What do we think of…?

[York28]

Due our second boy in a few weeks. Didn’t want to use any of the names from our previous shortlist as it felt like we would be giving them second choice, which I know is silly, but as they will get so much stuff handed down I wanted the name list to be new. Blame pregnancy hormones for my reasoning!

Anyway after much searching we have come up with Alfie, Albie and Arlo. What are your thoughts please?

Boring common & a bit 'meh' all of them to be honest

very other child is called Albie Alfie or Arlo these days

Not keen on any of them tbh - there are so many of this ‘type’ or name at the moment that none of them feels distinctive any more. DD’s school year (Reception) has two Alfies, an Albie, an Archie, an Archer (also known as Archie), an Artie and two Arlos across the two classes.

They are all very popular. Alfred with the nn Alfie is ok. I am not keen on the others.

Not keen on any of them. If I had to choose one of them, I'd use Alfred (Alfie). I dislike Albie, and Arlo sounds like a town in Essex.

Alfie is a popular pet name round here, along with Oscar. The other two are OK. Albie is sweet for a baby but I can't picture it on a grown-up.

Stop I’d say was best out the three. The other two I can imagine Peggy Mitchell and pat butcher shouting in eastenders

Alfie is okay as a nickname. I like Alfred but I’d use Freddy as a NN.

Alfie is my favourite of those three names but there are absolutely loads of them about. Prefer Alistair, you don’t get many of them.

Ooo, Alistair is a lovely name.

It might be spelt Alastair actually, not sure!

Awful. All three.

Arlo.

The rest are nicknames

Awful. Dog's names.

Asher is much nicer.

I'm curious what the names were you didn't want to use this time.
Think your current list is a bit bland, all very popular names.

Arlo sounds a bit common with the dropped h.
Should be Harlow.

I quite like them, but personally wouldn’t use them because they are becoming increasingly common.

It’s ok to use names you liked before. Your DS1 doesn’t own them.

I dislike your suggestions especially Albie and Alfie, but thankfully we all have different tastes

all three are lovely names but I do feel Alfie has been overdone where I stay. Arlo I’ve always loved but Albie is a close second

I too think there overused names. I'm struggling with names I already have 2 boys and cannot for the life of me think of any name suitable for this baby! It's so hard there's always someone you know of or something gets in the way of picking the right name.

I think Alfie's outdated again now tbh.

I love Albie and really like Arlo, the popularity definitely must depend on location because I only know one Arlo and not a single Albie.

Alfie and Albie feel so overused and are starting to feel 'dated'.

Arlo is more interesting but has also become quite 'trendy' recently

Alfie is not my style at all. Alfred is much nicer. Alfie always reminds me of that terrible movie starring Jude Law and it's too cute for an adult, in my opinion. Alfred is cool, though! I also feel like Alfie had its best times already. Starting to feel tired/dated. Most Alfies I know are 10 and older.

Albie is too cute for me as well. I'd rather see Albert. It's okay, doesn't stand out between Alfie and Archie which are/were so common.

Arlo is the best one but always makes me think of the dinosaur and feels a bit hipster.

I would suggest Alfred, Albert instead.

Alfie's really really common. My BIL works in a CeX (notoriously grim shops with equally grim customers if you're not aware) and Alfie is literally a running joke there amongst staff because it's heard being bellowed across the shop by some cigarette clutching, pie eyed woman every other day. If a child is screaming in the shop or behaving poorly, it's "an Alfie". So wouldn't be my first choice.

Not keen on the others really either, same energy as Alfie. Arlo is ok I guess.