WDYT?

[erikalyn.livejournal.com]

Dex as a name on its own - yay or nay?

Comments

[trishy-h.livejournal.com]

A resounding nay. Dexter or nothing.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Exactly this!

[uppity-heathen.livejournal.com]

it's a nickname for the drug people drink in cough syrup to get high.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

huh. never head that one before.

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

agreed! i was going to say Dex is a drug synonmous with robotussin!

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i've never heard of anyone calling dxm "dex". either way, it's not like he's naming the baby "coke" or anything. haha. i doubt many people would immediately think "cough syrup"

[taraemily.livejournal.com]

Nay.

[ivegotbaggage.livejournal.com]

Nay.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

It's not enough for a name. As a nickname for Dexter it's fine, but not as a full name.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Nay. Dexter as the full name, Dex as the nickname.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the baby name devil's advocate, but I don't see why it can't be a name on it's own if you like it. *shrug*

[skate97.livejournal.com]

Because maybe someone else's opinion of a "full sounding name" isn't the same as the parents, who will name him, or the child, who's name it will be. I think people become their names. I know people who were named shortened versions of what others consider "full sounding names", and they are very adament that their names are their names, not the elongated version.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Nex.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

nay, please, please, please.

[silvergirl22.livejournal.com]

Nayyyyyy to the extreme lol

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Nay but I hate Dexter as a full name as well.

[fangirlism]

Nay. Way nay. It's a nickname, not a full name, to me.

Edit: As an aside, I love your name ;)

[autophoblamb.livejournal.com]

God no!

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I think it's ok - but I seem to be the minority.

I wouldn't choose it for my kid, but I think it's fine as a name.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

it's not my style, but it's not awful. i have a friend who goes by dex. his full name is dijon i think...

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the name of the phonebook guy who sits inside the cupboards on the commercials until someone opens it and asks him a question?

[atangerinesky.livejournal.com]

nay

[invisiblepet.livejournal.com]

Does not bother me at all.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i like dexter better and rex even more, but i think dex is fine

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

One of Dana Carvey's sons is named Dex. Just Dex, as far as I have heard.

Just in case you have no idea who Dana Carvey is - he's from SNL and is Garth on Wayne's World.