Johnny or Teddy?

[AnnabelleMarie]

John/Ted on BC.

Not looking for suggestions

Thank you!

My Ds is a Teddy, so obviously I like that! It evolved naturally, though. We named him Theodore with Theo as the intended nn. By six months old somehow he was just Teddy

Should add he's nine now and loves his name!

I prefer Jonny to Teddy but prefer Ted to John.

Teddy sounds toddleresque whereas Ted sounds like the name of a handsome man.

I think Bobby works well on a toddler and an adult

John or Edward/Edmund/Theodore.

I love Ted, it's a really masculine, rugged name and Teddy is cute for a boy.

John / Johnny is a classic but not quite as nice as Ted.

John!

He can then choose to be called John, Jonny or Johnny.

Teddy is a bear and I can't imagine many teenage boys wanting to be called that.

Although another thread suggests that a Johnny is a condom

Neither!! Johnny reminds me of a condom and teddy a baby bear/paedophile!

Sorry, Johnny also immediately made me think of condoms. I don't think Teddy is that great either, it makes me think of underwear.

Perhaps my mind is just firmly in the gutter?

Sorry - I'm also of the era where Johnny is a condom and the childish me would giggle!

Yup - John is great but Johnny = condom.

Johnny is sort of a class thing. The condom reference only matters/amuses some people. The sort of people who use the name Johnny, I have found, are quite "smart" and just don't think/care about stuff like that. Anyway I reckon that's a generational thing. I've never heard anyone say Johnny when they mean condom. Maybe it's older people?

Also "giggling" at a child's name is pathetic. You should hear some of the names at my child's school. You get pretty used to everything eventually.

Go for it, I really like it.

I'm not an "older" person, but I do associate the words even though I have never used them.

I wouldn't laugh at the name and would probably disassociate the words after a little while spending time with the child. However the op asked for opinions and those are my immediate first impressions. My own dc has a name with a very strong association but people do now forget about that after spending time with him.

I'm not an older person either 😂.

Me4You It's a public forum, just because you really like the name doesn't mean others will!

John/Johnny, definitely!

The sort of people who use the name Johnny, I have found, are quite "smart" and just don't think/care about stuff like that.

But being smart has nothing to do with whether your mates call condoms Johnnies, no?

I wouldn't risk it personally.

But I prefer John anyway.

I've never heard anyone say Johnny when they mean condom. Maybe it's older people?

I'm in my 50s and it was always a "rubber johnny" when I was in my early teens, to the extent that a kid called John got teased by people constantly asking, "Have you got a rubber, Johnny?" But in about 1982 when AIDS was big news and everybody was being urged to use them, "condom" suddenly became the only word anyone ever referred to them by, and I'd be willing to bet anyone even 5 years younger than me has probably never heard of a rubber johnny.

If Teddy would definitely be just Ted on the BC, then I think I slightly prefer John/Johnny. If Teddy could be Edward, Edmund or Theodore then there's not much between them for me. I just can't quite picture a middle-aged man called Ted, and obviously he will be one one day!

DD would likely have been Johnny. Love it. Such a cool name.

Don't like Teddy.

Johnny every time.

Teddy and Ted. Love it. (Johnny also v nice though).

I'd be willing to bet anyone even 5 years younger than me has probably never heard of a rubber johnny

I'm 38 and the phrase was in use when I was at school.

I don't think it'd be an issue for a child born in 2017, though.

Teddy for sure!!

I'm in my mid 20s and I've never used the term myself but having heard it so many times, johnny = condom for me too.

Go for Teddy. People are saying that it won't suit a big rugged older bloke but he can always just call himself Ted.

I like them both

Aw I know two lovely blokes called Ted and my own DN is Ted. Just Ted. After Father Ted btw it's a great name