Huckleberry (middle name)

[bugsybill]

Do you think it is a little too try hard? Would normally not care about people's opinions of middle names, but this one has me wondering, so I would like some opinions. He would have more conventional, modern but not top 20 first name.

[Cravingdairy]

I wouldn't, he will have to go through a rigmarole every time he's asked for his middle name.

[squoosh]

For a middle name? Do it.

Huckleberry Finn is an amazing novel to be named after.

[UpTheFRIGGinDuff]

I love Huckleberry...I couldn't do it as a first name,but as a middle? Perfect!

[UpTheFRIGGinDuff]

as long as his first name isn't going to be Finn

[tigrou]

I know a girl named Huckleberry. At first I was a bit but it really suits her now I'm used to it. Actually, I think unusual middle names attract more ridicule that unusual first names, which people just get used to.

[BakingBunty]

DS has Huckleberry as a middle name. Lots of people were a bit when we first announced it (especially the grandparents!) but vast majority of people seem to love it.

DH and I both love American literature from that period and liked the idea of some sort of reference (Moby Dick might have been a bit much!)

His first name is very short and I think it balances it out perfectly.

We've never regretted our choice. Go for it!

[AllegraLilac]

Do it! A close friend used Atticus for her DS middle name, after Atticus Finch. So cool. So edgy, so cultured!

[Rhubarbgarden]

Oh why not, it's what middle names are for.

[Leeds2]

Absolutely not!

Atticus, maybe.

[AuntieStella]

Seriously not my taste, but I think it's fine in the middle (as long as your surname isn't Finn).

[Beccadugs]

If you have the guts go for it... DH and his best mate decided that who ever had a son first would use huckleberry as a first name. DH's best mate was veto-ed and so no DH thinks this will be happening for ours... It won't, but only because I personally don't like it. However you thread has made me chuckle as it is a name dear to my heart!!

[Wbdn28]

Do you think it is a little too try hard?

TBH - yes, sorry.

[Wbdn28]

Atticus is quite faddy now too, and has sprung from nowhere in a short time. Orlando is another one.