Sholto????

[lucywiltshire]

For a boy - yes or no?

yes, definitely. love this name.

Honestly? Depends on surname a bit I guess, but my instinct is no.

Is it a proper name?

Love it, love it, love it.

I wanted it if DD had been a DS but DH wasn't as keen.

Are you a Merry Gentry fan OP? I'm really not keen but I might be biased from the books all I think is bat like human with tentacles that act like extra penises/penii.

No.

No no and no again!

Never heard of Merry Gentry?! It goes well with our surname but not sure - think it might be a bit unusual. Hubby is a teacher and there is one at his school. Not sure what it means as haven't checked baby names book but it is def a proper name!!!!

Sounds like a prize-winning racehorse to me.

Sorry, no.

Not keen at all

Just googled it and apparently it's Scottish and means fruitfulness/fertility

It's pretty awful but I've heard worse.

Never heard of it. It sounds like a brand of Japanese car, so no.

Not as bad as Gavroche!

no.

Have you been reading North and South?

I like it

seems like a bit of a Marmite name then!

It sounds like a Jack London book.

No.

I know a real life one - parents are Scottish/Irish, and the association with fertility would make perfect sense as I think he was an assisted conception. I think it's lovely if you have Scottish heritage, a classic and strong old school name.

very confused now! Still loving it and Hubby has some Scottish blood and greq up in Edinburgh. Oddly though he isn't that keen!!

It's Scottish, but it's very unusual in Scotland. ive neber met one. It's ver ver posh - the sort of name old Etonians with Scottish heritage might give their child. Quite like it, and your DS is unlikely to be one of 3 in his class (unless he goes to Etonian maybe!? )