Peter or Otto?

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Please help us choose! We have one DS already, who has a (fairly unusual) biblical/Hebrew name.

We are expecting DC2 in the next week or two. We have a girls' name sorted out but we're stuck between Peter and Otto for a boy. The middle name will be George, after my late grandfather.

Any thoughts? Other ideas? I was leaning towards Otto and rather dismayed when it appeared in the 'trendy Londoners' thread - we are neither trendy nor Londoners.....:-)

Peter and Otto are both lovely, although I would go for Otto so as to avoid the nickname Pete!

Otto is awful, sorry.

Peter is a lovely classic name that works in all countries/languages.

I much prefer Peter, which is beautiful and classic. Otto is OK but is definitely having "a moment" right now. I'm interested to hear that it sounds omical/uncool to German ears!

Otto is definately VERY uncool in Germany. It is very old fashioned (but not yet 'in') and there is a famous comedian who calls himself Otto. So I certainly wouldn't be called Otto in German/Austria/Switzerland these days.

Peter, on the other hand, is a traditional, classic name. Works well in most languages.