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Thoughts on Matthew ?

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Oneflewsouth · 15/03/2018 14:42

We are expecting a baby boy in June. I love the name Matthew with either James or George as a middle name. Recently I seen a thread on here with names teachers dread . What do you think when you hear the name Matthew ?

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NotTheNineInchNails · 15/03/2018 18:27

I also know a lovely one in his thirties, and it was him I thought of when I saw the thread.
I knew a terrible one about 15 years back as well. But he was a Matt. The lovely one is always Matthew!

Isadora666 · 15/03/2018 19:21

Very boring 70s/80s name. Bland and characterless.

Isadora666 · 15/03/2018 19:22

James and George are equally dull.

willisurvive3under2 · 15/03/2018 19:29

We have a Matthew. We know a lot of little children under 3 and haven't met another one yet!

littlemissalwaystired · 15/03/2018 19:31

Not come across a young Matthew in a very long time and I deliver babies! I can't even think of one younger than late teens. Gorgeous name and conjures up an image of a reliable, lovely gentlemanSmile

Decisionsohdecisions · 15/03/2018 19:34

Lovely lovely name. I know some adult Matthews and matts and they are nice people, successful and quite handsome.
It has only good connotations for me. I can’t imagine it’s a name that would provoke very negative connotations for many people, perhaps a small bunch of people who had a bad experience with a Matthew but they would be a small handful.
It’s not a statement name. It doesn’t carry assumptions.
For most people I think it would have positive or neutral connotations with it.

AnyaMoondial · 15/03/2018 20:15

Yes it's lovely. Good choice.

pipilangstrumpf · 15/03/2018 20:26

I don't like the sound of Matthew and dislike Matt or Math!

paddypants13 · 15/03/2018 21:17

My dh is a Matthew and also shares one of the possible middle names you have suggested.

Lovely names!

Sophronia · 15/03/2018 21:50

Matthew is lovely. I’m not keen on Matt though.

MikeUniformMike · 15/03/2018 21:57

I work with a few. All very nice. Great colleagues. Varying in ages from 30ish to 50ish. All called Matt. I like the name Matthew and the short form. James or George are great as middle names.

frasier · 15/03/2018 22:00

No Matthews in DS’s nursery. None in playgroup or any other activity now I come to think of it. Lovely name.

piglet81 · 15/03/2018 22:01

I love it, but I'm biased - it's my nearly 3yo's name. We've only met a couple of other little Matthews. A good, classic name (in my book).

TeaMeBasil · 15/03/2018 22:08

Love Matthew, great name 👍

Proudmummy2MA · 16/03/2018 18:23

Love the name Matthew, but I'm biased as I have one :-)

He's the only one in his reception intake of 60 children.

I'm a teacher, and the Matthew's I have taught in the past have been memorable characters! It still didn't put me off the name for my own son though :-)

twilightcafe · 16/03/2018 18:27

I have one aged 9. He's rather fab (most of the time).

I picked the name because it's classic but not overused, has no connotations and easy to spell.

LoveInTokyo · 16/03/2018 18:39

I like it.

It was hugely popular in the 70s and 80s but I don’t think that matters. It just means it’s more unusual now but not in a bad way. It’s a solid, classic, biblical name so I don’t think it dates you in the way that a name like Jason or Gary does.

Definitely the male equivalent of calling your baby daughter Sarah or Claire - more unusual than it was a generation ago but definitely not weird.

RustyBear · 16/03/2018 18:50

I have a Matthew, usually known as Matt, never, as far as I know, Matty - he’s 30 now. I chose it because it was the name of the furthest- back ancestor we’d traced at that time - my great-great-great-grandfather, (and also because both DH and I liked it!)

I don’t think it’s a very common name - I worked in a junior school for 18 years and out of the 1100 or so children that came through the school I can only remember about 5 or 6 Matthews - all very nice boys.

LoveInTokyo · 16/03/2018 19:00

Well I was born in the mid 80s and went to a catholic school. About half the boys there were called Matthew, Mark, Luke or John and the other half were called Liam or Connor.

So maybe I have a skewed idea of how popular it was!

stressedoutfred · 16/03/2018 19:29

I have one, DS was the only one at his primary school (700 children ) yet at secondary there's quite a few! He celebrated his birthday recently and out of 8 boys there was 3 Matthews( Matts) and 3 Bens Grin

BakedBeans47 · 16/03/2018 21:41

I love it but I may also be biased.

Belindabauer · 16/03/2018 21:47

I love it and I'm biased too.
Didn't know any Matthews apart from a distant relative when I chose the name.

horseknickers · 16/03/2018 21:47

I love the name - so much that my eldest DS, now 20, is called it. It gets shortened to Mattie or Matt.

Paleshelter · 16/03/2018 23:32

I love the name Matthew, considered it for my son.

deste · 17/03/2018 22:58

Scotland here and I have a DS Matthew Steven. He is 40 and a nice very successful person.

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