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When kids want to tease they'll find a means but your Clark Kenna combination doesn't strike me as very good fodder for it. Superman is cool anyway and I think Clark is a handsome name. Go for it. :)

First - fist bumping is the general response if you have been named after Superman... not teasing.

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Second, your husband is right, most kids do not divulge their middles names.

Third - with all the other comics, etc going around... Superman (unfortunately) is not as popular as it used to be and a lot of children these days don't know Clark Kent. To drive my point home, I totally wanted to use Lois for a girl, and everyone thought of Family Guy before Superman (and Miss Lane was one of the reasons I loved the name).

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Btw - LOVE Clark and totally jazzed that someone out there is considering it.

I don't like it because Kenna sounds pretty feminine. I don't like it because it's really close to Clark Kent.
But no, I don't think either of those is a deal-breaker.
If you both love it, go for it!

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(For what it's worth, had we had a girl first, her name would have been very close to Morgan Freeman. The m in Freeman would be a z sound.)

No, it's not important.

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Maybe if you're actually naming him Clark Kent, but otherwise I wouldn't pay any mind to it.

I think it would sound silly, and I know that at a certain age, other kids would have a lot of fun with it.

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Perhaps you could find a second middle name for him, perhaps from your side of the family, to break the connection? Clark Antony Kenna Lastname, for instance. Could be worth a try.

If I was a little boy I'd be proud of a name that's almost the same as Superman's! I'd go around shouting it from the rooftops... But, in the occasion that he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to tell anyone his middle name.
I care was people think of my name, but only to a certain extent, after all it's my name that my parents gave me, and the main thing I care about is that they took a lot of time and consideration in choosing it just for me.

I think Clark Kenna is a nice name. Especially as it will have a lot of meaning to your husband being with the first and middle. Kind of like he and his best friend are back together in a way.

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I don't think you should worry about other children teasing him for his name because in all honesty if kids are going to be cruel enough to tease in the first place they will find any reason to do it whether it's for his name or something else.

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Personally I don't think people will make fun of the name for sounding like superman's because at the end of the day its actually not the same name and I have found that they're more likely to get mad at another for not knowing the correct name of the super hero or character in the first place!

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Plus I would think the kid would be proud to have been given such a meaningful name rather then a name that's just a name the parents like (not that there's anything wrong with that, mine will probably just be names I like too lol)But I would certainly be proud had my parents have given me a name that was meaningful, but instead they literally chose a cartoon character (from Jem and the holograms) but I have never been made fun of for that.

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Anyways, my apologies for rambling, just my opinions :)

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Goodluck xx

I don't think any kid would get made fun of for a name that sounds like Clark Kent. Why would Superman ever be a bad thing in the eyes of kids?

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If anything I think they'd make fun of Kenna for being a "girl name", but that probably doesn't matter because it's a middle name and it came from his dad.

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If you don't have anything against the combo otherwise, then use it.

I agree with your husband. So few people ever know the middle name.

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Besides, my son has the same first and last name as a character from a popular 1960s TV show. The same first and last name, so it was immediately obvious. Yes, he heard about it a few times, there was some good-natured giggling, but no mean-spirited teasing. It didn't bother him.

Aw, I love Clark! It's one of my Top 5 favorites.

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At the elementary level, if 1) his classmates learn his middle name and 2) they make the Clark Kenna/Clark Kent connection, they'll think it's cool. Seriously. :) I don't think older kids would care much, particularly since his name wouldn't actually be "Clark Kent." Name teasing isn't as common as parents fear.

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I do care what others think about my combos but only up to a point. If I can brush off someone's negative opinion as just a difference in tastes, it doesn't bother me. On the other hand, if someone dislikes it because it's the name of a famous porn star or grandpa's longtime mistress (that happened to a friend of mine), then I take those feelings seriously.

Kids always have a way of finding out each other's middle names.
And yes, Clark Kenna really does sound like a joke on the parents' part.

No, and anyway what's the worst thing they'd say to him if they did tease him?
I agree it hardly matters because of the small utility of middle names.
I'd go ahead and name him Clark Kenna Surname if I were you. I think it's rare that any guy likes his own middle name enough to want to share it, and I would not ask my husband to give up sharing his with a son just because I was worried about it sounding somewhat like some character name.

This message was edited 1/17/2015, 5:22 PM

You never know how much a middle name will be used. My nephew's second cousin thought he had a double name because we called him by both so often when he was in trouble. Luckily, we still love his combo.

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Personally, Kenna sounds more feminine than masculine. I know, McKenna means son of Kenna, but the -a ending is generally feminine, and McKenna is used as a girls' name. It's still better than Kal-El, at least. Ultimately, it's the parents' decision, and if it won't bother you, go ahead.

I don't think a kid would be teased, because like your husband mentioned, middle names are rarely known between kids. I think the most likely way any other kids would find out would be if your son told them tbh lol And I don't see kids teasing about it-- Superman is still quite popular, so if anything I'd assume they'd think it was awesome. I've subbed for elementary kids and whenever a classmate's name is similar to a popular character or person, they get excited. Had a girl named Storm in a 3rd grade class and all the kids were like "X-MENNNNNN!!! THAT'S SO COOL!!" haha

Well... I'd say your husband is right that very few people will know your child's middle name if you wanted to keep it privet.
But I'd also suggest that if you're kinda of going "we can use this middle name because no one will ever know it" then it shows that you actually feel the name isn't very good. Surely you want a name you feel proud enough of to want to tell everyone what it is...? And do you (or your husband) really want to give your boy a first and middle-name combo that you think he'd be trying to hide all his life?

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Personally I wouldn't make the leap from Clark Kenna to Clark Kent without help, but then I've never even seen a Superman movie.
I do, however, find the combo Clark Kenna astonishingly ugly. Clark is just not a nice-sounding word. It's not a particularly nice occupation either, so it doesn't even get bonus points for meaning. Kenna is better, but shoved up next to Clark it looses it's drum-beat feeling and is just another K sound. Three Ks in two syllables seems a lot.

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And yes, I do care about what others think of my name combinations. I mean, I know I can never please everyone but when naming our girls Mackenzie got struck off the list because too many people hated it, and Luna got struck as a first name because our last name also features in Harry Potter... basically if a majority of people have an issue with a name, I don't want to use it.

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Hmm. That got kind of long. Sorry about that ^_^"

This message was edited 1/17/2015, 3:55 PM