Fintan, Tudor or Titus, or something else?

Farquahar?

I think you need to spread the net wider - the world of medical terms is your oyster.

Variocele
Osteosarcoma
Sarcoidosis

You’d find some lovely name options.

Fintan is a bog standard Irish name, nothing posh about it. I like it but I always picture it on a middle aged man.

Titus is great for a dog, Tudor for a house. Neither for a human.

Titus Groan is my favourite book ever.
It could be a genius name on the right child, or cause a lifetime of pain.
Don't like the other names, but if they call to you OP, then go for it!

If Titus appeared in my son’s house at school, I would immediately think his parents were social climbing wankers!

Wow, you are very judgmental. hope you don't pass such views onto your children.

Titus was the name of Titus Salt, the great Victorian industrialist who built Saltaire, Salts Mill etc near Bradford. Why would this be a joke post?

Because we are no longer in the industrial revolution and names like Titus belong in 1800?

If Titus appeared in my son’s house at school, I would immediately think his parents were social climbing wankers, and that’s coming from someone surrounded by Percy’s and Aramintas.

Titus Andronicus is v v violent. Rape, cutting off limbs, tongues and cooking up humans in a pie are a few delights to savour....

Howabout Caligula? Or Nero?
Visigoth
Ostrogoth
Pict
Jute
Vandal
Mongol

Any good? Or Kastrol? Diabolo? Drexel? Leviathan?

Freddie - you’ve got yourself a whole fantasy novel cast there.

Loving Ello!

These trends are still ‘attempting to impress’ in their own way nooka they just happen to fail. And they must convince the someone - otherwise the trends wouldn’t have caught on.

So yes I think it’s comparable, but I think the OP might be pulling our legs anyway.

Something else.

“...nasty character called Titus Andronicus who was quite a LTB type” - love this!! 😄

Some cracking quotes on this thread...”don’t mock Tudor” 😂

Bumsnet

Trying to create baby names with the names of a few couples I know:
Leorik
Melian
Limos
Emilip (Milip?)
Viatrice
Ello
Laurik
Pandra
Yala
Lannick
Runja

Idk... Some of these aren’t too bad (imo).

(Don’t worry, these aren’t the names of actual children / won’t out anyone.)

Or where a new and unique name is made from the parents names to symbolise the love that created them. Never sound good but to give examples would be outing.
Pure class.

But all those trends cause people to look down on the parents and label them as stupid, uneducated etc. Associations with America are not generally positive in the UK. Hyphenated names are considered hill billy even in the States and really aren't positively received in the UK.

I really don't think this is at all similar to the reception a middle class family who pick an obscure classical or Celtic/Old English name for their child will get. It's apples and oranges.

Another chav pretention is yoonique spelling of ordinary names, which Is thought to be sophisticated but actually just looks badly educated. Plus using foreign names with the wrong pronunciation - Anaïs is a famous example on here.

At least the names in the OP are genuine names, correctly spelt. And not named after a celebrity’s child.

I don’t have a lot of patience with people using online dictionary definitions but - to take it at face value ‘attempting to impress’ is exactly how I would describe those names.

Attempting to impress with a name whose popularity or usage comes from America.

Hyphenated first names are very affected imo - too try hard. And also American influenced - Peggy-Sue, Billy-Jo etc

I can easily imagine a child called Titus, I suppose it depends on your imagination.

Pretentious means attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. How can a name like 'Elli-Mae' be pretentious? The OP has a short list of three unusual names with three completely different backgrounds. I doubt she has Welsh, Irish and Roman connections. I suspect she just likes the sounds of the names.

We had a dog called Titus. I can't imagine it on a child and given that most names are shortened at some point or another especially at school don't think it would be a good choice at all. I don't recall being embarrassed about shouting for our dog in the park (and as he wasn't very obedient there was a fair bit of shouting) but I don't recall coming across it as an insult until I was a teenager and our dog was long dead.

Bumsnet so many chav names are pretentious - Kayden Jayden Jaxon Mason Madison Harper - all American. Princess Tiammi, Elli-Mae, Ruby-Rae etc

I don’t find the OP’s names pretentious. They’re all really old names, they’re not wannabe American or copying celebrities, they’re just not commonly used - in England anyway - Fintan is actually fairly standard Irish name, Tudor (or Tudur) is a very old Welsh name.

Tiberius is Captain Kirk's middle name. So it obviously becomes popular again in the future.

I think people make too much of unusual names and teasing and such. I had a very unusual name growing up. No one could spell it or pronounce it and I still get comments all the time. I hated it for maybe a year as a kid, then got used to it. I love having a unique name. People remember my name (and remember me), it's a good icebreaker for a conversation, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Oysterbabe

Sixtine is a nice girl’s name as well (imo).

Ok im a chav but...none of them.
They sound from my background utterly pretentious although presumably yours is not mine.
Even royal names are less posh. Unless youre Catherine Royal and are having another boy?

Try to imagine yourself calling your child over the playground. Try to imagine your child with the name as an adult

You don’t think the OP has factored that in...