Liam

[LadyVictorianSqualor]

Is it a chavtastic name or am I just being swayed by a couple I know?

We have Liam or Alexander, I think ALexander sounds so much less scrotey.

[Blocky]

Liam is hardly a chavvy name. I don.t consider myself to be a chav or my DS1 to be one. Much in the same way I don't consider Alexander to be a name given to a toffee nosed twit.
Liam is a diminuitive of Uilliam the Irish Gaelic form of the Germanic William. It is not a shortened version of the English William. As this was introduced to Ireland about the 10th century, I am sure that there weren't many Chavs roaming about then.

[Chunkamatic]

I wouldn't say Liam is Chavtastic, However it's very very common these days, which is fine if you dont mind having a common babies name like Liam, William, Jack, Joshua, Oliver, Alex, Harrison, Oscar, Ben, Sam or Ethan !!!

[chipmonkey]

Hear, hear, Blocky! Liam has always been a repectable name in Ireland long before Oasis came along. And while we're on that subject those lads don't even know how to pronounce their own surname! Gallagher is prounounced Galla-her not Galla-ger!

[noddyholder]

prefer alex Liam is chavvy

[HonoriaGlossop]

Certainly round here Liam is a bit of a rough boys' name! I guess it does totally depend on local usage and who you know with the name; in itself I like the sound of the name but I wouldn't use it personally because of my perception.

Agree that Leo is a lovely similar-ish name that's not too common, do you like that?

[lubyluby]

ds1 was gogint o be liam but as dh is a big oasis fan we used it as his middle name instead and he ahs a v unusual first name, then with ds2 we really like the name william and it wasn;t until peopel started calling him liam that it even occurred to su that liam was short for william but he was named william after my grandad.

so maybe i am a bit biased but i do liek the name william and if you called him alexander it would be shortened to alex which is on a par with liam for common names, and either name is nice, althoguh have to admit would be swayed to liam because of the fmaily connection.

[3andnomore]

Liam is lovely, but so is Alexander, lol...so, no help whatsoever...
but, why is Liam now a chavvy name....tbh, I don't think there is any name that will not be seen as chavvy nowadays...it doesn't matter how classy a name is, someone will come along and say how chavtastic it is, lol...