Here I go again... Moritz

[Growingyou]

Baby boy arriving within the next 4 weeks. My DH was previously obsessed with Arve (one syllable Arvv) which was comically shut down by fellow MNers. Now he is fixated on Moritz (nn Morrie), Serge or Walter.

I don't know what's wrong with me but I can't seem to come up with any names I like other than Tom (which DH has fairly said is safe/boring). I don't mind Walter but fear he'd get Wally (which I really dislike).

I'm still working crazy hours and feel like my brain switches off at the same time I shut my laptop. Please help me see sense - are all of these names horrible?

I quite like Moritz, but you'd have to see if it suits the baby. I'd use Ritz as a nn, don't like Morrie at all.

It's a resort?

Nn - Ski boy?

Moritz is not a name (unless you're a saint)!
Serge - are you or your husband French?
Walter - nice enough, but may well be Wally unless you insist on Walt or something else.
What's wrong with a 'safe' name like Tom?
I don't know why everyone is determined to choose 'unique' or unusual names.

Moritz sounds like a brand of fake tan.. sorry

It's a baby, not a puppy or a toy, your husband needs to remember that.

Or maybe he could change his own name to Moritz and go round introducing himself and see how it feels?

After you remove Tom, which is completely safe, Walter is the best of the bunch and would be Walt
Serge is ok but is it Serrzh, Suhzh, Suhj, Sarge?
Morris/Maurice is nice.
Moritz is not awful but is too closely related IMO to the place.

No. Kirk St Moritz.

Maurice ? Morris?

It reminds me of Spring Awakening

I prefer Melchior lol

I have never answered one of these type of threads. But I saw the title. No. Just no. No. Not ever. No. Definitely not.

If you like Tom, what about Tomas- the Welsh version of Thomas. Not common even in Wales, but can be shortened to Tom. But Tomas isn't a mouthful either.

Is he German? Those are very old fashioned German names, I have colleagues with those as middle names, their grandfathers or great-grandfathers were born in the early-to mid 1900s.

Reminds me of a book I had as a child, not a very positive association
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz

I say this in the nicest way possible but Moritz really isn’t nice. If you like the sound of it I would go Morris/Maurice.
Tom is lovely, Walter I can see getting shortened to wally and Serge is quite cool but I think would depend on your last name.

Can you just print out the top 500 boys names from the ONS site and just go through them one by one until you find a name you nothing quite like?

Yikes. And I thought my DH had bad taste in names!

Walter is lovely- though don't worry about nicknames; you can't control them anyway and you can always insist on calling him Walter or Walt- doesn't matter what his friends call him.

Wouldn't touch the rest with a bargepole. Barring Tom, which is fine. I prefer James though, if you're going for a safe name.

@Saucery

No. Kirk St Moritz.

Maurice ? Morris?

Kirk St Moritz was my first thought!

@Moondust001

I have never answered one of these type of threads. But I saw the title. No. Just no. No. Not ever. No. Definitely not.

If you like Tom, what about Tomas- the Welsh version of Thomas. Not common even in Wales, but can be shortened to Tom. But Tomas isn't a mouthful either.

The Welsh version of Thomas is Tomos and it's fairly common in Wales.

Like the St Tropez knock off tanning lotion?

President of the company I work for is called Moritz - lovely man (German)

I really like serge - the other two are a no from me - especially Moritz

I think the nickname Morrie is nice, especially since Mori is a nice baby shop 😂 what about Ari? It’s one of my favourite names ever and is way under used!

Moritz is a brand of Spanish beer, brewed in Barcelona. It’s a Czech-style pilsner. Very tasty.

Serge is good, or how about Sergio?

Moritz is the German spelling . In the UK I'd spell it Maurice.

Haha @Moondust001 I don't know how alarmed I should be that out of all the wild topics that appear on MN, a baby boy potentially named Moritz was enough to push you into commentary territory.

DH has gone through a Scandinavian phase (no connection), an Italian phase (he is a quarter Italian but I shut down his favourites Salvatore and Lorenzo), and it now seems a German phase (again, no connection).

@zigaziga I think you're right, I just need to print the list and come up with a shortlist myself. DH prefers to "be inspired" (so I'll hide the list from him!)

Moritz or Serge aren't really my taste, sorry. Walter's okay, a bit old-fashioned sounding in the UK but nice enough. I think he'd get nicknamed Walt rather than Wally (and Wally is a bit of a dated insult now, not sure many kids would use it). Tom is lovely but people will assume full name is Thomas/Tomos/Tomas, so probably a no go if your DH doesn't like it.

You’ve shut down Lorenzo which is an actual name, but you are considering Moritz? The world has gone fucking mad