Having another DS...

[Midnightdream]

Found out I'm having another DS. I have DS1 called Ralph.

I want to call him Ernest nn Ernie. I love this but the thought of it becoming popular puts me off.

Any other suggestions would be welcome with the similar style(I've been searching for too long lol)

Marley
Vincent nn Vinnie
Laurence nn Laurie
Barnaby nn Barney Barns
Christopher nn Kit
Tristan
Otto
Chester
Cole
Rudy|Rudi
Griffin

I guess Ralph is getting increasingly popular (though I've never met one)- does that bother you? If it doesn't, maybe it won't bother you about Ernie either?

I like Rudy and LOVE Marley but I know someone with a Marley so it rules it out.

Ralph is 7, so named him before it become popular. Hence the worry with Ernest lol.

Ooh is Ernest becoming popular? I like that name and thought it was well out of the top 100. I also like Victor, which I feel has a similar kind of vibe.

I love Ernie. If popularity bothers you. You take a risk with whatever you choose. You could go for the most obscure name. There's still no 100% guarantee that he w ont be one of three in his class.

More suggestions for you as well, though.
Christopher.
Tristan
Dougie
Hector
Claude
Nicholas
Kevin
Stanley,
Percy.

Wilbur.
Timothy

@KatnissK it was 326th in 2018. Ralph was way out back in 2012 but now its 88th .

I had Stanley for my DS1 but went with Ralph. I love Percy but I've seen on here its slang for penis which has put me off completely

Didn’t Ernie pull the fastest milk cart in the west?

Clive

Edmund
Winston
Emerson
Forrest
Emil/Emile

Ralph was 193rd in 2012 though, so from 193-88 isn’t a stratospheric rise, and with Ernest starting from 326th it’s way more unusual to begin with. Why not just use Ernest? I would, and I’m a sucker for finding names outside the top 1000.

How about -

Horatio
Herbert
Humphrey
❤️❤️❤️

I've not heard of many ernests - go with it if you like it. It's a similar theme to Ralph and Stanley that you like

Gregory
Evan
Eric
Miles
Marcus
Dominic
Elliott
Louis
Tobias
Barnaby
Jonathan
Christopher
Roderick
Timothy
Benedict
Gabriel
Raphael
Simeon
Lucas
Sebastian
Maxim
Vincent
Daniel
Hector
Isaac
Michael
Andrew
Phillip
John
Ivan
Michael
Julian
Nathaniel
Robert
Samuel
Edwin
Edmund
Peter
Jasper
Caspar
Felix
David
Owen
Quentin
Jethro
Jonah
Lawrence
Stanley
Arthur
Lucien
Lysander

I can't see Ernest becoming so popular that it becomes a problem. Ralph being 88th can't be that much of a problem can it? Do you know millions of little Ralphs?

Go for the name you love. Don't let your desire to be different/original/unusual rule out the name you love.

Interestingly, for anyone who's read Forever by Judy Blume, Ralph is also a name for penis! You could go for Percy and have a pair?

Oscar
Wilfrid
Felix
Edmund
Arthur
Hector
Henry
Frederick
Seth
Sebastian
Edgar
Leonard/ Leo
Theodore/ Theo
Louis
Maxim
Walter

@KatnissK @Midnightdream
No Ernest isn't getting that popular; outside the top 300 and most importantly it's actually been on a downward trajectory for the past couple of years.

(What I mean by that is that the most recent official statistics shows the numbers of Ernest's per year is falling rather than rising)

I prefer Stanley

Love Ernest nn Ernie.
Don’t know any myself but adore the name! I wouldn’t say it was very popular! Definitely go for it.

I know an 18 yr old Ernest and 18 yrs ago it was a very unusual name! I’d say the same for now although older names are becoming increasingly popular.
Go for the name you love.
Incidentally I also know a 14 yr old Ralph

Why not Stanley? It was my first thought to go with Ralph and you’ve already considered it ...

I’d go for Ernest

@Edenember Stanley is in the top 100

@Chocolatecake12 I've never met anyone called Ernest. I met one Ralph when my son was around 4 in sainsburys but he was a older than my son lol.

Agree, go with Ernest.

Silas
Edgar
Otis
Bruno
Soren
Elias

Sidney nn Sid