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Walter

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OrangeTrees16 · 03/12/2016 17:31

Opinions on Walter? NN Walt? Smile

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JessieDoops · 04/12/2016 23:28

No

rainbow99 · 04/12/2016 23:02

I don't like it, and I'm pretty sure your child wouldn't thank you for it as they got older. As someone else has said, Wilf or Wilbur are much better if you like old man names, with the option of Will if they wanted a more popular name when the time came

MistressMolecules · 03/12/2016 23:13

Love it!

BratFarrarsPony · 03/12/2016 22:20

oh no 'Walter the softy' - please don't.

WellErrr · 03/12/2016 22:19

Love it!

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WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 03/12/2016 20:57

So cute!

Pluto30 · 03/12/2016 20:28

The only Walter I've known was a complete and total asshole.

So I don't like it.

Plus, he got Wally. Because he was one.

Sophronia · 03/12/2016 19:49

I like it!

MiniMaxi · 03/12/2016 19:07

(It's a family name so perhaps a bit biased)

MiniMaxi · 03/12/2016 19:06

I love Walt and Walter! It was on our list Smile

Helsinkimorning · 03/12/2016 18:43

Breaking bad fan?

Enidblyton1 · 03/12/2016 18:41

I'm not a fan, but then I loved the Beano.
Walter will always be a weak and watery personality to me.

SpeckledyBanana · 03/12/2016 18:32

I love this (family) name but my mid-20s relly who got landed with it loathes it.

Idodo · 03/12/2016 18:29

Very wet. Even worse than Malcolm (see other thread.)

SirChenjin · 03/12/2016 17:54

Don't like it at all, sorry. Some names have fallen out of favour for a very good reason.

OliviaBensonOnAGoodDay · 03/12/2016 17:52

I know a man in his 20s called Walter - he goes by Walker, he finds his name embarrassing.

AuntieStella · 03/12/2016 17:49

Walter was very much out of fashion when I was at school and continues to be swerved by my generation because Walter was the main 'softie' in the Beano and because Wally is used a perjorative term.

Also Walt is used (increasingly, and very widely in military circles) as short version of labelling someone a Walter Mitty, again perjorative.

You need to be absolutely sure about those two angles before using the name.

SorenaJ · 03/12/2016 17:49

People have the ability to choose their own nicknames. If he doesn't like Wally, then he tells people that he doesn't want to be called Wally.

I like Walter. It's a pleasant name.

SpeakNoWords · 03/12/2016 17:45

Will your son always live in the same area as where you are now?

Blue2014 · 03/12/2016 17:44

I love it. I knew a very cool Walter once, tattooed roadie for bands, lovely man.

BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington · 03/12/2016 17:43

Awful

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OrangeTrees16 · 03/12/2016 17:39

Yes but it's hardly used where I live and I know a Wally and no one comments

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SpeakNoWords · 03/12/2016 17:37

You know Wally mean a silly or daft person , yes?

bigarse1 · 03/12/2016 17:36

my stepsons name - horrible. people never ever pronounce the 'l' so he gets called water

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