Help! I've fallen in love with a 'no way' name

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Please help.

Since I found out I'm expecting a boy, I've fallen in love with the name Wolfie.

I asked my mum to suggest names which had some links to her love of classical music and she suggested Mozart's nn - Wolfie.

I don't even mind the Tooting Popular Front link as he will be born in St George's!

However, the few people I've mentioned it to so far have been very "oh dear".

I did want to give a "normal" middle name, possibly James - to go with the one syllable surname in case he hates it. But what if he loves Wolfie too?!

My only other two shortlisted are Dylan and Felix.

Is Wolfie really a crime against children??

I think it's fab - go for it

I like it.
Go for it!

mozarts real name was Johannes

(no Im not getting him mixed up with anyone)

COuld you call him that with Wolfie as a nn

Here in Austria Wolfi is a normal nickname for Wolfgang, Wolfram, Wolfhardt etc etc. but I have never seen it spelled Wolfie! It does look cute that way though.

I think it's usable as a nickname, but questionable as a full name on birth certificate.

There's nothing wrong with Wolfgang etc - people might wonder if there is a German connection but it's a solid name (bit dated and old fashioned here - youngest I know are late 20s and even they are "young" Wolfgangs!)

What about Wulfric?

Picture a small, ahy, skinny, spotty, bespectacled new year 7 having to tell his new classmates his name......

Maybe you're not very well right now, you can take a whole 6 weeks to register!

The baby in the maternity bed next to me was called Wolfie.

Well actually his name was Logan, but would be nn'd wolfie after wolverine from x men.

What astonished me was every visitor this couple had were told DS is called Logan, and to a man they said "ah so you'll be calling him wolfie then"

how did they know??

Anyway if you do decide on wolfie you won't be alone.

I know a middle aged man called Wolf and he loves it - it suits him and if you like it go for it!

Its cruel. Blame it on your hormones and move on!

Good nickname for a boy called Peter

Mozart's full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.

John Chrysostom was his saint's name, given as he was born on the feast of St. John Chrysostom. He never used it.

Wolfgang was one of the names of a godfather.

Theophilus is Greek for 'love of God', translated into Latin as 'Amadeus'.

So maybe Theo? Short for Theophilus? Or just on its own.

I like Wolfgang, though.

I love Wulfric. I knew a lady on another thread who had a Wulfric and I thought it was a great name. It gives the child the option to be Wolf if he is that kind of child or Wolfie if not.

I wouldnt do it and I love unusual names

I named my DS2 "Zev" which is the hebrew for wolf. Haven't had any funny comments. Is it the sound or the meaning do you think the issue is???

I think Wolfie is a FAB nickname. Personally, I wouldn't go for it as a birth cert name but you realise when you have DCs that the NNs you use often aren't v closely related to the actual given names and that doesn't matter at all. Why not call DC something like William (or indeed Felix) and trial Wolife for real as a nickname. Then if you think it doesn't work in future you can drop it, and if you find you like it you can keep using it and it will stick, even in school etc.

I totally heart felix by the way.

I think that you could possibly use Wulfric or Beowulf as middle names (I like a bit of Anglo-Saxon, bu think Wolfgang is very Germanic and woudl need a family link), but to be honest think Wolfie, even as a nn is fairly dire. Possibly because of Citizen Smith, but mainly because (to me) it just sounds very babyish.

Or Wolfe, as in Theobald Wolfe Tone?

I thought of Apple Bough by Noel Streatfeild as well .

Sebastian much better and I much prefer Bach to Mozart anyway.

Where do you live? It wouldn't stick out as odd round here. There is a particular social and racial mix that means there's something of an anything goes culture with names and not much is eyebrow raising. I think a Wolfie living in certain areas might be a target for teasing, but it's by no means a given.

Like the idea of Felix Wolfram and seeing if the Wolfie nickname sticks though. That might be best of all worlds, perhaps, giving you and the boy lots of choices.

I love Apple Bough too and like the Wolf in that, though Myra is the best character, imo. Sebastian was a bit wet.

I thought of Apple Bough - Wolfie was one of NS's quintissential brats, wasn't he? She wrote them SO well!