know it's cruel... so don't!

Too Harry Potter for me.

It makes me think of Miley or Billy-ray Cyrus! I am not anti the name, i don't think it is too bad but i wouldn't use it myself x

Appalling and guaranteed to subject your child to lifetime of teasing.

For me, it is a Harry Potter name through and through, and can only imagine the HP series when I think of it Not to say I don't like it though, I wanted to call my youngest Hermione but DH wouldn't let me as he said it was too Harry Potter linked!!

If I have a 6th, I am 100 % going for an HP name to piss him off

I thought the dog star too (I think I've read The Starlight Barking more often than HP!).

How about Bernard Mungo?

I love it, it's a lovely name.

People get used to strange names pretty quickly - once they know someone actually with the name it becomes normalised IME - unless it's a truly ugly name, and Sirius isn't - it's really quite beautiful.

People can get bullied for any name, and anyway in cities like London there are so many children with unusual sounding names that children don't bat an eyelid at the names adults find strange IME.

I absolutely love the name BUT it reminds me of the movie with Nicholas Cage - remember he was in prison and released and while on the way home in the plane the rest of the prisioners hi-jacked it. And the badie was called Sirius (AFAIK)

LittleMissSnowShine, I know an adult Bilbo. He loves his name.

No

I think its amazing, but I like merlin for a a boys name too!

@lowrib - love it, a dude called Bilbo. and he loves it! amazin

i think it's very cool.

Even if people do forget the Harry Potter connections, he will be subjected to a lifetime of "Seriously?!".

Yes you can be teased over any name, but why make the bullies lives easier?!

I thought dog star - a la diana wynne jones - seriously (siriusly?) don't do it. He'll be picked on at any kind of school - except possibly the kind of tofu/merlin/olive school attended by bertie in the alexander mccall smith novels.

caveat: if you're planning to send him to school in strawberry corduroys, it may just be the right name...