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Ray!

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Because then I could decorate his room with x-ray specs and ray guns

Ignore.

This message was edited 3/18/2012, 12:11 PM

Roy.

Can I please choose neither? I hate them both. :( They just sound so ugly to me. It's the Y at the end. *shudder*

Ray, after Bradbury.

Hmmm... Roy feels more complete than Ray. Rei is usable on a boy in Jpn. However, I think Ray on its own feels incomplete.

Roy.

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Ray sounds a bit too hillbilly to my liking (like Billy Ray Cyrus, for example...). Roy at least does sound a bit more distinguished, partly because of its famous namesake (Rob Roy) and because how it sounds close to French roi "king".

This message was edited 3/17/2012, 9:52 PM

Roy. Course I'm bias. It's my dad's name.

Roy. I don't care for either, but I have a bad association with a backstabbing Ray.

Ray! It's a family name. :)

Hmmm I've never actually known a Ray. I've seen a couple but I've never gotten to know one. Most Ray characters in TV shows are black or Italian.

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I knew two Roy's one was my vice-principal for middle school and high school. He was a nice guy but he was very strict and would roam the halls looking for mis-deeds. I never did any, so him and I never had any problems with each other. I personally liked him and thought he was a nice guy. He was Filipino. The other Roy was a teacher at the same school. He was also the baseketball coach. I didn't know him well since he taught elementary school students. He was white and born in England, so he had a British accent. He seemed like a very nice guy and was almost always smiling. Both were middle aged men, the vice-principal Roy was a bit younger than the teacher Roy.

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I have some Raymond's in my family who I don't know. Reimer has been a long held family name and when they came to America from the German / Dutch border Reimer became Raymond. I heard the last Ray in our family had depression problems and was a constant drunk. I never met him. He was the last of the Raymond's since he never had children. If I passed down a family name I'd rather pass down Reimer than Raymond. There were only ever two Raymond's and there were many generations of Reimer's.

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Hmmm I personally have a hard time choosing. Ray makes me think of Manta Rays and rays of sunshine. Roy makes me think of a British person saying "Oi!" to get someones attention. Both are a little too short for my tastes. I like Rory better than either of them.

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I keep going between them and don't think I can decide.

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This message was edited 3/17/2012, 6:21 PM

I prefer Roy, which is more interesting and less reminiscent of a greasy old lecher (though I don't dislike Ray).

Ray. It's a family name (Grandpa, Dad, Sis, Niece, Great uncle, and Second cousin's daughter all have a form of it). One of my sexual harassers in high school was named Troy, so my associations with a name close to Roy are negative.

Ray seems more familiar to me, so it seems more my style. Sounds more relaxed and trustworthy. Roy reminds me of royal, and the oy sound rubs me the wrong way. It seems wound-up and louder to me. I don't think Roy is a bad name, it just doesn't appeal to me. I feel the same kind of difference in the names Jay and Joy.

Roy.

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Every Ray I've ever met has been a jerk. Really soured me on the name.

Definitely Ray. Roy seems more dated IMO.

Personally, Roy. Because Ray seems to have a tougher and nastier image to me, personally. Roy seems friendlier. (Just personal impressions, no scientific data on this!)

Ray!