Aengus or Alexander?

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Which name do you prefer Aengus or Alexander (will probably just use Alex)?

Is Aengus pronounced like Angus?

Alexander

Aengus by miles and miles! It's beautiful, unusual and I love the Yeats connection.

Alexander is v nice but nowhere near as nice as Aengus imho.

I've never seen / heard of Aengus..... It did occur to me to wonder if you'd had a nervous twitch on your keyboard when writing Angus

For my (English) eyes, I'd definitely go for Alexander.

Alexander

Alex

Angus reminds me of Aberdeen angus pies and beef cattle

I thought it was a typo too, sorry. It sounds vaguely medical to my unfiltered brain so I pick Alexander

Uncultured obviously. Auto correct is unfiltered.

Thank you for your messages. Aengus is the Irish spellling of Angus. I thought it was a bit different and not so much like the beef or Anus!!

I like Alex but it is very popular with boys and girls at the moment. My boy is very much a boy and would very rarely use Alexander.

My alex (if my oh and his family wouldve blinking well consented wouldve been a sandy as is usual in rural scotland

The child concerned has beautiful white blonde hair and would've made a great sandy. They were horrified and said that sandy is a female name so was overruled.

He's newborn?
How can you know he'd never use Alexander? Very much a boy is an odd thing to say 🙄

Alexander is used by my Alexander! He is never, ever Alex. He hates it, and we use a different diminutive form of the name.
Aengus looks horrible to me, Angus is better but phonetically they're both like anus, be honest.

Aengus. It's more interesting than Alex.

Aengus is lovely ( so is Alexander, but not so gorgeous), very classical and romantic.

Alexander but for the nn I would go for Lex or Xander, there are a lot of Alex's around.

Much much prefer Angus (prefer this sp.) over Alex, which is nice but a bit unexciting. Angus is a brilliant name.

I think Aengus and Angus are different names, pronounced differently. I prefer Aengus, but love Angus too. Aengus is more like Ayn-gus or En-gus (I think, though I'm not an Irish speaker so may need picked up on that pronunciation)!

Look up The Song of Wandering Aengus by Yeats if you're interested. I think it's beautiful.

My boy is very much a boy

Alexander - lovely, classic, international, versatile
Aengus too close to fungus for me

Alexander - fab name.

Yy to previous posters who advised that Aengus and Angus are pronounced differently- there's a bloke on RTE called Aengus and it sounds very close to anus to my childish, non-gaelgoir ears

Alexander