Is Alexander too common and boring?

[bunny85]

Would like some opinions please!

I have two DC at primary and there is only one.

Love it, it is DS middle name

I have one and have only met one other in nearly 15 years.

Quite uncommon, most would christen Alex now x

Yes, sorry, but that's my opinion.

It's a beautiful name but I do know a lot of them (at least 5 and I don't know that many children!)

I love it, I only know 2 who have it as a first name, one aged 32 and one aged 3. Very popular as a middle name.

It doesn't appear to be very common where we are in the NW. I'm 37wks and it's our favourite at the minute.
We must have a thing about using popular middle names our last child is a Louise!

I would say classic rather than common & boring, always think of it as a Royal name...

I'm in Scotland where it's popular, but despite that I rarely meet any so wouldn't say it's common. I have one so do notice. He's the only one is his whole school.

It's so not boring, it's a fantastic name with loads of nickname choices.

I know Alex's in their 30's and under 5. It's popular certainly but still a nice, classic name. It's safe but not boring. To be honest I'd go for safe any day over outlandish/faddy/"unique".

I love it, I think it's a classic rather than being boring.

Thanks everyone, seems like it's definitely to be considered!

RugBugs, not long to go now, you must be so excited! Good luck! I'm only 21 weeks at the moment, but time seems to just fly by

Sweetpea, so would I! We really seem to like traditional and safe names. The only downside they can sometimes become too common and start losing their 'character' (I might be wrong, but sometimes feel like that). Anyway I think picking out a name for a baby boy is a lot harder!!

Love it

I think it's lovely and not particularly common. It also has the advantage of having so many different short forms that if you did come up against a class with 3 of them in it, it would not be difficult to make yours distinctive.

Agree with Emma. Alexander has too many variations to be either common or boring.

I have an Alexander, and I don't think there is another in his primary school. So definitely not too common. I am obviously biased but I think it is a gorgeous classic name.

There seems to be a few boy Alex's around under 4 at the moment. Which is only a problem as DD is the only girl Alex we've come across!

It's a great name

The reason it's so popular is because of this. It's not boring, and there are different short names you can have for it. I like it. :)

I hope it's not common or boring as DS is Alexander, nn Xander!

I think it's quite popular but for good reason , it's a lovely name . Not boring at all

We have one. I think it is slightly more common as a middle name than a first name.

It is an excellent name because:

1. there is one standard spelling.
2. it doesn't get misheard as anything else.
3. there is a choice of short forms.
4. it travels well - it's understood all over Europe and beyond
5. it goes with "the Great"

@ "it goes with "the Great""