Stanley or walter

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And why (if a reason comes to mind)

I like Stanley but mainly as I knew the loveliest, sweetest old man called Stanley and it reminds me of hIm.
I think it's quite a cute name for a toddler as well but can't imagine teen Stanley as easily!
Don't like Walter. Wilfred is nice as others have suggested?

I know someone who has a Stanley AND a Walter.

Walter will always be shortened to Wally by mean children so I couldn't do it to a child. Plus it makes me think of a really wet character in a comic - maybe The Beano? He wore bow ties and was a "Mummy's Boy".

Walter would inevitably be called Wally in the playground, which doesn't sound very fair on the poor little chap.

I also know lots of young stanleys. Oldest is about 11. It's very popular. Is that what you want?

they are both fucking awful.
i cannot believe it has becime fashionable to name a gorgeous new baby a name that immediately brings to mind flat cap wearing, pint of mild supping, big eared old men.

It's just horrible.

I could kind of get giving a name like this as a middle name after a beloved relative but doing it because it's fashionanable and everyone else is? No

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this is a walter

They are both awful. Sorry Op but its a trend that is so common now that its not very trendy.

and this is stanley

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I like Walter! I would have considered it if we had have had another DS. I think of Walter Blythe from Anne of Green Gables (Anne's son).

I don't want it because everyone else has it at all. I don't know a lot of people with babies, nor do I know what's popular..it being popular instantly puts me off. There's some very insensitive responses on here

Awful. Sorry (and thats from someone who had a Grandad with one of those names and a relative with one as a surname).

I think they could possibly work as cute baby names but at 5? 15? 25? Not so sure!

My Dad who died at Christmas was Stanley. Will be using for DC2 if a boy.

Have seen Henry and Alfred recently and know a little Ernest.

Sorry Op but you will always get negative responses if you ask about baby names.

well if it being popular puts you off-then be put off. The world and his wife are calling thier children awful old names and thinking they're hip and unique

imagine being 14 and at high school and called walter

it's just cruel

I'm sure sure the playground bullies won't be thinking of Anne of Green Gables when they are picking on poor little Wally.

Calling a little boy Walter while knowing he will be bullied because of his name would be a hateful, cruel thing to do.

Walter can always be shortened to Walt. Does not have to end up as Wally.

BonnieF extending your own argument...you can't be sure they'll have all your negative preconceptions either!

Met a black cab driver who had a Stan and another older name, sorry forgot which, and he said he was always being told they were the coolest names in school!

I think they are both awful too. I am right in reading that you want an old man name even though you don't actually like either?!

I used to live in Stanley House!!

I don't really like them they just sound really old. Not like a new baby you could right enough shorten it to Stan. Some old man names I like is Fredrick but shortened to Freddy, Baillie, Louis and Sidney shortened to Sid. I like them because they are cool for older people but even at that I don't think I'd have the guts to name my baby any of them.

Awful, sorry. Like ancient, arthritic doddering men.

Both great, really don't understand people who say they are old mans names. They have zero imagination not to realise those men were children and young adults. I fear they can't imagine their children's modern names as grandparents. Walter could easily be Walt , to get around the Wally issue not that anyone under 30 would think that any more.

I love them both, and they'd probably be shortened to stan and Walt.