Miles or Hugh

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We have a boy due in January, and had decided on Miles Alexander as his name, months ago. DH is now having doubts and likes Hugh Alexander. I do like the name, but have been so set on Miles. Any opinions to help?!

They are both lovely. Wait and see.

I love the name Miles so that would get my vote

I have a Miles

I like both, does one go better with your surname? I'd keep both in reserve til you see him, he might suit one or the other.

Miles Alexander sounds lovely. :)

Sorry I disappeared, took the dogs out.

Thank you, I'm glad no one said they're both awful! Maybe that's the best thing to do, wait to meet him. It's the one thing I thought we had sorted though...

I don't think surname makes much difference, it's long and double-barrelled either way.

Miles -- nah
Hugh -- unfortunately an unsavoury character i know.

Maybe Hugh -- you could think of Hugh Jackman

If you don't stay in Scotland Hugh would be my choice.
I wanted it, but the baby would have ended up being called shug or shuggy by everyone apart from me and I would spend my time objecting to it, so didn't want to deal with that.

Miles is lovely and I like the alt spelling, Myles.

Hugh

Miles Alexander

Miles.

I prefer Hugh!

Miles is the plural of Mile. Like Kilometres is to Kilometre.

hugh - we have one and its always worked well for him and he likes it. its a sort of works anywhere name

Miles is nice. With Hugh you may get difficulties with pronunciation - wouldn't anyone from, say, Norfolk and maybe even the entire USA pronounce it 'Hoo'?

I hadn't thought of pronoun citation being a problem with either of them!

They're both a bit wanky for my taste... couldn't Alexander be the first name?

As mentioned above, "Hugh" becomes "Shug" in Scotland so I definitely couldn't have that! I've already vetoed James from my future name list because I couldn't have him called Jimmy

Don't know what happened there, definitely meant pronunciation. Never known Shug as a nickname, not keen on that, but we're not in Scotland. I quite like that they're both short and don't really have associated nicknames.

Alexander's my brother's name and a family name, so much as I love it, I don't really want it as a first name.

When you say wanky, what sort of wanky do you mean?

Married to a Hugh so I'm biased but I think it's lovely. Miles is a bit more popular, if it's a problem. Only issue DH has had has been living abroad where people occasionally pronounce it 'Huge' but I've yet to meet a man who would seriously object to that.

I've known couple of people called Miles, none were wanky.

In Scotland it seems fairly accepted, English mumsnetters have seemed more likely to say it's posh.

I don't know exactly, I just think they're a bit snobby and... wanky. But I'm from a fairly crap area outside Edinburgh and I went to a really rough, crap school where poshness was beaten out of you...

The names are fine, I suppose I've just never met anyone called either so I only have an image of what a "Miles" would be and my mind has decided he would be snobby!

Hmm I went to school in an average area of Scotland with a Miles, so that has maybe coloured my opinion. :D

I prefer Hugh but maybe wait and see what he looks like when he is born.

I was dead set on Hugh for DC1, until someone pointed out that he would be "huge Hugh" if he were a bit on the big side.

So I called him something else and he turned out to be a GINORMOUS baby (pretty big in fact until he lost his toddler chub at 3). So a good decision for me.