Balthazar- thoughts?

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Balthazar or Balto for short... Do we like it?

I only came here to see if anyone else was thinking "Sean, Daniel or Balonz" 😅 @Savethedramaforyourmama

www.mumsnet.com/talk/baby_names/2197937-Help-Difficult-choice-of-boys-names-Sean-Daniel-or-Balonz?reply=49826751

It's not a terrible name OP, bit maybe a bit of a mouthful to shout many times a day. 🤔😄

Awful name- really mean thing to do to a child.
Nobody deseves to be called bathazar, poor kid.

I actually know an adult Balthazar. It suits him. Nickname is Balthy

I really like it, and I was sort of considering it for my child (along with some far more common names). But when I actually had a baby in my arms I realised it was a daft name to choose, you can't name a tiny baby Balthazar unless your ego is the size of a planet or you live in a hippy bubble. So no.

Also no good nicknames. Balto will become Balti.

I think of theThree Wise Men (very good, magical) but also of Lawrence Durrell - a brilliant writer but an unstable and maybe a much - unspeakably - worse abusive parent. www.heraldscotland.com/news/12025336.a-man-pursued-by-furies/
Balthazar is the title of one of the books in Durrell's best-known and (at the time, 1950s) highly praised and remarkable 'Alexandria Quartet'.

Brother of the more genial Gerald 'My Family and Other Animals', if that helps.

More usually shortened to Bart, I think ...

It makes me think of the three wise men and also the restaurant.

Caspar is another option. Would probably give Melchior a skip.

Love. I’d call him Zar for short.

Only if NN is Balonz

We Three Kings of orient are...

YES! I had a huge crush on him but no one else seems to remember him. I also like it as a name OP.

My thoughts

Yes. I loved that film when I was a child.

Ummm, well it's certainly a strong name....but not in a good way!!

Lol. No it’s a traditional name for one of the wise men.

Ds2 was supposed to be balthazar

but i got a wee bit of pushback

as it is he now has a really common name…its the only name of the three of them that you can get on mugs and ornaments etc 😀

he would really have suited balthazar

What like Caspar?

There was a guy at my old work called Bal, I never thought to ask him what it was short for !

It was Balonz. Fact.

Awful

It’s a bit over the top but I don’t hate it. What about Bastian?

Caspar or Melchior?

Awful

That gave me a big belly laugh thank you op.

@Galarunner Could be Baldeep? I knew one before.

Its on I love the name but wasn’t brave enough to use list. Also my dh would have vetoed it.