Axel

[ThirdTimeLuckyIHope]

What do people think of the name Axel? My OH has decided it's his favourite but I'm not sure. Is it to harsh sounding?

Any opinions or other suggestions would be really helpful thanks

The Gruffalo illustrator is an Axel :)

I love it! We used it for DS and often get positive comments about it.

😂😂 @FawnDrench
I think Axel is really cool and I wish I had been brave enough to use it for my son ♥️

Lovely, especially if your son turns out to be an explorer and journeys to the centre of the world.

Or if he wears a kilt and dances around the stage whilst singing hard rock and heavy metal.

Other than that, no.

Was high on my list as I have Swedish family and great uncle and great grandfather both called axel. But we had a girl! She is named a name that is super common in Nordic countries, Eastern Europe and France and still people are like, WHAAAA?

I can't get past Axl Rose who is the only person with that name that I know - and he always said he chose it as an anagram of Oral Sex..

I couldn't call my baby that.

Aksel?

Was high on my list as I have Swedish family and great uncle and great grandfather both called axel. But we had a girl!

Axelle

Personally, I love it.

It came up recently for me as my friend couldn't quite bring herself to name her boy Axel for his first name, so she went for it as a middle name. I do think it's very strong - but that's a good thing. And it'll stand out against a sea of Stanleys and Finns and so on.

It's one of those names that's hard to imagine on your tiny newborn baby but would soon turn into a very cool name for a child and the teen/man that he will become.
I think you'd need to be quite cool to pull it off though.

Thanks everyone as much as my OH likes it I just don't think it works for me so he'll have to have a rethink 😊

Ah that's a shame @ThirdTimeLuckyIHope

I think it's a lovely name. Could use as a middle name maybe?

No it was even Axl Rose 's real name. Don't they no it's a nice name at all.

Don't think it's a nice name at all.