Tristan or Charlie?

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Baby is coming tomorrow and our shortlist is
Tristan James or Charlie James..
We can't decide at all and keep swinging between the two... don't know how to add a vote in but would love some opinions

Tristan. (Charlie is a bit babyish/nicknamey)

Tristan is lovely and classic
Agree Charlie is a bit babyish and very common

Charlie is nice but I love Tristan!

Tristan sounds much posher. Depends if you like that or not? I'm not keen personally.

I don't find Charlie babyish but it's definitely more common.

I vote for Tristan.

Plenty of Charlies already.

Tristan and Iseut.

Tristan, love it,

I’d go Tristan because the only Charlie’s I know are girls and I think some boys might struggle with that?

Love Tristan.

Tristan.

Charlie. Tristan just isn't very nice to my ears

Definitely not Tristan unless you want to give the impression you are posh or trying to be. (I say this as someone very solidly middle class but whose DD is told by friends we are posh due to expensive house/car etc and I am at least glad we didn’t add to that impression by giving her a posh name).

Charlie is a good normal name so would choose that.

Prefer Charlie by miles. Cant see how it can be wrong at any age. Dd has a friend called Tristan and everyone including his family calls him Tris, which I don't love.

I love Tristan. It was on my list but DP doesn't like it.

Tristan means sadness but the world is currently over run with Charlie's. How about Charles? Or Tristram?

I love Tristan
Both nice though

I love Charlie but only as a nn for the classic Charles, so if you are using it on it's own then I would pick Tristan.

Tristan. Love it.

Wait and see which he looks like?

Tristan.

Tristan is lovely. Charlie is boring and a nickname.

I like Tristan, so that's my vote.

Tristan doesn’t mean ‘sad’. It’s an understandable connection given how close it is to modern French ‘tristesse’ but it is a much older name meaning something more like ‘noisy’.

Excellent explanation here.

Tristan is nice. A former study colleague of mine did her PhD on Tristan and Isolde...don't ask me what it's all about though .

Charlie is cute. A sort of cheeky chappy type name, quite well used circa 2000 - 2010. There are so many 10ish yo kids round where I live called Charlie and Harry. That said, there are none in my 5yo's year at school, so you would probably avoid him being one of several in a class.

Neither name is 100% to my taste, but it isn't my baby. On balance, I'd go with Tristan. I think it's got a touch more class. But neither name is bad. Can't go too wrong with either choice.

Good luck tomorrow!

Charlie. Tristan sounds a bit ‘wet’ to me, in the Walter and Timmy vein.