The very frustrating scrabble board rule states that if you can legally play it on a scrabble board, then it is not even allowed on the list of potential baby names for our family. Infuriating.
Fortunately have found some names that we both like.
I think the world could do with some more Basils I don't mind the name. Having been a teachers' assistant in a very multicultural area of Melbourne for 5 years I've heard and worked with some very unusual names. I can't remember who said it but it's true: you might hear of an unusual name and make a judgement... but when you are interacting with them daily the name takes on an individual meaning relating to THAT person. I'll never forget the start of one year and being shown the class list for the students that were about to begin. My eyebrows were certainly raised! But it only took a few days before I thought absolutely nothing of those names... it was all about the child. We even had one child that was given the name of a number. I couldn't believe it. But it soooo suited this child and now I even LOVE that as a name. Oh and teachers will probably be quite grateful... unusual names are MUCH easier to work with than having 4 kids in the same class with the same name... which has happened before and really turned me off those names.
I love it - it's the kind of name that makes you smile - try saying "hi Basil" without a smile on your face (not a make-fun-of smile, a genuinely happy smile)
I say go for it!! Baz is an awesome NN and once he's in school he would most likely jsut be called that all the time... and then Basil fits the current trends in names around too (retro, nouns, nature names etc).
Basil Fawlty is the only Basil I think of but I LOVE Fawlty Towers so that's a huge plus for me
Y'know I don't think the Fawlty Towers link is going to be as strong, or even evident at all amongst this child's peers. They will "look" at the name with a relatively fresh viewpoint. John Cleese is a fairly well known celebrity for us but he wont be forever. My name was partly inspired by a "Big" movie of 1969 and partly my family heritage. I am finding that it's only generations of my age or older (I'm 41) who even remember the name in the movie. We all like to believe that our generations Pop Culture icons will be the enduring ones... but only a few of each generation remain... this I'm sure will work in this names favour. Afterall nobody let Aunty Jack (1970's TV comedian) put anyone off calling their child Jack!
Nah, it can’t be Barry because we already call DD Barry as her nickname, and Gary or Larry too! (She’s Harriet and gets Harri and then it all gets a bit silly, as you do).
And it would be first name or bust I reckon, no middle name second chances.
It’ll be a girl though.
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I don't mind the name. Having been a teachers' assistant in a very multicultural area of Melbourne for 5 years I've heard and worked with some very unusual names. I can't remember who said it but it's true: you might hear of an unusual name and make a judgement... but when you are interacting with them daily the name takes on an individual meaning relating to THAT person. I'll never forget the start of one year and being shown the class list for the students that were about to begin. My eyebrows were certainly raised! But it only took a few days before I thought absolutely nothing of those names... it was all about the child. We even had one child that was given the name of a number. I couldn't believe it. But it soooo suited this child and now I even LOVE that as a name. Oh and teachers will probably be quite grateful... unusual names are MUCH easier to work with than having 4 kids in the same class with the same name... which has happened before and really turned me off those names.
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