For a boy, what are your opinions on...

[Rainatnight]

Frank? (Francis on birth cert, but never ever used).

It's a family name for both me and DP, and I thought it was just a nice, solid name. But yesterday someone told DP that it has sort of gangster, East London connotations ('like Frank Butcher' ).

Have we missed something? Is Frank somehow beyond the pale? To be honest, it would take a lot to put us off it.

My granddad was called Frank. We are in a race in my family to have a boy to name after him.

Prefer Frankie.
Francis is a family name for us, mine and dd's mn. Frances obviously.

Frank and Francis seem completely different names..?!

No, Frank is the main diminutive for Francis.

No idea who Frank Butcher is but Frankie Fraser was notorious.

I like the name. Most names have bad ‘uns if you research enough.

Absolutely love it.

One of my favourite names

I love it, I think calling him Frankie when he's little is very sweet too.

Love it !!

I think it did have East End connotations in the past, but not so much now. I'm so old that my first thought was Frank Spencer, but that wouldn't mean anything to a baby born now (or his future friends).

I've taught a couple of Frankie's and thought it seemed a nice diminutive.

I don't like it at all , especially Francis. Frank sounds like an old man and Francis is very feminine and a bit wet sounding to me. Also don't really understand the whole putting it on the BC if you're never ever going to use it, so if you're set on Frank just have Frank

I dislike it, sorry.

But at least it's interesting and he'll be the only one in his class, so that's a positive.

Don't put Francis on the birth certificate if you dislike it enough to never ever use it, that would be ridiculous. Just use frank.

Francis and Frank are SO different. I would only choose Francis if I liked the name and intended to use it!

I wouldn’t put a name on the BC I was never going to use but I prefer Francis to Frank. I know a Francis, nickname Fran, and he’s pretty cool.

Think Frank is a lovely name and could be Frankie as a little one. Not sure Francis needed on birth certificate as very different to Frank. Wouldnt link Frank as nickname of Francis tbh

My friends boy is Frank and is Frank on his birth certificate, I love it

I am related to a Frank. Francis on his birth certificate, Frankie when I'm pissed and I'm trying to wind him up 😊

He doesn't use Francis, he doesn't like it.

My boy is a Frank (now 24), he was Frankie when he was little and often still is when I'm talking to him. He never uses Francis but it's a family name so it went on the BC. He LOVES his name.

I know a Frank, aged 11.

I prefer it to Frankie, which sounds cutesy and girlie to my mind.

Frank is a cool name.

My friend has a frank(Francis on bc) at first I couldn't get used to calling a tiny baby frank it just felt odd because it sounds like such a grown up name. But he suits it so well now that he is nearly 5 and I couldn't imagine him being called anything else. She doesn't use Francis either

I know a baby Frank, and I really like it. I think it’s enough of a name in its own right to go on the bc though if you’d never use Francis (unless that’s the family name!)

I had a school friend called Frank, full name Francis. I had no idea he was Francis until we got older and he started using it. My DD has a name which we use the diminutive of on a daily basis, but she has the option of using her full name when she's old of she wishes.

No negative connotations came to mind to me, if you like it go for it. It's a lovely name.

So sorry but it's a noise not a name to me. Quite an abrasive noise.