Finley, Liam, Thomas, Charlie, Oliver or Alexander

[Myheartisbythesea]

Yep 6 names! How do you rank them for boys names, which do you prefer and why?

Liam might be popular in Ireland but it's not an Irish name. It's a derivative of William, it's literally half of the name William, which itself is traditionally English but with Germanic origin.

You're the one who honed in on my post and made it all about you so I suggest it's you who's being a tad defensive. I merely stated that Irish names, like Liam and Conor and Ciaran, often get described as chavvy on MN. Many threads will back this up.

Liam comes from the Irish Uilliam. Throw a stick in Ireland and you'll hit a Liam. You could be hitting a 3 year old Liam or a 73 year old Liam. Always been a commonly used everyman kind of name.

Oh look an English person being incorrect.

Finlay much better than Finley

@Scruffington I'm not English. Why are you pestering people on this thread? It's just a thread to help someone choose a name for their baby. Don't take it so personally.

I'm not pestering I'm just countering ideas that certain names are chavvy and that Irish names are English. That's generally how MN threads work.

Stop being so sensitive.

I have an Oliver and a Thomas in my children’s names (one first, one middle name) so that would be my first pick!

I like the rest of the names except Liam.

I wouldn’t worry too much about popularity…I know someone who picked an extremely unusual name I had never heard of. Went to nursery and there were two!

Go with what you like and don’t listen to anyone else too much

... it's literally half of the name William
3/7ths isn't literally half. It's almost half.

... Irish names, like Liam and Conor and Ciaran, often get described as chavvy on MN.
I tend to agree. Names like Kevin, Kieran, Kelly, Ryan, Conor, Keira tend to date badly.
I don't find names like Liam, Siobhan, Niamh, Sean, Ciaran etc 'chavvy' but think that using them without an Irish connection is a bit strange.

Liam, Kieran, Ryan and Sean (outside Ireland) seem to me to be 'naughty boy names'.

Apologies for the missing fadas.

Oliver and Alexander are beautiful. Finley and Liam also lovely. Charlie less keen as I know so so many of them. Thomas I’m not keen, not really sure why as I do like Tom as a short form.

Out of all of them I prefer Alexander, with Alex as the shortened name.