Hopefully my final name post, what do you think of "Elvin"?

[honeytea]

I have posted so many times, I think we have found our baby boy's name.

The name is Elvin, it's celtic meaning is elfish or elf friend, it's scandinavian meaning is 11th. We call my bump Elfie and I was tempted to actually call lthe baby Elfie but I'm not sure he would be pleased as an adult. He is also my DP's parent's 11th grandchild.

It's a pretty rare name in the UK 8 babies were claled Elvin in 2010. It's in the top 100 Swedish baby names, it was 90th last year but only 119 babies were called Elvin so the chance of him meeting another Elvin are fairly small.

I wanted an unusual name as my name is very common and I hated being in a class with loads of Amys, but I didn't really want to give him a name that was compleatly made up.

We are still not 100% decided I'd love to hear opinions both good and bad :)

And thank you for all the feedback on this name and the others we have considered :)

[ImNotaPheasantPlucker]

Congratulations!

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Elvin is the name of our Elf On The Shelf!

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

Ooops! Sorry, skipped a bit and missed you have actually used the name! Sorry.

[popsgran]

sorry but its dreadful.buck the trend and go for traditional masculine names.david, michael,adrian,adam etc.dont embarrass the poor kid.

[FriggFRIGGisPoorlySick]

I love it,it was on my list,great name,and congratulations

[JollyYellowGiant]

That's nice. I really like it and my first thought was like 'elfin'. Congratulations!

[honeytea]

Thanks :)

He is very un elf like he is whopping 7KG already at 11 weeks!

If we have ds2 and call him tor he will probably be a frail little elf like baby ;)

[Bowlersarm]

A name is just syllables put together! Elvin will suit him because that is who is. Congratulations

[BrainDeadMama]

Lovely name, congrats :)

[MooseyMouse]

I think it's lovely and the meaning fits perfectly. Congratulations.

[BeeBopDingALing]

Ditto the Chipmunks.

[aufaniae]

Ah, I was just about to post saying Elvin is lovely, go for it, but I see you already did.

Congratulations! :)

[olivertheoctopus]

Call him Orlando. Orlando Bloom was an elf in LOTR wasn't he? Although if Alvin is a reasonably popular name in Sweden then Elvin is fine too. I quite like the link with him being the 11th grandchild.

[twentyfourcarat]

I think Elfie/Elfi is quite cool on its own. What about another name where you could keep the nickname "Elfie", maybe:

Elton
Olaf
Finlay
Philip / Felip
Eldwin
Eldrin
Eli
Elmo
Elwin
Felton
Fenton
Alston
Elden/Eldon

[aufaniae]

Hey people, the baby's been born and named already!

OP says they went with Elvin :)

[char1eston]

Have a very dear (welsh) friend called Elvin who is fantastic. Love it!

[thegreylady]

Alfred means counselled by elves-originally Aelfred