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Victoria and Albert?

44 replies

pizzanoodle · 31/10/2023 20:38

Hello!

We are expecting a baby boy and is trying to decide on a name.

One of the choices is Albert which we both love as a name.

The slight complication is that our beloved daughter is named Victoria.

What do you think about the association with V&A (Victoria and Albert museum)?

Is it crazy to name him Albert in this case?

Opinions much appreciated!

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Daisybuttercup12345 · 03/11/2023 22:30

Terrible together. Please don't!!
Both lovely individually though.

Libraryloiterer · 02/11/2023 11:26

AFieldGuideToTrees · 01/11/2023 21:04

What everyone else has said.

It's not just that they were a married couple, but that they are so famously a highly sexed couple!

Incredibly weird for siblings. 😬

Yes, and that!

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 01/11/2023 22:32

It really depends if you want to hear "Oh, like Queen Victoria and Prince Albert?" likely from the majority of people whenever you first introduce them together. It's a pretty obvious link as the names are often said together. It's hardly a bad link - it just depends on whether such comments would annoy you. If it would then maybe Alfred or Robert instead?

strawberry2017 · 01/11/2023 21:17

Don't use Albert, it's become ridiculously common.
Victoria is lovely and underused.

AFieldGuideToTrees · 01/11/2023 21:04

What everyone else has said.

It's not just that they were a married couple, but that they are so famously a highly sexed couple!

Incredibly weird for siblings. 😬

Toddlerteaplease · 01/11/2023 20:57

Just don't do it. Albert is an awful name anyway. Victoria is my name and I would t have thanked my parents for calling a brother Albert!

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pizzanoodle · 01/11/2023 20:39

Thank you very much for the posts everyone! Your comments are very helpful and we'll definitely be carefully considering things!

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MumofSpud · 01/11/2023 20:05

I wouldn't either but also what if you had a number 3?
What would you call them then?

isthismylifenow · 01/11/2023 18:50

Not too sure if this is serious, but my first thoughts were, the Waterfront.

But then I am from Cape Town.

ThomasinaLivesHere · 01/11/2023 18:46

I wouldn’t as if I was one of them I’d be uncomfortable that we had the names of a famous couple.

DuploTrain · 01/11/2023 09:39

I think it is odd to name siblings after a couple. Especially as there’s been so many films/ documentaries about how passionate their marriage was.. feels icky to me.

KnickerlessParsons · 01/11/2023 09:36

It would be like calling your children Charles and Diana or Harry and Megan.
Don't do it.

DRS1970 · 01/11/2023 09:30

There is nothing wrong with this combination, providing you can cope with the occasional comment about being named after after a Queen and he husband, or the V&A museum.

EdgeOfACoin · 01/11/2023 09:28

I think Victoria and Albert are too much.

Assuming this is real.

Wilbur? Alfred?

Bendysnap · 01/11/2023 06:50

Very weird to name siblings after a famously passionate couple with 9 children

NewShoes · 01/11/2023 06:48

absolutely not - they were famous lovers and a devoted couple. I would imagine 99% of people would immediately think of Queen Victoria and Albert as soon as the two names were said. Sorry!

FarEast · 01/11/2023 06:37

You do know that the museum was named after a Royal pair, don’t you?

If I encountered a Victoria and an Albert I’d think the parents were weird or pretentious.

Falzarega · 31/10/2023 23:02

Erm no. I wouldn’t name siblings Romeo and Juliet, or Robin and Marian, or Cixtoria and Albert. Because being named after a famous couple is gross for siblings.

Honestly get some more imagination. Plenty of other great names out there. Maybe have a look at the riyals family tree for inspiration as clearly you like classic names. Alexander? Louis? George?

Lochness1975 · 31/10/2023 22:19

A loved you couple not brother and sister spring to mind. Albie would be nice

napody · 31/10/2023 22:08

TheDuchessOfMN · 31/10/2023 20:58

“My dearest, dearest Albert”

That’s what I think of when I see Victoria and Albert together… A Queen who is hopelessly in love with her husband - definitely not siblings, but maybe that’s just me and not many people will make the association

FWIW, they are both beautiful names.

Yup... and their famously passionate sexual relationship. Her comment about 'oh...no more fun in bed' when her doctor advised her that another pregnancy would be harmful to her health.

Don't. Do. It.

theduchessofspork · 31/10/2023 22:06

It’s very weird - they were a famously amorous couple (9 kids) so as sibling names… no.

Startyabastard · 31/10/2023 22:02

I love the name Victoria.

DaisyMaisyFaisy · 31/10/2023 22:01

I think it depends of whether your daughter is known as Vicky or not. Vicky and Bertie wouldn’t make me think of royalty, but Victoria and Albert would

BirthdayFlower · 31/10/2023 21:43

Honestly? I think I’d assume you were some sort of royal nut and that you’d done if deliberately. Please don’t do this, plenty of other names out there.

I don’t know why you’re worried about the association with the museum rather than the people my the museum is named after.

whatausername · 31/10/2023 21:37

I immediately think of the very famous historical couple and her well-documented devastation and heartbreak when she was widowed.

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