Kacper or Oskar? :)

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Hello everyone,

Our favourite names are Kacper and Oskar. We have decided on the middle name Maksymilian :)

Which do you prefer: Kacper Maksymilian or Oskar Maksymilian?

Thank you x

Both lovely names. Be th very popular I know lots of boys called those names.

I prefer KAsper.

Oskar. It "works" in English in a way that Kacper doesn't.

I know two Oskars but no Kacpers - and I live in a fairly large, multicultural town.

Both are lovely.

Mumzypops - don't be stupid! Kacper and Oskar are hardly out there when it comes to kids names. I have taught children called both names and no one seemed to have a problem with mispronunciation.

There's a Kacper in DD's class. The kids all pronounce it Casper/Kasper and I only realised how it was spelt when we got an xmas card.

They're in primary at the moment but I do think when he gets to high school, it may be a name that is ripe for having the piss taken out of it with regards to the 'cack' connotations (it's a nice name, btw, but kids can be merciless).

I think on the whole, I'd prefer Oskar anyway.

There are a few Polish children at my children's school and no one would even think to tease them about their names, the children accept Bartosz and Szymon as readily as they do Brooklyn and Percy!

Neither of those names contain a slang word for poo in them though, do they?

Sorry to hijack but I just wanted to ask AuntieOBEM -

My daughter is Kasia, she constantly has to correct folks pronunciation

Is it Kay-sha/Kay-she-a? The lady who did my wedding make-up was called Kasia and it was such a pretty looking name, I'm sure she introduced herself as Kay-sha but I can't quite remember!

DS has a lovely friend called Kacper. Great name. No one seems to have any problem with the name.

In my opinion, if you love Kacper, go for it. If you can't decide between the two and are going to be living in the UK, go for Oskar as it works much better in English.

I prefer Oskar

I agree many British people would find cacper hard to spell and pronounce. I know I would and I live in a big cosmopolitan city with lots of polish people.

But I like Oskar better anyway! It's a lovely name!

I read Cacper as cack-per. (No im not racist either according to earlier posts). I dont think kids will be cruel, just be prepared to explain pronunciation frequently to new people.

I think Oskar is lovely.

Both are lovely names! I'm no help! Haha!

brindle you've heard the phrase cack handed? Well now you know what it means.

Neither sound like dog names - how rude was that first reply?

Kacper is very nice, but I love two other Polish names, Jerzy (Jurek) and Marek, so want to add them to the mix.

A lifetime of spelling out his name over and over and over again. Poor child.

I think some of the comments on here are awful. You'd have to really be a bit dim to see Kacper and think it was prounounced "CAck-per".

Bloody hell, what is with the poor kid remarks. They are two lovely names that are v similar to the English equivalent (I hadn't heard kacper before but would have guessed at kasper or kashper). Do some of you live somewhere with zero outside influence?

Kacper will be pronounced by 99% of Brits as "Kack - per".

Are 99% of Brits really that dim?

I lot of people have low literacy in their native language, never mind making leaps to recognising letters have different sounds in another language. They aren't trying to be deliberately disrespectful.

I would anglicise the spelling of Kacper, make the c into an s, if I expected to live in an English language country long term. And switch back to c spelling if I moved back to Poland. Those would be my choices.

I don't like Oskar (any spelling). Kasper (Casper etc) is nice.

I like Oskar best. I would assume Kacper would be pronounced close to Casper but when seeing it written, the Kac part jumps out so I'd avoid it.

Kasia is cash-uh. It's really common as far as I can work out.

Mis-pronunciations will likely only happen once so I really wouldn't worry about it. Nor would I worry about any 'teasing'. Lots of children have completely made up names now, and lots have names that quite rightly represent the culture they come from. Kids really don't bat an eyelid. Choose the one you like best.

The funny thing is I know two little boys called Kacper and Oskar who are... well, I suppose "frenemies". They're often together, anyway.

Kacper would be pronounced roughly like "cat spare" in Polish but the one I know is always just pronounced like Caspar at school, nobody seems to have any trouble with it. His brother also has a name that should technically be pronounced a different way but he uses the English near equivalent at school.

I think all in all I like the combination of Oskar Maksymilian better than Kacper Maksymilian, but not because of the "cack" issue because I've seen at first hand that that doesn't necessarily actually happen.