Fintan, Tudor or Titus, or something else?

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Fintan, Tudor or Titus, or something else?

Pretentious means attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. How can a name like 'Elli-Mae' be pretentious? The OP has a short list of three unusual names with three completely different backgrounds. I doubt she has Welsh, Irish and Roman connections. I suspect she just likes the sounds of the names.

We had a dog called Titus. I can't imagine it on a child and given that most names are shortened at some point or another especially at school don't think it would be a good choice at all. I don't recall being embarrassed about shouting for our dog in the park (and as he wasn't very obedient there was a fair bit of shouting) but I don't recall coming across it as an insult until I was a teenager and our dog was long dead.

I don’t have a lot of patience with people using online dictionary definitions but - to take it at face value ‘attempting to impress’ is exactly how I would describe those names.

Attempting to impress with a name whose popularity or usage comes from America.

Hyphenated first names are very affected imo - too try hard. And also American influenced - Peggy-Sue, Billy-Jo etc

I can easily imagine a child called Titus, I suppose it depends on your imagination.

Another chav pretention is yoonique spelling of ordinary names, which Is thought to be sophisticated but actually just looks badly educated. Plus using foreign names with the wrong pronunciation - Anaïs is a famous example on here.

At least the names in the OP are genuine names, correctly spelt. And not named after a celebrity’s child.

But all those trends cause people to look down on the parents and label them as stupid, uneducated etc. Associations with America are not generally positive in the UK. Hyphenated names are considered hill billy even in the States and really aren't positively received in the UK.

I really don't think this is at all similar to the reception a middle class family who pick an obscure classical or Celtic/Old English name for their child will get. It's apples and oranges.

Or where a new and unique name is made from the parents names to symbolise the love that created them. Never sound good but to give examples would be outing.
Pure class.

Bumsnet

Trying to create baby names with the names of a few couples I know:
Leorik
Melian
Limos
Emilip (Milip?)
Viatrice
Ello
Laurik
Pandra
Yala
Lannick
Runja

Idk... Some of these aren’t too bad (imo).

(Don’t worry, these aren’t the names of actual children / won’t out anyone.)

Some cracking quotes on this thread...”don’t mock Tudor” 😂

“...nasty character called Titus Andronicus who was quite a LTB type” - love this!! 😄

Something else.

These trends are still ‘attempting to impress’ in their own way nooka they just happen to fail. And they must convince the someone - otherwise the trends wouldn’t have caught on.

So yes I think it’s comparable, but I think the OP might be pulling our legs anyway.

Freddie - you’ve got yourself a whole fantasy novel cast there.

Loving Ello!

Howabout Caligula? Or Nero?
Visigoth
Ostrogoth
Pict
Jute
Vandal
Mongol

Any good? Or Kastrol? Diabolo? Drexel? Leviathan?

Titus Andronicus is v v violent. Rape, cutting off limbs, tongues and cooking up humans in a pie are a few delights to savour....

Titus was the name of Titus Salt, the great Victorian industrialist who built Saltaire, Salts Mill etc near Bradford. Why would this be a joke post?

Because we are no longer in the industrial revolution and names like Titus belong in 1800?

If Titus appeared in my son’s house at school, I would immediately think his parents were social climbing wankers, and that’s coming from someone surrounded by Percy’s and Aramintas.

If Titus appeared in my son’s house at school, I would immediately think his parents were social climbing wankers!

Wow, you are very judgmental. hope you don't pass such views onto your children.

Titus Groan is my favourite book ever.
It could be a genius name on the right child, or cause a lifetime of pain.
Don't like the other names, but if they call to you OP, then go for it!

Fintan is a bog standard Irish name, nothing posh about it. I like it but I always picture it on a middle aged man.

Titus is great for a dog, Tudor for a house. Neither for a human.

I think you need to spread the net wider - the world of medical terms is your oyster.

Variocele
Osteosarcoma
Sarcoidosis

You’d find some lovely name options.

Farquahar?

Really???

What other names do you have?

Not keen on any of them- they sound made up.

All three are better than the dreadful Ellie-Mae, Lilly-Mae names.I actually know of 2 sisters called that.

I agree that Fintan will become Fin whoch is very, very common, if that bothers the OP.

Tudor sounds a bit weird as a name for me as sounds more like a historical period, than a name, of course. Titus is ok but i think the OP can do better. What about Fenton? Lots of dogs have human names and vv. My neighbours dog is called Harry.

I agree that children are not judgemental and just accept whatever name they are presented with. Mine go to school with all sorts of aspirational mc names that would be mercilesly mocked on here, along with the dreaded chav lily-maes, Jaidens etc plus the boring and ubiquitous Issys and Oscars and they really couldnt tell the difference or give a flying fuck.

I like Titus, but I'm a Gormenghast fan too.

If Titus appeared in my son’s house at school, I would immediately think his parents were social climbing wankers!

Might be a family name...

Our DDs’ names are pretentious, try hard, ‘dog names’ etc according to some mumsnetters.
But their Christian names were simply taken from our ‘family trees’.

Something else.
I'm saying this because you ask, but to me they don't sound like names, they sound like labels, and like you are trying to make a point by using them.

like you are trying to make a point by using them.

What point?