Orlando?

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Is it just too much? We love it but I’m a bit concerned it’ll raise too many eyebrows!

I like it too! Not sure I’d be brave enough to use it though!

Clearly I approve 😂

I think Orlando Bloom has made it accessible. Would be a good name to match with a boring surname like Brown. Might be a bit much on a flouncier surname.

It’s a bit American sounding to me.

Love. One of my favourite names. I'm related to one.

@WeRTheOnesWeHaveBeenWaitingFor

It’s a bit American sounding to me.

Wtf? It's Italian. There's a world beyond Florida theme parks.

I want to like it, primarily because of Orlando Bloom who is quite pleasing on the eye, but theme parks...

And yes, I know there's a world beyond Florida.

No, too much for me.

I really like Lando but the only one I’ve heard of is the F1 driver!

I know an Orlando. He was named after being conceived on holiday there.

Perfectly lovely name for a son, as long as you live in Happily-on-the-Wold, near Royal Windsor.

It’s gorgeous. Love it. The only Orlando I know has a Sicilian surname, though.

I love Orlando. It's not popular, but everyone has heard of it and can say it and spell it, which is a really nice spot. Even if it does raise eyebrows at first, soon enough it will just be his name.

I like it for its Shakespearean origin but I would really worry that people would think you'd used it because of Florida!

I love it! The book by Virginia Woolf springs to mind for me, I don't think of Florida at all. I think a lot of people will think of Bloom though but he won't be around forever.
Go for it if you like it

Just to add, lots of kids are named after places and there's no issues. I met an India and Chester the other day, no different to an Orlando

I do like it but there’s a scene in the movie Ghost where a woman is trying to contact her dead husband and it always makes me think of that!

I know an Orlando. We call him Lando.

@margarita100

I love it! The book by Virginia Woolf springs to mind for me, I don't think of Florida at all. I think a lot of people will think of Bloom though but he won't be around forever. Go for it if you like it

Yes that's where my username came from. It's what I always associate the name with.

@OrlandointheWilderness great username! ☺️

It is quite brave - but awesome imo. Great literary namesakes (Shakespeare and Woolf characters) but I think a lot of people will think of actor Bloom or the Florida city too instead unfortunately. I like the nn Orry with it myself.

Puzzled by the idea of it being brave. I know 3.

I like Orlando - Virginia Wolf fan here. But think Lando is more wearable - my OH is a big F1 fan though so thinks people would think we’d named him after the driver

I absolutely love it.

Only guy I know who has it is soooo impossibly posh. He says he gets Bloom more than Virginia Wolf. Gorgeous name.