DP actually suggested...

[peachyyy]

STUART!

Can you imagine? He didn't speak to me for a few hours after I burst out laughing in his face and asked, incredulously: "what man, in this day in age, would call their son Stuart?"

My mother was mocked and ridiculed out of using the name she wanted for me. She was told it was dull and old fashioned and I would be teased.

The name? Emily.

What goes around comes around.

Curlew My 5 day old DD is called Emily.

Absolutely. Fantastic name. I would have liked it better than my actual name, (which is so late 50s/early 60s it's not true!) But 50 years ago, young people heard it in the same way we would hear Beryl or Doris.

A close friend of mine had to recently talk her husband out of his first choice name for their son. Malcom
Malc for short.

All the malcoms I know are over 60.

The thing is, the main justification for some of the more.....out there......name choices is that the parents don't want their child to be one of 4 in the class. if that were true then Malcolm, Colin or Trevor would be perfect choices. So would Stuart.

But we all know that's not the real reason.........!

My dad was a Malcolm and though he died many many years ago he would be in his sixties now! We did give it as a middle name to ds1 seeing as that would be all he'd ever have of his grandad, but I don't think I'd consider it as a first name, no!