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When my mum was pregnant with my brother Anthony my dad joked around that his name would be Chauncey Godfrey Pembroke and everyone believed him. So we kept up this charade the whole pregnancy that that would be the baby's name. People's faces said it all *grimace....fake half smile* 'thats...different'

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When he was born he wasn't called Chauncey, but Chauncey remains his middle name 6 years on! I think it is a ghastly name... but it does kind of suit a little boy. But it really sounds terrible. If you do not like it at all, then it shouldn't be your child's name.

Chauncy is on the top of my sister's list of future horse names. It is right up there with Marchie, the Horse Who Marches Around (which is what my friend calls the horse she shareboards now as a joke). For a while, Connie was trying to convince my mom to buy her a hot pink sattle-pad with the name Chauncy written in black letters... So, yeah, it is a horse name to me.

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I'm with you. I'd hate to be called Chauncey - it sounds very stuffy and pretentious.

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Being There (edited w/ apology to Sadie)

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was a movie starring Peter Sellers in 1979, about a learning disabled man named Chance, a gardener, who gets mistaken for being some brilliant guy named Chauncey Gardiner. That's all I can think of whenever I see Chauncey.

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But it was a great, funny movie! Go rent it!

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ETA Sadie you beat me to it!

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~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon

This message was edited 5/2/2006, 2:12 PM

Have you ever seen the Peter Sellers movie "Being There"? They mistakenly call the gardener Chauncey, and that's the only time I've really heard the name.

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Chauncey sounds very stuffy to me (sorry!), and I think it would sound silly on a little kid.

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." --Seneca

Chauncey isn't too bad, but it's not really my style.

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My cousin is named Chancey and goes by Chance, perhaps you might like that a little better.

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It's very... fancy sounding. It sounds like the kind of name a woman would like for her son, but that a man would veto immediately with images of him getting beat up on the playground.

Chauncey (or a similar spelling) is the name of a character from the Pokemon card game.

I didn't even know it was the name of a pro athlete, but I see it as very British. :b It could suit a cute little boy or a stuffy old man. It also suits a cat well. LOL. If you don't like it, though, it's definitely a no-go for your future child. :b

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~Heather~

Wow, I did a big thing on these boards back in Feb/March about Chauncey... I'm using it for a character in one of my stories - an arrogant, know-it-all, wannabe-ladies-man, asshole basically.

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I've only known a few Chauncey's ever and they've all been like that. I actually did a poll with a list of names, asking which one would belong to someone you hate and Chauncey won.

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But, then again, it IS fun to say!

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"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh"

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Capt. Malcolm Reynolds - Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
- Serenity

lol I highly doubt that DH would like it if it wasn't the name of a professional athlete.

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I know how that goes! Mikey would name his firstborn Carl Yastrzemski Lastname if he could. But anyway, I don't care for Chauncey. It seems sort of pretentious, and there was a girl in one of my classes named this who kept getting called Chance. I hope you can sway your DH against it! :)

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What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul?
Man is a depth still greater than the people.