OK, I must share this kinda pointless thing and it could be pit worthy, but I think the parents who did this were just not thinking during a very hectic time. One of the guys in the office had triplettes over the weekend. Everyone is doing fine, but I fear for the boy named: Maximus Peter.
They told one person they were going for German names and didn’t want to go with Maxwell or Maxamillion (SP?) as those were the most commonly used. ???
Isn’t Maximus Latin? And is Maxwell German?
I told one guy, they should have cut to the chase and named the boy Sue. I think I’ll buy the boy a set boxing gloves.
I had to send an email today to Phuc Ho…Now I’m pretty sure that the first name is not pronounced as I think it is, but can you imagine having to pick up the phone at work and saying “Fuck Ho, how may I help you?”
Maximus is Latin, not to mention that it’s a better name for a dog than a person, and according to BehindtheName.com, Maxwell is Old English. With nine months of waiting, you’d think they could have made the effort to look it up.
I thought a guy became the first because he was lacking the second…
I don’t see the awfulness of the name. Unless they insist on calling him his full name at all times, he’ll just be known as Max. When he gets married or graduates HS, his buddies will chortle about his names, but that’s about it.
Everybody’s going to know the full name, either because teachers tend to use the full name on first reference or through some other official means. Normally, when a posters say “no, don’t use [name X], your kid will get teased!!!” I think it’s ridiculous, because every kid gets teased and the teasing also ends in time. But this is just a crappy, ill-considered name - as shown by the fact that they think Maximus is German. Only a few years ago, there was an extremely popular movie featuring a Roman gladiator with that name, which should also have been a hint about its roots.
I don’t mind Maximus. We briefly considered it for our now-almost-two-year-old because we liked Max, but wanted that as a nickname, we thought Maximillian was a mouthful, and didn’t like Maxwell. But we decided it would make him sound like he should own a Gold’s Gym when he was older. So we dropped Max altogether.
Heh, I just named my youngest nephew last month. Maximus Grey. Well actually I chose Max Grey, but the parents went with Maximus so that he’d have a full name, which is somehow important, but it works with their Germanic last name and actually sounds like a kick ass bar, which is why I chose it.
I actually suggested Max Power, but I had to retract it because my sister in law thought it was pretty decent and I didn’t want to spend the rest of my short life being tortured with a Garden Weasel when someone told her where I got the idea.
