What do you think of Atticus?

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I'm rather liking it. Siblings are Benedict, Rex and Artemis

I love the name but I feel it is too close to Artemis TBH.

I quite like it but wouldn't use it myself. I'm afraid my DS is 'one of those in the top 100'. How shameful...

It also goes well with your other DC names - you can't exactly call him Paul can you!

I think Atticus is a fantastic name. Classic, easy to pronounce/spell and not overused. What is not to like?

To the poster who 'had to suppress an inner giggle when meeting a child called Atticus': Really? Does an open-minded mature adult really find it funny to meet a child with an unusual name? We have a Quentin and I wonder whether you'd giggle when you meet him? Thankfully most people are more mature than you .

I'm not British either and also don't understand this obsession with 'labelling' names and 'trying too hard'. Let's all be a bit less 'judgey' and more accepting of name diversity - makes life much more interesting.

My ds has a normal but not much used name iyswim. Lots of people did and still do say its the sort of name to get negative comments but I have never found that

MopsyFlopsy being completely honest, if I met a baby Quentin I would be taken aback. I wouldn't giggle or make a comment or anything of the sort but I would go home that evening and tell people that I'd met a little Quentin. Everyone has certain names or styles of names that they just don't like. Doubtlessly there are names that you?ve come across that make you think ?Gee whiz, you called them what? I speak with authority, I once met a baby called Groovy.

I think it's perfectly fine to dislike a name as long as you don't make your feelings known to the child/parents etc. That's unforgivably rude.

And to be fair she did say she suppressed an inner giggle, you can?t go around policing people?s inner giggles!

I think there is a big difference between meeting someone with an unusual name and thinking "wow, I've not heard that before!" and meeting someone with an unusual name and implying that the person/his parents MUST be pretentious. And having to 'giggle' when hearing a name is just childish and immature imo. Hopefully our children are more open-minded.

Also names that initially sound unusual start to become more popular. I've met a few little Quentins and Cassiuses and even a baby Thaddeus over the past couple of years.

Squoosh, would meeting my ds really be that newsworthy that you'd tell all your friends/family that evening...?? Well, he is very handsome and a little cheeky - hopefully you'd have had a good impression of him .

Just to put another spin on this - one reason why so many people have read 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is because it was/is a school text. So I don't assume that someone who has read it is "well-read". It can actually indicate the opposite - that it's one of the very few books that a person has read.

Now to the name. I don't much like Atticus because it's got a clunky, rattly sound to it. (also think Scout is a ridiculous and ugly name for a child. In the book it was only a nn, and the little girl's name was Jean)

I like it but I wouldn't use it - not brave enough. I think it fits well with your children's names but it's a bit too close to Artemis when you shout it out across a playground for me.

Great name but I wouldnt be brave enough. You have an Artemis, though, so you probably are!

Mopsy the child definitely maketh the name and not the other way around. So if your child was a charming little imp I would then think of Quentins that way forever more.

I'm not completely shallow, sometimes I just have an initial 'really?' when hearing some names. But as I say I would never, ever, ever give that impression. For instance if I met a baby Cedric that would surprise me. If I met a baby Moonshine that would also surprise me.

Actually maybe I'm a little shallow as I know someone with the surname Shaftshaker and I will always find that funny.

Oh and I do actually like unusual names. I wouldn't give house room to an Oliver or an Olivia.

Shaftshaker

That will indeed always be funny!

Really like it, but agree with some others that a bit similar to Artemis.
You clearly have a bold taste in names (they're all great IMO), so appreciate there's a bit of a challenge in continuing the theme!
I would also have suggested Jago, or how about Gregory, Ezra, Quinn, Ptolemy, Donovan.

I love Atticus and it was on my list for 6mo ds (Raphael Erasmus). See also Amos, Jago, Ptolemy, Abraham, Sacha, Inigo, Emrys. I love your dc's names.

Erasmus that is so cool!

I like Artemis, that's beautiful. I don't like Atticus I'm afraid. I just don't like the sound of it or the look, iykwim. And the only association I have with it is the book, and it was a sad lonely character.

I know a baby Rasmus. Danish parentage and apparently it's quite usual over there.

I love it and think it goes well with your other DC.

Lockets you are welcome to him atm 17 and a pita

It is mostly fun interspersed with nightmare months and glimmers of a normal person returning. But even all these years later still love the name and glad I didn't care what others thought.

Atticus is a name that I really dislike.

I disliked the book too - can't understand why everyone raves about it. It bored me stiff.

It's probably fine in the Deep South but in the UK?

It's an ugly name.

When I hear the name Atticus I think here's a parent intent on waving their liberal / human rights / PC / 'well-read' / credentials.

Even worse to use the name without having read the book.

The sole point of that post was to be nasty as you could just have easily said nothing