What do you think of Eric?

[stellarfox]

Any thoughts/opinions on the name would be helpful thanks! Baby due beginning of June

It’s a lovely name. I’ve always like it, if I had another DS he would be Eric.

Absolutely love it!

I always think of it as a weedy kind of name which is weird because Erik is a hulking great Viking's name.

Sorry, not for me. Still an old man’s name and not achieved grandpa chic yet.

Is banana man..

banana man Maybe that's where my associations with the name come from.

I don't mind it if it's spelled Erik. Then it has a kind of cool Scandi vibe rather than being an old man's name. That last letter makes all the difference to me, but I'm funny about spellings.

I also like cool scandi Erik.

On the upside, it was George Orwell's real name. On the downside (which I fear outweighs Orwell for me), it reminds me of the appalling hero of the Victorian novel Eric, or Little By Little, who turns to Evil and Vice while at boarding school, until he seeks Help From Above. Orwell hated his first name because the association with the novel was still strong when he was young.

I don't like it. Personally it reminds me of a middle-aged man. Not a cool one either.
Imagine he has a brother called Keith.

I love Eric/Erik. It's my sons middle name and totally named after Bananaman.

Eric the half a bee song popped into my mind

It sounds like an older male with a very serious personality but if you like it, others will learn to like it too!! The person makes the name! :)

Seems a very unattractive name to me sorry OP. Can't even explain why, just no. And some of my ancestry is Scandinavian so should be all for it in that sense 🤷🏻‍♀️.

One of my fave boy's names.

I really like it. But think it would be a bit daft to use the Erik spelling if you are not of Viking stock.

My golden retriever was called Eric

Simon Cowells son called Eric.
Not a fan myself.

Eric Shun.

That's what the Eric's I knew at school were called.

I like it. I know a 6 year old Erik

I quite like a lot of the 'old man' style names (Ronnie, Archie, Arthur etc.), which have become very popular, but sadly I just can't feel the same way about Eric for some reason.

I love it. I know a toddler Erica. Its unusual without being too unusual.

I quite like Erica for a girl, but Eric seems to lack Erica's spark.

Sounds like a name for a puppet.

I like it. Reminds me of prince Eric from little mermaid