Valentino

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Thoughts on this for a boy? I love Valentine but not that brave .

Nickname would be; Tino

Really dislike it, sorry

Love it. But for me, I think it would take less courage to pick Valentine than Valentino. Both are smashing.

I like it.

Sorry, for me, any baby names of designers (Dolce, Armani, Chanel, Valentino etc) jar in the UK.
If you really love it, maybe it would work better as a middle name and something more conventional as a first name which would give you a nickname to use and your child more options for the future? Hope you don't mind me being honest, sorry if it's not what you want to hear x

I really like it - reminds me of dreamy Italian Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi 💕 My personal preference for a nickname would be Valle though.

I like it.

His nickname might be Val, like Val Doonican.

I’d assume you were a MotoGP fan! Valentino Rossi is very cool.

I love it!

I'm a fan of Valentine and Valentin but not Valentino- it's just too heavily Italian, I like big strong brave names and rarely say no but I think Valentino is justa bit cheesy. Valentine is quite upper class and sort of understated in the way you pronounce it.

Tino the Artistic Mouse.

It’s a nope from me

I’d prefer Valentine.
Valentino reminds me of the silent screen star who all the women of his day swooned over. Supposed to be a great lover but was actually gay.

Sorry, I struggle with massively 'cultural' names if you are not of that culture.

It's always a grey area, where do you 'draw the line'?- but, to me, Valentine/ Valentino would be spending his summers with his grandparents in Naples. Not Cromer.

I really like it but can only imagine it on a certain type of boy (dark colouring, good looks, popular)

If your son is shy and/or a bit geeky/nerdy (meant in the nicest possible way!) then it is a difficult name to live up to!

Valentine is less brave than Valentino for me.
But I think it's a bit like Adonis - great if they are gorgeous looking but a bit awful if they're not....

Valentine is fab. Valentino is a bit too flowery unless you're Italian.

Only if you have an Italian surname or are actually Italian. Otherwise it'll sound clunky.

Not grabbing me

I like it but only in its full length version. Met a Constantine in Amsterdam once. Thought that was lovely, but again, same issue.

It's flowery and girly even if you are Italian.
Nickname in Italy would be Vale and all the Italian boys with this name hate it.
I've only taught a handful and they're generally named after their grandfather or born on 14th Feb.

I would prefer Valentine. Dawn O'Porter and Chris O'Dowd called one of there sons that.

Only if you are Italian.
As others have said, that is a lot of name to live up to.

I think it's lovely. It does depend whether it goes with your surname though.

I like Valentino but only if you have Italian in your family... sounds abit silly in my opinion if you aren't Italian like names like lorenzo, Lucia etc. I feel like they are proper Italian names

I loved Valentine for my little girl but we went with Valentine as her middle name maybe try that??x