Does my son have an awful name?

[tabithamay]

I’ve done a similar thread on Nameberry but wanted other people’s opinions. I have a 17-year-old DS who’s started his second year at college, and we chose Ernest Leopold as a first and middle, after my DH’s great-grandfather. Recently, he’s become very aware of it as people are telling him how ugly/old-fashioned/frumpy/strange it is. What do you think?

Fab name! I have a weird as fuck name and hated it right through school because I was ripped the piss out of mercilessly. I bloody love it now as it is so unusual, strong and cool, just like your son’s name.

Some people on mumsnet are bloody horrible!!

It's a fabulous name for a character in a book set in the Crimean war. Less so for a 17 year old trying to seem cool in front of his new college mates.

10 pages for a name!!! Just wow!
Like Leopold, not really ernest for a college lad.
I think the 'Leo' idea might work well for him if he just calls himself that.

Horrible having the ridicule. Did he like his name till this?

Awful.

I think the OP was pulling our legs somehow.