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Help[Opinions] Re: Does everyone here hate these names?
in reply to a message by greenbeans
I am old enough that my mind does not first think of the vulgar meaning of dick. For people my age (70) and older it still seems primarily like a man's name.
As others have pointed out fanny is not nearly as vulgar in the USA as it is in the UK. It does sound sort of silly as a name to me now, though. The examples of girls named Fanny that I know of, though, tend to have been girls from very culturally "sophisticated" families in the USA, almost as if they think using the name shows they understand its history and are thumbing their noses at the uneducated who would only think of "buttocks" when they hear it. :)
Willy really isn't "vulgar" in the USA except if you think referring to the penis at all is "vulgar". It seems more like childhood slang than anything that would cause real offense.
I think Jackin in that spelling would be too readily available for puns to use. However, with the fashion for two syllable boys' names ending in -n being so strong it would not shock me to see some boys in the USA named Jacken or Jackon. In the SSA data there were 7 boys born in 2020 in the USA named Jakin, but perhaps that is being pronounced with the first syllable as "Jay".
As others have pointed out fanny is not nearly as vulgar in the USA as it is in the UK. It does sound sort of silly as a name to me now, though. The examples of girls named Fanny that I know of, though, tend to have been girls from very culturally "sophisticated" families in the USA, almost as if they think using the name shows they understand its history and are thumbing their noses at the uneducated who would only think of "buttocks" when they hear it. :)
Willy really isn't "vulgar" in the USA except if you think referring to the penis at all is "vulgar". It seems more like childhood slang than anything that would cause real offense.
I think Jackin in that spelling would be too readily available for puns to use. However, with the fashion for two syllable boys' names ending in -n being so strong it would not shock me to see some boys in the USA named Jacken or Jackon. In the SSA data there were 7 boys born in 2020 in the USA named Jakin, but perhaps that is being pronounced with the first syllable as "Jay".
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