Boy's name: Keir. What do you think?

[DangerMousey]

Pronounced 'Keer'.

I like this, and think it's quite unusual, but also sounds classic and strong (and in my mind would pass the High Court Judge/Binman test)....am considering it for DS1 who's due in a few weeks.

Opinions on this name?

[edam]

Love it - makes me think of Keir Hardie.

[Runningblue]

Big thumbs up for Keir!

[Brandnewbrighttomorrow]

I've never come across it before - I love it!

[BrittaPerry]

I would presume socialism. In fact, I saw some excellent loud parenting at a local history/socialism (its the north east, history is all socialist, it is one of the reasons I like it here) event, with two bodeny parents pointing their children at a banner and saying 'look, Kier and Aneurin, these are who you are named after. Why don't we all go and talk to that nice miner over there about it?' And said (ex)miner visibly rolling his eyes

(Not that my children have political pretentious names at all...)

[amck5700]

I have a Ciar - I won the name but OH got the spelling :)

I loved Keir or Kerr, he wanted Ciaran.

It's relatively popular where I live now but wasn't where we lived when he was born. There is a Keir in the same school as my son, there was another at swimming and another in my elder son's class at High School - although actually the swimming and High school one could be the same boy.

[FamiliesShareGerms]

Love it! It is shocking with our surname, though, otherwise I would have press-ganged DH into it for DS

[izzywizzyisbizzy]

Makes me think of the injured bird in Watership Down.

[edam]

Kier and Aneurin are bound to rebel. Keir will become a city banker and Aneurin will run a private health insurer who has so many exclusions in their policies that anyone who actually gets ill is never able to claim. They may have a little brother, Clem, who becomes a lawyer and advises dictators in former Soviet republics...

[amck5700]

lol edam - my Ciar is 11 and panicking about the prospect of Scottish independence - he thinks there might be a War and also that if it does happen then we will all starve :o

...we only have 2 years of this to suffer....then. who knows maybe Salmond will lower the age limit for voting enough that my boy will actually get a vote!!

[StaceymReadyForNumber3]

I have a keiran. NN of keerie. So personally I love Keir!

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Really like it! It's on my boys list.

[daisydoodoo]

Its my 15yr old ds name, so personally i love it.

I remembered it from my history of politics 'A' level, and is about the only thing of use to come from having said 'A' level.

I hadn't realsied it was popular at all and had only heard one other in real life. It was the name of a boy of one of the diarist's in the back of Mother and Baby magazine back in the mid 90's.

I wouldn't consider it chavvy at all. We're certainly not a chavvy family. My other children have 'normal' names of the classic variety.

[lljkk]

Lots of Keirans around here, so Keir sounds very incomplete to my ears.

[amck5700]

There is a particular geographical reason that it is not uncommon where I live now. I don't think it is that common in general. I haven't heard on any others anywhere else :)........and if you lived anywhere near me where it was likely to be more popular, you'd already know that. I wouldn't worry about it being used a lot. I was in a city down south last week and had to call for my son in the shopping centre.........it's great that I don't then have half a dozen kids flocking to me :o

It is actually the original form of the name, Ciar means dark or swarthy, the addition of the "an" for Keiran or Ciaran means "little". so you get the little dark one. We didn't think our boy would be little which was what particularly put me off Keiran. My son is very tall and was blond for a while too so the name suits him better.

[Snowflakepie]

Love it, my best male friend at school was called Keir. No one ever called him queer PMSL! I can understand that people might connect it to Keiran etc which I don't like. Suited him as a child and adult too, classy and a bit unusual still.

[daisydoodoo]

yes that has been the only mnor issue, is people often thought they had misheard me and called him Kieran, i just said no its Keir. He 15 and has never been called queer eiher. tbh is that not an outdated thing to call someone if you were being derogatory about thier name?

[amck5700]

My son now 11 has rarely been mistaken for a Keiran, or called Queer. The only teasing he has had about his name is being called Ciara - but that's more to do with his penchant for having a longer hair style .

[MrClaypole]

Love it. One of those rare names that is unusual without being made up!

Would have used it for one of our boys but did not "go" with our surname.

Went to school with a Keir and he never got teased about his name, everyone thought it was cool.

[TheMightyMojoceratops]

Are you sure it's not pronounced "Key-er"? Only as the one I know is pronounces it that way. Could be a regional thing.

[amck5700]

Mojo - I think it just depends where you live and whether you are shouting or not :o

I would say I use Keer. Key-ir, Key-ar and Key-er depending on what I am saying.

[amck5700]

We did have some neighbours who though it was Kia, like the juice (but they were furrin'!!) They also kept calling my other son Greg tho his name is Craig, so I guess not typical.

[NerdAmigo]

Would mark you out as a raving pinko, which can only be a good thing. Nice name, my tory boy husband wouldn't let me have it.

[LadyLetch]

I love it, and if I were to have a boy it would be on my list (but I'm not having any more children).

I have taught a couple of Keirs and neither have been in the least bit chavvy, infact quite the opposite so I certainly wouldn't draw those connotations.

I think it is a nice, normal name, that is not off the wall but is just a little bit different. I think that's particularly nice with boys names where they can seen to be so boring samey. Some names I know 6/8 boys with the same name....

I would pronounce it Keer too. We're in the south west.

[BlueberryHill]

My DS is called Keir, I obviously love it. Clicked on this thread with trepidation. Phew