What do you think of this boys name?

[Junglemum]

I like it, I don't love it, but like it. and no I wouldn't tease someone with the name Mix.

Unfortunately I think teasing is often more about picking on a weak link rather than a particular name... I know kids with very common names who are picked on and kids with unusual names who are not. The reverse is obviously also true.

[Traveller]

I didn't like it when I started reading this thread, but I do now. Give me a month and I think I would probably love it as an unusual, but easy to spell and pronounce, name.

[JLeigh29]

Lol, Cherished, it was you!
Whenever I introduce DS, 1/2 the time people say 'What? Oh, that's unusual!' (ie, the polite ones) and the other 1/2 say something that's not so polite. I think they're rude, but I don't think it's teasing.
I personally would NEVER tease anyone about their name under any circumstances (to their face ). But then again, I wouldn't tease anyone about any aspect of themselves (I was teased for being skinny/smart/wearing glasses/having braces, you name it, growing up! Now those are all things I love about myself! lol). Maybe that's just me, but it doesn't make me feel good to belittle someone else. However, there will always be people out there who feel the need to have power over others, and teasing is one way they feel they can do that...
Kids will rhyme with his name or relate it to something else they know (as in the Jett scenario), but it's rarely meant to harm. At my school, the 'cool' kids got a nickname, usually related to their name in some way, so if your Mix got nicknamed the Mix-Master, I'd see it as a compliment rather than teasing. That's not to say he would see it that way. I've heard adults with unusual names change them or resent them because they were teased or stood out, but a lot of people change their name to something more unique as they get older. Who knows how kids will react?
GL with your decision!!

[LimeSlice]

pmsl Lily.

I was a Sexist, From Texas. Apparently.
I thought that one was rather creative, after enduring years of "four eyes" boredom

[Arimeh]

I was a Sexist, From Texas. Apparently.

*puts hand up*

Smelly Melly here.

[mrsmac]

I agree with the person who said they had been teaching and never heard kids tease about names. I have been teaching in a number of schools for a loooong time and have never heard kids being teased about their names> I have taught children with very unusual multicultural names and those with just plain unusual ones and to be honest kids don't give a toss at primary school (I can't say for HS).
I don't like the name personally but its not my baby so it doesn't matter!!

[Indadhanu]

LOL Mix-Master! That's a cool nickname hehe!

[peanutter]

I like it, I don't love it, but like it. and no I wouldn't tease someone with the name Mix.

Unfortunately I think teasing is often more about picking on a weak link rather than a particular name... I know kids with very common names who are picked on and kids with unusual names who are not. The reverse is obviously also true.

yeah, that.

To answer your question, no, I would not tease a kid called Mix.

And while I definately do remember getting teased about their names, just as many got teased with normal names (even if other, more popular kids had exactly the same names!!) as kids with unusual names.

And surnames copped more of a beating!!

But it's not as if some kid was picked on just because of their name - if the kids hadn't been able to think up something to do with the name, it would have been teasing based on another attribute/event/whatever.

I think it had little to do with the name.

That all being said, as I said earlier, I think teasing could well occur.

So little Mix will just have to be uber cool, and be the mix-master

NB: kids aren't always all that original ... I'm sure Mix or you and your DP or some of us here could think up some pretty witty retorts if needed "Oi, that's SIR mix-a-lot to you ..."