Chester or Rory?

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Votes please. Chester after DHs grandad or Rory just because

Rory. Chester is very canine to my ears.

Rory

Chester the Molester... (sorry)

No molester comments please. Saw another thread berated with them a few weeks ago. Chester was a lovely man DH wants to honour. Not a molester

Rory

Don’t like Chester. Also, you can’t prevent people’s associations and comments, on here and in rl.

@ThroughThickAndThin01 I really don't think anyone would look at a wee baby boy and think "molester".

Rory by a mile.

I was actually thinking of what he'd be called in the playground!

Rory.

Chester as middle name, maybe?

No, no one would look at a wee baby and think Molester, but teenage boys would look at another teenage boy and think Chester the Molester was a hilarious nickname. Also Chester Drawers - less offensive but I would imagine pretty irritating.

Rory - Rory all the way and possibly Chester as a middle name.

ThroughThickAndThin01 I really don't think anyone would look at a wee baby boy and think "molester".

No, but that wee baby boy will grow up and need to get through secondary school at some point. You can't control the associations of other people and I think it's a good thing if they get pointed out to you early on so you can make a fully informed choice. Maybe a middle name? Rory Chester works well.

Rory is lovely. Chester isn't really. I tried to like it as a friend chose it but I just feel asked about it. I can't figure out what category it falls into. It's not unique or classic or vintage or cool or any positive words usually used to describe names. It just... Is. And it's a bit dull.

Rory

That was meant to say, feel strange about it.

Rory. Love it.

I'm only 25 and finished school not too many moons ago; and the nicknames the boys came up with for each other (if ever, it wasn't really a done thing) was nothing to do with their names and nothing so vile and offensive. They certainly wouldn't of made jokes about child abuse purely because it rhymes. I don't think they'd even think of doing such a thing, and if they did that really is vile and it says a lot more about them than anybody else. How sad, Chester is a lovely name and he was a brilliant man. Disgusting that such vile connotations can be associated to a name purely because of rhyming?!

OP ‘Chester the Molester’ was a comic strip - it’s not just because it rhymes.

I would choose Rory because it’s a lovely name - I’m not a fan of Chester but the comic wouldn’t bother me as their generation wont have heard of it

You know much nicer teenage boys than I did OP, if they were above using a phrase like 'Chester the Molester'. I knew a boy whose nickname was Paedo-Jack because apparently he 'looked like a paedo'. He was called that by his own friends (teenage boys， needless to say) and they all thought it was hilarious. So I shudder to think what sort of things a school bully is capable of coming up with

Rory.

Yes Prosecco just googled it. Way before my time, none of my family or friends seem aware of it either. Only seems to be on mumsnet I hear of it which is a vastly different generation to him and his future school friends so I'd like to think these vile connotations would not be made in RL.

Actually I’ve changed my vote to Chester because I think honouring a relative you admire is lovely - plus Chet is a really cool nickname.
If you love Rory then Rochester might be the half way name

I hadn’t heard of the comic before Mumsnet - I’m 34.