Freddie or Gray

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Top name at the moment is Freddie.
(After my Grandad - who is alive and unaware of our possible plan to use his name)

But we also like Gray.

No middle name decided but don't think they flow together. Well either way, we will be using Freddie as first or middle.

My other two have very normal names - they have both been in top 10 for years!

I was thinking of Gray for a bit (short for Graeme/Graham) but DH vetoed it. Also, greys/grays are the aliens from Roswell.

Personally I'd call him Frederick, Freddie for short. Frederick is a bit more dignified if he becomes a brain surgeon, Freddie if he's a boxer (this was my mil's criteria for a boy's name!)

Freddie is very nice, Gray is awful

Love Grey! How about Grayson Freddie? 💙

Freddie is better than Gray. I think he'd get grey, gay, grave, etc. If it's for the colour grey, ask yourself if you'd call a child Beige? But I just asked one of my teenagers what they thought of Gray and they liked it - they thought "mysterious, not black or white". But that's a teenager for you.

Grayson is a lovely name.

Grayson. Freddie is beyond common (popular)

Frederick, Freddie for short.

Gray is the American spelling of a rather dull colour, not a name.

Graham / Graeme is lovely. Gray on its own is bit odd.

Freddie isnot a particulary nice name and there is billions of them.

Definitely Freddie but Frederick on the BC.

Gray might be the American spelling of grey, but I wouldn't be concerned by that. As for name teasing I think that can happen with any name! I don't have an uncommon name and had a few playground taunts.

Also the fact it is a colour doesn't matter. Violet, Scarlet, Rose and Ruby are all colours, yet they're more popular so people don't necessarily associate them with only a colour. Just like people often have issues with the name August for a boy, yet girls can be called, May or June!