Sullivan Xavier Anderson- Too much??

FWIW I think no to the names as well. They don't flow.

The O P hasn't been back!

@Strokethefurrywall
Genuine question, why would he be called Sally Annie?
I guess Anderson would be the source of Ann/Annie?...hopefully not though...

What @HarrietM87 said. Also, Sully as a nickname for someone with the surname Sullivan is one of those naff trad nicknames like Jonesy or Giggsy.

PP - lol... or Christian..:?

I really like Sullivan (nn Sully) as a boy's name (and did suggest it to DH but got shot down) however I don't really think it goes with your surname I'm afraid.

I've not seen this name before and I like it. It all sounds ok to me. Its unusual but not daft.

I can't abide all these bible names though, so many Noahs and Isiahs, I think they are just plain weird unless you are actually Jewish.

Genuine question, why would he be called Sally Annie?

My Sullivan isn't called anything except Sully, Van or Sullivan. He prefers Sully. Not once has he ever come home and complained that friends have taken the piss out of his name.
I can't fathom how folk think that because a child is named something that other kids will automatically come up with some weird rhyming insult.

People (and here it seems to be adults because I don't see any kids on here) love to project their own feelings and/or insecurities on to a name.

I don't think I'll find my Sullivan growing up wanting to change his name because thankfully he's living in a country where names aren't mocked or ridiculed.

It seems to be only the UK that has this strange obsession with how names sound (chavvy, posh, try hard), whereas nobody else really cares.

no i don't think it works.
he'd be called sally annie, which is not nice or cute.
also to sully one's name means to bring it into disrepute.
please, think of the child, who will have to bear it long after you have gone. sorry to say that, but it's true. unless he goes to the trouble and poss emotional angst of officially changing it, which would cause problems with having to explain school certificates, so he'd never get away from it.

Sullivan Anderson just doesn’t flow. Sorry.

I'd go for Xavier Anderson which I think is much better. Perhaps make Sullivan the middle name but I'd go for a shorter middle name ideally

@Strokethefurrywall well said! Love your username btw 🤣 great film!

@StephanieRuth why would he rightly get bullied?

Seems to me that the only people that would bully a child for a name are adults that should know better...

I don’t think the length of the name is a problem, as middle names are so rarely used. But I’m afraid I do agree with PPs that the repetition of the ‘un’ sound at the end of both Sullivan and Anderson is not good.

Also, Xavier pronounced the original way, ie hav-ee-ay?

That might be the "original" way in Spanish-speaking countries but it's normally zay-vee-er in the UK.

He'd get bullied and rightly so

I love the name Sullivan! I follow a lovely family on Instagram who have a little Sullivan/Sully and he suits it so much.

I think all the names together are strong and Sullivan Anderson doesn’t sound clunky at all to me.

Too much and he'll end up as Sully which isn't a name really apart from in an animated film. It's a word that means to dirty or to defile which is a shit meaning for a name.

floored hope you’ve enjoyed your little research project there. Unless the OP comes back and says that it’s a family name, I think it’s a weird and inappropriate choice.

Sully seems to be very popular at the moment. The new Noah.

No one cares or uses their middle name so don't worry about that.

I think Sullivan Anderson is nice.

To me, it's like using Jones Anderson or Smith Anderson - it does sound like a double barrelled surname. And I don't think Sullivan goes particularly well with Anderson syllable-wise either.

I take your point, @flooredbored, but I have to say that, as an Irish person, Sullivan sounds very strange when used as a first name. Just not used to it I suppose

@HarrietM87

There are 375,048 people globally that have the surname Sullivan, only 5661 are resident in Ireland. Can you really not see how this would influence names in other countries? Apparently, the highest incidence of people named Sullivan is actually in Tonga. The largest number is the US where it is the 86th most common surname. Surnames that were used as first names, may have originally had family ties, or special meaning, then people may have named children after well known people with those names, as the name has become well known as a given name, others may have just liked it, Names evolve and change all the time. The name of Sullivan is obviously significant to a lot of people who aren’t Irish. Other non-Irish surnames have been adapted similarly.
forebears.io/surnames/sullivan

Meh, DH is Scottish and I'm mixed race British. No Irish here, we named our Sullivan because he was born on St Patrick's Day. If we hadn't chosen Sullivan he would have been Lachlan.

But superficially he was named because I fancied the pants off Sullivan Stapleton, the Australian actor.

Names/naming trends are constantly evolving, I have not appropriated the Irish culture by naming my 6 year old an Irish surname.

Xavier*