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Heath Grant or Edison Grant?

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Elanne · 04/05/2025 15:56

I have written a post here before, as we love the names Heath & Edison for a baby boy due at the end of May. We both like Heath better, but unsure if it sounds good with the middle name Grant. We would like to take the father's middle name, the surname is 2 syllables. The fact Heath & Grant both just have one syllable, it making me want to go for Edison. What do you all think?

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HugoYorway · 10/05/2025 15:37

Foster?

Mafaldaweasley · 10/05/2025 10:23

My 10 year old has a group music lesson with a younger child whose name he insisted for weeks was Keith.... turns out it is Heath (short for Heathcliff) ..... so there is always that risk!

Don't like either to be honest - Edward is nice. Or Edwin which is a bit different.

BlazenWeights · 09/05/2025 12:27

GoodVibesHere · 04/05/2025 16:04

Both absolutely awful, poor kid

Don’t be an idiot

Longingforspringtime · 05/05/2025 16:24

I know an Edison. He’s a teenager. He’s known as Ed and is totally embarrassed by his full name. He keeps it a secret.

IWillAlwaysBeinaClubWithYouin1973 · 05/05/2025 16:00

Heath grant sounds like something the council pay to sort out the local park.

How will other people know though? What your son's middle name is - will you be introducing him as my son Heath Grant Smith?

HappiestSleeping · 05/05/2025 15:47

RosesAndHellebores · 05/05/2025 15:22

No. I'd sort of grown into it by the time I was 18/19. I still get comments, usually at hospital appointments "ooh that's unusual". It's got better since I was a child, people don't laugh any more or say things like "why did your mum call you that?" I'm sure most who comment would be very offended if I said "ooh, Sharon, that's of its time, are you working class?".

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Sorry to hear people laughed. I'm not saying that nobody I know ever had the odd comment, but it wasn't constant and there were usually other things that overtook it. It was almost like an unwritten rule that it wasn't the child's fault.

RosesAndHellebores · 05/05/2025 15:22

HappiestSleeping · 05/05/2025 15:16

I did say 'most'. Did you change your name when you reached an age where you could?

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No. I'd sort of grown into it by the time I was 18/19. I still get comments, usually at hospital appointments "ooh that's unusual". It's got better since I was a child, people don't laugh any more or say things like "why did your mum call you that?" I'm sure most who comment would be very offended if I said "ooh, Sharon, that's of its time, are you working class?".

HollidaySunshine · 05/05/2025 15:18

Grant isn’t a nice name imo

HappiestSleeping · 05/05/2025 15:16

RosesAndHellebores · 05/05/2025 13:33

I completely disagree with this. I have a very posh and uncommon name. It was the bane of my life as a child and I so wished I’d been given an unremarkable name and chose my children’s names accordingly.

I did say 'most'. Did you change your name when you reached an age where you could?

RosesAndHellebores · 05/05/2025 13:33

I completely disagree with this. I have a very posh and uncommon name. It was the bane of my life as a child and I so wished I’d been given an unremarkable name and chose my children’s names accordingly.

HappiestSleeping · 05/05/2025 10:33

In my experience, names matter far more to the parents than the child. Most children just accept that their name is their name. I grew up with some friends with truly amazing names, but we all just accepted that it was their name. Shortening / nick names / piss taking etc happened to all regardless, about their name, or something else. I appreciate that I am older, so times may have changed, but just pick the name you like irrespective of what anyone else thinks. This thread proves that we all have our own taste.

I am struggling to not mention that Viz had a character called Student Grant though.

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Elanne · 05/05/2025 10:22

EleanorReally · 05/05/2025 07:14

i prefer Heath
why worry too much about the middle name

Not worrying too much, but I’d like to names to flow.

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EleanorReally · 05/05/2025 07:14

i prefer Heath
why worry too much about the middle name

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Empress13 · 05/05/2025 06:22

Edison reminds me of Edison Lighthouse

user1492757084 · 05/05/2025 06:00

Heath Grant is handsome.

Edward Grant is also nicer than Edison IMO.

Other ideas ..
Charles Grant
Hamish Grant
David Grant
John Grant
Murray Grant
Lachlan Grant
Angus Grant

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Elanne · 05/05/2025 01:35

ODFOx · 04/05/2025 21:05

Is Grant a family name? It is an unusual choice and quite different from either Heath or Edison.
The only Heath I’ve heard of is Heath Ledger, an Australian actor who was famius in the 90s/ 2000s. He was very cool. I have heard it as a diminutive of Heathcliffe, but they were a family with all literary names.
As far as I’m aware Edison is a surname: my female History mistress back in the 70s or the American inventor.
To my old British ear neither are a great fit with Grant tbh, but as we hardly use middle names it really doesn’t matter.
Heath
Dale
Lee
Forest
Edison
Atticus
Edward
Mitchell
Austin

Grant is my partners middle name, I wanted our son to have his middle name as his middle name x

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Boreded · 04/05/2025 23:03

Words · 04/05/2025 20:34

Edison invented the électric light bulb. Astonished no one seems aware of that.

Of course they are…where are you getting that idea from?

ODFOx · 04/05/2025 21:05

Is Grant a family name? It is an unusual choice and quite different from either Heath or Edison.
The only Heath I’ve heard of is Heath Ledger, an Australian actor who was famius in the 90s/ 2000s. He was very cool. I have heard it as a diminutive of Heathcliffe, but they were a family with all literary names.
As far as I’m aware Edison is a surname: my female History mistress back in the 70s or the American inventor.
To my old British ear neither are a great fit with Grant tbh, but as we hardly use middle names it really doesn’t matter.
Heath
Dale
Lee
Forest
Edison
Atticus
Edward
Mitchell
Austin

Words · 04/05/2025 20:59

@HugoYorway I dont think people got the joke though

OccasionalHope · 04/05/2025 20:48

Could Edwin work for you?

OccasionalHope · 04/05/2025 20:47

TBH I would avoid any surname as a Christian name when the surname is Grant, as otherwise it’s going to sound like a charity not a child.

Cedrabbage · 04/05/2025 20:39

At first I read 'health grant' as if it were a thing. That one's a pass from me.

HugoYorway · 04/05/2025 20:39

@Words , 2nd reply mentioned it, as have others I expect.

Words · 04/05/2025 20:34

Eddison