If I told you my baby son's new name what would you reeeally think?

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Dp is trying to sell me his name choice and I reeeeally don't know. At the beginning I said no way in hell, but have to admit it is growing on me. It's Gustav. What do u think? We are Scandinavian origin so there is a link.
I just think people would laugh. But dp really loves it! I'm only 22 weeks pg so bit of time to decide. And it may be a girl! Just wondering what opinions are on the name...

I quite like it. My first thought was Mahler

I love it. But I'm biased - I have a Gus

I love it, but then I'm a Finn so I'm biased.

My first thought was Klimt.

I like it I think.

Given the Swedish connection it's great and I like Gus.
The one I know is in his 50's and lovely, so i can see a little cute baby Gus and an adult one, quite easily.

I like it :)

I hate it. Think it's going to be a Marmite name.

Depends if his last name will be Scandanvian or British,

I like it, but I wold like a little Gus.

I would like to add I've never known anyone in RL that would laugh in a persons face for their choice of name.
The main thing is that you love the name and feel confident in your choice.

How close to Scandinavian heritage are you?

Are you both from that area and it will be immediately apparent, or are you two/three generations down the line and will feel the need to explain his name if they look at you sideways?

I like it. If you aren't sure, but your DH loves it so much, could it be used as a middle name?

I like it and considered it for DS (really liked Gus as a nn). We discounted on the basis we had no Scandinavian heritage (went with Fergus instead)

"I would like to add I've never known anyone in RL that would laugh in a persons face for their choice of name.
The main thing is that you love the name and feel confident in your choice."
No. The main thing is that your child will like (love is an odd word here) his or her name, and will not have to be extra especially confident in order to "carry it off"

Love it!

I like it. I hope it doesn't get shortened to "Gus"

Don't like it, sorry. I think there are far nicer Scandinavian names.

When you say 'heritage' - do you mean you are from Scandinavia, or your great great grandfather was?

I would think 'Holst' and 'Mahler' and wonder if he was musical. I like it.

curlew its impossible to know if your child will like the name.
My parents gave a normal not too common name, I hate it to the point of refusing to tell new people it as a kid because I felt it was embarrassing.
I know plenty of others with unusual names and they hate it too.

I don't think you even need to have an unusual name to hate it tbh

I really like it :D

I'm not generally one for unusual names, but I like that. It's not only a 'proper' name, but it reflects your heritage, whilst still being obvious to everyone who is English-speaking how to pronounce it, and spell it.
Gus is nice too, as a shortening.

Oh Lord - terrible grammar - hope you can work out what I mean

Flaubert - vg