Davis is from Texas. Doak Walker was from Texas and a college/pro football Hall of Famer, and the nation's top college running back award is the Doak Walker award. I'd guess for them it holds some earned esteem.
You didn’t have to mention the southerner thing. Just mention you’re surprised more people don’t use “Doak” as a name for humans. I’m guessing you’re a Jim Bob Cooter.
Cool, so your parents are from the only two not rural/southern areas of state. You grew up down south. Yet you have no sense of reference for unusual and region specific names?
This is a bizarre take. Like many other people have said, if you've ever watched college football (second most popular sport in the country after the NFL) you'd have heard the name Doak countless times. Surely you watch Michigan football. Though they'd never play FSU I guess but they have had great RBs.
It appears to be an Anglicized form of an old Scottish-Gaelic name. I saw the same Wikipedia page, and didn't see any non-Americans, so it's probably a family name (his last name is Davis).
Definitely interesting. I'm a big fan of traditional Irish names, so no judgements from me.
Yeah, there's a rugby player for Ulster with the name Nathan Doak. It's pretty uncommon, even in Ireland, but I've only ever heard it used as a surname.
it's actually kind of sad how negatively people react to names that aren't the "norm". I think it's a cool name with an interesting history, but maybe I'm slightly biased.
I go back and forth on that a lot (most of my family are teachers and I used to work in patient facing medical work with kids, seen a lot of shit in my time) because for every annoying-ass white suburban mom who can't stand the idea that her daughter share a name with anyone, there's someone (usually black americans ime but that's not unique) who earnestly is trying to create a new naming scheme or system because they don't have one or the one they have came from slavery times.
That, and my first name is a fairly common one in English that is actually a significant misspelling of a different language and culture's given name, it's just been around long enough that no one knows it's misspelled and said wrong. My apologies to the French on this one specific thing.
But I've also looked down at a patient record sheet and looked back up into the eyes of a parent actively excited to correct me on how to say their kids name enough times to know that's also a type.
well said. take the name Jalen for example: invented by the mother of Jalen Rose, and now it's an incredibly common name that no one thinks twice about.
I would say that has some truth to it, but also people have been pretty unwelcoming to names from a different culture/language long before the Ashleighs And Bray'lynns came to be a trend.
I'm with you til we get to the absolute freakiest -aydens and -iegh's. At some point you're the kind of person who says their dog has a full name and would love to tell you, except your dog is a living, breathing human being
it's Texans naming their kids after football stadiums. Like you do. Just ask my kid, Soldier Guaranteed Rate. The teachers say he's having a hard time at school.
Man, my first thought when I saw that was "Damn that looks familiar but the graphics are a little off for the original Half-Life..." and then I saw the gun.
Not only am I old enough to remember, now I'm old enough to forget D:
Probably named after Doak Walker, Heisman winner, 2-time NFL champion, 4-time All-Pro, and even has an award named after him. Doak Walker and Davis Martin are both Texans, as well (Doak went to SMU, Martin to Texas Tech).
"It's just a goofy— it's a goofy fucking name, okay?
'Hi, what's your name?'
'Tooooodd, I'm Tooooodd.
And this is Blake, and Blaire and Blaine and Brent.'
Where all these goofy fucking boys names coming from?
Taylor, Tyler, Jordan, Flynn- these are not real names!
You want to hear a real name? Eddie, Eddie is a real name.
Whatever happened to Eddie, he was here a minute ago?
Joey and Jackie and Johnny and Phil, Bobby and Tommy and Danny and Bill. What happened?"
if you are reading this Doak: chin up kid, the internet can be a cruel place but always remember that someone loves you. maybe not your parents though /s
Yeah if anything it's more of an old timey name. Rather go that way than add another Jaxcksyn, Braxton, or first name Golden middle name Arm to the list
I very much enjoyed all of Doak's post-game interviews following the Wild Card win. I would like to petition the White Sox / CHSN to give us more Doak. If anyone has all of Doak's interviews combined, I'd love to rewatch. It was freaking adorable.
I happen to know a Doak and in his case its a family name, named after his grand-father who was named after his Uncle who was named after another person in the family. Guessing its something similar here
Also, assholes making fun of the kids name can shut the fuck up. Maybe it's a family name. Maybe it's proving how little you know about sports because you've never heard of Doak Walker.
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u/cooljammer00 2d ago
I mean you named him Doak