WDYT?

[taleofaredhead.livejournal.com]

WDYT of Ambrose (for a boy) as either a first or middle name?

Comments

[piercedlovex.livejournal.com]

I probably sound like an idiot, but how is it pronounced?

[taleofaredhead.livejournal.com]

Like it's spelled is the best I can offer: am-bro-ss :\

[kitallani.livejournal.com]

I love it!

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

I love it.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I think of Stephen E. Ambrose, and I love his books - so it's a good name to me. I would only use it as a middle though.

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

i just think of the constant teasing that would arise once he hits age 10 or so.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

i see it totally as a girls name like a cross between Amber and Rose. so NOT a boys name.

[frankmancini.livejournal.com]

Ambrose is a great name.. we're thinking of it ourselves, after my favorite writer, Ambrose Bierce.

mommyaubrey: It is certainly not even close to a girl's name, it is a traditionally male name, very popular about a century and a half ago.

[frankmancini.livejournal.com]

explain this to me? how is ambrose a teasable name?

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

For me, Ambrose always brings to mind a quiet, bookish child. :)
Hmm, I'm not quite sure how I feel about this name... I like it more than I dislike it, though.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Lol, what? I don't see that at all.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Too old fashioned for me. Great middle name. Not so much a first name. I see an Ambrose being made fun of as a kid.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Too pretentious, old-fashioned and slightly feminine, imo.
I know it's legit for a boy, it just has what I consider a feminine tinge.

[inmeggsyoutrust.livejournal.com]

In my head I see a class of little boys with "normal" names an one named Ambrose but being ridiculed as Rosie, amber, or any other girl name that could be formed from Ambrose. That's pretty much the only way I can explain it.

And by "normal" I guess I mean standard/modern boy names. Ambrose just seems too old fashioned.
I never said it was a 'bad' name, but based on what my peers when I was a kid made fun of I just feel that a boy named Ambrose would be teased a lot.
Kids tend to find any/everything to tease someone about.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I think it's fine as a middle name. I went to a Catholic high school, so when I graduated there were at least 4 guys with Ambrose as a middle name because it's a Catholic saint (There were a few Benedicts and an Aloysius, too).

[raisintree.livejournal.com]

LOVE Ambrose and plan on using it as a middle name.

[queenfinn.livejournal.com]

Middle name.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

While I love it - I'm a sucker for old-fashioned, almost archaic names - I think these days it is more suited to a portly and compacent church cat than a child (OTOH, it would make a better second name, since it would be easier to live with when an adult)

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i really like it, but probably because i've seen the name in practice... an actor at my high school was named ambrose, and it *totally* suits him.