Bear, Everest, Forrest or River?

[LouiseJ88]

Our little boy is nameless. We have to register him soon! I feel really sorry for him poor little guy does need a name! We just can't pick (absolutely love them all!) which is your favourite???

Bear.

Or I'd tweak Everest to Everett.

That may just be me, though.

River is great!

Another unusually named person here...hasn't held me back yet!

I think he'd have to grow into a very big chap to carry off Everest without people smirking a lot.

Oh I don't know - can you imagine a morbidly obese person having to be called Everest?

I suppose I was thinking big as in tall and broad rather than obese

Def not a name for a skinny short man

River makes me think of river song from doctor who which is a girls name! Everest is terrible. I wouldn't go for any of them as they are all things rather than human names but I'd say bear is best of the lot

Oh dear god.

You really should have gone hiking in the Himalayas before getting pregnant; and got this out of your system...

I do think they'll date, but fine if you don't mind that.

None if them sings to me. But not my choice.. but suggest you give a middle name as well so that if dc doesn't like it, can change easily.

Flogging

Sorry, none of them.

You mentioned it in you OP - call him Guy. And its not cos its Nov 6th - trained at Guy's hospital!

My youngest goes by Bear (not even close to his actual name) so I do like that.

Not once has anyone even blinked when I've called out, "hurry up, Bear," when out and about.

I don't think any your choices would get a lot of odd looks nowadays.

I like these three :
Bear
Forrest
River

Not keen on Everest it just sounds wrong.

How about Onion?

You didn't watch Still Game, did you Quinto?!

How about lumberjack?
Bear Everest
Coyote hill
Fox mountain
Stag river
Raccoon lake

The permutations are endless......

Or even possibly you could choose a name for a person not a geographical feature?

How about Edward, with Bear as a nickname?

Love them all except Everest.
Great names op!

Congratulations on your new baby

If you are worried about popularity there are a lot of little Bears around here. I tend to meet one a week.

River is nice but also quite popular and you'll get a lot of people asking if you copied Jamie Oliver as his was born so recently.

I love Forrest. It seems most like a real name and not a word. How many children are going to watch Forrest Gump. Its a dreadful film. If I had to think of an association I'd think Forrest Whitaker and I like him.

Love Everest but didn't know about Paw Patrol. Don't know if that will be around when you child is in school and I think it sound more masculine than feminine. Everett is similar.

Bear is tricky as it's also a verb - his cross to bear, I couldn't bear it, bear with me...

There are other names which mean "bear", Bern / Bernard / Bjorn, etc.

I love nature names and I think they are great although Everest is too closely linked to the mountain. The others are fine and as a teacher I've taught both a river and a Forrest. Not taught a Bear yet.
I don't think the connotations that are made here with River Phoenix and Forrest Gump are there for young people and certainly won't be in 2026 when the child will be close to secondary school. To be honest it's adults that have these hang ups not the kids.

River