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Sterling or Steen?

95 replies

isolatedcaramel · 01/05/2020 05:27

Bottom choices have come down to these two that we absolutely adore yet we can't quite pick one of them and also having trouble with middle names so even considering not using any.

What do you think?
Do you think these could work as stand-alone names or any middle ideas?

Thanks everyone xx

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cornersteps · 01/05/2020 09:30

Sterling = Furniture store. U.K. currency.

Steen = sounds like spleen. Looks like a misspelling of Steven.

Sorry OP that are both pretty bad.

LeaveItBarbara · 01/05/2020 09:26

Genuine question, OP - how did Race make the list?

I quite like Stirling, after Stirling Moss, but not spelled Sterling (unless you're a family of rabid Brexiteers who wanted to Keep The Pound at all costs). The trouble about surnames-as-first-names is the danger of sounding like an estate agents, or a local solicitor - and Steen/Holland/Bingham/Callahan/Flint definitely fall into that bracket for me, personally.

TenThousandSpoons · 01/05/2020 09:21

Stirling our of those two but much prefer Fraser or Flint from your longer list.

zscaler · 01/05/2020 09:18

Out of the long list only Fraser and Lachlan are names.

Not true. Campbell is a very normal Scottish name.

Marimari93 · 01/05/2020 09:15

Sterling or Fraser.
Can't stand Lachlan, it's like a brand name to me for white chocolate made in lapland. Or the name of a theme park or something.

MikeUniformMike · 01/05/2020 09:01

Stirling. Sterling is a currency.

Autumna · 01/05/2020 08:46

Stirling is a great name! I also like Ferris and Holland. I don't think that a name being unusual automatically makes it a bad name. To me, your list are all strong names which are easy to pronounce and spell. Win win.

Stinkyjellycat · 01/05/2020 08:36

Fraser or Lachlan

missmouse101 · 01/05/2020 08:35

Steen looks like spleen, so forget it! Stirling is reasonable spelt that way, definitely not with an 'e'.

Blursula · 01/05/2020 08:34

Oh and I know a little Ferris... I think it’s really cool. And Bueller is no bad association!

Blursula · 01/05/2020 08:31

Sterling is awesome! I agree I prefer the Stirling spelling though, like the place, rather than the currency.

I’m not keen on Steen personally. From your list I love Lachlan and Fraser (latter has a lovely meaning of ‘strawberry flowers’ which I noticed last week when considering it for our list!)

Bobbybobbins · 01/05/2020 08:31

Not Steen!

Like Fraser, Lachlan and Campbell

TheVanguardSix · 01/05/2020 08:31

How about Spencer?

Definitely not Race.

noitsachicken · 01/05/2020 08:29

Steen?!??
No please don’t name your child this!
I looked it up, it means Stone!?
Why?

Orphlids · 01/05/2020 08:29

I like Stirling (but as PPs have said, with that spelling) and Lachlan. I don’t have a problem with surnames being used as first names, but generally I’d assume the family would be extremely well to do, or the opposite end of the spectrum.

glitterbiscuits · 01/05/2020 08:25

Grim choices.

Stirling with an i would be better than Steen which is laughable. I'd assumed you had trouble pronouncing Steven.

Out of the long list only Fraser and Lachlan are names.

What was on the girls list? You have ....interesting ...tastes in names OP!

StampMc · 01/05/2020 08:23

Stirling, Lachlan, Campbell and Fraser are all fine. I suppose mor potential for mockery with Campbell. Steen is awful. You can’t call a human Race for reasons to many to mention. Ferris - bueller and wheel. No

emmathedilemma · 01/05/2020 08:19

I think they're both awful. I know a Stirling and everyone joked about where was he conceived.
Fraser and Lachlan are both bearable.

zscaler · 01/05/2020 08:16

I think Sterling is much better than Steen. I’m really not a fan of Steen.

I also really like Lachlan, Campbell and Fraser from your longer list. I prefer all of those to Sterling.

BobbyBlueCat · 01/05/2020 08:10

Steen is hideous. Absolutely vile. He'll be bullied to shit.

Stirling is passable if you spell it correctly.

saraclara · 01/05/2020 08:09

Steen just sounds horrible. If you go for Stirling, it needs that spelling, not with an e. Fraser is bearable as is Lachlan. Sorry, I don't like that others at all.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 01/05/2020 08:04

They are all surnames to me, I'm not keen on any. Steen is particularly awful.

Beenjuice · 01/05/2020 07:59

I was on a Facebook game with an American woman who’s relative had a baby that they called Braxton Hicks. Being terribly British I said how lovely 🙈

user1480880826 · 01/05/2020 07:59

I know a middle aged woman who calls herself steen short for Christina. I think it’s a horrible sounding name. It’s also not a name.

Race has many uncomfortable connotations. Your son will have a lifetime of being taunted about what race he is. Again, it’s not a name.

Holland is a country, not a name. The rest are either not names or they are surnames.

I get that you want to be quirky and different but giving your kids totally made up names is not big and it’s not clever. Especially when they are random words or horrible sounding words. Give your kid a break.

ohthepigeons · 01/05/2020 07:58

Fraser is lovely.

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