Sonny 🙂☀️

[Flowerymama]

Hello 🙂
So ... I have found out I am having a baby boy. I am in love with the name Sonny. My hubby is going along with it but I'm not sure he is sold. I'm beginning to think it's not as nice as I thought and read lots of online things about how it's nice for a child or baby but not an adult 🙈
Please give me your thoughts and if anyone has any alternatives for a boys name ending in the "ee" sound.
Thank you!!

I agree that I think it’s childish, or like you couldn’t be bothered to think of a proper name. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the sun or sunny either.
Louis ends in an -ee sound and isn’t childish. I’m sure there are others but can’t think right now.

I like the name I know a Sonny who is in his 30's and it suits him.
Other names ending in the ee sound are
Ronnie
Donny
Lonnie
Louis
Hughie

Makes me think of Sonny and Cher so I would think of it as childish.

No. It sounds silly.

The names mentioned above, ie Donny, Hughie, etc, are diminutives.
Louis is quite nice and classic.

I know a sonny, currently aged 11 and no sign of him growing out of it. I think unless a name is ridiculously babyish (bambi anyone?) then it grows with the person.. just my personal opinion

I don’t like it either - to me it sounds like a position in the family like mummy, daddy, baby, sonny, rather than a name.

Alternatives are Jamie, Archie, Louis, Harry, Henry, Brody, Charlie, Toby…there’s endless possibilities really.

Jamie
Archie
Alfie
Harry
Louis
Charlie
Henry
Toby
Could keep going, but no to Sonny for me

I know one and his siblings are Alfie and Poppy.
So no.

@MiddleClassProblem

Makes me think of Sonny and Cher so I would think of it as childish.

Why do you think of it as childish when the Sonny you have named was a grown man?

@FlexibleWorkingDenied sorry typo! Wouldn’t!

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Ahh I see ha ha

we have a cat called Sonny and we always sing “you are my SONshine” ☀️

It’s great fun!

@MiddleClassProblem

Makes me think of Sonny and Cher so I would think of it as childish.

He was actually Salvatore.

I don't like it as a given name at all.

I like it but know quite a few toddler and babies called Sonny now so it is quite in.

Hmm. I like the feel of it in a way but agree - it's a bit silly and lightweight. It's a great nickname, but to give him no other option is a bit crap maybe?

Maybe another S name and Sonny as a short form?

I can't think of one though!!!

On 'ee' names, I love Roddy short for Roderick.

Oh Salvatore is nice!

My first thought was Sonny Corleone from The Godfather book.
It's a nice name - wouldn't stand out as weird.

I'm not a fan, it sounds too nicknamey to me. I used to have a teacher at school who referred to all the boys as sonny so it also makes me think of that.

I like Sonny but then I'm biased because we have one in the family and it really suits him.

I love the name sonny

It's bloody awful

Don't like it. Very American too. I'd either give him a more traditional and grown up sounding y name like Toby or Henry, or call him something else and add the ie/y as a nickname - eg James and Jamie.

It’s becoming extremely popular round here (west Scotland)

It would be okay as a nickname but I dislike it as the only name.