Curtis or Koby?

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Middle name Thomas Arthur (not like that really matters) 😂

Really hoping for a boy because I cant find 1 girls name I like but out of the 2 above which is nicer? Thanks 😁

Koby sounds like an American/Japanese eatery

Curtis is going to be Curt most likely

The middle names are far nicer

What is ‘Koby’? From whence? Koby? Sounds like a vegetable.

Curtis - known a few. All decent enough lads, given their circumstances.

Why not use your two perfectly reasonable ‘middle names’ instead?

I really like Kobe. I also like Bodie/Bode.

Curtis

Of the two I like Curtis more.

I prefer Curtis.

Koby is a bit like Knobby

Cassius

I love the name Curtis

They are both very chavvy
Use one of the middle names instead

God didn't realise Koby/Coby was a chavvy name 😬

Ignore the pearl clutchers. I know a few Kobys and I think it’s a nice name. I’m not a big fan of Curtis. I think Koby sounds better with the middle names you’ve chosen.

@Schuyler I like Koby, I agree Curtis is a little on the chavvy side so won't be using that, personally don't like Thomas as a first name or Arthur as its to popular there is loads at the school DD is attending! X

It’s not ‘pearl clutching’ 🙄 It’s not wanting to make your child’s life harder than it needs to be by saddling them with a name that has certain social class connotations.

But Koby is spelt Kobe.

Live the middle names, hate the other two. Sorry!

Never met a Koby. Did go to school with a girl called Cobi, so that would put me off it. I don't love Curtis, but it's perfectly fine.

@Nixen I think that only happens if you surround yourself with snobs IMO, not to be rude, but I wouldn't judge a child of a name it had been given! I dislike a lot of names but don't then see that child as 'lower class' 😊

Colby? I think its less Clunky than koby.

@Nixen the only Coby I know lives in a 1.5 million pound house and goes to school with my niece, thats were I heard it 😂

Would the UK even exist anymore if people didn't get to give their class obsessions a daily airing.

'certain class connotation' clutching.

Hey, it’s your baby, call him what you like of course, but people shouldn’t ask for opinions, and then be pissy when people give them opinions 😆

1.5 million pound house... money does not equal class. Would you think Katie Price is chavvy or classy?

I have a nephew called Curtis who is 4. The name reminds me of soul singers. One of my brothers' takes the piss out of the name for this reason.

Koby (however it is spelt) just seems trendy.

Arthur and Thomas are old fashioned but solid. They are the type of names I would choose for a male child though I work with far to many many men of different ages called Thomas, David, John and Richard.

With your child's name imagine them as a 30 year old going for a job that leads him or her to be the CEO of a major company within 5 years.

Then imagine him or her as PM 14 years later meeting with other world leaders.

What name(s) would lead them to be taken seriously? What name(s) do you think in Western society would make them be passed over?

That's partly how I chose baby names.

@Nixen sorry, I didn't ask for opinions, I asked for a choice from two! Didn't tell people to start going on about how my child would be seen as lower class because of its name! I wasn't brought up to think like that.