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Stanley or walter

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Changedmynameo · 24/01/2018 17:07

And why (if a reason comes to mind)

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pipilangstrumpf · 24/01/2018 21:17

Walter or Wally is much better than William or Willy!

Plumes · 24/01/2018 21:10

Walter is just awful. Stanley is marginally less awful. So I'd go for Stanley.

lunar1 · 24/01/2018 20:28

I love them both, and they'd probably be shortened to stan and Walt.

itsalltolookforwardto · 24/01/2018 20:19

Both great, really don't understand people who say they are old mans names. They have zero imagination not to realise those men were children and young adults. I fear they can't imagine their children's modern names as grandparents. Walter could easily be Walt , to get around the Wally issue not that anyone under 30 would think that any more.

villainousbroodmare · 24/01/2018 20:17

Awful, sorry. Like ancient, arthritic doddering men.

natalie16175 · 24/01/2018 20:15

I don't really like them they just sound really old. Not like a new baby you could right enough shorten it to Stan. Some old man names I like is Fredrick but shortened to Freddy, Baillie, Louis and Sidney shortened to Sid. I like them because they are cool for older people but even at that I don't think I'd have the guts to name my baby any of them.

lynmilne65 · 24/01/2018 20:14

I used to live in Stanley House!!

EmmaC78 · 24/01/2018 20:08

I think they are both awful too. I am right in reading that you want an old man name even though you don't actually like either?!

frasier · 24/01/2018 20:07

Met a black cab driver who had a Stan and another older name, sorry forgot which, and he said he was always being told they were the coolest names in school!

LadyofDispleasure · 24/01/2018 20:06

BonnieF extending your own argument...you can't be sure they'll have all your negative preconceptions either!

MotherofPearl · 24/01/2018 20:01

Walter can always be shortened to Walt. Does not have to end up as Wally.

BonnieF · 24/01/2018 19:56

I'm sure sure the playground bullies won't be thinking of Anne of Green Gables when they are picking on poor little Wally.

Calling a little boy Walter while knowing he will be bullied because of his name would be a hateful, cruel thing to do.

crunchtime · 24/01/2018 19:55

imagine being 14 and at high school and called walter

it's just cruel

crunchtime · 24/01/2018 19:54

well if it being popular puts you off-then be put off. The world and his wife are calling thier children awful old names and thinking they're hip and unique

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 19:54

Sorry Op but you will always get negative responses if you ask about baby names.

Mybabystolemysanity · 24/01/2018 19:54

My Dad who died at Christmas was Stanley. Will be using for DC2 if a boy.

Have seen Henry and Alfred recently and know a little Ernest.

namechangedtoday15 · 24/01/2018 19:53

Awful. Sorry (and thats from someone who had a Grandad with one of those names and a relative with one as a surname).

I think they could possibly work as cute baby names but at 5? 15? 25? Not so sure!

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Changedmynameo · 24/01/2018 19:53

I don't want it because everyone else has it at all. I don't know a lot of people with babies, nor do I know what's popular..it being popular instantly puts me off. There's some very insensitive responses on here

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crunchtime · 24/01/2018 19:51

and this is stanley

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LadyofDispleasure · 24/01/2018 19:51

I like Walter! I would have considered it if we had have had another DS. I think of Walter Blythe from Anne of Green Gables (Anne's son).

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 19:51

They are both awful. Sorry Op but its a trend that is so common now that its not very trendy.

crunchtime · 24/01/2018 19:50

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this is a walter

crunchtime · 24/01/2018 19:49

they are both fucking awful.
i cannot believe it has becime fashionable to name a gorgeous new baby a name that immediately brings to mind flat cap wearing, pint of mild supping, big eared old men.

It's just horrible.

I could kind of get giving a name like this as a middle name after a beloved relative but doing it because it's fashionanable and everyone else is? No

user187656748 · 24/01/2018 19:48

I also know lots of young stanleys. Oldest is about 11. It's very popular. Is that what you want?

BonnieF · 24/01/2018 19:48

Walter would inevitably be called Wally in the playground, which doesn't sound very fair on the poor little chap.

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