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DP actually suggested...

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peachyyy · 10/09/2013 13:00

STUART!

Can you imagine? He didn't speak to me for a few hours after I burst out laughing in his face and asked, incredulously: "what man, in this day in age, would call their son Stuart?"

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sparkle12mar08 · 23/09/2013 17:02

My dad was a Malcolm and though he died many many years ago he would be in his sixties now! We did give it as a middle name to ds1 seeing as that would be all he'd ever have of his grandad, but I don't think I'd consider it as a first name, no!

curlew · 23/09/2013 10:26

The thing is, the main justification for some of the more.....out there......name choices is that the parents don't want their child to be one of 4 in the class. if that were true then Malcolm, Colin or Trevor would be perfect choices. So would Stuart.

But we all know that's not the real reason.........!

TheRealHousewifeOfSomewhere · 23/09/2013 10:09

A close friend of mine had to recently talk her husband out of his first choice name for their son. Malcom
Malc for short.

All the malcoms I know are over 60.

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curlew · 23/09/2013 09:38

Absolutely. Fantastic name. I would have liked it better than my actual name, (which is so late 50s/early 60s it's not true!) But 50 years ago, young people heard it in the same way we would hear Beryl or Doris.

LadyFlumpalot · 23/09/2013 09:17

Curlew My 5 day old DD is called Emily.

curlew · 23/09/2013 09:08

My mother was mocked and ridiculed out of using the name she wanted for me. She was told it was dull and old fashioned and I would be teased.

The name? Emily.

What goes around comes around.

ChickenLickenSticken · 23/09/2013 09:04

I LOVE Mary, it's beautiful.

honeybeeridiculous · 22/09/2013 21:50

I work in a maternity hospital and love hearing all the names, we've had a Dennis, Arthur , Ernest, Zander, Reggie, Mary, in the last week Smile

HarderToKidnap · 22/09/2013 18:56

Keith is the ultimate non-baby name. Who could look down at a little baby and think, "ooh yes, Keith!"

Barry is another one.

Melonbreath · 22/09/2013 18:53

Nigel?

TeamSouthfields · 22/09/2013 00:14

I know two brothers 5 and 3, Frank and Harry .....

ChickenLickenSticken · 21/09/2013 23:59

Hmm. It's like Howard.

Cute baby Howard.

StormyBrid · 17/09/2013 13:32

I quite like Stuart, actually. DP vetoed and it turned out to be a girl anyway. Good thing too, because for quite a while her head looked like Stewie Griffin's from above.

ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 17/09/2013 13:17

Tell him he can have 'Stuart'.

The very minute you buy a mouse Grin

sparkle12mar08 · 17/09/2013 13:09

My dh seriously suggested Brian and Clive on his list for ds1...

nonmifairidere · 17/09/2013 10:15

Can't see what is wrong with it (unless your surname is Stewart). Better than most of the affected and, frankly, ridiculous forenames that appear here.

stinkingbishop · 16/09/2013 21:57

My cousin's just had a Malcolm...

mewkins · 16/09/2013 21:51

It's a good name!surely due to make a comeback

cuillereasoupe · 16/09/2013 09:14

My DP suggested Stewart too. He wanted his son to be named after the drummer out of Police apparently. I vetoed it, but it's actually grown on me, but DP has now gone off it because it sounds like an air steward.

Solaia · 14/09/2013 23:34

My gorgeous one year old nephew is called Stuart. It suits him perfectly.

So the answer to your (frankly rather rude) question is - my brother. He is the sort of man who calls his son Stuart.

MoonsMamma · 14/09/2013 20:13

I met a tiny little Colin in hospital yesterday...

When pg with DD, the bump was named Keith - mainly to stop people asking what we were going to call her. We just said "Keith" to shut them up ;)

I love Trevor as a guilty pleasure name!!

Trazzletoes · 14/09/2013 19:20

So we shouldnt call children Stuart because of 1 horrible man with that name? Seriously?

So I guess no more Peter, Ian, Fred, Robert, Jon, James... If you decide to give your child a name that is not shared with anyone who has ever been convicted of sexual assault then you're not leaving yourself with much.

ch1134 · 14/09/2013 13:45

Yes me too - I think Jeff is a cooler version of the pop-popular 'Jett' at the moment!

EnjoyEverySandwich · 14/09/2013 13:01

I like Jeff but not Geoff. Funny, isn't it.