I know a young [name]Basil[/name], well he is a teenager now. The name of his sister is escaping me at this point, but it is semi-unusual as well. It is a fine name.
If you go to the boy’s board, I just bumped an old thread of mine about the names [name]Basil[/name] and [name]Clive[/name]. I love both of those old names. I hope you are brave enough to use it.
I know of a brilliant, handsome [name]Basil[/name], and I’d love to hear it on a little boy. I do (unfortunately) think that pronunciation may be an issue, though.
I think it’s a great name, but I thought I’d also suggest [name]Sebastian[/name] as a source of [name]Baz[/name].
It is a cool name, but unless you live in the U.K., your kid will spend his whole life correcting people on the pronunciation. The only association I have with this name is from [name]Basil[/name] of [name]Baker[/name] [name]Street[/name] the children’s book series by [name]Eve[/name] [name]Titus[/name] and the movie The Great Mouse Detective which is based on it. Not bad.
[name]Love[/name] [name]Basil[/name]! He climbed into my top 10 last week under the guise of [name]Basil[/name] [name]Cosmo[/name] [name]Gideon[/name].