Tom

[obsessingovernames]

Tom???
Read an article on a males perspective on their name and it has made me totally rethink what names to give a boy. I've not stopped thinking of names in a complete panic about the supposedly "wet" name I had in mind. SOS 🆘 Help needed! 🙏🏾

Oh, and I totally agree with @VerityB1. Her kind response sums it up.

Rupert is wet sorry. Tom is far nicer and crosses the ages, and the classes nicely. It’s a properly ‘solid’ name imho.

Felix is definitely not wet.

I love Tom, really lovely boys name.

Tom is soo dull and overused. Tom, Dick and Harry!

Rupert is cool and much much more memorable!

What on Earth is 'wet'?

Tom is lovely. Strong and classic. Was on my shortlist. Definitely go for it!

Tom is great, would have been our choice but we are having a girl. It’s popular in a solid, not trying too hard way. Where I am it’s not particularly common in younger boys, more in sort of 20s-30s. I think Rupert is becoming more popular but is more likely to peak and date badly. I don’t love it either - but it’s not awful!

My son is Tom. He's grown up now it seems he's always liked his name. We named his Thomas because I like to give a choice if possible and he went through a phase of preferring Thomas when he was a child and Tommy as a teenager but mostly he's been Tom. It's an excellent name all round, IMO.

Tom has been around for many centuries. 'Tom, Dick and Harry' was a reflection that Thomas, Richard and Henry were very common names down the ages.

Why care if someone else has the same name? It's not their name that makes someone unique,no matter how out there. As someone's already said Tom/Thomas is timeless, classless and most definitely not wet.

I prefer Tom. Rupert is definitely wet.

Tom is great, I love it. I know a couple who are just Tom, not Thomas.

As for Rupert, I'm so sorry but I do think of it as a bit drippy.

Interesting about the comments on Tom being a popular or common name. I have a Thomas (AKA Tom or Poopy Pants as he decided to rename himself yesterday). He was the only Tom in his year at Nursery and is the only Tom in his class at school. It's not as common as it was when I was his age.

I really like Tom

I've been teaching for 6 years and I've only ever taught one Thomas, and there are only about 3 or 4 boys called Thomas currently at my (fairly large) primary school...and only one is shortened to Tom.

DS is called Thomas (calls himself Tom) and there are no others in his class at nursery...so perhaps it's more popular in other regions? I'm in the NW.