Barney or Casper

[MummaUK]

Hi all,
After months and months (and months) of going backwards and forwards I'm still stuck between Barney and Casper.
If (and only if) you like the names, please could you let me know which you prefer.
I'm a bit in love with both names.
Thanks all

Casper for sure. Barney is a bit too cutesy.

I love Barney so much! I like Casper too but Barney would be my number one choice if we had another DS.
I've known 2 adult Barneys so don't see it as cutesy. It's a friendly name on an adult and adorable on a little one.

Barney.

Barney if you must, although I hear barney and immediately think dinosaur. I don’t like Casper unless you’re naming a friendly ghost.

Barney.

Casper

Barney

Casper!

Can you imagine a middle aged man called Barney?

I'm trying to imagine a 50 year old plumber or solicitor or whatever called Barney, and I just can't.
It's a cutesy name that will be cute on a toddler or a little old man, but horrendous in the years in between.

Is there anything you like that it could be short for?

Casper nn Cass.

Agree, it depends if you want to call your child after a dinosaur or a ghost

I know a middle-aged doctor called Barney. Works for him.

Love Barney though I would prefer it as a nn for Barnabas or Barnaby.

Barnaby

I'm trying to imagine a 50 year old plumber or solicitor or whatever called Barney, and I just can't.

Come to Ireland, we're inundated with middle-aged barneys

Neither.

Sorry. I think purple dinosaur or Barney Rubble (flinstones)

Casper the friendly ghost, cartoonish

Casper is very cool! Cas for short. Love it.

I think they both sound like dogs names

Well as mothef to a something Caspar because he was born on Christmas day I think itnhas to be Barnaby or Barnabas, nn Barney.

Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar were the three wise men so on that basis Caspar isn't appropriate forba summer baby. Itbis however a marvellous name

Casper

I’m thinking of calling my son Jasper.

Barney, a name that makes me smile. No pretence.

Barney...... I've got one! Cracking name for all ages of man!

I have Barnaby but he is known as Barney, i love his name.

Barney - lovely name