Franklin

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I have just started another thread about a sibling for Archie.
My partner has suggested this, what do we think? Is it a name? I am unsure

My DS is Franklin.

Frankie for short
Or Frank to other people.

It's a lovely name and we've received so many compliments on it.

I like it, although I’d probably just use Frank personally

I like Frank and Frankie and know a boy and a girl with these names - they really suit them!

Franklin is pretty cool - will remind people of Franklin D Roosevelt which is good. Although it also reminds me of the puppet Franklin from Arrested Development - may be a cult following but worth checking out the reference.

Great name, we have a cheese plant called Franklin.

I like Franklin and find it much cooler than Francis. Like Frank as a diminutive too.

Like it

I actually prefer Francis myself

Really like it. Unusual without being silly or made up!

And Frank/ Frankie are great too.

It's awful. Frank has to be one of the ugliest, harshest sounding names out there and adding Lin to it doesn't make it much better.

I'm really sorry but I don't like it at all, but then I don't like Archie either. We don't have the same taste, obviously but that's not a bad thing as it would be very boring if everyone liked the same thing.

However, they do go very well together and if I heard them as siblings I would think they were a good match.

I don't like it at all, not least because it reminds me of a cartoon my eldest used to watch about a whining turtle!

Francis is lovely though, it's a name I regret not using.

I really love it! And don't know a single one, go for it

I don't like it. Francis nn Frank is ok.

Is it for a boy? I don’t like it, it sounds too much like a surname. Frank is a name I struggle to imagine on a child, like Barry or Gerald. Francis is a bit better.

I love it, it was on my short list.

I find the Francis comments funny, as I've a friend who has a DS named Franklin who is named after her grandfather Francis who absolutely hated his name, no one used it, always went by Frank. They talked about it, apparently Franklin was a name used a few generation above him, it seems to have gone back and forth a bit. It does seem a bit marmite where most people like one or the other but not so often both.

Gorgeous

Thank you for al the comments!
It is between Francis and Franklin but I was edging towards Franklin not so sure after these comments though.

I think Franklin is adorable. So is Frankie but I personally really don't like Frank.

I love Franklin, something a bit different which gives him options as he grows up. I know a Frank, Frankie & a Francis, they are all
Gorgeous boys who really suit their names.

My little boy is Frankie as a full name, although I call him Franks most the time, I think it's really suits him and I don't know another one ( that's a boy anyway)

I really don't like it to be honest, I couldn't really say why but it sounds a bit weak and whiny. Francis is really nice though.

I love it! I think it sounds cool but also distinguished. I like Francis, too.

reminds me of the cartoon turtle.....I don't really like it