Your thoughts on... Harker?

Oh, yes, Box of Delights

I think that it is great as a middle name as it is distinguished and has family connections but I wouldn't like it for every day-leads to too many jokes.
It all depends on the character of the DC as to whether they can cope with an unusual name-something you can't know as a baby.

Oh, I loved the Box of Delights!@Honor

Also reminds me of Harper Lee, which i think is a cool name :-)

It is a surname (as in quite a few people have it as a surname). Because Americans often use surnames as first names it sounds quite American to me. I am not saying that is good or bad, its just an observation.

It also reminds me of Harper. As in Harper Lee who wrote To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Love it! It reminds me of ancient kids programme from the 80's (Anyone else remember The box of Delights?!) The boy in that was called Kay Harker. . . .
Harker sounds 'Old and established' and with family ties even better. Go for it (But be prepared to explain why he's called Harker to everyone who learns his name - this coming from a Mum whose Dd1 has an unusual name. If I had a pound for the number of times I've said 'It's an ancient Cornish name . . .'

Cappuccino I don't happen to mind unusual names but having one did make my dh's life as a teenager very miserable and he did "hate" his parents at that time for giving him such a "crap" name and an equally "crap" middle name. Belittle this if you like but op asked for opinions so presumably she wanted them and I think it is a valid consideration.
My pet hate is names spelt in a ridiculous way. Condemns the poor child to a life time of their name being spelt incorrectly or having to spell it for people. But I wouldn't condemn someone for choosing to do this....just wouldn't do it myself.

Ummm, Harker James. Lovely

I love the idea that family names carry through the generations & keep people's memories alive

Go for it.
I'm pretty crap with 'unusual' names normally, my Dc's are all very 'normal'(common?) and I've been won over by it so I'd imagie most people will be.

I always say on these threads DD's BF's name is Dallis, when she first talked about her I was very WTF? about the name, but now I know her quite well it suits her to a tee, and I really like it, names become the person after a while and you even forget there was any worries about using them.

Harker Smith

It is fine. When he is a teenager people will call him Fucker Smith but as capp points out, kids will find something "amusing" in relation to every first name. And if they don't, they'll find it in the surname. Or the fact that they wear glasses or whatever.

Ooooh I like that one. Harker. The more I say it the more I like it too, especially with a one syllable surname. I think it's fab and as it's a family name you have even more great reason to use it.

oh hark at you
i take it you are not from the west midlands

No, sorry. Maybe as a middle name.

I like it - also Harper if you're not sure...

Do you have any choices of middle names to go with it? I think as a whole name with quite plain and simple middle/surname it could go well, like Harker James White or something, but if it's going to be all 'different' names might be too much.

I'm not sure. Don't love it or hate.

Like all of these threads it really depends on the surname and how the name flows as a whole and for obvious reasons most people don't want to disclose their surname on mnet so it's really hard to judge how it will sound in rl.

dont let it get to you capp, these name threads are all the same. if the op has any wit (which im quite sure she does) she'll take it all in her stride. you get anonymous opinions on here if you ask for them... shes asked... so shes gonna get them. she'll no dobt decide based on overall feeling and how much she likes it, not on any particular post from some random on the internet

It does sound like a word not a name though!

But as soon as someone IRL says it's unusual or theyve never heard it before and the OP says 'it was my great-gradfathers name', that'll be the end of convo, if she'd made it up then I'd say, don't be silly, but she hasn't.

oh olive not you too

and 'my friend had a horrid name and it made them miserable' is another one

I have a perfectly reasonable one but schoolkids still managed to pull it apart

calm down dear, it's only a name

hmmm, not sure about name tbh, middle name maybe?

boudoir I hate these name threads

if people come on and say "What do you think of Ellie/ Rachel/ Anne" everyone goes oh how pretty

anything slightly out of the ordinary you get this ridiculous 'oh it sounds funny' malarkey

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I quite like it.
We have a lot of surnames as middle names in my Dad's side of the family. Very common for Scottish people to give their firstborn the mother's maiden name as a middle name.

and Nancy, I'd have thought having complete strangers say facile things about a name that you love is even less helpful

I know children with unusual names. I have children with unusual names. People get over the 'what? how do you spell that?' remarkably quickly