Cedar, Calvin, Huxley or Tate

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I'm leaning towards Huxley but then I heard the pig song. Do you think anyone still gets that reference or just old people?

The other option - probably saved as a middle name is Atticus

All terrible apart from calvin.

Cedar trees are ugly.

Huxley sounds like muttley or dudley.

Cedar - Wood, he'll be called Woody at school.
and it's not really a name
Huxley sounds like a dog's name.
Calvin is the best option.

These are terrible sorry o.p Calvin is ok

You're worried that some of your choices are 'a bit too naff american' but you'll happily name your son after a random tree?

If you're going for 'cool', I think you've overshot it and landed on your bum in the try-hard camp. Huxley sounds like Pugsley (Addams); if you're a fan of the author Aldous Huxley, Aldous wins as a real name over Huxley any day.

Sorry to be so harsh and blunt but you're setting your son up for ridicule if you saddle him with an ambitious, 'too cool for school' name like these and he's got the personality of a Timothy.

Calvin's okay, at least it's a real name.

The problem with these threads are that there are people who like traditional names and there are people that like less traditional names. The trad namers wil never like your choice and the slightly more unusual camp find all the standard names boring and dull. Do you care what they think?

so is Willow. I know several.

I don't personally like Cedar as a name but I'd rather hear it than another William, George, Harry. I just think if someone posts a thread suggesting an unusual name, the people who like William, George, Harry etc haven't got anything useful to add. Same as me going on the William, George, Harry threads and saying I find them boring and too common-place is also pretty pointless.

paranoiddroid people do often go for a bit more explanation and reasons than just "like" or "dislike" though.

I said between traditional and more unusual, not "totally out there". Things change over time anyway, I suspect Willow and Laurel were seen as pretty out there originally.

Cedar = Tree.

Huxley =Aldous
Calvin = Cline or Harris
Tate= Tate and Lyle

I rather like Calvin (obviously I assume your surname isn't Klein ba-boom-tish. Cedar isn't my kind of name, but I think it's OK. It wouldn't strike me as odd if I met a little Cedar.

Tate makes me think ....Modern / ...Britain etc.

Atticus - a bit too try-hard, maybe? As in Atticus Finch from Mockingbird?

I rather like Calvin (obviously I assume your surname isn't Klein ba-boom-tish. Cedar isn't my kind of name, but I think it's OK. It wouldn't strike me as odd if I met a little Cedar.

Tate makes me think ....Modern / ...Britain etc.

Atticus - a bit too try-hard, maybe? As in Atticus Finch from Mockingbird?