Sterling or Steen?

Here are some ideas:

Caine

Drake

Cosmo

Archer

Falcon

Comer

Strath

But also to answer - if those are your best options I'm SURE you'd be able to find more. Look at historical figures - engineers, lords - some amazing first names along these 'not really names at all' lines.

Stirling, and spelled that way - definitely not as in 'pounds sterling'.

Steen sounds like a sex toy for some reason, or a porn star. There's something very vomitously porny about it!

I was responding to the poster who said Sterling Moss was a racing driver.😀 The names are not different spellings if one name they are totally different. But Sterling still sounds like money to me😀

I much prefer Sterling over Stirling.

Great names, for a stainless steel company.

We did choose between spellings though. There's Stirling with an i, and Sterling with an e. We chose to go with the spelling which had the e, and not the i

You chose between names. They are not the same.

To everyone saying it has to be with an i because of Stirling Moss, presumably the only Stirling/Sterling you can think of to name -

I'll just leave this here. Sterling with an e, is a name too

We did choose between spellings though. There's Stirling with an i, and Sterling with an e. We chose to go with the spelling which had the e, and not the i

we hated how Sterling looked when spelt with an i, as opposed to the e we went with!

It's not an alternative spelling though. It's a completely different noun. Pronounced differently too. You didn't choose between spellings. You chose between nouns and sounds.

Suggestions :)

Aneurin
Atwood
Bowen
Cadoc
Conlan
Dempsey
Devlin
Enzo
Fitch
Flannery
Grady
Guthrie
Hadden
Hawley
Hollis
Holt
Jarrett
Keelan
Kenway
Kern
Lorcan
Luigino
Leverett
Morvyn
Orson
Phelan
Rasmus
Renny
Renzo
Rudyard
Shelden
Thady
Thurston
Vance
Weston
Zalman

Sterling's my fav. , with the meaning 'of high quality, pure' a good choice I think. Steen means 'stone' I believe, so meaning isn't quite as nice.

Ace? Lumen?
No no no dont do that to your kid. Lifetime of teasing.

Sterling Moss was one of Britain's greatest racing drivers, he died last month. Good name
No its not its awful its like calling a kid 'Pound' and btw its Stirling Moss!
Op most of those names? Only a couple of them are actual first names. Just why would you do that to a child?

@emcero1 Ha you got there before me. Could always go old school with Matt

Lachlan and Fraser are OK, the rest are odd.

Now I've seen the girl's names too, the whole list just sounds like one that a kid from the TV show '16 and pregnant' cobbled together.

Sterling silver. Never heard of Steen, just sounds like Steve gone wrong.

Steen? Please don't do that! I immediately thought of spleen and then stain. Not great connotations!

Of your other boys' names, I like Lachlan, Campbell, Fraser. All very Scottish (I like that).

Girls names - I like only Indigo off your list.

Sorry OP, you do like strange names that aren't really names.

OP a quick Google shows (1) that Race Bannon's name is actually a nickname. His given first name is Roger.... (2) Race Imboden is named after the cartoon character's nickname. However, in the UK, to call a child 'Race' would be seen by many as borderline offensive.

Steen is actually an old name. A version of Danish 'sten' = stone. Lots of Mumsnetters seem not to like it, but to me it's vastly better than Race. And I prefer it to Stirling - that just conjures up pictures of a Scottish castle and coach-tours and summer crowds to me.

However, you say that you like Steen because of the tatooist/graffiti artist Steen Jones. And in Australia, at least, that's the main association of the name. Steen Jones is clearly very popular and very productive. There is even - accoding to Google, again - a Steen Jones range of men's underwear.

Your baby, your choice, obviously. But just because you - right now - like a very particular and distinctive style of comic/graffiti art, I think you might perhaps want to pause and think over whether it's fair to 'label' your baby with your artistic tastes - for the whole of his future life.

Stein - as in Jock Stein the football player - would at least be a recognizable spelling. But not Steen.

You seem determined to use a surname as firstname for your baby. Why?

• male in welsh

I don't mind Stirling. Or Flint or Flynn even. Rowan is a boys name here UK, the only ones I know are boys. So you could do that ?

Bronwen is the correct spelling for a girl the wyn version is make in welsh. I not so keen on this I agree it sounds harsh.

Indigo is nice, what about Luna (sun) instead of Lumen? Or even Lula ?

Sterling is much nicer! Makes me think of Archer - perhaps not a great role model, but an awesome show nonetheless!