Which of these... Boys Names

[BakewellGin1]

Opinions Please
Niall or Oliver

Thankyou GreatDuckCookery, I think I might've done that now (I'm not very techy 😂)

😀 it can be hard when you first join a forum.

neither.

Niall

I prefer Oliver over Niall, but that is a personal taste

Oliver.

Although the person who said it sounds like you have a mouthful of marbles made me laugh 😂

Sorry, I used to know a kid who pronounced it Nile. Now I know a grown up who pronounces it Niall

In my accent those are pronounced exactly the same!

OP, I don't love Niall but it's much, much better than yet another Oliver!

I'm not a huge fan of Niall myself, but it's a perfectly good name and yes, my SIL is a teacher and her reception class has 9 Olivers in it...

my SIL is a teacher and her reception class has 9 Olivers in it

WOW. Is that serious or just an exaggeration? Because 9 Olivers in one class, out of what must be about 15 boys, is incredible. Only 1 in 50 boys was named Oliver in 2013, so the chance of one class of 15 boys having 9 Olivers in is 0.000000000002 (one in five hundred billion!)

Your SIL should probably start playing the lottery?

There are 4 Olivers in our Scouts group (of 13)! It is a very common name, having been nr 1 for several years!

I'd avoid it on that basis. It may we'll fall out of fashion and start to sound dated.

I like Niall. I like Oliver too, but Niall is less common.