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I also have a thing about funny last names, yes, they too can be prevented. My moms first BF had a last name of "Stump", can you imagine a last name like that???, well, I couldn't , i would have of legall changed it when I was able too. There is no reason on Earth to go through life with a dumb arse name when you can change it......"Stump", can you imagine....I also had a friend in HS with the last name "Watt"....Hey paul, whats your last name?....Watt.....Whats your last name....Watt......you gotta be kidding....
Thank heavens my mom married a Greek man instead and we have a nice authentic Greek last name....yeah baby !!!!!
I also have a thing about funny last names, yes, they too can be prevented. My moms first BF had a last name of "Stump", can you imagine a last name like that???, well, I couldn't , i would have of legall changed it when I was able too. There is no reason on Earth to go through life with a dumb arse name when you can change it......"Stump", can you imagine....I also had a friend in HS with the last name "Watt"....Hey paul, whats your last name?....Watt.....Whats your last name....Watt......you gotta be kidding....
Thank heavens my mom married a Greek man instead and we have a nice authentic Greek last name....yeah baby !!!!!
There was a family in my hometown with the last name Weirdo. One of the sons changed his (I believe at his fiance's insistence) to Verdeaux, which was closer to the way it was originally pronounced, but gussied up into a French spelling.
My friend had a daughter with a husband whose last name is Guido. He turned out to be seriously mentally ill and an alcoholic, and she divorced him when her daughter was two and got him out of her life altogether, and changed her and her daughter's last name back to her maiden name.
We have family friends whose last name is Kool. That's not too bad. It is actually Dutch for "cabbage", which isn't all that great a last name, either, but a lot of Dutch people have funny last names. When the Spanish occupied their country, the Dutch didn't use surnames, but the Spaniards insisted they have last names to make their record-keeping easier, so a lot of Dutch people made up stupid family names knowing the Spanish wouldn't know what they meant.
There was a family in my hometown with the last name Weirdo. One of the sons changed his (I believe at his fiance's insistence) to Verdeaux, which was closer to the way it was originally pronounced, but gussied up into a French spelling.
My friend had a daughter with a husband whose last name is Guido. He turned out to be seriously mentally ill and an alcoholic, and she divorced him when her daughter was two and got him out of her life altogether, and changed her and her daughter's last name back to her maiden name.
We have family friends whose last name is Kool. That's not too bad. It is actually Dutch for "cabbage", which isn't all that great a last name, either, but a lot of Dutch people have funny last names. When the Spanish occupied their country, the Dutch didn't use surnames, but the Spaniards insisted they have last names to make their record-keeping easier, so a lot of Dutch people made up stupid family names knowing the Spanish wouldn't know what they meant.
DH and the kids have a Dutch last name, makes life interesting. Also the spelling norms are complicated. If the last name has the prefix "van" it is written "Firstname van Lastname", but "Mr. Firstname/Initial Van Lastname". No one ever gets that. Every one of our legal documents have the last name spelled differently. Some software won't allow the space, etc. We gave our kids common first names to compensate a bit.
Especially since you mention in a followup that your last name is long and hard to pronounce, I think that's even more reason to give your son a short, common first name.
Maybe name him Huck and then call him Huckleberry as a pet name. This kid WILL grow up and have to fill out resumes. He also could be up for teasing in school or oh my gosh....the military.
I think it's a really cute name, but there is more to consider down the road and it really wouldn't be fair to him as an adult.
Don't ask me why this thread suddenly popped into my head as I was watching TV. I have a feeling your husband might not like this name (I thought Finn was a good suggestion myself) but here goes. You could name him Barry and then Huckleberry could just be your husband's little nickname for him. As a nickname, especially for a young child, it's cute. Of course when your son gets older he'll start saying "Don't call me that in front of my friends!" unless he takes after your husband and likes it.
DH and the kids have a Dutch last name, makes life interesting. Also the spelling norms are complicated. If the last name has the prefix "van" it is written "Firstname van Lastname", but "Mr. Firstname/Initial Van Lastname". No one ever gets that. Every one of our legal documents have the last name spelled differently. Some software won't allow the space, etc. We gave our kids common first names to compensate a bit.
Even my sister who has an ex's Irish last name that begins with an O' has problems with computerized names. They just leave off the apostrophe and attach the O to the rest of the name, which is one of the longer Irish names, and telemarketers and doctors' offices come up with some interesting pronounciations.
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