Kit Harris or Jenson Kelvin (as first and middle name)

[sarah13xx]

Kit or Jenson?
Kelvin would be after my grandpa but I think Kit Kelvin is too much together! Harris is one of our favourite names but we feel it’s too popular in our area (Scotland) to use as a first name.
Kit is 372 on Scotland’s 2020 list
Jenson is 193

Please help, going round in circles with all these names 🙈 x

Jenson is awful. Kit is a great name but as others have said not great on the cv and rather limiting, he’d probably end up with the nn Kitstopher or something (people I know with short names seem to end up being lengthened) you can’t predict or control what happens with names! Don’t be fooled into thinking that people don’t judge on names - if you get a couple of hundred cvs for a job you have to get rid of nearly all of them, the reasons can be very trivial at that stage.

@CroydianSlip

I much much much prefer Kit - think it's a lovely name. Jenson does absolutely nothing for me.

I genuinely don't think middle names get used outside birth announcements so use whatever names have meaning for you.

I've never watched GoT and never remember any famous names so that wouldn't come up as an issue for me at all.

I think I’m swaying toward Kit more now. My partner wasn’t overly keen on it this morning but I think it was Kit Harris he didn’t like as much, he is now saying he likes Kit 👏🏼

@Sittinonthesand

Jenson is awful. Kit is a great name but as others have said not great on the cv and rather limiting, he’d probably end up with the nn Kitstopher or something (people I know with short names seem to end up being lengthened) you can’t predict or control what happens with names! Don’t be fooled into thinking that people don’t judge on names - if you get a couple of hundred cvs for a job you have to get rid of nearly all of them, the reasons can be very trivial at that stage.

If I chose Kit I don’t know whether I’d just put Christopher on the birth certificate for that reason but then literally never even acknowledge that was his name. It would cause endless problems every time he started a new job and his colleagues thought he was called Christopher, every class at secondary school the teacher would read out Christopher etc 🙄 I’m a primary teacher and at the start of the year if there’s any children with preferred names I know them so that’s the name I use for the year but secondary isn’t the same with names. It’s hard to know what to do

Jenson has a 'surnamey' vibe to me, which I'm not keen on. And Jenson Kelvin sounds like a building firm.

Kit Harris is OK, but Kit is currently fashionable and I think it should go with a 'proper' birth certificate name. I have a full-form birth-cert name with a common shortening and while my parents established me as going by the shortening from day one, I now use the full form professionally and like having it.

X posts. It never caused problems with me - it was clear that I was known as 'Betty' everywhere and nobody ever called me 'Elizabeth' (obv not my actual name).

Loads of people have a formal first name but are known by another - there are several in every class that I teach, it’s very normal and does at least keep options open!

Secondary is the same with names - you fill in a box with their name and then another with the name they go by if it is different. It’s really not a problem. On our register it looks like this: Shakespeare William (Bill) and we use the bracketed name if there is one.

@Sittinonthesand

Loads of people have a formal first name but are known by another - there are several in every class that I teach, it’s very normal and does at least keep options open!

If there was a name I liked more than Christopher as a formal name I’d definitely go for it but not keen on Christian or Kester either 😕

I like kit. It was nearly my DS name

@mybonnieliesovertheocean2

I like kit. It was nearly my DS name

Just Kit or a longer name shortened to Kit?

I'm in Scotland. I only know of one Jenson, a lovely teenage lad. Polite, nice natured and hard working at school, seems to get on with everyone and is well thought of by the teachers. So I certainly would not associate the name with being anything other than positive.
I have known a couple of Christophers. One especially was lovely, well liked by everyone. I personally would put Christopher on the bc and then use Kit as a nn if this is ultimately your choice, to give him the option of which to use as he gets older.
I have also known several boys called Harris, all nice.

Ultimately it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It is what will fit best with your family names & sound right to you.

@CoffeeBeansGalore

I'm in Scotland. I only know of one Jenson, a lovely teenage lad. Polite, nice natured and hard working at school, seems to get on with everyone and is well thought of by the teachers. So I certainly would not associate the name with being anything other than positive. I have known a couple of Christophers. One especially was lovely, well liked by everyone. I personally would put Christopher on the bc and then use Kit as a nn if this is ultimately your choice, to give him the option of which to use as he gets older. I have also known several boys called Harris, all nice.

