Thoughts on the name Montgomery

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Me and DP like slightly “old men” names
we already have two DS Winston and Baxter and have a few contenders

Montgomery “Monty”
Barnaby “Arnie”
Newton “Newt”

what are everyone’s thoughts on these and any other suggestions??

Harrison?

Montgomery “Monty” - an old Jewish man who lives in a Florida retirement home with his friends Irving and Hymie.

Barnaby “Arnie” - I don't know how you get Arnie from Barnaby.

Newton “Newt” - sure, if you're giving birth to a small pond lizard.

Newton isn’t nice at all! It just reminds me of Newton Faulkner, doesn’t have an old man feel in my opinion.

Barnaby is gorgeous with nickname Barney, but Arnie is horrible and reminds me of that weird celebrity who recently was accused of being a pervert and a cannibal and sexually harassing women.

Monty is cute but Montgomery is a bit much and doesn’t ‘go’ with siblings.

Love Montgomery and Barnaby, but not Newton.

Montgomery burns is the first thing that comes to mind… was a straight no for our ds

I think I have the same taste as you OP as our choices for boys' names would have been Montgomery/Montague - "Monty" or Albert - "Bertie" but we ended up having another girl!

Barnaby Newton has a lovely ring to it

Montgomery is wet and Arnoe is short for Arnold.

I do like Newton though. Newt is fine as nickname.

Montgomery is lovely. Monty as a nn is okay, but I would say there are loads round here. It’s almost as common as Noah and Archie and Arlo.
Barnaby is lovely too. Less of them than Monty. But still a few. I don’t like Arnie as much. Barney is much nicer.

stuff like Arnie or Stanley , Ronnie etc and that sort of old man name makes me think of smelly old men with fags and a pint and no teeth down a working mens club.

Barnaby or Montgomery sound like a genteel elderly man with a velvet smoking jacket, and and a silk handkerchief poking out.

i appreciate that’s casting awful stereotypes. But that’s what names do unfortunately. They cast an idea of a person in your mind.

I actually quite like it, i always said if I had a cat i'd call it Monty. I could never use it though because of a previous company name I worked for!

I quite like all of them.

It doesn’t really matter if it casts that image in your mind though. Because unless op has a very unusual child he won’t be in a velvet smoking jacket whether he’s called Newt or Monty. And little Ronnie’s unlikely to be sitting in a WC club with a fag and a pint.

Nice stereotyping though. Of course men who visit ‘working men’s club’ (or are working class/poorer) are ‘smelly old men.’ Whereas the beautiful middle class men in their velvet smoking jackets are a totally different ball game. Why do the working class ones smell? Do you think they don’t wash? And why is being the one in a velvet jacket with a silk handkerchief (or more middle/upper class) admirable/aspirational? Because they’re cleaner? Or just better?

No one seems to have mentioned General Montgomery who will be instantly recalled by anyone knowledgeable about WWII when they hear “Monty”.
I think the young boy in The Darling Buds of May is supposed to be named after the General.
I think of Barnaby Rudge which is not a very happy tale by Dickens.

I’d say a chap in a velvet smoking jacket would be more upper class than middle class, surely.

Montgomery gets my vote.

Monty was not a great general.
I've always thought the name was Barnabas.

Maybe. Either way really has no bearing on whether it’s a suitable/nice name.

@MrsSamR Bertie would definitely be a contender if we didn’t name our cat Bertie!!

DP has all of a sudden found the name Atlas which I’m actually very fond of - definitely does not fit our theme but considering it- I have always loved Greek mythology names but never really imagined us considering one

Mr Burns

I cannot believe I'm the first to mention creepy old Uncle Monty from Withnail and I.

Monty sounds silly to me and Montgomery is okay but has two syllables too many.

My little boy is called Monty. We love it and it totally suits him. It's not Montgomery or Montague, just Monty.

I think it's a fun sounding name. When I was pregnant with him, dh and I watched a lot of Gardeners World for some reason with lovely Monty Don and that inspired us. Plus, I taught a boy called Monty so good association there.

Oh and my son's nickname is Monster or Monty Monster but then he is only 4 🤣

@Cindie943811A yes, when we chose the name Monty for our son, we talked about General Montgomery. In fact, a nice connection is that my grandad met him during wwll in North Africa.

I'd forgotten about Monty in Darling Buds of May.

There was also Montgomery Clift who was a gorgeous Hollywood star back in the 50s.

Edward is a nice old man name and my friend literally called her son Ted.

Not a fan of any of your names are you trying to be a bit of a hipster?

My aunt was called Montgomery and was always referred to as Aunty Gom. Then
I know one baby boy called Monty and had a lecturer at university who was called Monty, poor fellow was a dreadful pervert.

Newt is just silly.

I know a few lovely people called Barney but it isn't my favourite.

I also knew a splendid chap called Arnie who was desperately handsome but had an enormous bottom....