Raymond.

[ClaraBean]

It's the only name we agree on but we are maybe trying to lengthen the list as I don't think dp loves it.
I love Cedric and Clarence but he says no way to both of those.
So we're seriously considering Raymond at the moment.
What do you think?
I don't know any little kids really, is it popular?
If I like Raymond, Cedric and Clarence and other ideas for names to throw at dp 😁

I love Raymond. It just seems to be a fine name for me. Only downside is Everybody Loves Raymond because he's such an obnoxious self centered man child.

I like it. How about Desmond, Norman, Cyril, Michael, Alan, ...

I really like Raymond with Ray as nickname.

Max
Bill
Eric
Xander
Miles

I like Raymond, but like Cedric even more!

I also like Clement, Dominic and Quentin

We know a 6 year old Raymond. He's known as Ray. It suits him

I like it. Honestly, I would never have thought of it a year or two ago, but came across it when looking for a name that works in English and French. It's also a name that works in a lot of European languages: Spanish Ramón, Hungarian and Polish (and lot of other Slavic languages) Rajmund, Gaelic/Irish Réamann > Redmond, Italian/Portuguese Raimondo, German Raimund. I also really like Ray.

Some possible others: August, Clement, Cyrus, Edmund, Edwin, Felix, Laurence/Lawrence, Martin, Matthias, Simon, Vincent.

I know a fifty something Raymond, knew him from his 20s onward, and the name fitted throughout.

I badly wanted this for DC3 & MNers unaminously shuddered at the time (16 yrs ago) that it was hideous old man name. Which opinion DH shared. How times change...

My wonderful grandad is Raymund.

I would be happy for his name to come back into fashion.

Love the name Ray so why not Raymond (even though it currently makes me think of stained tracky bottoms). One to get over and love. Neville?

Cyril
Cecil
Wilbert
Sylvester
Cuthbert
Albert
Clive
Charles
Dorian

Raymond and Clarence are two of my favourite names! Go for Clarence, it's nearly extinct.

I don't like Cedrick

What about Sidney nn Sid?
Barnaby?
Vincent nn Vinnie?
Tristan?
Percy?

I only know one young Raymond, he's 19 and goes by Ray. I thought it was very unusual when I first met him, but it really suits him.

The only Raymond I know is in his 80s, so no doubt it'll be fashionable again soon. I'm in France, I know quite a few Tristans, Cyrils, Cedrics and Clements, all in their teens.
Other people I know in Raymond's generation are Jacques, Robert, François, Francis, Jean-Marie, Philippe, Adrien, Rémy, Roger, Michel, Guillaume, Nicolas, Sébastian, Jules, Victor, David, Léon, Léonard, René, Didier and André.

It's a brilliant name.

Other random names I've come across in France:
Loïc
Nathanaël
Maxence
Frédérique
Ludovic
Gaël
Maxime
Gontran
Gaspard
Valentin
Etienne
Emile
Antonin
Kilian
Lilian (had two in my class this year)
Thibaut
Mathieu
Benjamin
Lucas
Vincent
Lionel
Alexis
Pascal
Gauthier
Eric
Bernard
Christophe
Flavien
Arlèn
Mathis
Mattéo

I like it!

Reginald
Ernest
Walter
Patrick
Lionel
Basil
Ralph
Dennis

Raymond is going to make a comeback. Rae for a girl is getting more popular. And Raymond Reddington from the blacklist is amazing!

Absolutely love it. My imaginary 3rd child would be Ray if a boy.

Ray was in our top names list for our DS for a long time. But we really liked just Ray, and hated Raymond. We dumped it in the end, because we thought everyone would just think his name was Raymond and Ray for short. And we didn't want a lifetime of explaining his name ISN'T Raymond!

Plus I taught a little Raymond once, and he was wet as anything.

Raymond is Brooklyn 9-9 is a good character too.

Most Raymond’s and Rays I’ve come across professionally in my lifetime have been heaving drinkers and/or criminals or conmen.
Puts me right off.

Awful it's an old man/dad name.
It conjures up an image of an overweight, tattooed, heavy drinking chain smoker. Sorry.

I would constantly be asking him what he thought of the new gas cooker.

(I think you need to be of a certain age to understand that comment)