Cedric

[mygreeneyedboy]

Opinions? Will be A little brother for DS who has very traditional regal name: George/Edward/Henry/William etc.

Sir, its's an utter first world nightmare, our first name choice taken by some Anglo Saxon king. Ruined it for the rest of us. Bloody Anglo Saxons

Aethelstan was Danish, his name is certainly Anglo Saxon though.

Reuset, no hand slap, I've read a book on Anglo Saxon kings ( another memo to self, get out more). The maurading Vikings, Goths ,Saxons, and others, its was a mash up all over the continent, as evidenced by DNA tests.

Back to the point of thread, Cedric, umm, no, he was the bullied kid in the Beano (eclectic reading habits)

The name Cedric was made up by Sir Walter Scott.

The Anglo-Saxon king was Cerdic
Does that help?

In which case the vast majority of UK names will not be 'common' over there, so you won't have to worry about being filled with dread at them having the same names as others in their furrin class, surely?

Where - it is a first world nightmare .

I like it. I re-read Little Lord Fauntleroy at least once a year!

Love it. If you love it also, then name your son Cedric. Fits with his sibling'so name also.

Sir, as I said before, bullied in the Beano, nuff said.

I like Cedric.

Both, Cedric is a made up name , it can't be, it is in the Beano.

What are you saying? Sir Walter Scott was way past the Anglo Saxons, someone more erudite, please help me?

I've never read Little Lord Fauntleroy. Instead it makes me think of Lt. Cedric Daniels from The Wire; so a tall, muscular black dude with awesome cheekbones and a shady past.

I actually quite like. But as a PP said, if you're moving abroad anyway you may not have to try so hard to give your child an uncommon name. We moved to the southern USA with our small Ben. All the kids in his class are called things like Brooks, Carter, Sullivan and Jackson so his very pedestrian name actually stands out.

Sorry, should qualify, more erudite than me, not Both, who clearly knows what they are talking about. Love the Anglo Saxons, so busy at being Anglo saxons, got to admire them and their ingenuity.

'Tis true Where. Poor Cedric.

It's like the name of a cartoon snail, or something.

So Cedric is a made up re-working of an existing name? The same as one of those Game of Thrones names then.

I really like cedric it would be on my list for a boy. Or you could be boring and call him something like Wilfred

A made up name of a drippy character from the Beano which no-one uses any more??! Priceless

I think Game of Thrones spellings are sort of authentic, that kind of time period spelling wouldn't be standardized and you'd have many variations in spelling of the same name.

Some think Cedric the Saxon's name was just a misspelling, or mistake, rather than an attempt at making up a new name.

Who was Cedric in the Beano? I was an avid reader in my childhood but can't recall a Cedric.

Me neither, I think Sir might be getting mixed up with Walter the Softy?

There was definitely a Cedric in one of the comics, not sure it was Beano. Maybe Beezer or Whizzer & Chips? It's a daft name regardless.

Apparently it wasn't The Beano but The Beano's stablemate The Topper that featured Cedric.

Cedric is the one on the left I believe.

Lovely spread by the looks of things.

I quite like it tbh :) Ced-ric though, not Seed-ric which is awful.

I have wondered every one of the 35 times I've watched Nught at the Museum is Americans really do say See-cil instead of Ce-cil.

And I think Ric is a v cool nickname.