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Not got a problem with it myself, if you love it keep it, people always have an opinion whatever you choose.

Good point, onlymeee!

I get 'bastard urge' when I say Baxter Sturge. OP, could you marry someone with an easier surname?

Baxter is the dog in Anchorman who gets punted over a bridge by Jack Black.

Awful name, IMO.

Rudy Sturge.

Rudest Urge.

No.

Baxster Sturge.

Say it to yourself a few times

SterSturge bit sounds absurd.

Walter Sturge sounds much better.

Rudy Sturge has a ring to it.

Baxter Sturge - no no no.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say I love Baxter! I'd chuck a neat little middle name in, like James or something. If he hates it he can use that in future and it would break up the ster-stur thing (which isn't that awful). I can just imagine a Baxter as a teen or an adult, definitely.

Soup related nicknames? Really? If that's the worst you can come up with, he'll be fine

Although Barnaby is also lovely

The point is that the bank doesn't know your mmn, and you don't have to use the true one. It's an outdated password system which was fine in pre-internet days, as very few people would have known your mmn. Nowadays this info is readily available online. Unlike, for instance, the name of your first pet, or your first car.

My brother's name is Mum's maiden surname. He's managed to successfully circumnavigate banks' security questions by simply using ... another security question.

You shouldn't use your real mmn as a security answer. It's very easy for anyone to find that out, so you should use a different name (making sure you will remember it!).

Baxter is my maiden name, and I think it would make a lovely first name, and would be a good way to keep the name in the family (only have sisters) but DH has vetoed it, and I can see the point with us, as it would mess up young Baxter's bank security question!

It's reasonably well used as a first name in America... Oh and I didn't get called soup much as a child!

I think its dutch. Certainly the one I know has family in Holland.

Surely Daxter is a made up name?

What about Daxter? I know of one of those. Not as dog like.

Although a conventionalist, am not hoiking my pants at Baxter; I do think it's a little clunky with the surname, the combo does sound like, as FannyPriceless says, a "public infrastructure consultancy firm" & he might end up with a soup related nickname. But it will be distinctive.

Out of your alternatives Jacob Sturge & Bruno Sturge sound easiest on the ear because they soften the impact of the surname and are recognisably first names, although by my favourite by along way is Kitson Sturge, shortened to Kit.

Bertrand?

(Trying to think of old man names that go with Sturge!)

The name is fine, but doesn't go with your surname. Of the others you mention, Edwin is nice, but Edwin Sturge sounds like a book by Dickens. I would go with Walter, it is the best fit with the surname.

st-st a complete no-no. You have others on your list that are so much better! I can't say it properly without stumbling (!) so imagine if your child had a slight lisp?

Now you're talking! Barnaby goes well, both in full and as Barney, and I LOVE Rudy.

Walter goes much better as it's not 'ster', although I'm not mad keen on it.

Solomon?
Judah?
Leo?
Ben?
Eben?

I think Baxter is a gorgeous name! Not convinced it goes with your surname but then I had same problem with DS2's name. In the end I went with it because I love it but we used a longer version of name on his birth certificate which does sound better. Pity there's not a longer version of Baxter. But you could hyphenate it.

Rudy, Edwin Bruno & Jacob go with your surname

I loath Barnaby with a vengeance, but that's personal taste as is my dislike of Walter. Sidney and Kitson don't sound right with your surname to me.

But Baxter is the best of that list by far!

I actually really like it. We have an Innes which has the same surname-y vibe, and I can tell people don't LOVE it the way they do his sister's name (more conventional) but I honestly don't care one bit. You don't once they're born, it just becomes who they are.

Go for it!

I love it.

I also love Barlow

I love Rudy. How about Rex Sturge?

I don't think Bruno goes with Sturge. It sounds a bit like "brew not stirred" to me.

I like Jacob from your list.