Ambrose

[Cortina]

I've always loved this for a boy, just seen someone else's choice of all time favourite. Just convincing DP is the problem...:) He just says rice pudding.!

I love it and once saw a gorgeous little boy, think cherub like with a halo of golden curls, in a photo in a lady's house. I asked who it was and she replied 'my Godson, Ambrose'. I've always remembered and always coveted the name. Plus I think it has West Country roots.

I actually really like Ambrose & Ambrosia, it does however conjure up images of rice pudding!

Yes, rice pudding. May be a lifetime of rice pudding jokes ahead.

Lovely name. Rice pudding is also lovely, it's a win-win.

I'm in the west country and don't know anyone called ambrose....dreadful name!

I love Ambrose, but my DH doesn't. I especially love it because the furthest ancestor I've got back in my family tree is called Ambrose! I think he might compromise and have it as a middle name. I think of it along the same lines as Gabriel or Reuben.

You never see the Ambrosia adverts any more (do you? I haven't in years). I can see the point about the jokes, but it seems a shame to me not to choose a nice name just because the child might meet a mean person in the future!

It is a brilliant name!

I love it.

I posted this once before and got slated for it. I still really like it, though.

DS is Ambrose, I obviously like it but it was DH who really wanted it and I had to be convinced it wasn't too unusual.

I don't have any regrets, most people like it actually.

A few things i've noticed; I've found people think of it as either a very Catholic name and assume we're Catholic without asking, or in London assume DS is african-carribean before meeting him. I do get the odd rice pudding comment but that is very rare - that was more my concern than anything else tbh but it doesn't really happen.

Do you call him anything for short Ondine?

I've always liked this name and saw it recently on a gravestone dating back to the early 1800's in the churchyard in my home village. Since then I've really wanted a little Ambrose.

Can't give you any advice on convincing your DP though.

Rice pudding - sorry

He was Brosie when he was very little but it didn't stick. Probably a good thing as a bit babyish.

It's doesn't seem to be a name that really lends itself to a nickname but not such a bad thing if you like the name.

I love it but wasn't brave enough to use it. I don't think of rice pudding /custard when I hear of it. Maybe saints/monks...