Cuthbert?

[birdofthenorth]

DH loves this, partly due to St Cuthbert & his links to the North East!

I am less sure but quite like it, due to Anne of Green Gables (smile)

What do you think? Cute or awful?!

[LidlVoice]

Sorry - it makes me think of Walter and the softies from the Beano. Just a bit, well weak I think. Bert is good as a nickname though.

[DeadRisingPies]

Just lovely - classic but so underused. I love it.

[WandaDoff]

I don't like it at all. Sorry.

[OldLadyKnowsNothing]

Scroll about two-thirds of the way down. Sorry, it's probably a local and "old" connection and nothing to worry about unless you move to Dundee

[Springforward]

Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and the other one I can't quite remember.

It wouldn't be my own choice, but it's not awful, IMO.

Mind you, my DDad was a Walter....

[PigletUnrepentant]

oh no... don't go there... no

[EmpireBiscuit]

My granddad is a cuthbert and is one hell of a fine upstanding man, a true gent. Great name!

[MoonlightandRoses]

Grub (that's to Springforward by the way).

Not sure - I loved Anne of Green Gables too, but it just feels like a name for gentler times, IYKWIM?

[CommunistLegoBloc]

I don't like it. At all. I think it sounds stuffy and a bit...weak. How about something equally traditional like Ted or Ernie?

[EmpireBiscuit]

P.S was at the sinking of the Bismarck - not weak at all.

[weedsneedcutting]

I'd lve to like t but i'm sorrt, i really don't, and Bert is really bad too.

For strong NE connections, what about Aidan, Bede or Chad?

[fallenangle]

Erm, no. It will get shortened to Bert or Bertie if he is lucky, and much worse if he isn't. Imagine him using it at fifteen and twenty five not as a five month old or five year old.

[BBQJuly]

I think it's great, a fabulous old saint's name.

[ChippingInLovesEasterEggs]

Awful, really awful.

[HolyCameraConfusionBatman]

NO.

[MardyBra]

I like unusual names. But not this one.

Sorry, but it's a no from me,

[Booette]

No, I wouldn't use it, sorry. It's from the Beano, it's the name of the annoying one in the Bash Street Kids.

[iwantanoompaloompa]

We used it as a nickname for DS2 before he was born, so I'm very fond of it.

But would never have used it in real life

Middle name?

[RillaBlythe]

I like it. I've seen it slated here before. I think there is a poster who has a Cuthbert though.

I really doubt it when people say they will be teased. My DD goes to nursery with kids called Satvant, Anfel, Hafsa (girls) & Guraj, Nishan, Kamari (boys). Would Cuthbert tease Satvant or would Satvant tease Cuthbert?

[Psammead]

Not over keen.

[EdithWeston]

Lovely.

ISWYM about the softie connotations, but the teenage one I know in RL is a lovely boy, and AFAIK has not had difficulties at school because of his name.

[MariahScary]

It wouldnt be my choice, but it is quite sweet.

[usualsuspect]

Bloody awful

[Geranium3]

omg no! sounds awful,sorry tho like bertie! Only known one cuthbert, be about 15 now, was a pretty ghastly child! His mum said she had only called him that to carry favour with a wealthy great uncle cuthbert, don't know if it worked and he is a wealthy teenager!