Do you use "our" in front of close family names?

[mabelandmaud]

I call my close family members "Our Tom" or "Our Julie" etc. All my family do this. I'm from the north West Midlands - near Stoke on Trent and have a Northern Irish parent. I'm just wondering where this comes from, is it a regional thing, or a class thing, or a colloquial thing?

Yes, Northern, working class common as muck, and very old.

No from London. I also can't bring myself to call mil and fil mum and dad. Apparently it's a thing round here and causes angst.

I do. A foreign friend asked me what the R stood for.

I'm in NI.

NI would be used to distinguish our Patrick from your Patrick and his cousin Patrick . And Big Paddy and Wee Paddy

London, would say it to clarify who we're talking out eg Work Jack, Our Jack.
Saying our kid about a sibling is so weird.

I had no idea what it was and thought it was a popular name ‘Arkid’ as I’d heard Noel Gallagher say it and it sometimes was mentioned on the tv. I thought it was quite a nice name.
It isn’t a term used the same way in Scotland but we tend to mention family by eg ‘our eldest son, our youngest daughter, our tallest lad, etc.

I do if it's to distinguish between DH and my brother who have the same name.I'm in Scotland

Only for our mam and dad, and our Michael of course (NE).
I love in the south now and they've stamped it out of me mostly.

Newcastle/Northumberland and yes we all do

Family from Liverpool, now living in Cheshire. We all do.

Yes, we all grew up saying this in Lancashire.
It would have been odd not to.
When my best friends' mum remarried, her stepdad became "Our John" and we all referred to him as "your John" when speaking to her about him.
It's so warm and cosy 😍

It's definitely a thing in the north inner city Dublin. All my cousins refer to eachother as "our" but pronounced air ☺️

Family from the North West do.

My Grandparents did. Very working class Bristol.

Yes and I'm northern

Someone else said this on the thread. I'm from the west coast and we definitely say "our Joe" "your Michael" and so on. It's definitely a thing in working class west coast Scotland from my experience and upbringing

Exactly.

My father in law does it.

Same, even though I live in Yorkshire. I just say the person's name without the "our".

I still pronounce bath and grass with an ah sound and say bus instead of booss.

My dad does and a friend does - both Manchester area by origin

I don’t personally, but a lot of people I work with and family members who tend to be older than me do. Im 40 from Stoke on Trent.

@Soonenough in the NI side of the family it's big Tom and Wee Tom ie the dad and the son then as the son grew up and became bigger than his dad he was still wee Tom and dad was big Tom

I'm from the north east and my family do this. I think I sometimes say it, probably depends who I'm talking to (I live in the south now).

I don't but my mum and her sisters do. Salford born and bred in the 50s. Our Beryl, our Margaret, your Maureen, your Pauline etc. It covers siblings and cousins and wider extended family. A neighbour used to think my mum had about 9 brothers and sisters as she heard all these "our" names. My mum's one of four but her mum was one of 13 so there were a lot of "our' family around

Yep! In East Yorkshire.

I'm in Devon and you don't hear it down here.