An oldie but goodie??

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Would you believe my husband just in all seriousness suggested "Barbas" as a boy name? Eldred and Rainer also. Wolfgang is the only one I even remotely would consider, but it would be paired with Amadeus just like Mozart. Vast difference in Wolfgang Amadeus to Theodore Ambrose and Gabriel (Beauregard/Hollis) isn't there?

What would you think if you saw a kid named Wolfgang?


Edit to update: He got Barbas from the immortal dog in Skyrim. It's master is Clavicus Vile. Just....UGH!

Comments

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

I don't get the reference of Wolfgang to Puck? But I do remember the roommate of Puck on Real World. I hated him, I hated the show, but mostly I hated him. His name was really David if I'm right though.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I actually know the chef and it never entered my head. Not once. It's the Violet Beauregarde thing all over again!

All I know is that he married some chick named Betty and sadly they reproduced. I know this because my latest baby name book has a section that lists the names of celebrity babies and I saw him listed as the parent.

[carafbaby.livejournal.com]

thats exactly what i thought of.

[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

my thought process exacttllyyy

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I'd think that child's parents were trying to special snowflake it up.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh hard enough that I snorted.

[serenebean.livejournal.com]

That's kind of a lot to live up to, don't you think? I'm a musician, and I don't think I could ever name a kid after a composer. AND Mozart is one that we teach kids about reeeeeally early in music classes, so I have to think there would be some teasing there too.

Seconding the reference to Wolfgang Puck too, though. I would probably think of that first, to be honest, because I think "Mozart" waaaay before I think "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart." (Oh! And Wolfgang Puck is a famous chef...saw you asked that! :) )

I don't know if I've mentioned this in your past posts, but I am loving Theodore Ambrose...they're each okay names, but together they're fantastic! :D

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Theodore Ambrose is my leading name for the boy list. If I have a boy this is likely going to be the name I go with. I don't know what my husband started smoking or when he found time to smoke it, but I'm not letting him name our boy Barbas.

I do think you have a really valid point in Mozart being taught to young kids, and that being a possible source of ridicule.

Yeah I totally gapped on Wolfgang Puck. I know he's a chef but the reference completely hid in a corner of my mind behind some boxes, snacking on some doritos when the world wasn't looking. I am so ashamed.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I would not be able to get the Mozart reference out of my head, especially if paired with Amadeus. That would be beyond distracting.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Wolfgang is one of my most detested names.

When I did a genealogical record on Ancestry.com earlier this year I had a lot of male relatives named Barbas. This was in the 1500's though.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I like the nn Wolfe. :) Or maybe even Wolfie.

(In my head I hear Barbas as Barb-Ass. Not good.)

[rubberducky1467.livejournal.com]

I recognized Barbas straight off. How many times do you encounter a talking dog? He was pretty freaking sweet! That being said, I probably wouldn't use it as a name. XD

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

You want to know the funniest thing? He hates that freaking dog with the fury of a thousand burning suns but likes the name. I can't use Cassandra (I've always loved Cassie!!!) because he has an ex girlfriend from long ago by that name, but an association to a fake dog that he hates more is perfectly fine.

Confused.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I had a cousin wolfgang. I never met him but I was penpals with his sister for like 11 years. they called him Wolfi.

[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

I know a grown man from my home town called Wolfgang. The town only has 900 people so he's typical a typical man's man, 4-wheelers, skidoos, rub some dirt in it, drive a Hummer into a lake by accident sort of guy. He's the only thing I can think of and I'd probably expect the child to be just as rough and tumble.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

While I am a huge fan of Mozart, I'm a bigger fan of the name Amadeus than Wolfgang. And I think together it might be a tad much.

I still love Theodore Ambrose and Gabriel though :)

[skate97.livejournal.com]

I'm rather fond of Rainer. But my husband used it as a character in the novel he was working on when we started dating, so it's always had a special place for me. (I know you have settled on your names from a later post, just sayin ;)