What names should you not name a Catholic boy?

[jgaw1234]

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[Limoncello4021]

Sue
Haha–from Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue…“and if I ever have a son, I think I’ll name him…Bill or George; anything but SUE!”

 

[porthos11]

There’s an abundance of unusual names nowadays, some of which sound a bit odd. I would just focus on what TO name a boy. A saint’s name, of course! : )

Like St. Lucifer of Cagliari?

 

[Augustinian]

There was a hockey player for the Pittsburgh hockey team a few years ago whose name was “Satan”.

 

[JamalChristophr]

Right you are! It was his last name, though.

 

[Greenfields]

I’m not sure about the name Devilin,I met a boy about 8 who was a real little rascal and cute, but very misbehaving and it just sounded wrong

 

[adamhovey1988]

Used to work with a girl whose last name is pagan. She is Catholic. Jack Chick was right!

 

[2towers]

Aside from avoiding the Islamic names, naming your child after a Saint still works, plus he will have a patron saint looking after him in addition to his guardian angel. Aside from that, no “cutesie” names like Biff. Nothing embarrassing like Clarence or Myron.

 

[Augustinian]

Used to work with a girl whose last name is pagan.

The Pittsburgh baseball team had a “Pagan” playing when I was a kid. Good chance he was Catholic as he was from Puerto Rico.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Gomer

Wasn’t Gomer the name of someone’s unfaithful wife in the Bible? I seem to recall Gomer became a prostitute.

Edited to add yep, book of Hosea, she was a “harlot”

 

[Augustinian]

Wasn’t Gomer the name of someone’s unfaithful wife in the Bible? I seem to recall Gomer became a prostitute.

There is more than 1 Gomer in the bible, Gomer was also a grandson of Noah.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Some more names to skip:

Herod
Nero
Gestas
Adolf

 

[Entwhistler]

And a character in the Andy Griffith Show.

 

[JamalChristophr]

Would Gandalf or Bilbo be OK?

I thing Smeagal is not bad.

 

[Cruciferi]

Wormtongue and Sméagol

 

[2towers]

…And then there is:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...9f8a960e4b0d1cf6e90c17e?utm_hp_ref=baby-names

German law prohibits names that might bring harm to the child, such as Lucifer. The US of course has no such laws and in 2016 13 boys in the US were named Lucifer. I wonder how much of that has to do with the TV show.

 

[dallas_r]

The BVM took over lucifer (light bearer’s) place now. Fr mike schmitz made a whole video about it, im pretty sure…

 

[Cruciferi]

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[redbetta]

When naming your kid, one must also keep in mind that they will grow up some day and what sounded cute as a baby might be embarrassing for an adult, especially an adult male.

Also, ideally, both parents have a say, but, if dad is unavailable, it may be prudent to run a name by another man before naming your son to avoid inadvertently naming your boy a very effeminate guy name just because it sounds nice to you. I’m a girl and I was surprised when my guy friend who read a chapter from my novel says that my male characters’ names sound Twilight-ish. I was understandably mortified.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I tend to favor good old saint and biblical names like Joseph, Michael, Anthony, Francis and Patrick, that sort of thing.