Otto, rollo, Humphrey….or similair

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We are due with our little boy (brother to Rupert, Ophelia and Tabitha) but I’m struggling with boys names!

would love suggestions for:
• nicknames for Humphrey (not keen on humps!)
• full name for Rollo (Rowland has been suggested but husband hates it)
• upper class names similair to the above - ideally somethings that slightly unique but not too out there!

Kevin?

Rollo is a name 😂 historical but still a name, and nothing to do with Rowland 🤣 this literally has to be a piss take....those names, talk about notions!!

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Ivo?
I don't think I'd have Rollo and Rupert together, and Humphrey will absolutely get called humps

Erm, the only nn for Humphrey is Humpf.

I think your looking at Tarquin here, given the other names.

Otto for sure .

Cuthbert
Lysander
Hector
Conan
Bennington
Percy
Willem
Ferdinand
Mungo

Love your current children's names. Your new list is less nice - well, I like Otto but Humphrey and Rollo are awful. Rupert, Ophelia and Tabitha are beautiful (I have a Tabitha so am a little biased there!) and I think I'd feel a bit sorry for a Humphrey or Rollo in comparison! I wouldn't consider Humphrey upper class, rather old fashioned, clunky and a bit ugly. It's like a Gertrude type name. Rollo I'd also not consider upper class. It sounds like the name of a dachshund.

Otto is nice. Other names with a similar feel are, I'd say:
Jago
Barnaby
Digby
Edwin
Lysander
Orlando
Lucien
Cassian
Magnus
Casper

Aubrey

Percy
Cosmo
Hector
Walter

Beautiful names! For Rollo, perhaps Raphael or Rafferty.

I also like Herbert, Septimus, Montgomery, Crispin and Casimir.

Ludo?

Rollo is a name, not a nickname

I can only envisage a Humphrey as an elderly overweight Labrador with a flatulence problem.

Rollo is fine as a full name, it doesn’t need to be a nickname for anything.

Peregrine
Mungo
Tarquin
Julian
Fabian

Torion
Horace
Algernon
Cosmo
Ralph (pronounced the "Rafe" way)
Augustus (Gus)

Hopefully they will be going to school with other similarly-named children and won't get picked on for their "posh" names.

Huxley? Hubert, Hugh, Hugo

upper class names similair to the above - ideally somethings that slightly unique but not too out there!

For ideas for names from people who are similarly trying to make themselves sound like they come from better breeding than they do, try looking at the names Jacob Rees-Mogg has given his children. I believe you'll find what you're looking for there.

Well, Rollo is a name in itself but if you prefer it as a NN, how about Orlando? Lovely name and the Italian form of Roland, still very unusual but everyone will know how to say it.

Lysander and Hector would fit well with your other names and have a suitably heroic feel. Ptolemy (Tolly)?

They are honestly such awful names - irredeemable!

His name is Jasper or Barnaby, that goes lovely with the other 3!

Felix
Xavier
Oscar
Hugo
Oliver
Max/Maximilian

Thank you for reminding me about King Rollo, I loved that cartoon as a kid!

Humphrey. Yes, it’d be a bold choice nowadays but it seems to me to be a happy name. And I think of the lovely Humphrey Goodman in Death in Paradise.

‘For ideas for names from people who are similarly trying to make themselves sound like they come from better breeding than they do, try looking at the names Jacob Rees-Mogg has given his children’: jeez, that’s snarky, and chippy.

It is spot on though. It is really weird to choose names that sound 'upper class'.

And a bit depressing.

Hugo
Ivo
Montgomery / Monty
Bartholamew nn Bart
Barnaby
Mungo
Giles
Atticus
Quentin
Aubrey
Angus or Magnus nn Gus
Tobias / Toby
Tristan
Lysander
Alexander / Xander
Cosmo
Benedict
Jonty
Hector