it’s what my dad wanted to name me if i were born a boy. my mom wanted to name me marco, which is more common than cernunnos. I have never heard the name before.
It’s a good name for a baby born with horns protruding from its head.
Damn. Reading this too late to help my horny boy. He gets mocked relentlessly at school for his horns and the name I gave him. I named him Tiny-penis. Which in retrospect I can see how young boys might mock that name.
Depends. For getting teased by other kids? Absolutely.
At least marco is a common name where people won’t bat an eye if you were named that
I’d probably still blink as normal but yeah the name wouldn’t strike me as odd
Horned Demon and Marco Polo jokes aside, I say run with it. As much as millennials get crapped on for choosing weird names they’ve at least suck to it and I’d hope it would make room for more names. It has meaning to you, go for it.
Every kid will get picked on for their name at some point.
Your father might be a witch.
well its an unique name, I haven’t heard it before!
I actually have, it’s an extremely obscure Celtic god. I first heard of him in Smite, though.
Anything that is not Jack or Ted or Phil or Chris or Mike or Jordan or Justin or Jason or Larry or Pete… Is good
Yes, your child will not be bullied and everyone will think extra highly of them. It also reflects positively on you as a parent and highlights to everyone how your particular kid is more special than others.
No. Kids won’t be able to pronounce it, teachers won’t be able to pronounce it, job interviewers won’t be able to pronounce it, medical personal won’t be able to pronounce it, etc.
Every single one of these moments is avoidable, and no amount of these moments is worth ‘having the kid with the interesting name’.
I’m an adult and I don’t even know how the fuck to say it.
He’s an old Celtic God, god of the wild and the likes. It’s likely to be a sticking point for bullies in schools honestly. Which sucks because by all accounts he was kind of a bad ass.
I really can’t see any benefits to the kid in saddling him with a name like that.
I wouldn’t think so, mostly because it’s long and not straightforward to read/pronounce.
I find my parents approach to naming to be quite reasonable : Give a short and easy to pronounce/understand first name, and a more creative/interesting and longer second name.
Short names generally make things easier, and about half of the people I know that have long first names (3 or more syllables) have adopted a shortened version of their name or an unrelated nickname for everyday use.
Steffie instead of Stephanie, tini instead of christine, Ulli instead of ulrich, johan for Johannes, max for Maximilian…
From what I get, the name is so bad, that when creating your character you choose to be born as a girl and transition latter so you would-be called Marco. Looks like you knew before being born that the name was bad 😂
Honestly fuck what these other people are saying, I have a hard to pronounce somewhat unique name and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love my name. Not saying I was never picked on for it, quite the opposite, but it’s not like being named Brandon / Braeden / Braydon would have changed that.
It depends on the region and culture you were born into, but I’m gonna have to lean toward no since I can’t personally find any evidence that any other person has ever had this name. It’d make it hard to find shirts and stuff that already have your name printed on them
American of Russian and Swedish descent, but yeah
