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Austin or Fraser? Surname is Sheffield

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AngelaDevon · 03/11/2019 21:50

Thank you!

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AnjGlos · 23/11/2019 08:58

His initials will be F L I S. All sorted now, thanks everyone.

Proseccoinamug · 22/11/2019 23:32

Evan is great. Welsh version would be Efan.

I also thought ‘Lost in Sheffield’ but FS isntgreat as initials.

LemonPrism · 18/11/2019 14:08

Fraser

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AngelaDevon · 18/11/2019 12:00

I'm welsh, but are loving a Scottish name, Fraser. We are british so more than happy to explore names beyond where we live.

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FizzyGreenWater · 18/11/2019 11:32

Ah no, stick with Fraser.

Evan and Eliza are a bit twee. And it's just too much like Heaven with a dropped h!

SirVixofVixHall · 16/11/2019 21:53

Are you Welsh ?

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AngelaDevon · 16/11/2019 21:40

We are now considering Evan as a possible and have scrapped Austin.

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AngelaDevon · 10/11/2019 19:48

Yes, despite it not going particularly well with Eliza, my 2 year old daughter, we both just love the way the name sounds. His middle names are our grandfather's, so he has quite a mixed bag! Fraser Laurie Idris Sheffield!!! I imagine I'll be calling him Fray or Fraze a lot so I'm sure it will work with Eliza the majority of the time! Thank you everyone for your input!x

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MissHenty · 10/11/2019 19:30

Thanks for updating us @AngelaDevon lovely namr

hopelessatthinkingupusernames · 10/11/2019 18:21

I have a Fraser and I love his name. Although non Scottish people tend to write Frazer so maybe avoid if that would bother you a lot!

snidgetowl · 10/11/2019 14:21

Austin and Sheffield are both place names, so don't sound right together. Fraser is therefore better suited to the surname.

Ellmau · 09/11/2019 10:58

I like Austin better for the first name, but you could use Fraser as mn.

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AngelaDevon · 04/11/2019 09:59

Thank you everyone, Fraser it is. X

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AndAnotherNameChanger · 04/11/2019 09:41

Austin Sheffield to me is a list of cities, not a name.

I like Fraser, and don't think there's a problem with it next to Eliza.

MissMarpletheMurderer · 04/11/2019 09:37

F. S. Initials read to me as fucks sake. Agree about the car link.

EleanorShellstrop100 · 04/11/2019 09:31

Fraser!

ditavonteesed · 04/11/2019 07:41

Would you consider Henderson?

lowlandLucky · 04/11/2019 07:33

Fraser

RoseToes · 04/11/2019 06:01

Fraser

Cookit · 04/11/2019 06:00

Fraser. Great name.

Agree with all the PPs that something not right about Austin Sheffield as it sounds like a car.

MrsNoMopp · 04/11/2019 04:57

Austin

BasiliskStare · 04/11/2019 01:32

@TheCraicDealer - if were not a work trip I would say sounds like the cult novel The Lost Weekend - but I suppose it is how lost you were - Oh how funny

Yes - probably Fraser

I think it works perfectly well with Eliza but then unless you were to have Mungo , Margot , Hugo , Bingo , Rollo , Ivo , Sappho , Leo , Arvo - who really worries about siblings names "going together" or is that just me

As you all were , probably just me Grin

diddlediddle · 04/11/2019 00:45

@TheCraicDealer 🤣🤣🤣

TheCraicDealer · 04/11/2019 00:44

Fraser. Austin Sheffield sounds a bit like "Lost in Sheffield" which reminds me of an eventful work trip I took in 2016.

alexdgr8 · 04/11/2019 00:41

sorry, but both of them sound like a product, cutlery or cars, or the name of a firm, not an individual.
the surname is so strong, as a place name so linked with steel production, that I think you need a definite first name with it, not a surname being used as a first name.
think some classic ones go well, Robert, henry, Bruce, Mark, benjamin, Joseph, Joseph, Philip, Alexander.
good luck.