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I LOVE LOVE LOVE the name Piers. I also love Miles (slightly different connotations) but it is already 'taken' by friends. I'm just not sure that we're a 'Piers' sort of family.

So what sort of a person names their son Piers?

i think it is nice and after seeing piers morgan do he rocking out thing on britains got talant i'm now a converted fan! lol

i think if you like it then great and as for the sort of family..i think if friends have a 'miles' then piers would be ok, its different but not odd!!

hope that helps
xx

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Go for it - I think the boundries as to what is a posh name and what isn't etc is so blurred nowadays.

I know some very un-posh Olivias, Grace, Edwards etc, names I used to think of as posh but are now quite normal.

I don't think you'd find many Piers on council estates but that doesn't make it a bad name!

If you like it, go for it, you're the one that will have to be yelling it five times a day so you might as well like it!

only five times a day...wow your children are good...lol x

you could stand outside the door and yell/call it out see how it sounds!!!!

i always liked sebastian for a bot until i heard it yelled out and it sounded horrid..(was the mums fault)lol

I feel strangely soothed already...

I like Piers! Classic but not too popular.

Agree that the notion of 'posh' names is becoming less relevant. I know quite a few Edwards, Quentins and Sebastians who are not at all posh .

I'd go for Piers, assuming it sound nice with your surname.

sorry, sounds

I like Piers alot. It's a (much nicer imo) form of Peter, isn't it?

"What sort of family names their son Piers?" Any family that likes the name!

(But then I don't really 'get' the class/poshness issue here in the UK - our ds is Quentin and we're not posh, but we loved the name )

I see Piers as a good, solid name-maybe slightly middle classb ut that is no bad thing. I would never put Miles in the same bracket though-it is a very 'popular' name around here-often screeched to sound like "Myywwwwwwwwwwwwlllllles"

I love Piers!

Halfwit on BB would be a Piers - enough said!

I like it. I like Guy too. GUy and Piers would have been a bit oh excuse you 40 years ago, but I think the names people are using today, Piers sounds too normal to be really pretentious.

I know a few Pierces (not unusual in Ireland) but I prefer the sound of Piers.

Hey my ds is Guy and is 39 now-no probs at local comp,6th form college or uni.

Hey my ds is Guy and is 39 now-no probs at local comp,6th form college or uni.

Whilst is not so stereotypically upper class as for e.g Rupert, it is still slightly.
Miles is quite mainstream now, I agree.

Much prefer Peter to Piers. Sounds a bit drippy to me ! I'd put it in the same category as Linus.

Nothing wrong with Miles - although I prefer it ye olde english way of Myles <<<<<<DS3's middle name actually>>>>>>

oh and as for Myles being mainstream - I guess it depends on what their first name is - and DS3'sd could never be called mainstream - well not in the UK anyhow

Ah go for it - it's a good name (although it always reminds me of that drippy bloke who played opposite Alan B'stard in The New Statesman)