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Following the example of a prior poster I asked my 5 kids and my wife this question. Unfortunately they split 2 said it is a great name, 2 said terrible and two were undecided.
Were you the only kid that was picked on? Kids with common names were not bothered? This is not my experience.
If you want your kids to be immune from bullies, home school them. that will work until they get into the business world.
It doesn't matter if other kids were picked on. I was. And it wasn't nice. Others had allegedly "regular" hindu names in a country with a hindu religious majority, whereas it was the common habit to give christian names to dogs and other pets, intended to demean the British.
But whatever the theory, I was at the receiving end until I took matters into my own hands
And it's not about homeschooling them. If such a regular name which happens to be a derivative of one of the Apostles can become a funny colloquial equivalent of cowdung, then imagine the plight of H U C K, which rhymes with the most infamous English word. A responsible parent would think of such stuff and pick a safer name, and not pay unnecessary tribute to Mark Twain at a kid's expense.
I have a very unusual first name, that had family meaning for my parents. Never had pencils or stickers with my name on them. Aside from the fact that people I just meet usually mispronounce it I have had no issues. I never got teased about my name, and I named my own daughter an uncommon name as well. Her name is Chloe, because her father and I met at a concert at college while the song Chloe Dancers was being played and because it translates so well to Hawaiian (she is 1/4 hawaiian) Kaloe. In her school of 1700 other students there are literally no other Chloes though it has apparently become quite popular for the under 10 set.
I know that my daughter loves the reason I picked her name and that it has more meaning than that I liked the way it sounded in the baby book. I asked my now late teenage daughter and she suggest an amalgam of what was already suggested, name him Huckleberry Finn Lastname. That way if he does not like his first name, or even huck, he can go by finn.
But if the name has significant meaning for you or your husband, I would go with that name, but if it is just for the sake of the sound of the name, maybe go with something a little more conventional.
it translates so well to Hawaiian (she is 1/4 hawaiian) Kaloe.
I'd have kept the Hawaiian spelling.
(And I like katsu chicken and fried baloney in my plate lunch, thank you very much. Or should I say mahalo. We have more in common than you probably think.)
Maybe Chuck or Charlie and as a nickname leave the C off and just call him Huck. I love the name Charlie. There's just something sweet and cool about it.
It doesn't matter if other kids were picked on. I was. And it wasn't nice. Others had allegedly "regular" hindu names in a country with a hindu religious majority, whereas it was the common habit to give christian names to dogs and other pets, intended to demean the British.
But whatever the theory, I was at the receiving end until I took matters into my own hands
And it's not about homeschooling them. If such a regular name which happens to be a derivative of one of the Apostles can become a funny colloquial equivalent of cowdung, then imagine the plight of H U C K, which rhymes with the most infamous English word. A responsible parent would think of such stuff and pick a safer name, and not pay unnecessary tribute to Mark Twain at a kid's expense.
My point is that kids do not get picked exclusively on because of their name. Their name may become the focus of harassment, but if the same person had a boring name, they would still get picked on. Even boring named kids get picked on about their name. Don becomes Don-bat, Donb (made to sound like dumb), Donk, Dork, you name it. Todd becomes Turd. Larry becomes Hairy or fairy. It is not the name that causes the harassment, it is the bully.
If you want to prevent your kids name from ever becoming the target of a bully, then you need to name them "_____________"
Fred has some nasty rhymes, so do Mary, Jane, Sue. . . .
There are a few names that do not rhyme with anything, but how many kids can we name Orange?
I rather like the name Huck; I like short--almost terse--and alliterative names for men. Sam Stone. Nick Nolte. They sound like reporters. John Jones. Huck Harris.
However, for a little boy, I think the teasing would be pretty bad. Huckleberry Finn Lastname would be really bad. I knew a Christopher Robin Lastname. His mom called him Christopher Robin all the time.
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