Dave?

[lozza223]

If me and partner ever have a boy he wants to call it Dave, and I'm very against this name as I think it's not suitable for a baby it's like an old man's name, I love the name tommy!!!!

I am also biased towards David

Dave

I really like David and Thomas. I wouldn't put Dave or Tommy on the bc.

I prefer David and Thomas to Dave and Tommy, at least on the birth certificate.

As for Dave being an old man name - there are 2 David's at the DC's nursery. At least one of them is likely to get called Dave at some point.

My dog is called Dave!

dh and I are League of Gentlemen fans, but our children refused to watch it. I think Dave is too common a name to be so tightly associated with a particular catchphrase. 'Everyone's Dead, Dave' from Red Dwarf and 'I'm sorry I can't do that, Dave' from 2001 come to my mind as much as 'Hello Dave' from LoG. Putting Tommy into Google gets lots of link from what looks like a terrible move about a 'stupid' Tommy. Relatively widely used names are going to have lots of associations, some of which may come about after your child is born with nothing you can do about it.

To me David/Thomas are pretty much in the same ball park, with Dave/Tom very likely in teens/adulthood and Davie/Tommy as childhood options.

I used to know a Dave Thomas.