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I really like Briar as a guilty pleasure. It has an interesting sound and imagery attached to it, but I would never really use it although I would love to meet one. My current user name is a combination of two guilty pleasures. I wouldn't use Raven either, but as a user name the corniness doesn't really matter.

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I like foxes, but as a name Fox seems silly. When foxy is used to describe someone it is often accompanied by waggled eyebrows. *ugh*

This message was edited 9/4/2019, 12:38 PM

I like Briar, and I like the imagery of Fox & Briar together. I'm not sure about Fox on its own.

Negative. I agree with Hiddlestoner about Fox, and with Daffodil about Briar.

Love both.

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My youngest female cousin was almost Fox. Then they didnt use it for their son :(

Sounds like a modern pub trying to appear traditional. Slightly more successful than The Slug and Lettuce.

Fox is an animal and not a name imo. Maybe it could grow on me as a middle name though.

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I like Briar, and Bryar.

I like them both. I prefer Briar on a boy actually

Fox & Briar sounds like a pub...

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Um I like Fox... I get that it's cheesy or whatever but it's cool and unlike most word names for boys it's not militant. I think a little boy would enjoy the name Fox.

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Briar I just don't like tbh. The imagery is pretty but the sound is ugly the double r annoys me! It's like "rural" or "prior" I hate that ruhruh sound.

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Speaking of which, you know how annoying people impersonate east Asians (specifically Chinese people) by saying nonsense like "wangchangdong" etc.... I've read that some east Asians say "ruhruhruh" when making fun of English speakers lol. I wonder if that's true!

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edit: that being said, I'd be excited to know of a boy (or girl tbh) named Briar. It's interesting!

This message was edited 9/3/2019, 8:39 AM

I think Fox is utterly ridiculous as a name for a real person, it works ok for a character though (like Fox Mulder).

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Briar I quite like for a boy, it looks and sounds very masculine (dispite Briar-Rose being an alias for a disney princess). I also like the spellings: Brier, Bryer & Bryar for boys.

Fox is a guilty pleasure of mine. I think it sounds good with the middle name or surname William - Fox William sounds similar to Fitzwilliam.

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Briar isn't my cup of tea, but I think it's nicer on a boy than it is on a girl. It strikes me as the kind of name a quiet, artistic person would bear.

Hi Billina !!!

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I think that Fox and Briar are perfect for boys!

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Briar is not direcly a flower plus it is enough similar to Blair and Brian to be masculine without any problem.

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Fox is masculine thanks to its look and sound. It has an energic, short sound and it is obviously an established surname so it could be honouring too. If you compare it with Renard (or even Zorro) you would see that it is not a stretch.

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I like both names!

This message was edited 9/3/2019, 8:17 AM

They sound like dogs. Also, together they remind me of Br'er Fox, one of Br'er Rabbit's friends.
I think Briar has a really ugly sound. Fox not so much, but it's just too much of a word to be a name.