Is the middle name Barry too cruel?

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DH has just announced that he would like this DC to have his father's name as a middle name if a boy. It is Barry. Would we be too cruel to burden bestow a child with this name?

I don't know why I dislike it so much, it's just very dated and, it would seem, it goes with absolutely none of our chosen first names! Ah well, no one has to know .

Barrington is an amazing name!

My cousin is a 40yr old Barry.

Good looking, solvent, great job, kind, non-weird.

I am convinced his name has done him no favours.

OP you've made it clear that you really don't like the name. I would feel the same way. Maybe start thinking of other ways to honour your FIL?

I forgot the crucial bit re my cousin Barry! That he is, unhappily, single.

As a middle name for family tradition, Ok then. Needs something else good before last name though.