Rowan or Sonny?

[Peacefrog23]

Hi,

So pretty sure baby is going to be one of these. I love them both, and really cant decide.

Just wondering which you prefer?
And how many children do you know with these names?

Hopefully may help me to choose. If you don't like either just say which you prefer please!

Thanks so much for the help xx

Rowan. Went to school with one. He was popular.

Sonny reminds me of an old man talking to a kid.

Or the Song by the rubber bandits about hanging yourself.

Sonny is a nickname. You could always name them Rowan and call them Sonny ;)

I suppose you could name them anything and call them Sonny.

Sonny is definitely seen as a legitimate name these days, it’s just scraped into the top 100 boys names, so using this name is not going to cause alarm whatsoever. It’s a great name, really cool sounding and laid back.
Don’t like Rowan, too feminine for my tastes and hate inevitable nickname Row.

I prefer Rowan.

I know a little boy named Sonny and every time I see him I think, "Really, Sonny? Poor kid." Give your baby a proper name!

Not keen on Rowan either but at least it's a name. Just imagine an adult Sonny.

I think Sonny is a lovely name and totally legitimate as an adult name these days. Won’t sound strange at all to the next generation seen as the name is more mainstream now. The pro rugby player Sonny Williams doesn’t seem to have struggled either 🤣

My daughter is called Rowan so I obviously like that name too although I do have to agree with a lot of the criticisms in this thread and to be honest if I’d realised she’d get called “Row” such a lot, or that the name was so ripe for confusion with (increasingly popular) Roman, I probably wouldn’t have picked it. But those things might not bother you OP so it just depends. I do like that it’s a tree name however I rarely make the tree connection anymore, as it’s my daughters name now, not the name of a tree (if that makes sense).

Good luck deciding!! X