Otto or Jasper

[CeibaTree]

Which of these two names do you like best? Middle name would be Timothy.
Thanks :)

I mean lots of names contain the letters T and/or R..

What about Timothy as his first name?
Timothy Otto
Timothy Jasper
Prefer Jasper to Otto.
Otto reminds me of an Ottoman.

Otto, of course. Jasper sounds whimsical and a bit feeble, whereas Otto is strong and warm.

Definitely jasper

I'm german and Otto makes me literally think of a fat, old grandpa. Sorry!

Jasper. Otto is a Dalmatian.

Otto has too many Ts with Timothy although I love it! Jasper sounds better

I much prefer Jasper.

I love both! Otto just pips it does me, though. (Was too of my list for a long time but in the end I just couldn't: we have a German surname but aren't German; it would have been too weird)

Jasper. Otto does just reminds me of Ottoman Empire. Not happy associations for me. Although later King Otto was quite nice.

Jasper by a country mile.

There aren’t many names I hate, but Otto is one of them!

Von Bismarck!
I like Otto but for me it is such a German name I’d be surprised if family naming a child this didn’t have major German links. So what I guess.

Jasper - not keen - hugely lovely word but for me less lovely name.

Otto wins for me. It’s quite a name for a baby/child!
Congrats op.

Definitely Jasper. Goes better with the middle name too

Otto? As in the stoner schoolbus driver in The Simpsons?

I like Otto but for me it is such a German name I’d be surprised if family naming a child this didn’t have major German links

But no German would call their child Otto! It's such an old fashioned even comical name there.

Definitely Otto. Absolutely love it

What about Timothy as his first name?
That's not an option for us - we don't love the name Timothy (but we adored the person the naming would be after)

But no German would call their child Otto! It's such an old fashioned even comical name there.
We ran this past a close German friend and she agrees it was old fashioned, but making a bit of a come back - one of her school friends had just used the name for their son. I know what you mean though - I have the same thoughts about the name 'Wilbur' but I now know two little ones with that name and I don't think comical old man when I see them :)

Thanks again for your opinions everyone. Interesting that people have such different takes on the same names!

gruffal with no current German links - a grandparent was German - I didn’t know that. I would assumed that as for me it is a ‘historic’ not current name. Interesting.

I like Jasper. Otto is very Germanic and also brings to mind the bus driver in the Simpson’s

Definitely Otto :)

Otto sounds awful!

I much prefer Jasper.

Jasper

Jasper. Never mind the dog name comments, I know dogs called Oliver, Henry and Jack.

Otto.

Jasper is awful. Sorry.

Can you let us know what you decide @CeibaTree

I really love both names and actually don’t know how I’d pick