Kit - Opinions please

[Rosienose]

What do you think of the name Kit for a boy?

We are narrowing it down to;

Kit
Joe
Mitch
Enzo

Out of all those I'm most keen on Kit, but interested in others thoughts on it?

I like it. Would it be short for anything?

I like it. I prefer it as a nn for Christopher or Kester.

It was relatively unheard of it is now popping up a lot so it may well become very popular if that bothers you.

I love Joe from your list. Not keen on Mitch and Enzo.

Yes we would use it as a nick name for a full name. I think its nice to have the longer name to revert to.

Mitch and Enzo are my DH's choices :)

I love kit. I have a Nate and if this one was a boy, I'd have gone for kit possibly short for kester. Love, love, love it.

Where does it rank at the moment in UK boy names I wonder? I didn't realise it was getting so popular

I forgot another one on our shortlist;

Aaron

I love Kit. And Jem. Unfortunately DH won't accept either of them.

I love Jem too, we must have similar taste :)

I found this very handy tool;

names.darkgreener.com/#kit

You can search for the popularity of any name

I love Kit, it's absolutely top of the list if we ever have a boy!

Oh wow. That is a good site. Baby boy is arriving TODAY so I might spend the journey to hospital perusing it

I like Kit. We'd have had it as a nickname for Christopher, but couldn't use due to a family connection.

I felt it was quite 'small' as a standalone name, but that's only because my other dc have quite long traditional names it didn't seem to fit with them.

I do think it works on all ages.

Yes, brilliant choice. I think I would have it short for Kester, as if Christopher he might decide himself that he'd rather be Chris - which I'm not too keen on.

Kit, Kester, Christopher are all fine names.

Kit and Kester are both short forms of Christopher.

Many, many other versions of Christopher here, too:
www.behindthename.com/name/kester

Love love love, it's our choice for a boy. We decided on it very early on in pregnancy and I've been dying to tell everyone because I think it such a great name hahaha

I also think it sounds great with lots of MN choices!!

If it us a boy, we will go for just Kit, don't intend to call him anything else

It's DH's name. His real name is Christopher, but no one knows you mean him if you use Chris. He's always been Kit.

I love the name. Although it feels like a 55 year olds name to me, but blame DH for that one!

I like Kit short for Christopher and Joe short for Joseph. Not keen on Mitch or Enzo.

I love it. I wish I'd thought of it when I had my son.

I don't really like it, but I'm not keen on nouns as names (including inadvertent ones), especially when the noun in question doesn't even have a nice meaning.

I also know an adult Enzo and I can't take him seriously, it sounds like a Sesame Street character.

Love it!

Not done this chap any harm.

It reminds me of Knight rider! Isn't that the name of the car? x

I'm not keen. It's so "in" at the moment. I know of about 8 friends/acquaintances boys born in the last few years (West London).

I have to say I find it quite pretentious too...

Adore Kit, its by far the best out of your list!

First thought is sports kit or drum kit. Never met a boy/man named kit. I'd probably give him a longer full name.

Nightrider