Do you like your dps name?

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I love dhs name - would've used it for our child if it weren't his name.

Do you like yours?

No!

It is also FIL's and DSDad's name. Bloody nightmare at family parties - imagine if we'd used the same name for DS!

Very dated and dull.

No. It is truly ghastly. To reveal it would reveal me. It takes 'Grandpa names' to a whole new level. It was rare in the 1960s when my very dear ('what on earth were they thinking?') ILs saddled DH with it, but really!

What was so very wrong with good old top ten names from that era like Andrew, Stephen and Paul?

It may even be a lesson for those of us trying a bit too hard to be different when naming our offspring today. One day some other person is going to have to introduce Extraordinarily Named to their family, hoping that they are polite enough not to laugh.

DH has managed remarkably well. It's just me, obviously!

No. It is bog standard boring 1970s name, and there are far too many of them around. My close work colleague has the same name, as do several other men of the same age, so when people say his name, I'm always asking which one?

Yes! It's a popular one but that's ok. Suits him I think.

I love it :)

It's so common that out of the four men I've had Serious Relationships with, three of them have shared it.
I don't dislike it, but it's not exactly interesting.

I love my dh's use-name.

Fil is German, and dh has a hyphenated name (no middle name) that is apparently the norm there. I'm rather glad he's not called by the first part (Hans).

But his everyday name I love, and secretly hope our dc might use it, at least as a middle name, one day.

I love my husband's name. It's sexy to me..

I've never really thought about my husband's name. When I first met him he'd been given a nickname (which I discovered he hated) as there were so many other guys with the same name. It was the no1 name the year he was born, but I think can't have stayed popular as we've not come across very many since we left university. It's a pretty mainstream 70s sort of name, perfectly pleasant but not very exciting.

It's so bad we won't even use it as a middle name for our DSs.

It's a surname. People spell it wrong. It doesn't shorten sensibly.

SIL has a beautiful name. So what were PIL thinking?!

Before I met DH I always said I wanted to use the 'full' version of his name for any future children. We've decided it'll probably be too confusing :( I love his shortened version, but it can be hard to convince people is his full name!

I like it but it's cumbersome, as it's foreign and sounds like a company name.

My DS does share his dad's first name, but his dad doesn't get called by it. DH has always been called by a shortened version of his middle name so I don't think of them as sharing. In fact, if anyone does call DH by his actual first name, it takes me a few minutes to work out who they are talking about!!

I didn't even think about the sharing name thing when I wanted to call my son this name!!

It's fine, nothing offensive about it (it has already been mentioned on the thread ). I wouldn't pick it though as there are many others I prefer.
I love my name though, it fit all our criteria when we were looking for baby names as it's short, easy to say, easy to spell, everyone knows it but it isn't that common. Sadly it is my name though, so we had to think of something else

Not really. I find it hard ti say nicely with my Essex accent (it's a perfectly normal name, I just can't pronounce my Ts or Rs properly).

Also three other people I know are married to one!

It's alright. Perfectly normal name, nice enough, chances are you all know half a dozen 30-40 something year olds with the same name. I wouldn't use it if we have a DS.

I love my name, and my middle name. Would happily have called DD my middle name, but DH vetoed it. Wouldn't give a DD my first name though, that feels a bit weird and egotistical to me.

I love my DH's name, I think it's the most beautiful name ever and yes I'd have called DS that name if it wasn't DH's.

I do yes, funny enough my Mum was going to call me it had I been a boy. I can't abide the shortened version but no-one ever shortens it - his Mum wouldn't have stood for it

No, I hate it. I cannot understand how his parents could have looked at their beautiful baby boy and said 'What a beautiful baby, we will call him xxxx'. It is so horrible and dull and the least interesting name ever. Plus it has another meaning which isn't particularly nice!

It's a perfectly fine name but I call him by a completely unrelated nickname. I wouldn't have used it for a child because I like slightly "poncier" names but I might have slipped it in as a second middle name as I have no major objections to it.

I'd never think of it as a name to use, but I love it. It is sufficiently unusual but still normal and so suits him. I also love that it has a long and short version for when I need to tell him off

It's ok but it's the same as my brothers and bil and 2 friends so wouldn't have used it for the dc!

Don't like the full name at all... but I like the shortened version.

Yes i love it its really unusual so if we have a boy he would get it as a middle name
I also love my name as its long and has lots of nn i always use the long verson and tend to be the only one

Mine is Tom-lovely and timeless :)