Ultimately it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It is what will fit best with your family names & sound right to you.

Thanks, very positive 😂 this is true, don’t know why posting on here for the opinion of a select few random people is going to help but when you can’t ask anyone else you think it will 🙈 I think it might end up in a situation where he isn’t named til we see him then hopefully we just know which one it is!

Kit Jensen

I have a Kit. We love it and get lots of compliments. He is Kit Edward on his birth certificate. I didn’t want to use Christopher on his BC just for the sake of having a ‘proper’ name on his CV when neither of us liked that name & also I didn't want him deciding (or mates!) that at 15 he wanted to be called Chris! 🤣

My preference would be Kit Jenson

@sarah13xx I have 3 dc. Only dc1 was named before birth! Dc3 was Baby Coffee for 2 days 😁

Anything but Jenson please. Why not use Kelvin as first name, sounds great & you have the family connection.

@Mrsfenchurch

I have a Kit. We love it and get lots of compliments. He is Kit Edward on his birth certificate. I didn’t want to use Christopher on his BC just for the sake of having a ‘proper’ name on his CV when neither of us liked that name & also I didn't want him deciding (or mates!) that at 15 he wanted to be called Chris! 🤣

That’s nice! That’s how I feel about it too, Christopher would be nowhere near my list of possible names so I don’t see why I’d use it just for the sake of having a long name 🙈 There were only 9 Kits registered in Scotland last year so I don’t know whether most of them are down as Christopher. I think if we end up choosing it it will just be Kit 😊

[quote CoffeeBeansGalore]@sarah13xx I have 3 dc. Only dc1 was named before birth! Dc3 was Baby Coffee for 2 days 😁[/quote]
This looks like it could be him 🤣 We’ve had the girls name picked for years and the boys name was Harris but it wasn’t til we went to look at the Scotland name list for 2020 we realised it was number 6 when we don’t know any children called Harris so it’s clearly shot up in the last few years

@Mrsfenchurch

My preference would be Kit Jenson

He might end up being that. It just feels strange using a middle name without a meaning but that’s what my middle name is so obviously it’s quite common not to have a middle name after someone else 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am projecting my love of Scottish names on to you here op , but I think Kit Jenson would be a shame to have to nod to Scottish heritage, if both you and your DH are Scottish!

I lived in Scotland for years and don't think I ever met a Harris. About a million baby Finlays.

Also, in dd's year group, (now in England), we have some really unusual names. Names I'd never even heard of! While we don't have any of some of the top ten. Eg, William, Sophia, Emily, Olivia, Amelia. But we do have two Reubens!

So, don't be put off by popularity and go for something random because there aren't many of them. If you have your heart set on Kit, that's different of course, but if you truly prefer Harris, then don't let the chances of there being another one in his year group also being Harris

NOT have a nod*

What about Crispin nn kit?

@IllNeverLetGoJack

I am projecting my love of Scottish names on to you here op , but I think Kit Jenson would be a shame to have to nod to Scottish heritage, if both you and your DH are Scottish!

I lived in Scotland for years and don't think I ever met a Harris. About a million baby Finlays.

Also, in dd's year group, (now in England), we have some really unusual names. Names I'd never even heard of! While we don't have any of some of the top ten. Eg, William, Sophia, Emily, Olivia, Amelia. But we do have two Reubens!

So, don't be put off by popularity and go for something random because there aren't many of them. If you have your heart set on Kit, that's different of course, but if you truly prefer Harris, then don't let the chances of there being another one in his year group also being Harris

Yeah Harris has always been the name and I’m a primary teacher so usually know if names are popular but I’d only ever taught one Harris so felt like it was really quite far down the list. When I went to check the Scotland list it was actually number 6 and the year before in my council area it was the number 1 baby name! 😮 Couldn’t believe it when I was so sure it was relatively unusual 😂 Our future girl’s name is very unusual but is a Scottish place name so kind of want them to match. I do really like Kit now as well but I think it might be Kit, Harris or Jenson til we see him now

I love Kit Harris.

He would be known as Kit Surname though so no-one would think GoT.

Not a fan of Jenson.