Lysander

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Thoughts please.

This is the only name we have both agreed on so far!

DH likes: Atticus, Horatio

I like: Solomon, Gideon, Percival.

Middle name will be John for family reasons.

What do you think?

I don't get the 'lice' thing... Am I pronouncing it wrong? We would say Lie-San-der

Lie-san-der and lice-ander are the same aren't they?

I like Lysander! Evander would be nice too.

All of your names are real bad. I have an image of the type of people you are in my head

Now I've got a mental image of Evander Holyfield dressed in a Liza Minelli getup. Lizaaaaanddeeeer... Cm eeeere

We can't use John! Though I was tempted, as our surname is very short so think something like John Mob.

That sadly ruled out Hugh, Alec and Mark which otherwise would have been contenders.

I like Horatio, but I'm a big CSI Miami fan!

All your names sound really pretentious. I don't usually judge kids' names but if I met a child called Lysander I would assume the parents were pretentious twats trying to compensate for not being posh enough. All your choices are fucking horrendous.

If you like Hugh, what about Hugo?

I like Evander! And actually Leander, hmmm.....

We are very 'normal' honest, we drive a Skoda, own a caravan as we can't afford to holiday abroad. DH is armed forces and 6 ft 5. This isn't going to be a little thing in stature. I work full time as a healthcare professional.

I do take the comments on board, DH is an atheist and I suspect that as Gideon seems to be conjuring images of bibles (?) that probably rules that one out.

He feels Solomon is too biblical too.

Hugo is the son of very close friends....close enough that it would be awkward. Also keen to avoid 'trendy' names if that makes sense & I would put Felix, Jasper, Hugo in that group.

Don't watch CSI Miami, if he pushes Horatio again I will start though!

thunder to be honest if someone is superficial enough to judge a child by their name alone than I don't really care as to what they think. I try really hard not to do this at both ends of the spectrum. I hate people labelling names as 'chavvy' too.

Oh no I wouldn't judge your child, I'd judge you. As I suspect would most people who heard the name. It is aspirational. Hth.

I'm sure there's a long established MNer with a Lysander. This is not a new name to me

Well that was less rude thunder

Was it?? I was still going for rude. Or .

LOVE all your options.
Fwiw to add I have a Xander who is Alexander and he just corrects people who call him Alex as it isn't his name.

strumpers out of interest would you have used it with a niece called Alexandria?

I did put the idea of just straight Xander past DH but he wasn't keen on that either. I like it.

thunderCATSbum

I do prefer to trade thinly veiled insults with others without the use of swear words, it's just so uncouth.

I don't mind if you judge me I am very errrr robust

(If I did mind hearing honest opinions I wouldn't post here)

How about Xavier? It's borderline but nowhere near as awful as the names in your OP.

In comparison, I like your short names like John, hugh and Alec. Don't see why having short surname stops use of short first name.

I went to uni 15 years ago with a Lysander "call me lice". He was a nob. Think he felt he had to live up to his eccentric name.

I rather assumed you live an aching hip life to get away with your name choices. I get that they are try hard. I don't think a real posh person would use those types of names.

I also quite like Solomon but none of the other names....I would also go for Leander over lysander but I am not keen on Leander really. What about Samuel or Gabriel, they would shorten a lot better than Lysander.

Really like Xander , hope your dh changes his mind!

I like Lysander and Atticus...

..but I really LOVE Leander and leollan. One of my favourite kids books has a King Leander in it. It's called the Bears Famous Invpasion of Sicily

I think your names are quite fancy iykwim but if you have a short strong surname then I think it might work. Atticus Jones for eg sounds a million times better than Atticus Trumpington-Green

Some posters are a bit obnoxious on this thread

I think the names sound less pretentious not 'en masse' If that makes sense.
I agree as a group they do sound a bit 'try hard.' Our DDs have unusual names so we have form although they are suggested here, in fact one is in discussion on another thread and no one has called it 'try hard' (yet)

It would sound something like:
Lysander Rett (not actual surname)

Gabriel I find too feminine and Samuel is lovely but DH is keen not for a top 100 name.

I quite like it (Shakespeare and Jilly Cooper spring to mind). I think there's a Lysander in the Charlie Bone books who goes by Sander.

I like Sebastian better though (Shakespeare, Jilly Cooper and the Sadlers Wells books!).