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Do NOT name your kid this. When he gets older, he'll be made fun of terribly for having the same name as a red little puppet.

I reminds me so much of St. Elmo's fire

Having worked with a guy around my age named Grover, I could see an Elmo out there. Elmo is one of my GPs. I think is geek chic. :-)

Ridiculous. I started to giggle when I saw your post.

I know of one

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He would be about three now and is the son of my cousin's friend. In theory, its cute and it should be usable seeing as it has a cool history and all but in practice it always seemed kind of forced and goofy. Whenever I hear my cousin talk of this kid, I think of how ridiculous it sounds.

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It would make a cool mn though.

Absolutely, totally, and utterly..

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stupid. Sorry. Hate it.

Unusable.

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A younger generation would automatically associate it with that red puppet who likes to be tickled. It's like naming your kid Barney at the height of that particular show's popularity; it's a nice enough name, but it just doesn't work.

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I must tell you that I'm an American, so it might be perceived differently in another country. I don't know everything. :)

I love it!

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I named my parrot Elmo. He loves it, too, it was the first thing he ever said :) We call him Elmie and Elmchen as nicknames.

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I liked it for several reasons. Its meaning ("helmet", which makes me think of protection and "beloved") and it was easy to say so he could learn it easily. I also love Elmo from Sesame Street and his Elmo song :P Yeah and I liked how it was the name of a saint and had some classic background.

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I think it's usable on a child, people would just have to get used to it a bit. It's not that far from Enzo which is quite common in some countries.

I like it also Elmer

I think it's cute. I know someone who loved the name and lobbied for his son to be called Elmo. His partner wouldn't accept it though so he got Elmo as a second name - Daragh Elmo.

I would say geeky cool-cute. I like it :)

unfortunately it really does have too strong a connection with Sesame Street. I do think though it would be cute otherwise. Its a shame really that its not usable.

Sesame Street kinda made it unusable at least to those who know of the very popular program. I *heart* Sesame Street but whenever I hear/see the name Elmo, it conjures up images of a. the lovable red monster and b. the movie St. Elmo's Fire. It would be a totally awesome name for a little boy if "a" didn't exsit.

Ignore.

This message was edited 4/22/2010, 10:57 AM

Aww. That'd be awesome if this was usable. But I think Sesame Street is just way to overpowering of an association. Bummer too, because it is just the kind of name I like (along with Milo, Niko, Theo, Caio...).