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My husband and I have this ongoing argument about naming our (future) baby boy Huckleberry. He thinks it would be cool that we get to call him Huck. I think the full name is unusual, and our son might get teased a lot growing up. I thought he was joking at first but I realized that he's pretty serious about it. What do you think of the name?
I love it.
If I had a kid and it was a boy, I'd be tempted to name him this myself. I really like it.
Absolutely not. It'll cost you a fortune in psychological counseling down the road! Different is one thing, but different and silly, even without the rhyming thing, is something else. You'd really be setting him up for a miserable time in school.
I read about a study where they took 4 school essay papers, randomly assigned names, and had teacher's grade the papers. Then they would use the same names and the same papers and switch them around. For boys, the regular/popular names got higher grades on their papers than the uncommon name, and for girls, the name did not effect the grade.
It was a long time ago that I read this, however, it stuck with me, and may have even influenced the names I gave my two boys (that and also my husband and I only agreed on two boys names!).
And I would not name a person Huckleberry. I am not even sure I would use it as a middle name (although that might be a good compromise if you are stuck, plus then it would be out of the way).
Last edited by Reneeme; 09-01-2011 at 09:09 PM..
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My husband and I have this ongoing argument about naming our (future) baby boy Huckleberry. He thinks it would be cool that we get to call him Huck. I think the full name is unusual, and our son might get teased a lot growing up. I thought he was joking at first but I realized that he's pretty serious about it. What do you think of the name?
WELL...besides the fact the name is just not attractive you'll be inviting other problems if you go with it that you should seriously consider.
Huck rhymes with too many other things that he'll get teased mercilessly with - yuck, suck, *uck, duck, schm*ck - just to name a few.
And that's just with "Huck" - the rest of his name would be no picnic either.
I can already picture bullies calling him "HuckleFairy", "Huckledingleberry" - the combinations are endless.
Your husband may think this is all cute, but it's doubtful a child would.
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