What comes to mind when you hear the boy name Barron?
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February 18th, 2012
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Barron for a boy ?
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I think of Germany and the Red Baron
**** Boy’s name Barron ** I can’t go back and re-edit it, so this is the correction….
The definition of the word barren first comes to mind.
I think someone’s parents are trying to hard to give him a name that’s “different.” Luckily, it’s not a ridiculous name with twisted spelling.
@tedibear – Why do you think it sounds too different, it’s a name that has been around before! It’s not like someone naming their kid rocket, butterflyola, or zephersky ! lol!
Baron Von Strucker.
an old Captain America villain.
I have a friend that had a dog named Baron so I would think of a shih tzu.
I have a friend with that name.
Delusions of aristocracy.
He should wear a monocle.
A hulking brute of a man who feasts on entire wild boar leg and drinks tankards of ale, while simultaneously oppressing his people. : )
I know a dog named that. Sorry, a big handsome dog is going to be the first thing in my mind.
I always think of this guy who went to my school last year. He was pretty annoying.
@partyrock – I’m not sure that I can explain it. I don’t think that it’s too different, just uncommon. I’ve seen a lot of children’s names (I used to teach) and that one sounds a little pretentious. That probably didn’t help, did it?
Would he be called Bear for a nickname? I put it with Duke, Sergeant, King, etc, which have all been boy’s names. Different. Memorable.
oil baron, robber baron, hmm, most associations with “barron/baron” are negative for me.
@Sunny2 Those are also all common dog names!
I’m with @tedibear on this one: the parents were too damn pretentious when the kid was born. They might as well have named him “lord”.
People’s association with the word are amusing. My first thought was ‘baron of beef’, a nice big roast.
First Snoopy and the Red Baron
Then Baron von Munchausen
Then Red Baron Pizza
Then some type of British or German nobleman
And then I thought of the word barren and how it relates to women.
Then I thought of how some people called Barack Obama Barry.
That is how the word came to me, in this order.
@Kardamom
You should consider a “stream of consciousness” novel. : ))
Barron for me? Simon Baron Cohen was the first thing that popped into my head.
Baron-Cohen is a surname.
Then my head goes to lord of a manor…then to a barren land or woman.
We had a dog name Barron when I was a kid. A German Shepard. I dislike names that sound like official titles.
Ha! Until I read this thread, I’d forgotten about my aunt & uncle’s beagle, “Baron”. He was named after Snoopy as the Red Baron.
Yeah, as a kid’s name, this is just wrong, IMO.
I feel like pushing that boy down the stairs, before he grows up to be Barron Von Douchevaggen
“There you go Barron, how do you like all that bouncing?!
Aristocratic titles, like prince and earl. As first names, I don’t like them much. I would assume that anyone bearing a name like that is American, they’re rare to the point of unhard-of in the UK, perhaps because they’re still in use as actual titles.
The town of Baron from Final Fantasy IV. :/
I think of the word barren, which means empty and sterile.
Barren.
A barren wasteland.
I wouldn’t name a kid Count, Duke, Prince or King. Baron is only slightly less unappealing.
I think he can’t have kids.
Like @Simone_De_Beauvoir , I thought of Trump’s kid. I think it’s a stupid name given by parents who want to project an image of being important and high class, when really it’s pretentious and eye-roll inducing.
Misspelled Baron.
Barroom. Barren. Barry.
Seems a nice name, I’d shorten it to Barry in day-to-day life.
A bit pretentious, maybe.
This question reminded of women in the Bible who couldn’t get pregnant because they were barren… =P
I know that’s 1 R but… Vladimir Harkonnen anyone?
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