What do you think of Fabian?

[HopeandFlory]

What do you think of the name Fabian? I like that it is not popular but still has a classic feel to it

It should be super cool and interesting but somehow it misses the mark because as an actual word to say, as a name, it's just not that nice. It doesn't have a good short form - A Boy Called Fay doesn't quite cut it I think - and it's too jerky, the syllables are just hard to say somehow? if that makes sense? Fay-bee-an. It's too much. It's not lovely. And the German prn is nicer but you'd have to be correcting people.

If you want a really interesting international unusual choice there are lots nicer out there!

Ptolemy

Victor

Sebastian (not unusual but the most beautiful)

Torquil

Severus

Urban

Kester

Jolyon

etc.

Sounds nice. Too big a connection to Labour.

I like it a lot.

I like it but I live in a Germanic country where we say Fab-ian, shortened to Fabi. Fay-bien sounds stupid though. Fabien is a girls name so the British pronunciation sounds even sillier!

Florian is nice too, but only if you live somewhere where Rs are pronounced!

It's my son's middle name.

Not because I like it but my ex let my have my favourite first name so I felt duty bound to let him choose the middle name. He got a baby naming book and after nearly 6 weeks (we had one day to get him registered!!!) he'd only got up to the F's in his book and I didn't think Fabian was too awful.

I do call my son Fab 'first name' so it has grown on me although he did thank me for not letting his Dad call him Fabian as a first name. In his words, 'I'd have been sooooo bullied!'.

Having said that our second son's middle name is truely awful but it was my exes Dad who died 9 months before he was born so again I was on rocky ground objecting.

Too much of a political association for me.

Love Fabian/Fabienne. The few I know as adults are really lovely.

Really like Etienne and Laurent as well.