Should I deliberately choose a 'good boy' name? Suggestions please

My MIL has told us not to use our favourite boys name as "all boys with that name are little shits". We have tried explaining to her that it's not a name that shapes personality - it's the way you raise them. She won't change her mind.
We still plan to use that name if we have a boy.

Haha, I've seen both DS's names on this page. One supposedly naughty and one supposedly good. My two are the opposite of what their names say they should be per this page!

Exactly, it's got to do with how the kids are disciplined. And when studies show a correlation between names and behaviour then what they're really showing is that parents who like certain names have a certain type of parenting style (and perhaps don't discipline their kids enough).

I’m sure there plenty of naughty boys at Eton called George and William just as there are plenty of naughty boys elsewhere called Kai and Kyle.

No such thing as a 'good' boy name or a 'naughty' boy name.

Pick a name you like and raise him not to be a brat. Job done.

Is it too late to change Dd3 name?

Speaking as someone who has looked after children for over 8yrs you will be bitterly disappointed if you think a name has anything to do with good/bad behaviour.

Any child has the ability to misbehave, it's not got anything to do with their name, but their personalities and how they are disciplined.

Good luck!

All the Daniel's I've ever known have a been a bit naughty, in a cheeky chap kind of way.

Can you see your child in a whole range of careers with your chosen name ( Moonbeam Smith, M.P, Dr Jaymz Smith or whatever) and how will you feel yelling it across a park or in a supermarket aisle.

Once you have satisfied yourself that you are comfortable in all these scenarios, just pick a name you like.

John! I always fancied John, but my DH said 'over my dead body', his middle name is John

I love the name John, and thought about calling DS1 that. My mum and dad said definitely don't! In their experience Johns " never turn out right".
My DB is called John!!

PI thought I'd picked a nice girls name for dd.

Then years ago there was some "alternative name meaning" thing and for dd's name it said "lives on a council estate, will be pregnant at 16".

I'd always thought it was a slightly posh 80s style name and I think when I was younger maybe it was. I recently met someone in her early 20s with the same name and told her this and she laughed and reckons it is a bit of a "rough" name these days.

Oh well, can't change it.

Katie Hopkins would love this thread

Jesus?

YES Kyle,and Kai,and Jayden.Or any mix of those like Kaiden or Kayden
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I have George and Max,like i said my George is a monkey but yes Max is a good boy,although there was another Max in his class when he was at school who was a ratbag.

I've read somewhere that George and Max are goody names, and the naughty is always Kyle.
(I wanted DS3 to be Kyle, and several people told me that he'll be on the naughty list)

Well, on the basis that Dennis is menacing and Henry is horrid, perhaps you'd find Peter perfect?

Freddie is a naughty boys name.So is Riley.Charlie too.

I have a George and hes a monkey,but George is so popular that i, sure there are really good boys called it too.

The only naughty name I've come across where every single one is naughty is Joshua!

My DS has a name which DH & I chose because we liked it and thought it was fairly classic but unusual. The feedback on it has mostly been "old-fashioned" and occasionally "posh" but a teacher friend said all the boys she'd known with that name were the naughty ones and someone on here said all the ones she'd met were bastards (as adults).

If you like the name it doesn't matter - there will always be dissenting voices, someone will always known a school bully with that name. All you can do is make sure your child is the exception!

Of course names don't make people . Parents do. And perhaps parents who like certain names have a certain parenting style? In other words, choose a name you love and bring up your kids to behave.

I have always found William's and Charlie's to be "naughty?!"

The "good" boy in my son's class is called Tiger....so not sure this theory works.

I named my daughter a pretty flower name and she is a complete tom-boy....??!!!

DS is Daniel which is supposed to be a naughty name.
other naughties, according to others, Cameron, Kieron, Adam.
Ians were always horrors when I was young. The adult Ians I know are fine, though.

I guess safe choices would be ones I hear as limp-wristed.

This is so subjective really, isn't it?

I see James has been mentioned twice as a "good boy"'s name but when I worked as a teacher in a rural primary school, the three boys with the most behaviour issues were all called James.

I have what would normally be considered to be a "good girl" name. But, I have never met a nice person with my name. At dc's primary school where they call the teachers Miss Firstname, the teacher who shares my name is universally considered by the children to be really really horrid.

burgatroyd: in haste I misread your post first time and thought you were recommending Colin. Which is an underused name in UK (quite popular in France). You could spearhead an impeccably behaved revival?