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I thought to myself "ooooh I'm mildly intrigued.." then I opened up the page to see "for a boy" and changed my mind immediatly. Interesting on a girl. Rose is a Girl Name. What were they thinking?..

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*even after realizing the quip behind the name of a phoenix rising I'm still not impressed

This message was edited 4/6/2023, 2:07 PM

Very cheesy. But I like Ray - it's cheerful and sunny.

Altogether it does sound like a girls name, but I honestly much prefer and absolutely love Phoenix for a boy and I'm assuming that would be the name mostly being used everyday, so I think it's a great choice! Oh, but the sibset does bug me a bit. Not so much because of the lack of cohesiveness, but the difference in popularity of the two names. I know Phoenix has gone up, but Robert feels kinda meh next to it imo.

This message was edited 4/6/2023, 12:53 AM

Terrible

I want to appreciate using a typically-feminine name for a boy for once, rather than the other way around, but in this case... I don't like double word names at the best of times, and this is not the best of times. It's a bit too much.

*groan*

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Maybe the diver isn't very literate, but surely the filmmaker is? Can he not see he's made a sentence out of the poor kid's name? Phoenix Rose is bad enough (very bad on a boy in the first place; not Rose) but well, duh, the phoenix did rise.
But it also rose black?
And daily?

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Come on, guys, don't be dumb.
Big brother is luckier than he knows.

Naming your kid an actual sentence is way too cheesy!
If "rose" was just a flower and not the past tense of "rise", I would like Phoenix Rose for a girl.

I mean... It's funny! Say it out loud. Phoenix Rose Black-Daley ... Phoenix rose black daily ... out of his pile of ashes, it seems reasonable to assume. It's so plain to me that it seems like it has to be deliberate. I feel like Rose is not a name for a boy (although with middle names, I don't think it matters and don't really care), and that makes it seem even more like the pun is on purpose.

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I've got no problem with puns and joke names per se, as long as they're not negative in some way, and this one isn't - I suppose the parents genuinely think it'd be fun to be named one, and it might be so. It's hard for me to have any opinion of this name that isn't about the pun, though. Even just Phoenix Rose seems deliberately a pun, since the cliche phrase is that a phoenix "rises" from its own ashes. I would definitely poke someone considering that combo, to make sure they were aware of it.

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I'm not a fan of the name Phoenix. I used to be, but then I realized the sound of it spoken aloud is unappealing to me. Robert Ray is much cooler imo than Phoenix Rose.