Atticus

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Do you like it?

Love it?

Hate it?

Don't care either way?

Have some other opinion of it?

Discuss!

It's one of the final four names on our list and I can't decide if I love it or hate it (there's fine line between love and hate, ya know).

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I'm not a big fan. I know a baby named Atticus.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

Obviously it reminds me of To Kill A Mockingbird but I still think its cute

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I keep thinking it's too literary.

I'm okay with the literary connection (I did like the book), but I swear it's not the reason I'm considering the name.

[mossmade.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan.
Sounds like the kid comes from the attic...

[corielcries.livejournal.com]

I liked it because of the literature connection at first. The name grew on me and now I love the feel of it.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

I like it.

[myiris.livejournal.com]

I really like this name a lot. It's on my 'guilty pleasures' list, but only because my wife thinks it's too out-there or whatever. Granted, it's a bit uncommon and I can't really think of a shortened form/NN for it, but I still think it is a great name. If you're on the fence about it, maybe it'd be better as a middle name. I have a friend that used it as such for her son.

[bekahbaby.livejournal.com]

I LOVE this name! It's one of my favorites :) I think it's really cute and I love the literary connection, too. I like a lot of literary names, though. I always thought that Atticus Sawyer made a great combo.

[birdsonthewire.livejournal.com]

i just can't separate it from To Kill a Mockingbird. If i had heard it in another context, i probably would think it was too old fashioned and strange sounding but given that i know it's literary roots, that's all i can think of it as.

so either way i doubt i would use it. Though i do like it better because it's from such a great book.

[summer-mommy.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I like it. I don't love it. I don't hate it. It's not the most awful thing I've ever heard. But it almost makes me think of Anikan Skywalker from the Star Wars movies. lol.

[summer-mommy.livejournal.com]

And really -- I know that's ridiculous, because the names are nothing alike. But that's what comes to mind. I apologize for my weird preggo brain. It's fried. For sure.

[blosmbee.livejournal.com]

I think it's a little pretentious, but I don't hate it. All my negative assumptions are towards the parents that picked it, not the kid that got saddled with the name.

[matika88.livejournal.com]

no not at all, mostly because there is no nickname to fall back on.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I would never use a name so trendy that it's popularity curve looked like a (and I'll bet you anything it gets even more so once the 2010 figures are out)... but the sound itself isn't too bad, I suppose. ()

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

*its

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

And what happened to my HTML?!


I would never use a name so trendy that it's popularity curve looked like a cliff (http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager/#prefix=attic&ms=false&exact=false)...

[joereaves.livejournal.com]

not hugely keen on the sound of it but I do like the associations (there are certainly worse characters to be names after).

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Don't hate it or love it. I feel like people who use it do so for the sole purpose of proving exactly how literary they are.

[azalea581.livejournal.com]

I love it!!
When I worked at daycares 10-11 years ago (wow, I'm getting old) I knew a kid named Atticus. I fell in love with that name!.
We called him Atty.

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I really love Atticus in theory, but I don't think that I would use it for my child. Although To Kill a Mockingbird is pretty standard required reading in most high schools, I still think most people see it as a "weird" name. I would definitely use it on a pet, but I would probably use a more "normal" name for my child. Just a personal preference since I already have a weird last name.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

My word, that's atrocious!

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

I hate To Kill a Mockingbird, so I wouldn't use it, but I think it's a fine name.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

I think it's okay, but too trendy right now.

[coffeecup37.livejournal.com]

It's my #1 one for a boy at the moment but my partner has vetoed it. I'm quite sad about it, really!

[quitmyscene.livejournal.com]

Absolutely love it. One of my top combos is Desmond Atticus - I think it works better in the middle name slot (maybe just because I can't think of anything I love for a middle name for it).

[frost.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this name the other day; I kind of like it. =)
It used to make me think of To Kill a Mockingbird all the time, but I'm able to think about it without the automatic literary connotation now.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Whoa. =|

[lethe-cat.livejournal.com]

I like it in theory but most people will see it as a weird name. It'll really depend on whether the kid is cool enough to own the name, cause I can see a nerdy kid named Atticus being made fun of very quickly.

If you really love the name use it as a middle name.

[patsfan610.livejournal.com]

i love it! i know a baby named Atticus, he has a twin sister Beatrix

[lovetherobots.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, Desmond Atticus is a FANTASTIC name!

[lovetherobots.livejournal.com]

Total guilty pleasure name for me! I would never actually have the guts to use it because of the literary connotation. I might consider it as a middle name, though!

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I've seen Ace and Atty used as nicknames for it. I'm not sure I feel about them, especially Atty since my best friend has an Addison/Addi. Which is probably more reason why I should just nix Atticus anyway.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

are you calling me pretentious?! no, jk. actually, i kind of agree and it's one of the reasons i can't fully get behind using it.