Aubrey or Arlo?

[slingbat]

As a sibling for Ava , Felicity and Rueben ? Middle name would be Francis .

I like Arlo
Aubrey to me sounds like a girl's name.

Love Arlo. How about Jago?

I like names ending in O - Cosmo, Orlando, Sholto, Milto etc - but Arlo is my least favourite.

Have you a drawing board at your place? - maybe you should go back to it!

I have only ever known one Aubrey - he was a gent & lived to be 100! It's a nice name but it is a shame that it's ANOTHER boy's name that had been hijacked for girls!! Arlo I'm not keen on - super popular & will be very 'of its time'. I also know another Rueben whose name was misspelt by his dad at the registrar!!!

I have never heard of Aubrey as a girl’s name. I quite like it - bit different.

I love them both but Arlo is quite trendy. I would go with Aubrey. It is a boys name!

OP you can get the entry amended and get new entries of his birth certificates! No need to saddle your DS with DH’s mistake for the rest of his life.

It's all well and good proclaiming that Aubrey is NOT a girls name based on history, but as we know, names and their associations do change over time. Since 2013, there have been more girls named Aubrey each year in the UK than boys. And the gap has got bigger each year too. So for this baby's generation, it most definitely will primarily be a girls name.

There was a baby name expert on a Radio 4 programme recently who was talking about how the name Arlo is going to be huge. It's climbed from ranked 0 to top 50 over past 20 years. Does that bother you?

I follow a few photographers’ FB pages and in the last week I’ve seen at least 3 newborn Arlos.

Aubrey. Arlos are everywhere.

If you wanted an alternative to Aubrey, August is nice. I knew an August once and he was forever bring complemented on his name. ...and he was hot.

*being, not bring!

As far as Bread were concerned, Aubrey was a girls name....

But I prefer it to Arlo.

I am non judgemental when it comes to baby names but my OH has hated his name all his life. He too was called Strawberry. Bless him

I really like both and, although I know Arlo is becoming more popular, I have never yet met one. Aubrey is top 10 in the US for girls but I think it rare for both girls and boys in the UK. I've never met one.

I would assume an Aubrey over approx. 45 to be a man and one under approx 45 to be a woman.

I think I'd choose Arlo for a boy. I love Aubrey as a girl's name though.

Really like PP's suggestion of Arlen; never heard it before but it's lovely.

How about:
Adrian, Asher, Milo, Nico, Orson, Patrick, Vincent, Micah, Elliot, Jeremy

Ooh I do like Arlen ! I prefer that to Arlo , so I guess it’s between Aubrey and Arlen ! I don’t mind people assuming it’s a girls name because I know it’s a boys name . But I could imagine it being frustrating for him growing up if he is mistaken for a girl regularly

Elijah or Eli ?
Harley ?
Out of the 2 I would say Arlo ,
Aubrey isn't to my taste .

From someone who has a gender neutral diminutive of a long name - it's amazingly annoying being addressed as the wrong gender all your life. You get a lot of inappropriately targeted marketing. Dear Mr Lenclos we think you will be very interested in our fishing tackle/motorbikes/penis enlargement etc.

So don't think about what you feel but how he would feel.

@slingbat Ooh I do like Arlen !

If you like Arlen, there's also Arjen.

It's a Dutch name pronounced "Arr-eee-en", but you could do it phonetically -"Ar-jen"?

OP,

Glad you liked the suggestion of Arlen/Arlan!

I'd never heard of it myself until last year, when I met a 5 yr old little chap from Cork. He was such a great kid (funny, bright as a button and full of personality) that I associate the name with positive things.

Isn’t Arlo the name of the character in the Good Dinosaur? That film made me bawl my eyes out, DS was mortified!

Def like Arlen for a boy more than Aubrey!

I wouldn't call my child Arlen in case they got nicknamed Lenny

I quite like Lenny as a nickname - we did consider Leonard but it’s fairly popular where we live atm

I like Arlen, but it does sound like a vair posh person saying Alan.