As you know, my sister had a baby over Xmas. Throughout the pregnancy he (and they knew the sex early on) was referred to as “Spike.” When his sister Isobel was a fetus she was known as “Rambo” due, I think, to the kicking, but there was no chance of this name sticking once she was born. Spike, however, started to move from a joke to a potentially viable name. In the end they plumped for “Oliver Francis” but a little bird (ie mother) informed me second thoughts were being had. Sis and bro-in-law weren’t that comfortable with the whole Oliver thing after all and kept referring to him as Spike, party out of habit but also because he didn’t look like an Oliver, whatever an Oliver looks like. And so, rather that go down the “pedigree dog name” route like Jez and Daniel/The Bean (so much so I sometimes have to check his name actually is Daniel), they’re going to register him as Spike this Friday.
And that, in this age of babies being given grandparent names, is kinda cool.
SPIKE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SPIEK [key]
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From a nickname which may have originally been given to a person with spikey hair.