Need Opinions- Django as Baby Name?

richdaigle

Do it...as far as I'm concerned there needs to be more Djangos in the world!

Djazzer

Noddy Holder from the Uk band Slade named his son Django,as he`s a big fan of the man, he states he learned guitar from listening to Django`s records.

Michael Bauer

At our house the kids got "normal" names. I blame my wife... I got to name the pets, though, so they all have had inspired names

I don't think there's a right or wrong to it. He'll get used to it whatever you name him...and so will his friends. So what's it going to be if you have a girl?

spatzo

Yes "Mighty Aphrodite" that's it!

djangology

if you give him "Django" as a middle name you can call him "D.J." for short.

sockeye

I suggested naming our first born Django or "Mississippi John" but my wife seemed to think I was joking.

According to Wikipedia:

A number of musicians named their sons Django in reference to Reinhardt, including David Crosby, former Slade singer Noddy Holder, Jerry Jeff Walker, Richard Durrant, and also actors Nana Visitor & Alexander Siddig and Raphael Sbarge. Jazz musician Django Bates and singer-songwriter Django Haskins were named after him.

You could always use Django as a nickname but give him a more traditional name, like Wally or Dick, so he won't be made fun of...

frater

What if he should grow to become this type of Django?[/img]

Todd

LOL, Well I certainly appreciate all of the responses. My wife read the responses and she said that if the true gypsy jazz fans had this sort of mixed reaction then perhaps it is not a good route to take. We actually still love the name for it's uniqueness and of course what and who it represents. Django Luc is what we were thinking but perhaps Luc Django
Luckily, (or unluckily depending how you look at it) my wife likes unique names. So for a girl, Cerulean Claire is it. Little does she know that the name still links to Django because of the song 'Blues Clair'. Cerulean means blue :P
I like the comment about using it as a middle or nickname so that we have "normal" options. Thanks for indulging a slightly off topic post.

Cheers,
Todd

Johan

David Crosby of CSNY called his son Django. Its actually a bit strange, because David Crosby and Django are my two musical heroes.

frater

Same here!