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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Bramwell, Wilfred, Digby or Atticus (yes I know…)

195 replies

Lelongducanal · 23/06/2025 09:26

Aware all of these are a bit/a lot out there. Our elder DS is called Nathaniel and tbh I wish I’d saved his middle name for no 2 (Rowan) but too late now!

Digby (Diggy for short) - dh loves, I’m not sure
Bramwell (Bram) - I love, dh not sure, can anyone think of a good alternative long name that shortens to Bram?!
Atticus (Attie) - we both like but worry about associations to the character post Go Set a Watchman
Wilfred (Wilf but obvs he has the option of Fred if he chooses) - DH loves, I’m not sure and don’t like the Boris Johnson connection

Find boys names so hard! Any views? Alternatives which are unusual but less marmite?

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MadKittenWoman · 23/06/2025 17:00

Polistock · 23/06/2025 10:35

I think that you seem to find your own options a little bit cringey is maybe a sign that none of them are quite the right name for you!

Haven't read the full thread but I think Jude, Gabriel, Benjamin, Reuben, Zach are more in the Nathaniel family than Bramwell and Atticus.

This! I think these are fine but I think most of the names suggested by OP and others are absolutely awful.

OtterSide · 23/06/2025 16:58

ButtonMoonBlanketSky · 23/06/2025 16:51

Homer
Gabriel
Felix
Joshua
Rupert (Bear is a cute nickname)
Gilbert
Seth
Raphael
Jago
Gideon
Emmett
Ellis
Brock

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Rupert! Bear! Yes yes this.
Orsino?

OtterSide · 23/06/2025 16:57

Amal
Bustamante
Cotton
Darius
Django
Endeavour
Fortitude
Gershom
Hildebrand
Hyacinthus
Igor
Jove
Jupiter
Karl
Lambert
Marius
Neville
Oakley
Oswy
Penn
Perseverance
Qimir
Rex
Rinaldo
Somerled
Skywalker
Teilo
Temperance
Umberto
Varro
Vijay
Wesley
Widsith
Wylde
Xander
Yvor
Zarathustra
Zebulon

ButtonMoonBlanketSky · 23/06/2025 16:51

Homer
Gabriel
Felix
Joshua
Rupert (Bear is a cute nickname)
Gilbert
Seth
Raphael
Jago
Gideon
Emmett
Ellis
Brock

Zebralie · 23/06/2025 16:44

OtterSide · 23/06/2025 16:14

Amadeus
Amilcar
Amral
Apollo
Athanasius
Attila
Augustine
Bartholomew
Bartimaeus
Charlemagne
Demetrios
Desiderius
Douglas
Emmanuel
Erasmus
Exupéry
Faiyaz
Feroze
Fidel
Franciscus
Gerard
Gesualdo
Guevara
Hannibal
Innocent
Jehangir
Jinghiz
Josiah
Kaveh
Kirill
Konstantinos
Luther
Mordechai
Moses
Nehemiah
Orion
Pesach
Quirke
Randolph
Saladin
Salvator
Serge
Thaddeus
Thelonious
Urban
Victor
Wilberforce
Winstanley
Xavier
Xenophon
Yehuda
Ziggy

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Hannibal? Quirke? Innocent? Xenophone?

OtterSide · 23/06/2025 16:14

OtterSide · 23/06/2025 16:00

whatsyournickname · 23/06/2025 11:19

If you like Robin but DH doesn't, what about Robert? It's pretty rare these days and can be Rob or Bertie for short.

I know myriad Roberts

Kweenbeee · 23/06/2025 15:13

Ignatius (Iggy)
Lorenzo (Enzo)
Cornelius (Cory)
Barnabas (Barney)
Horatio (Raish)
Tobias (Toby)
Augustus (Gus)
Leopold (Leo)
Silas (Si)
Raffaello (Raffi)
Andersen (Andy)
Jeremiah (Jer / Jerry)
Sigfrid (Sig)
Eduardo (Ted)

Zebralie · 23/06/2025 13:40

Toddlerteaplease · 23/06/2025 11:53

Absolutely not. To all of them!

I wonder what sort of names you like?

