Message: "Boyd" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Boyd

by carmags

9/22/2010, 8:37 AM

Boyd is another family name we are considering for Peter's brother. What are your impressions of the name? Does the name inspire any images or associations? Please be honest. Thanks!

#Boyd

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- Anneza

9/22/2010, 11:39 PM

Forever young; and not in a good way. Plus, it sounds like a suppressed burp or the croak of a distant frog. As I said about Walker, it'd be absolutely fine as a mn, but not for everyday use.

- gigibee

9/22/2010, 9:09 PM

Well, you asked for honesty.

It makes me think of a product, rather than a person's name.

Boyd Filters.
Boyd Lamps.
Boyd Toasters.

- Caralena Estelle (GiovannaDevorah)

9/22/2010, 2:38 PM

I love it...

- Maggie (writersblock242)

9/22/2010, 2:27 PM

I love Boyd, it reminds me of a nice, attractive cowboy.

and Boyd Kestner &hearts

- Sofia

9/22/2010, 1:41 PM

I think of this guy:
http://www.brummieblogs.com/images/trevor_eve.jpg
Peter Boyd is a name of his character in the series Waking the Dead. All good since I love him, but can't really see it on a baby.

This message was edited 9/22/2010, 2:12 PM

- Aine (poetic_freedom)

9/22/2010, 11:18 AM

I like it a lot actually- it is one of those names I should really give more thought to. I think it is handsome and strong. Peter and Boyd sound brilliant as brothers.

- Tawnee

9/22/2010, 10:37 AM

I don't really like it. It's too much of a surname for me. I also don't like the sound of it that much.

- mirfak +3

9/22/2010, 10:14 AM

It's not awful, it's usable. The worst thing about it is that it's surnamey, impersonal. Only a very low pass of the "boom boom test" (imagine his lover crying it out "Oh, Boyd!"), but I'll pass it. It is kinda close in sound to the word "void," too.

This message was edited 9/22/2010, 10:15 AM

- Aine (poetic_freedom)

9/22/2010, 11:16 AM

Since you mentioned the "boom boom test" a few years ago on here, I've added it to my list of tests that any name for a hypothetical child must pass...but its funny, because I think that Boyd passes it with flying colours! It really is all so subjective! lol

- carmags

9/22/2010, 10:58 AM

Lol

I can't believe I am now thinking about my unborn son's love life...can't stop laughing now.

- Janan (jeziana)

9/22/2010, 10:21 AM

LOL at the boom boom test!

- Speranza

9/22/2010, 9:43 AM

Peter and Boyd together reminds me of a BBC show Waking the Dead since that's the name of the main character.

Tbh I don't like Boyd. It reminds me of boils and boiled. I don't like the way it sits with Peter either.

- queenv (guest) +7

9/22/2010, 9:27 AM

I like it. It has a Southern feel to me, I'm sure due to the association with the character in "Gone With the Wind." I like it quite a lot---it would make an offbeat choice, yet it's strong and masculine. For what it's worth, I prefer it to Walker.

- beethoven (blaaarg)

9/22/2010, 6:07 PM

I agree with this, except less GWTW and more I'm-from-Alabama. It's a friendly sounding little name. Peter and Boyd is a cool sibset, and Boyd is really distinctive yet familiar.

I'd recommend this over Walker, reading your other post. I tried to imagine a parallel situation, like what if I as a violist named my son William and my daughter Primrose? non musicians and most non violists wouldn't pick it up, but no violist would ever think I wasn't purposefully paying homage to Bill Primrose. If I didn't like him, I'd definitely stay away from it.

- carmags +5

9/22/2010, 10:56 AM

I am from the South originally, so that association makes sense to me. I'm interested in your reference to GWTW. I haven't read it in a while--did the character Boyd belong to one of the neighboring families in the county?

- queenv (guest) +4

9/22/2010, 11:24 AM

Yes, he was Boyd Tarleton, the brother of the twins Stuart and Brent Tarleton. He's mentioned by Scarlett and the twins in the first chapter of the novel. Now that I think of it, I believe he is a character only referred to, and not seen or heard directly. Poor Boyd was killed in the war, of course. All four of the red-headed Tarleton boys were.

But yeah, that's why Boyd, along with Cade, Raiford, Dallas, has that Southern antebellum charm for me.

- Speranza +2

9/22/2010, 11:52 AM

Wow - you have a god memory, I couldn't remember a Boyd in GWTW at all. What was the 4th brother called?

I have the same antebellum associations with Wade because of Scarlett's son.

- carmags +1

9/22/2010, 11:57 AM

I think the fourth Tarleton brother was named Tom.

- queenv

9/22/2010, 12:05 PM

Quite right.

- carmags

9/22/2010, 11:30 AM

Now I'm remembering. Thanks.

- insane romantic

9/22/2010, 9:25 AM

It makes me think of a character from "Waking the Dead" whose surname is Boyd (funnily enough his first name is Peter).

I don't mind it but I find it rather outdated. It goes pretty well with Peter though and it's nice to use a family name.

- xPrincess27x

9/22/2010, 9:06 AM

It's the make of my piano. :)
Because of this I can't see it being used as a name.

- BellamynSora

9/22/2010, 8:45 AM

Teddy bears. I think of Boyd Bears first. My aunt collects them so that is definitely my first association. That's not a bad thing, though. My second thought is that it's a "down-home" name along the lines of Bo (but not Beau.) As a Sunday School teacher I can say that I'd rather have a Boyd in my class than another Hayden or Owen.

- Janan (jeziana) +2

9/22/2010, 8:44 AM

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boyed

I don't know if it is a slang term where you live, however. I know it's spelt differently too and slang terms are faddish but it is what I think of.

- carmags +1

9/22/2010, 9:00 AM

I am not familiar with that usage, but thanks for the link.

- Janan (jeziana)

9/22/2010, 10:06 AM

It may be an English thing, I'm not sure, but it was popular with people in my year group to scream it across a classroom.

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