Can you pick your top 3 boys names?

[Ptol]

Joby
Jean
Abel
Percy
Anselm
Art
Bram
Enoch
Roald
Garfield
Montgomery (Monty)
Ptolemy
Vito
Wolfgang

Joby is on the shortlist?! Even pronounced the same was as "Toby" that sounds like a glaswegian saying "Jobby"

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jobby

A tricky one, as we have very different taste, but I do quite like Abel and Anselm. Monty is OK, though definitely not Montgomery. Like Art as a nickname for Arthur, but wouldn't use it as a stand alone name. And could live with Bram as nn for Abraham. That's about it - some of the others are pretty horrendous!

Pickle I don't think either myself of DH have been to Glasgow in the last 20 years so I'm not overly worried about one regional area of the U.K. potentially mispronouncing and misunderstanding the word.

I don't think you have to be from Glasgow to know that Jobby means 'shit'. You can guarantee that kids at school will make the connection pretty quickly!

Bram
Wolfgang
Abel

In that order. Love Bram and Wolfgang!!

William, Thomas, George, Henry/ Harry.

Sorry, from your list i only like Art, short for Arthur.

Roald, Abel

That’s it and they’re at a push tbh.

GOT might make Bram more popular in years to come if that bothers you.

Realised I’d missed Monty ... I love monty even though I had a cat called Monty once.

Hmm, I don't think it would matter how you spell or say Joby, it is nationally recognised across Scotland as a word for a shit. And also known across the world by Billy Connolly fans, as it's used frequently by him, including the jobby-wheecher song, so if you choose that name you will at least know what to expect!

I love Wolfgang, and had a budgie of that name, but I don't think it would really sound great on a non-German-speaking human. How about Amadeus instead?

I like Enoch and Anselm.

Percy
Montgomery (Monty)
Abel

my (achingly basic!) preference for boys' names has always been slightly coloured by being friends with a bloke called Edwin in my early 20s. He'd always been teased about his name - through primary school, senior school, scouts - everywhere. He had sent his childhood wishing he'd been called Steve/Dave like the rest of his generation.

Approaching 25 he was only just coming to terms with it.

That's why I wouldn't use any of the names on your list - you might love them but you are not the ones who have to grow up with them.

why not use a more conventional version of something you like (so Arthur not Art) and then use one of the more unusual variants as a middle name that he can adopt in later life if he's up for it?

Bram
Roald
Ptolemy

Anselm
Monty
Bram

Agree with others about Joby problems. But I love Toby!

Roald and Abel are the only two that won't condemn the kid to a life of relentless teasing and questions.

Go for Roald.

Roald Dahl was a legend! We need more Roalds in the world!

Roald Dahl a legend? A brilliant author but I wouldn’t want to be named after him. Do you know about his views on Jewish people? Vile anti-Semite.

Sorry NerrSnerr I don't and I'm writing as an author myself so I'm referring to him in a literary sense!

Eli
Cain
Isaac
Ezra
Caleb
Jonah

(Though I also think most of them sound like names of the Dingle menfolk in Emmerdale...)

Montgomery/Monty

I'm not keen on any of the others. As per pps, Joby/Jobby is a 💩😱.

We toyed with Ptolemy for ds1 and thankfully changed our minds. We still laugh nearly a decade later at how utterly ridiculous we were being .

Another Scottish person voting against Joby!

I like:

Anselm
Enoch
Ptolemy

I'm SE England and also voting against Joby!

Monty is the best of your list but remember your poor child could potentially have their entire future shaped by how badly they are bullied in school and by their peers, so I don't understand why you would want to burden them with a name that is likely to cause it.

Abel - solid Biblical name
Bram - perfectly fine name, but better short for Abram
Art - but short for Arthur

NB: I like Percy too

Sorry don’t like any of the names

Pretentious muddle class twaddle poor kids!

Joby is slang for poo btw ( already been said).