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 love 'Sonny'. Both cute and cool. My son has an '-y' name that everyone thought was too childish and cutesy at the time, and they now love it, and - more importantly - so does he. He's in his teens.

@worriedatthemoment I disagree, as I said it will always be weird to me even if it is the number one name because it is a word referring to a young person to me, like laddie or kiddo or boy. The only Junior I’ve ever met is the one I mentioned at work who is much older than me, I’ve never met a young one. But it is still weird because of the meaning. A baby Gary would be much less weird.

I know a couple but with different pronunciation so it’s a no from me. Eg son-ee (rhymes with on) or sun-ee

Love Sonny

I came here to say I love the name - clearly I'm in the minority!

@SoupDragon I actually think in real life you get very different reactions than when you specifically ask on Mumsnet. Mumsnet has a certain demographic and definitely tends to favour classic middle class 'proper' names. Add to that the fact it's the baby names board and therefore full of name enthusiasts that track trends and stats and the responses become quite niche.
Most people on here dislike names like Archie and Albie for example but they are so popular across the country as a whole, so clearly if you asked in real life you would get a lot of positive responses.

I call my son Sonny as a nn, simply because he is my son (real name Jude). Sonny doesn't feel like a real name to me, but that having been said there is nothing particularly awful about it. It would grow on me if I knew one (same way that a friend's son's name Buddy has grown on me).

Maybe Sonny could be a nickname for Sullivan if you like that name?

It's nice as a shortened name. I know a toddler who is actually named 'Sunny'. Lovely nickname but not a 'proper' name imo. My friend's dog is 'Sonny' too so always reminds me of a dog. Lovely pooch though :)

No way, it's a such a non-name.

@ISeeTheLight

I know a Sonny. I'm not a fan. I like names that you could imagine them as a plumber, a doctor, a high court judge etc. Can't imagine a high court judge named Sonny tbh.

Agree with PP to go with Sonny as a nickname if you love it that much, or with another ee name.

Don't tell that to Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (aka Sir Sonny)

I have a Sonny so I'm biased, but I get a lot of positive comments about his name, except from my husband's very posh elderly grandmother (ghastly!)

Officially he's actually another traditional but quite unusual name...don't think it's been posted yet

@Buddhabowl people aren’t bound by the same social conventions on an anonymous forum as when meeting your baby when ‘oh how lovely’ is the only appropriate response even if you’ve called him Dracula. So you are much more likely to hear people on here say they don’t like a name I think. Fwiw I quite like Archie but I think Albie sounds a bit odd - surely Bertie is the shortening there.

I think it's cool and fresh! Go for it!

Don't tell that to Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (aka Sir Sonny)

So, not actually his name then 😂

@MiddleClassProblem

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

I know brothers Sonny and Shael.

It is a bit cutesy to carry someone from cradle to grave, and all the important events in between.

@SoupDragon

It always makes me laugh when people say "oh, on MN it's this but in the real world it's different". No it isn't. MN is made up of real people (for the most part 🤣). The difference is you only see people posting who think strongly either way and not the whole host of people who think "meh" and can't be arsed. Exactly like real life.

In specific regards to baby names, sure there are areas where only traditional Christian names are seen as acceptable but they are much less common these days. Looking at DD’s school newsletter and knowing the names of a lot of her peers, only a handful of the traditional Christian names appear. There are a number of different traditional names from other countries but a lot are more modern names.

And I think that’s is reflected across the country with not only other people I know but kids sending in this to tv shows, real families popping up on tv, and of course the just the variety on names recorded in the ONS stats.

And yes, it is also a point that irl that people would speak to you in the same way as they do on here if they didn’t like your baby name but that’s the same with anything else in your life that’s not for them. As long as the name isn’t cruel, I really don’t get the issue.

MN is not reflective of real life on the baby boards as many of us who think differently have learnt to just not bother and stay away, the same with other boards on here.

@SoupDragon

Don't tell that to Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (aka Sir Sonny)

So, not actually his name then 😂

Well that's how they referred to him on radio 4 (so it simply must be true!)

The whole point of asking for opinions on the baby name board is to get opinions on a baby name. Negative and positive.

I bet everyone has posted negative thoughts on a baby name thread.

My boy is Sonny it really suits him and we love it

The Sonny's I know are have that as a nick name that deve8over time.
I'm not sure I'd like it as the proper name though.

I’m not saying you can’t post negative thoughts but the “proper” name thing and majority of slagging off (yup, not just saying I don’t like it or not for me but saying “awful” etc) only mostly happens on none Christian names.

What makes a name a proper name? ONS has Sonny in the top 100 in a number of years and at 81 in 2020.

I have no problem with people not liking it but saying shit like “don’t do that to your child” is ridiculous unless it’s genuinely cruel. I’m sure some will say “well I do think it’s cruel” but it’s really not in the vast majority of cases.

I’d much rather ‘non-Christian’ names like Ravi, Ayan, Harpreet etc than Sonny.

Henry (or Harry?)? Both end in an ee sound and would suit both child and adult.

Some people that seem to be called Sonny although I have not seen their birth certificates:
Male
Sonny Williams
Skrillex
Sonny Osbourne
Sonny Payne
Sonny Greenwich
Sonny Vincent
Sonny Mayo
Sonny Gray

Female
Sonny Drane

I have heard of a few babies being called Sonny recently but I am not a fan, sounds a bit tacky to me