What names should you not name a Catholic boy?

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Sometimes it gets confusing depending on where you’re from too. “Ashley” is a fun one. Over here, it’s definitely a female name - but when I speak to my colleagues in the UK there’s a man named Ashley, and it’s apparently a male name there.
 
I’ve been holding off on this story, because I don’t want to derail this thread. It’s not about a child, but rather our dog.
Years ago, we got a new puppy we named “Pilot”. We used to attend a Sunday Evening mass, and we would bring Pilot and leave him in a box in our car during the service. Afterward - a lot of our friends would gather outside the church, and we would often get Pilot - and people would ooh and aah over him But over the course of a month or so, I was taken aback as about a dozen people had asked me if we had named him after “Pontius Pilate”. At first, I thought people were joking, so I just laughed it off. But after about the twelfth time I was asked this - I looked at the woman who asked me that and I said “Yeah, we named him after Pontius Pilate”. She was so shocked - she looked at me in horror and said “Well, you won’t be able to bring him into the church then”. (And here I am thinking - well, I don’t think I’m supposed to bring him into the church anyway). I guess my lesson is - don’t even name your child something that could be misconstrued as something else.
 
redbetta said:
I’ve never even heard of the movie Omen until this thread. So, I think Damian is a safe name. I’m considering it for one of my sons.
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“Damian” is actually one of the saints mentioned in the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer 1) of the Mass.
 
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt is probably a no-go.

But what a catchy song…
 
My 59-year-old husbands name is officially Ricky, but we just call him Rick. 😉
 
I like the name myself. I have a Brahma Bull on my ranch that I named that, however. He did not take kindly to it one little bit, though. Oh well. Not everyone has a sense of humor.
 
As it is with the rest of my life, this topic reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. George wanted his future kid to have the name “Seven” because that was Mickey Mantle’s number. Jerry replied, “Seven? Yeah, I guess I could see it. Seven periods of school, seven beatings a day. Roughly seven stitches a beating and eventually seven years to life. Yeah, you’re doing that kid quite a service. “
 
If you must name him Annibale, have a talk with him before letting him read online blogs and forums about the order of the Mass.
 
I suppose Judas, Pontius, Caesar, Nero, Adolf, Caligula, Calvin, Wesley, Cain, Asmodeus, Asmedai, Nebuchadnezzar, Gomer, Ichabod, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, Damien, Baghdadi, Mel Gibson, Luther, and Lex Luthor come to mind.
 
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Augustinian said:
The Pittsburgh baseball team had a “Pagan” playing when I was a kid. Good chance he was Catholic as he was from Puerto Rico.
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Let’s not forget the Buffalo Sabres hockey player named “Satan” who eventually ended up on the New Jersey Devils (I kid you not).

Although I believed the name was pronounced “ShaTAN”, as he was from Slovakia, I believe.
 
shainski said:
I’ve been holding off on this story, because I don’t want to derail this thread. It’s not about a child, but rather our dog.

Years ago, we got a new puppy we named “Pilot”. We used to attend a Sunday Evening mass, and we would bring Pilot and leave him in a box in our car during the service. Afterward - a lot of our friends would gather outside the church, and we would often get Pilot - and people would ooh and aah over him But over the course of a month or so, I was taken aback as about a dozen people had asked me if we had named him after “Pontius Pilate”. At first, I thought people were joking, so I just laughed it off. But after about the twelfth time I was asked this - I looked at the woman who asked me that and I said “Yeah, we named him after Pontius Pilate”. She was so shocked - she looked at me in horror and said “Well, you won’t be able to bring him into the church then”. (And here I am thinking - well, I don’t think I’m supposed to bring him into the church anyway). I guess my lesson is - don’t even name your child something that could be misconstrued as something else.
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Or the Puritan roommate who named his donkey “Tribulation”:

 
To be fair, there IS St Judas Thaddeus, great Saint, let’s not let the name of the one who betrayed Our Lord obscure him, but yeah, naming a kid Judas is kinda weird
 
How about a little spanish jingo and call him “Josue de Jesús” pretty common in the spanish speaking world and it basically means Joshua of Jesus
 
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