Cuthbert?

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DH loves this, partly due to St Cuthbert & his links to the North East!

I am less sure but quite like it, due to Anne of Green Gables (smile)

What do you think? Cute or awful?!

Cuthbert! Ha ha. No. God, I love the Baby Names section for genuinely making me laugh out loud sometimes.

Was Gilbert in Anne of green gables. Or are you thinking of marilla cuthbert?

Anyway, I really really don't like it.

It's awful. It conjures up images of a smarmy 1950's office clerk with oily hair and a bowler hat.

Some older names can be resurrected, and some have fallen into disuse for a very good reason.

I think it's absolutely and truly dreadful. Sorry to be harsh. But I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.

No,no and a thousand times no.It's beyond awful.It's utterly hideous.

I don't like it but there is deffo a MNer with a Cuthbert.

In a simlar line though, I am v fond of Roland, Alain and various other names that remind me of old legends etc.

Roland, Cuthbert and Alain are a trio of friends in Stephen King's Dark Tower.

similar

Cuthbert! Ha ha. No. God, I love the Baby Names section for genuinely making me laugh out loud sometimes

well said, SwedishEdith - never a truer word spoken!

"I'm really sorry but it is a truly terrible name to give a child. He will be teased mercilessly at school. However, if you are giving birth to a 70 year old man, then it is lovely."

You do know that the 70 year old man was once a baby . I think it is a fine, classic saints name. Why would kids care if their mates are called Cuthbert, Albert, Robert or Callum - kids are far more accepting of different names than some adults (mumsnetters ).

NOOOOOO!!!

Please no - it's just awful!

it isnt nice at all I'm afraid
Gilbert is lovely but Cuthbert goes with Cecil and is a really soppy name.
I am from Durham too.

Gilbert is lovely? Really? Pronounced Jill-bert or Gill-bert?

See, I think Cecil, Cyril and Cuthbert are much cooler!

I'm sorry, there comes secondary school time and I can imagine him being called c*bert

don't like it.

sounds like a name for a teddy bear or something.

It's a truly awful name.

It might just work.
You might be a forerunner of names. After all, the idea of Alfie about 20 years ago was fairly hilarious.
Yeah, and as fruitsalad said, it was Gilbert Blythe not Cuthbert.
Oh, hang on, you're thinking of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert...

Please no. One of the worst I've heard in a long long time.

I understand the NE connections, I was baptised in a St Cuthberts church. If you live in the NE at least it's a name people will be familiar with as there's likely to be a parish church of this name somewhere nearby, if you don't it'll raise more eyebrows.

I'm just not sure I could name a child Cuthbert. Think it might be a step too far down the reviving old fashioned names road.

Other NE names;
Aidan (as someone has already said)
Siward (could be quite cool)
Oswald (hmm, might be too much along the same lines as Cuthbert though).

Some of the names on this forum take my breath away sometimes, and definitely not in a good way.

Cuthbert is beyond ugly. In fact, it waved goodbye to ugly a long long time ago and has now said hello to hideous.

awful.

sounds really drippy and wet.

It's awful. Sounds like an old codger.

It's not Walter and the Softies from Dennis the Menace in the Beano, it's Cuthbert Cringeworthy from the Bash Street Kids in the Beano.

It' s a no.