Having a major wobble, please be kind....

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Hi so I have a new son (2 weeks old) who is just perfect, we have named him Nicholas Adam. I have 2 older stepsons called Daniel and Matthew, DH and I have a son called Alexander and now baby Nicholas. I loved the name all of my pregnancy until I was up with insomnia and read about teasing potential of the name on mumsnet... . I posted about this before and in the end felt loved the name enough to ignore. But lately in the height of hormonal baby blues I'm doubting the choice again. He's just perfect and I want an equally perfect name! We have told everyone his name already..... I suppose I'm looking for a bit of hand holding, positive opinions on our choice of name and reassurance that a lot of how I'm feeling is due to crazy hormones rather than rational thought! Be kind please....!!

There were four Nicholas's in my class at school (I'm early 40s) three were Nicks, one was a Nicky. All the girls thought Nicky was quite a sexy nickname and he was really popular.

I don't ever remember them being teased about their name. They were all popular, nice guys. I on the other hand was given the middle name Margaret and was bullied endlessly because of my "awful old fashioned granny name" so you really can't predict what will happen

It goes perfectly with your son and stepsons names.. Honestly op is a very handsome name

Enjoy your baby and wish him a long and happy life xxxxxxxx

Gorgeous name

We have a Nicholas in the family, as an adult he's mainly called Nick - never been teased about his name.

Lovely name; I like Nick even better. Congrats

Nicholas is a lovely name and goes beautifully with his brothers' names. Nicholas Adam is particularly lovely - two underused classic, great names.

It's a lovely name!

Two gorgeous names. Don't overthink it OP and enjoy your baby not

Never ever would associate the name Nicholas with teasing and like others have said it goes so beautifully with your other children. I knew lots of Nicholas' at school, I think 100% of them were called Nick, and I never heard of any of them being teased.
Lets face it children will find anything to tease others about, so if not a name it will be something else!

So it's Dan, Alex, Matt and Nick.
All fabulous, classic but still modern names.
Ignore the wobbles, it's great!

We have called our new baby Nicholas Adam! It's a lovely name! Hope you're feeling better about things now op. Enjoy your new baby!

I went to school with a Nicholas who was always Nicholas, never Nick. He was teased (in a light hearted way) about being posh because his accent was posher than most but never about his name and he always had lots of friends.