The issue with comments on names is that we don’t know whether the other posters share our tastes…!

Zebralie · 23/06/2025 13:38

I like Wilfred and Atticus.

i would avoid Isaac as the one we know gets teased with I suck….

How about
Christopher
Quentin
Clement
Vincent
Reuben

catin8oot5 · 23/06/2025 13:13

I have a dog with the same name as my oldest. It wasn’t planned he was a foster we ended up keeping (dog not DS)

they just are known as BG and LG

T1Dmama · 23/06/2025 13:06

Just out of curiosity, why didn’t you use the family names Robin and James for the first borns middle name?
And how about Robert as first name? Robert James?
I knew a Robert James growing up… well Robert, but he used his middle name and to friends he was Jimmy… we’d call up and ask for Jimmy and his mum would shout “Robert” up the stairs… 😂

Mumofgirls2017 · 23/06/2025 12:59

I like Atticus and Wilfred. Bramwell too actually. Less keen on Digby but know one and know it gets love.

other suggestions

cassian
jasper
rufus
elias
ludovic
zachary
vincent
casper
rafferty
magnus
montague
tobias
franklin
cedric

HarrietBond · 23/06/2025 12:58

Now, I'm fairly relaxed about names and like a bit of quirk, but Wiz, short for Aloysius, has broken me a bit.

Els1e · 23/06/2025 12:57

What about Aloysius? With either Al or Wiz for short.

Steelworks · 23/06/2025 12:44

Some great names in your list.

Suggestions-

Edgar
Barrington
Richard
Rupert
Gideon
Gilbert
Edwin

TeenLifeMum · 23/06/2025 12:41

DrPrunesqualer · 23/06/2025 11:54

Agree
Ours is called Ringo because he’s a star ⭐️

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Ours is called Meredith because she’s needy like the character in Greys Anatomy 😂

our old cat was called Rowan - but he was a rescue and came with that name. I do like it.

Setyoufree · 23/06/2025 12:09

How about Clement? Or Theodore? Not wild on any of the names you've listed in afraid.

harrietm87 · 23/06/2025 12:08

Bbq1 · 23/06/2025 11:48

All tte Abrahams I've known have been Abe for short. It's more natural to go for Abe than the unpleasant sounding Bram. I know who Bram Stoker is, thanks so don't need reminding that he wrote Dracula. Maybe in his time it was more common to shorten Abraham to Bram because I've not heard that shortening in modern times

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The fact you (a) have known (how many?) Abrahams who go by Abe and (b) personally don’t like Bram are both irrelevant to the question of whether Bram is a shortening of Abraham - it is, and a well known one at that.

FaintlyMacabre · 23/06/2025 12:07

If you like Rowan what about Robin?

Gassylady · 23/06/2025 12:06

Digby is also a very shy mole in a lovely book called “pocketful of kisses” who has a tin of worms as his packed lunch! Bram is a lovely stand alone name from the Netherlands.
What about Edmund as a subtle call out to Aunt Whiteadder’s husband Nathaniel

luckylavender · 23/06/2025 12:03

I don’t like Bram, it reminds me of Bram Stoker. The other 3 are fine but I’m not sure any of them is the same ‘genre’ as Nathaniel or Rowan

MaggieBsBoat · 23/06/2025 11:59

I love them all. Our boy isAtticus. But other than that Digby would be my favourite or Barnaby instead.

sugarapplelane · 23/06/2025 11:58

CandidHedgehog · 23/06/2025 11:48

It’s not a sequel (although I accept it was promoted as such by the publishers to begin with), it’s a first draft that was extensively revised before publishing as To Kill a Mockingbird.

Hence the significant character change / behaviour of Atticus Finch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Set_a_Watchman

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yeah I know - I’m just keeping it simple for Mumsnet.
My point was that Atticus had a character shift between books.

DrPrunesqualer · 23/06/2025 11:54

TeenLifeMum · 23/06/2025 11:52

I really like Digby - it’s a local surname used for many things round here (Dorset) Digby Hall, Digby Tap. The Digby family owned the castle. But then I use human names for my dog so have no issues with people and dogs having the same names 😂

Agree
Ours is called Ringo because he’s a star ⭐️

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