Aengus or Alexander?

[user1476527566]

Which name do you prefer Aengus or Alexander (will probably just use Alex)?

[SuperBeagle]

Is Aengus pronounced like Angus?

[Ordinarily]

Alexander

[KlingybunFistelvase]

Aengus by miles and miles! It's beautiful, unusual and I love the Yeats connection.

Alexander is v nice but nowhere near as nice as Aengus imho.

[BackforGood]

I've never seen / heard of Aengus..... It did occur to me to wonder if you'd had a nervous twitch on your keyboard when writing Angus

For my (English) eyes, I'd definitely go for Alexander.

[RedSauce]

Alexander

[Helspopje]

Alex

Angus reminds me of Aberdeen angus pies and beef cattle

[ExplodedCloud]

I thought it was a typo too, sorry. It sounds vaguely medical to my unfiltered brain so I pick Alexander

[ExplodedCloud]

Uncultured obviously. Auto correct is unfiltered.

[user1476527566]

Thank you for your messages. Aengus is the Irish spellling of Angus. I thought it was a bit different and not so much like the beef or Anus!!

I like Alex but it is very popular with boys and girls at the moment. My boy is very much a boy and would very rarely use Alexander.

[Helspopje]

My alex (if my oh and his family wouldve blinking well consented wouldve been a sandy as is usual in rural scotland


The child concerned has beautiful white blonde hair and would've made a great sandy. They were horrified and said that sandy is a female name so was overruled.

[Lovelilies]

He's newborn?
How can you know he'd never use Alexander? Very much a boy is an odd thing to say 🙄

[HaveCourageAndBeKind]

Alexander is used by my Alexander! He is never, ever Alex. He hates it, and we use a different diminutive form of the name.
Aengus looks horrible to me, Angus is better but phonetically they're both like anus, be honest.

[Sophronia]

Aengus. It's more interesting than Alex.

[Ohyesiam]

Aengus is lovely ( so is Alexander, but not so gorgeous), very classical and romantic.

[BoboBunnyH0p]

Alexander but for the nn I would go for Lex or Xander, there are a lot of Alex's around.

[Mclaren37]

Much much prefer Angus (prefer this sp.) over Alex, which is nice but a bit unexciting. Angus is a brilliant name.

[KlingybunFistelvase]

I think Aengus and Angus are different names, pronounced differently. I prefer Aengus, but love Angus too. Aengus is more like Ayn-gus or En-gus (I think, though I'm not an Irish speaker so may need picked up on that pronunciation)!

Look up The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats if you're interested. I think it's beautiful.

[MrsMeeseeks]

My boy is very much a boy

[leghoul]

Alexander - lovely, classic, international, versatile
Aengus too close to fungus for me

[MelCookie]

Alexander - fab name.

[dinosaurkisses]

Yy to previous posters who advised that Aengus and Angus are pronounced differently- there's a bloke on RTE called Aengus and it sounds very close to anus to my childish, non-gaelgoir ears

[reuset]

Alexander