To name a Baby boy Albert?

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With a nick name of albie?
My friend is horrified and thinks I am very Unreasonable.
I think it’s adorable.

Brutal opinions please?

I think it's horrible.

However, there are two babies I know round here called Albert, and I don't know many babies at the moment.

So I might be wrong and you might be right!

I've got a teenage Albert - his name is considered v cool with his mates!

I like Albie. I love Bertie. Not massively keen on Albert for myself but wouldn’t think twice about it as a child’s name.

When I say for myself I mean for any future child of mine!

I think it’s a lovely name.

Sorry OP, but the first person that springs to mind for me is the uncle from "Only fools and horses"

I know four or five under 7 I think it’s trendy!

I like it.

Go for it. He can always change his nickname later if he wishes. Albert is a good name to shorten in various ways.

Isn’t it Pippa M’s baby’s name?

I know of 2 Albies ... my 74 year old fil and my friends 1 year old grandson. Suits them both.

If you want him to be called Albie, then name him that. Albert is a very stiff and old-fashioned name, and I imagine he'll get teased for it in school ("prince albert" in reference to the penis piercing, for example)

terrible and if it wasn't 'trendy' at the moment you wouldn't even consider it

Albert Steptoe... or Uncle Albert...

No, I wouldn’t, not a fan.

I considered it briefly for DS2 as I like a lot of traditional old man type names.

In the end I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I really don't like either Albie or Bertie and Albert just sounded too stuffy. Basically, I couldn't imagine myself yelling it in the supermarket.

Your choice though. There are far worse names out there.

I think it’s a beautiful name.

There's loads of Albies around here. DS is 13, and there was at least one in his baby group, so not exactly recent either.

It's cute!

Albie makes me think of the Amish, the not so nice ones. Eww.

It’s such nonsense that school children will know what a Prince Albert piercing is. A John is a toilet, if you want to go looking up definitions, but no one is thinking ooh better not call my son John in case they call him a toilet at school.

it's like any name, people react differently when it's just a name and when it's an actual person and you accept them. As long as it's not ridiculous, a made-up badly spelled or poor attempt of a joke, it's always fine.
Most people reaction vary depending on who the name remind them of - positively or negatively.

When you say Albert I think of the Prince of Monaco -nothing terrible!

It's pretty popular I think - I know 3 under 7s. I don't think it would stand out so go for it if you like it!

It's quite amusing seeing a name criticised because it's trendy, they mostly are. Goes around, comes around tho. Captain pugwash, ere bert, yeah 'arry. Those individual connotations, Oliver, the currently commonest, a Dickens character, or a damn fine actor and career drunk. Albie, Bert, Bertie, why not? Go for it.

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You’d be surprised what they know these days!

My cousins son is called Albie he’s 7 now and my dad had an uncle called Bert. I like the name it’s cute. It’s your baby OP call them what you like.