This is driving me crazy... Please give me your (very honest!) opinion

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

Boy's names... I thought they were sorted. (I was wrong. Let's hope the girl's names stay sorted...)

Jonathan
Anton
Antonin (I prefer Antonin, tbh)
Julius
Cedric
Maximilan
Gregory

[Sugarpiehoneyeye]

I love Jonathan and Cedric.
I like Max as a stand alone name only.
I don't like any of the others.

[Sugarpiehoneyeye]

Similar names ;
Elric
Cyrus
Maxim
Gregor
Silas
Jonas

[MargotLovedTom1]

Anton - are you in the US, because all I can think is Anton du Beke.

Jonathan (prefer that spelling) or Gregory, known as Greg.

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

Margot

No, we're not. We currently live in London (but are thinking about moving to Scotland because of a job offer)

[ThomasHardyPerennial]

I love the name Antonin - am very familiar with it due to my extended family (Polish). I think it's a great name, and loads better than Anton.

[n0ne]

I actually really like Antonin. And Anton, Cedric and Gregory.

[JDelanysCleanHorse]

I like Jonathan and also just Nathan/Nathaniel.

Julius makes me think of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Twins.(huge fan of him so I don't think of the Caesar reference.)

Also love Gregory & makes me think of the character Hugh Laurie plays in House M.D.

(For some reason most names remind me of characters in films/tv programmes. I think I'm just weird).

[dotdotdotmustdash]

Greg, Max or Anton.

Please don't bring a Cedric up here to Scotland, he would be the subject of many shocked faces.

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

It seems like Antonin is a bit like MArmite (just less popular...)

Cedric is wimpy? Ou. I though the "ic" sending sounds quite strong (Eric, Henrick, Frederick...)

Francis Oh, I thought he would be. But I'm not American (or English...), so Idk.

sugar

elric is nice, I also like Gregor. But I thought Gregory would sound nicer in the UK? (I had a grand-uncle called Grigory?)

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

dotdot

Really? Shoot. May I ask why? I mean, what's different about Scotland and Cedric?

[NoSquirrels]

Jonathan - yes
Anton - (Strictly, who renamed himself from Anthony/Tony anyway)
Antonin (I prefer Antonin, tbh) - no, doesn't work in UK imo
Julius - no, as PPs say, Caesar. Julian instead?
Cedric - no, caterpillar
Maximilan - maybe, if you used Max
Gregory - love this

Similar names - maybe Crispin, Dominik, Francis, Marcus

[YellowCrocus]

I like all of those except Gregory, which sound bit 1980s to me. And Cedric, this sounds wimpy and upper class to me too. Julius is cool.

[NoSquirrels]

I do apologise - Cecil is the caterpillar I am thinking of. But still. No to Cedric! (and Cecil, in case you were tempted!)

[DoItTooJulia]

Prefer Gregor to Gregory

And can you cope with Cedric become Ric and eventually Ricky? (I prefer Ricky.)

Antonin I do not like. Antonio is better. Anton I don't like either.

The rest are ok.

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

Seems like most like Jonathan, Gregory and nobody seems to hate Maximilian.

Cedric and Julius seem to be.. controversial (?). I don't think possible Cesar jokes are that awful, are they?

Whereas Antonin may just not work in the UK.

[DoItTooJulia]

*becoming.

My typing has gone to pot today!

[SleepFreeZone]

I like Gregory.

I'll throw Joel, Caspar and Montgomery into the hat.

[ChippieFishieHorshie]

no

Isn't Cecil a lion? Well, it may be a caterpillar as well.
Not a fan of Cecil, no. I know several women with very similar names...
DoIt I'm not sure what you mean? Yes, Ric is probably a nickname for a Cedric. I used to know a Cedric called Ced and a Cedric called Ceddy. But Ric(ky) would probably be an option, yes.

[Epipgab]

I like Antonin, Julius, Maximillian, Gregory.

Leo
Alaric
Henry
Jasper
Torin
Lucas
Victor
Joseph
Felix
Arthur
Nicholas
Sidney
Peter
Alexander

[Hotpinkangel19]

Max is lovely, Anton okay....others are really awful. Sorry!

[sassolino]

Are you a big fan of Dvorak? Sorry cannot do all the Czech orthography.
Maximilian is OK, though I prefer Max or Maximus.

[DoItTooJulia]

Oh, I'm not being funny, it's just that so often kids end up being called by the shortened/lengthened version of their names, so if you like Cedric, be sure you like Ric/Ricky.

[ABCFamily]

I like Jonathan and Gregory. Maximilian is ok. I actually think Julius would make a fun middle name.

I'm ambivalent to Anton, but I do automatically think Scalia when I hear Antonin - to the detriment of the name (for context, I'm British, but living in the States).

Not keen on Cedric.

[Queensparkles]

Dot dot probably means a child named Cedric would most likely be slagged rotten for that name at school, sad but true, children are cruel! Although this probably wouldn't be exclusive to Scotland I can imagine some teasing in England too to be fair!

I like Max