Giles

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Seriously considering this, thoughts?

For a boy obviously!

Middle name will 99% be Francis.

I like it. Vastly underused.

Thank you.

Our other front runner is Rowan.

So Giles Francis or Rowan Francis.

And yes both not very common.

I love Giles Francis! The two names go very well together.

Ah you’re too kind Pixel

I love rowan and Francis, but not keen on Giles, sorry

Don’t be sorry, all opinions welcome.

Giles is a great name.

I like it.

It would probably be a forerunner for mythical No3. (No3 is NOT happening!)

Underused, uncommon and quite cute. Picture a chubby baby with rosy cheeks. Can’t see a downside to it really apparent from the odd ‘farmer Giles’ comment which, if that’s the worst a kid can get, he’s doing pretty well!

I love it!

Love the name.

I really like Miles but not keen on Giles strangely

Thankfully we’re not big in the farming community
Weirdly I love Giles and don’t like Miles

Giles is a good name. Much prefer it to Rowan. I am an impatient person and would find it very irritating to have to explain constantly which sex my baby was, which I imagine happens a lot when the name is used for both boys and girls.

That is a good point Tiger, I’m not sure patience is one of my strong suits either!

I am 50, and for my generation it would have been a no-no as it had an OO-AArgh, Farmer Giles connection.
If we met anyone called Giles it was funny, before the poor bloke had even said anything
A bit, I think, like the connections people make with Sharon and Tracy.

But seeing this thread, I realised that that has passed really, and I can't work out why a perfectly good name like Giles, got so much stick!

I considered Rowan for my son but was put off it by the influx of little girls being named it. It hadn’t really occurred to me that it was a girls name until looking at naming sites. Coincidentally the name we chose some people also consider unisex🙈

I really like it, and much prefer it to Rowan.

Its funny, to me Rowan and Giles are SUCH different names, I find it interesting that you like those two

Really like Giles.

Friends of mine have got ds Giles and dd Rowan

I like it but it does remind me of the Buffy character (his first name was Rupert but everyone called him Giles)
If you like it then go for it!

I forgot about Giles in Buffy!

Giles in buffy would be a reason for using it!