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Opinions please..
We're expecting baby 2 in the next few weeks. If it's a boy the wife wants to call him maurice. I'm not so sure. I can only think of maurice green and maurice gibb to be graced by the title. We are avoiding popular /religious /modern names so it ticks those boxes.
P's child 1 is called Stanley. I like arthur if we have a boy but I know the wife will win.
Do you think he'll be a joker?
Perfectly good name for a rusty car or performing dog.
Depends how hard you want his life to be.
I guess you could balance it out with a middle name he can take when he's old enough...
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Could call him the space cowboy
How are you pronouncing it?
Morris or mor-reese?
Stanley is a great name ,tell her she can do better. 🙂
Our #2 is called Morris. And yes, until he's 18 he'll be a minor
@ senorj, Morris Stanley to be precise!
Do you think he'll be a joker?
More likely a midnight toker.
Reginald
Frank
Bert
Humphrey
Wallace
Sidney
Basically the name of the septuagenarian gentleman who sits in the corner of the pub smoking woodbines.
Or maybe a gangster of love?
We are avoiding popular /religious /modern names so it ticks those boxes.
You'd struggle to find a popular name to avoid. In my class at school we had about four or five Stephens, Marks, Andrews and Martins amongst the boys and more Julie, Joannes and Nicholas amongst the girls.
I worked on a project with a class of 40 primary children last year. Non of them had an unsusal name but no two of them had the shared the same name. The trend is to avoid popular names which means theres no name thats especially popular.
Our #2 is called Morris. And yes, until he's 18 he'll be a minor
There was a radio documentary about the workers from the Leyland/Rover plant trying to find new careers after the plant had closed and how difficult it was as many had gone straight into the factory from school so didn't have the qualifications or CV to work in other fields of manufacture but they found that their experience was so particular to that production line they couldn't get work elsewhere in the same industry. So they were all having to go back to square one and make new lives for themselves. One of them was called Morris Minor - talk about nominative determinism!
Morris Stanley is a great name too stabiliser . 🙂
Morris is fine.
A man with a name like that would always have a tidy shed.
You could trust a Morris.
Maurice? Just no.
I get the image of a Yorkshire Terrier humping a cushion.
Anyway, you're right with Arthur.
🙂
I think you should just call him Skulldigger.
William Maurice
All the girls will say it
Also the orangutan out of Planet of the Apes.
For a forename, it's Maurice (like my dad), Morris is a surname - get it right folks!!
For a forename, it's Maurice (like my dad), Morris is a surname - get it right folks!!
Are you going to tell me that Mathews is my middle (and given) name or my surname (which is different)?
OP, no reason not to go for it, don't worry what others say. It'll be shortened to Mo anyway.
Some parents just can't get it right!
I'm putting the kettle on......
Some parents just can't get it right!
No, some parents decided that the family name was too good to give to the girls. 😆
Maurice. Unusual but why not ? Will probably be shortened to Mo or a nickname of Stir Fry from mow-rice ? My kids have fairly unusual names, nothing wrong with that.
If I was named after animated dog I'd be more careful about criticising name choice 😀
What about Ichabod?
Or Adolf. That's due a comeback, surely?
I work with two Maurices. Seems a perfectly normal and OK name to me.
Anthony Cecil Hogmany is surely a winner?
One of the trustees at an old place of work had seven names 😆 the boss has them down to a tee, and the centre cats were Farquar and Ramsley in his honour....
My personal favourite - Vercingetorix...wife was having none of it.
What about Ichabod?Or Adolf. That's due a comeback, surely?
Icabod is a cool name, thinking more a middle name though. Used to know a guy at Morgan Stanley called Adolf, what a strange life he must have.
The wife now thinks I'm shallow and spineless for asking the singletrack massif for opinions...
Mo as a nickname is a bit off putting..reminds me too much of that loon comedian Emo Phillips. Mo farah meh.
Pronounced maureece of course.
Let's hope it's a girl instead..
🙄 😆
I know a Maurice, it is shortened to Mol, in his case...
I associate with America,.... MoReeece, wouldn't be my choice
My choice for a boys name would be...Cabe. Please feel free to use that, I very much doubt i will.
As above. Maurice not Morris .
Good compromise. Just too old fashioned in some ways so you will be seen as a bit trendy and clever but not totally stupid. Apparently Jaxon is popular. WTF that's just some dimwit trying to be clever. Its doubtful if its a first name anyway but to spell it incorrectly 😯
And no, I don't think that kids should be called what ever the parents want.
What's wrong with Wallace? A first name in my dads family but Mum over powered that so it's my middle name.
Let's hope it's a girl instead..
Called Bob. Obviously.
Worked out for this chap, err, sort of?
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A friend of my father was called Maurice. He was a great bloke very interesting and full of stories. He owned a Jaguar dealership and used to race cars as a hobby. This one in fact followed by a Ford GT40 !!!
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Forgot about maurice micklewhite! Even though he's just changed it..
The wife has countered my Internet research by asking the same question on some girlie forum somewhere. Her replies are far too serious. No mention of Steve Miller band, planet of the apes or German leaders....cultured are opinions on this site
The wife has countered my Internet research by asking the same question on some girlie forum somewhere.
Step one - Provide us the link.
Step two - We'll work up a Number 6 on 'em.
I think it'll be fine. Most people these days seem to go for a name not associated with anyone else so he'll be all right.
Many people tried to convince me not to call my boy Gabriel but I won, it suits him and everyone now agrees. 😉
There were 17 Maurices registered in England / Wales last year - so he'll not be alone:
Thanks for the link Stirlingcrispin
That's quite an interesting list ?
i know a Moritz... and several Adolfs.
my sister's little 'un is Stanley.
