Rupert

[Nancy155]

What do people think? I absolutely love it and it’s the only boys name I like really but my mum hates it and is trying to put me off!

Love the name! So many cut nicknames it can be shortened too as well!
I'm finding boys names really hard! SO annoying when people have negative opinions - your baby your choice :)

I like Rupert. It’s been growing steadily in popularity over the years and is in the top hundred at the moment, so it’s not like it’s an objectively bad name. It’s just a matter of taste. Honestly if you’re not interested in your mum’s view on your baby name (which is fair, she’s had her chance naming her children) then I’d stop talking to her about names. She’s much less likely to offer her unwanted opinion when you introduce a newborn baby with it.

Not to my taste at all.

It's a mouthful, sounds harsh and it's very dated also.

Sorry

The bear

I'm not a fan I'm afraid. I'd expect him to wear coloured jeans, a barbour jacket and have at least 2 black labradors in the back of one's Range Rover.

I like it, my family weren't sure of DS' name at first, probably similar to Rupert in that it's fairly traditional, bottom end of the top one hundred and there aren't half a dozen in each school year. They got used to it very quickly and now say they couldn't imagine him being everything else

I really don't like it. It's in the realms of Tarquin to me.

I love that name!

It's awful. It's such a wet and unattractive name.

One of my worst names ever! I’d just hate to be a man called Rupert. It has this posh, twee, extremely wet feel to it and I imagine. posh, slightly useless man in red trousers.

Sorry. You did ask!

I don't like it, though maybe it's a cultural thing (it's hardly ever used in my community and I don't think I've ever met one). It also reminds me of Rupert Murdoch, but he's old enough to be irrelevant to the next generation of kids.

I wouldn't talk about names with my mum because we have completely different tastes. Of course she's going to try to steer you towards a name she likes better, but it's not her decision to make.

Did she say why she dislikes it, specifically? It's sometimes useful to get feedback, but just "oh, no!" or "yuck!" isn't very helpful.

Personally I don't like the sound; it feels harsh to me. But it's also pretty similar to Robert, which was very popular for a long time. If you love it I think it would be fine to use; plenty of people do.

I like it, I only know one and he gets a lot of compliments. Imo it's a lovely name.

I like it. It's an inoffensive name, why doesn't your mum like it? I think you should go for it if it's your favourite, she'll learn to love it when she meets her grandson!

I think it’s sweet, nearly used it for our baby, good job we didn’t as there are 2 at nursery and it would have been confusing! I like the nicknames Rupes too. I know a few adult Ruperts, also has the same feel to Robert. It’s a popular classic name, not sure why your mother thinks it’s odd?!!

AWFUL

I think it's sweet. I do think of the bear but that's not a bad association. If I were English I'd use it.

Robert feels completely different to Robert imo. Rupert is utterly wet. A Robert could be anyone. I picture Rupert and I can only see a foppish awkward Hugh Grant type in red trousers(or the bear.)

Completely different to Rupert sorry.

I always want to pronounce it Wupert . I like it written down but not said out loud. Which makes no sense really!

I think it's a bit twee.

I think it’s cute 😊

Absolutely agree.

Robert is classic and strong

Rupert is just so... unsexy.

It's sweet, agree a bit painfully posh but still not horrible.
I think of Ruprecht in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

I think that would be fine