hmmmmm....what about this name?

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Currently 28 weeks pregnant with a boy. Me and dh have decided his name is going to be Cooper -which I love love love ? I like kindof out there/americana names- names that aren't to crazy I guess (cooper us really moving up the popularity charts) what do you think??? I just want to know what kind of reaction it'll get lol x

It isn't to my taste at all but it is a perfectly reasonable name to choose. You and your partner love it which is the only thing that really matters.

Good luck with your new arrival.

It's not a name I would use but there is certainly nothing wrong with it. It's nice. Some of the people on here, not so much.

Asher is great! Cooper is awful sorry

I's Scottish so have no problem with surnames names and I know some quite unusual ones - Walker, Wilson, McGregor, Lyall as well as some more usual ones - Austin, Miles, Kerr, Keir etc. A lot of names can be one or the other, even within the "classics" - Charles, Thomas, James etc. I know both a boy and a girl Piper too.

I also know a Raegan (spelled like that) and I wouldn't think to spell it any other way.

I wouldn't have used Cooper mainly because I went for more Scottish names and it is more English to me - I'm not being racist, just sticking to my roots :o but I would expect a Cooper to have quite young trendy parents.

I really like it. It's a warm, friendly name. Coop is also very cute. Also love Fletcher. Surnames as names isn't a modern thing - look at Fletcher Christian.

Meant to come back to this thread to introduce him he's 12 weeks this friday whoops! dropped the ball a bit but anyway here he is. Cooper Bubble (

Congratulations Op.

Aww, congrats - I really like the name :) glad you went with it!

I quite like it.

I love it! Yours is a few days older than mine and I also had a thread about a very 'marmite' name :)

Ahhh what a sweet little face! Congrats OP and welcome little Cooper.

Sorry I didn't get to finish! I have a friend who named her baby Cooper and it's adorable, but he did get called "Pooper" as a toddler, in a friendly way ;)

I know a little Cooper in the good old US of A . . . rather sweetly nicknamed Cooperman. It's maybe not the most usual name to find in the UK but it's not a real name that's going to cause him loads of playground grief. If you love it, go for it!

Congratulations!

Whilst not a name I'd use, I do really like the name Cooper

He is a stunner and really suits his name! x

Lovely baby :) I didn't realise it was an older thread and was coming to say that using surnames is indeed very common in Scotland and that I know a Couper.

I like Cooper and I like 'typically classic aka boring names! Congrats on your beautiful boy.

Just came on to say I love cooper! But see you've gone with it anyway which is good!!

Congratulations :-)

Congratulations to you, he's gorgeous!

It's a friend of mine's surname... And I call him Cooper or Coops. I think it's a great name even though I wouldn't necessarily use it myself. Go for it!

Congratulations on the birth of Cooper OP. Well done for sticking to your guns.

Cooper is a grand name and so is Raegan which IMO looks better spent that way. I hadn't discovered MN when I was pregnant and I'm so glad I didn't because I would have got a pasting on this board.

Sometimes I think the baby name board is taken over by socially insecure, unimaginative bullies.

I like it wouldn't be able to use it myself though as DPs surname is more often used as a first name (think James) so it would look poke his name was backwards
But its a beautiful name for a beautiful boy congratulations