Sidney goes well with Stanley.
My dad is Maurice. His grandfather was Maurice. As was his grandfather
my first born son is meant to be called Maurice - tho I've not managed to produce any offspring yet
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Nope.
Go with something strong. Isambard won't be a common name for a while.
I always think of the Bee Gees when the name Maurice comes up, but I'm getting on a bit now.
Maurice? Twit twoo
My cats called Morris, hes cool
Maurice cut my hair when I was a kid.
My great uncle Morris "Mossie" was an interesting character, got "emigrated" back from Chicago to Ireland at end of 1920s.
Maurice Oldfield, the man on whom George Smiley was based.
Maurice Bowra
Maurice White in earth wind and Fire...
And then Chevalier.... Strange how they don't play "thank heavens for little girls" anymore...
Wouldn't be my first choice but one of my sons has Lorenzo as a middle name...
Maurice is OK but how about Snake (as in Plissken) 😀
[quote=maccruiskeen ]You'd struggle to find a popular name to avoid. In my class at school we had about four or five Stephens, Marks, Andrews and Martins amongst the boys and more Julie, Joannes and Nicholas amongst the girls.
I worked on a project with a class of 40 primary children last year. Non of them had an unsusal name but no two of them had the shared the same name. The trend is to avoid popular names which means theres no name thats especially popular.
Good anecdote! A few names which are shared by more than one child in both my kids' classes. There certainly are more popular names even if people do try to avoid them - if you want a name which is currently uncommon then you could do worse than to pick from your list of names of schoolmates (the name of one of my sons is on that list - I'm yet to come across another child with that name, nor that of my other son which was also a popular name amongst my schoolmates).
Though I'm curious about a couple of things - if there were 4 or 5 of each of those boys' names in your class, were there no boys with any other names, or how big was your class? Nicholas also seems quite a strange name for a girl.
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The great:
fantastic bloke!
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My old boss, as Welsh as they cone was called Maurice Prenderghast
I have a nephew called Austin.
OP - sorry, I think Maurice is not a great name.
Morris is better, but it breaches the little rule I have about never substituting a Christian name for a surname (Mason, Tucker, Riley etc).
I heard of a newborn boy who had been named Cromarty after the shipping forecast sea area; I rather like it.
We had Mallory and Sterling on our boy's name list, amongst others.
I like the name OP. My advice, having had (still have) 2 children, is keep the names to yourself until it's too late. The only opinions that matter are the parents'. I guess the childs' too but by the time they're old enough to have an voice theirs it's too late.
We avoided any names in the top 50-100 ish as we didn't want either of them to be amongst 10 other 'Alfie' or 'Jack' in the class.
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Makes me think of the EM Forster novel
Makes me think of Maurice Moss.
Makes me think of the EM Forster novel
Yessss. Pronounced Morris, IIRC.
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.
Makes me think of Maurice Moss.
Yup. Or a mild mannered civil servant who has a secret double life as an Austin Maestro enthusiast (he has five, and a Montego).
It would be ok as long as the surname is not "Day"
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Pronounced Morris, an excellent choice. The other way can't be said without a hint of 70's hairdresser campness, which is also excellent if that's what you're aiming for.
Maurice... and I thought I had it rough with my gf dead set on calling our boy Jackson (which sounds far too American to me)!
you did ask for opinion, my opinion is it's not very good, in fact it's awful. What about Rowan?
It's up there with Malcolm or Trevor....... Don't do it!
Would Albert fit both your requirements...?
My Dad is Sidney Maurice ,as was his father he always hated it and the lack of originality hence we all have unusual names as he didn`t want to follow the herd
Austin?
I know of someone whos full name is "Austin Steele" - cool as ****.
I wanted to call our lad Arnold. I was over ruled.
Sadly too many Jacks, Luke, etc. Maurice is cool. Morrie would be his nickname?
Everyone is trying so damn hard to be middle class and unique that it all just ends up being diluted chavvery.
I've a friend who has given their child the surname of a 19th century poet as a first name. Poor wee guy!
Not read all this, but I went to school in the eighties with the name Arthur and it made my life hell! Moving to a new school and having people laugh in your face when they heard your name was not the best start. Kids are cruel, why put a target around your child's neck? I changed to my middle name the moment I left school and it was a weight off of my shoulders.
Funny how all the names come and go and people on this very thread are discussing the name Arthur. If you live in the south they will be known as arfur! Given their time again my parents would not have cursed me with that name, any abuse I got over it(lots) was passed on to them.
Maurice?! Just call the poor bugger Sue and be done with it!
A Hora, I see you are up there again giving your point of view on something you haven't experienced. Your name is Mark, how the hell would you know?
Maurice?! Just call the poor bugger Sue and be done with it!
I used to work with a lad called Tracey, no one took the rip and he was a sound lad.
You used to work with a a man named Tracey, you didn't go to school with a thirteen year old of that name. You can eventually grow into a name, but the process can be a painful one.
[i]Sadly too many Jacks, Luke, etc.[/i]
Is Luke a popular name now?
I'm 50 and can probably count the number of Lukes I've met in my life on both hands and one foot.
Given the name was also one of the apostles I never understood why Matthew, Mark and John were ubiquitous yet my name appeared to be ignored by parents.
Being called Maxwell growing up in the 70's in the Black Country wasn't my moms best idea, like the boy named Sue though it taught me how to stand up for myself.
My moms justification was that I would sound posh when going for a job interview and was originally going to call me Simon but didn't want people calling me simple..... got to love em !!
My eldest son is Luke, the only one in his class, 44th most popular boys name.