Fintan, Tudor or Titus, or something else?

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Fintan, Tudor or Titus, or something else?

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Fintan of the three, though I prefer Finbar/Finbarr.

I prefer Billy the Fish.

I had a Titus, a Julian, a Gulliver and an Alexia (girl) in my primary school class in the 1970s. A regular inner-city state school too!

I've taught quite a few boys originally from Lithuania called Titas. I like the sound of it.

I do wonder sometimes if folks are actively trying to get their kids mocked at school in the future.

More tee-tas though.

Children, IME, don't do much mocking of names. I know adults (including some teachers) do.

I agree. Kids rarely get teased for their names.

There are far more tease worthy names used regularly eg William-> Willy anyway.

I love Titus!

My step nieces and nephews had very very unusual names. They weren’t teased or bullied. But they just found it incredibly tedious to have to keep spelling and explaining and agreeing that yes they were very unusual, weren't they?

They all changed to a “known as” as they went to secondary school, and still use their new names as adults.

I think Fintan and Tudor are OK, actually. Tudor is a form of Theodore, so I think it's valid enough. We use Stuart as a name, and that's a royal house name too. Titus seems more problematic to me, but because of the nicknames it'll morph into. Those ancient emperor names weren't unknown in the 18th/19th century in some parts - might be hard to pull off, though.

Steering away from the laughs: I actually know three small Boys called Titus - it is quite common and accepted in Western Europe, although I can understand if it is less used in England due to different pronounciations.
And very few people have read Ghormenghast and think of Titus Groan.

Tudor is a Welsh boy's babe name not at all strange

www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=tudor
not Theodore, according to the link.

And apparently also the Romanian version of Theodore.

www.behindthename.com/name/tudor-2

I know a baby Sixten, NN Six. I think it's cute.

Something else. Try to imagine yourself calling your child over the playground. Try to imagine your child with the name as an adult. Be kind to your child.

Tudor is historical Welsh name (Tudur) - the Tudors were a prominent family in Wales in the Middle Ages... long before Henry VII won the English throne.

There was also Breton king called Tewdwr so I’m assuming its origin may be Celtic.

I think they’re all great names.

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Try to imagine yourself calling your child over the playground. Try to imagine your child with the name as an adult

You don’t think the OP has factored that in...

Ok im a chav but...none of them.
They sound from my background utterly pretentious although presumably yours is not mine.
Even royal names are less posh. Unless youre Catherine Royal and are having another boy?

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Sixtine is a nice girl’s name as well (imo).

I think people make too much of unusual names and teasing and such. I had a very unusual name growing up. No one could spell it or pronounce it and I still get comments all the time. I hated it for maybe a year as a kid, then got used to it. I love having a unique name. People remember my name (and remember me), it's a good icebreaker for a conversation, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Tiberius is Captain Kirk's middle name. So it obviously becomes popular again in the future.

Bumsnet so many chav names are pretentious - Kayden Jayden Jaxon Mason Madison Harper - all American. Princess Tiammi, Elli-Mae, Ruby-Rae etc

I don’t find the OP’s names pretentious. They’re all really old names, they’re not wannabe American or copying celebrities, they’re just not commonly used - in England anyway - Fintan is actually fairly standard Irish name, Tudor (or Tudur) is a very old Welsh name.