Peter

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Could I please ask your opinions on the name Peter? It's a family name that would be nice to use and is growing on me, but I think it is a little unusual in the sense that it's not very common anymore.

I love it!

Great name.

I love it. Not unknown, will never need to spell it out but not so common there will be 10 in every class.

A classic that is due a comeback.

I love it.

I love it!
It's my sons middle name and my Granddads name absolutely lovely

Love it, would of called my ds it but both my dad and dh are called it.
It's an unusual name nowadays.

Love it!

Really sweet.

I love it too. Deserves a come-back.

One of my favourites.

It's a fine name, not too common but is probably due a come back. I know 2 one us mid 20's and the other is 6.

Brilliant name. I don't know anyone under 35 called Peter, know one 4 year old David.
Both lovely classic names. Easy to spell, no explanations necessary, yet not common.
Love the Peter Pan link too.

Yep lovely!

Nooooooo! Awful, awful, awful.

It's an underused classic. I really like it.

love it. its my ds middle name so i am biased

Classic name. I only know one little boy called it, aged 7.

My friend's baby is called Peter. It wouldn't rock my world as far as names go but there's nothing wrong with it either.

If DC2 was a boy, he’d have been Peter.

It was my baby dolls name when I was a child, my favourite Narnia character and a dear family friend who has recently passed aways name.

I’ve always loved it.

No.

Andrew got equally gushing reviews on here the other day. No thanks. Boring.

I have a young DC Peter in P2 and at his school of around 250 kids there are at least three other Peters all younger than my DC. I think the name is on the cusp of a revival...

No- it is boring and is a wet fish of a name. Always I hate the shortening to Pete

Absolutely love it. I'm probably biased because it was my amazing Grandfather's name, and he was truly the best man I have ever known. If I ever have a son he will be called Peter for sure.

All that aside, I really think it's a lovely, classic name that isn't overused these days.

@HuskyMcClusky that would have been my thread.

Seems you can't win on MN - names are either too Yooneek or too "boring".

All I will say is no one ever thanks their parents for a made up name.

(And by the way we are going with Andrew, along with some similarly dull middle names)

I 've got a 16 year old Peter. It's a great name IMO, and infinitely preferable to some of the trendy, try-hard names that are popular at the moment .