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Old man names you like

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Whichnametopick · 27/02/2023 15:10

I loved reading the thread on the old lady names. Which are your favourite old man names?

Mine is Francis but DP vetoed

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Velvetbee · 27/02/2023 15:17

Edwin. Mine is 17.

Adrelaxzz · 27/02/2023 15:18

The funny thing is I no longer think of them as old man names as the ones I know are all early 20s!

IWIllDoItNowInAMinute · 27/02/2023 15:39

Seth and Arthur

DESGUSTING · 27/02/2023 15:41

Stanley
Bertie

FineThings · 27/02/2023 15:44

Sidney
Stanley
Arthur

But everyone in my family of my grandparents generation was called John, James (Jim), William or Harry!

Claysta · 27/02/2023 15:45

Wilfred

Reinventinganna · 27/02/2023 15:46

Stanley
Roy
Rupert
Victor
Reginald
Arthur

I love old man names

Reinventinganna · 27/02/2023 15:47

I wonder if Gary or Wayne will be on one of these old man threads one day?

MsFannySqueers · 27/02/2023 15:48

Albert
George

ireallyliketheboy · 27/02/2023 15:49

Bert/Albert

Passthebrownsauce · 27/02/2023 15:54

George
Bertie
Ernie
Barney

Soproudoflionesses · 27/02/2023 16:07

Sidney and Stanley

angelis0 · 27/02/2023 16:18

Ian
Owen

Mumofgirls2017 · 27/02/2023 16:20

ernest
frederick
sidney
roland
raymond
stanley
edgar
arthur
albert
herbert
walter
quentin
clarence
cedric
ivor
arnold

DESGUSTING · 27/02/2023 16:21

Soproudoflionesses · 27/02/2023 16:07

Sidney and Stanley

Oo love Sidney

Barleymilk · 27/02/2023 16:32

Herbert and Humphrey

MrsWojadobakowsky · 27/02/2023 16:34

Herbert
Ernest
Raymond
Arnold
David
Cyril
Trevor

RuthW · 27/02/2023 17:25

Kevin
Graham
Norman
Geoffrey
John

AnonNameChange45 · 27/02/2023 17:27

Walter
Albert
Francis
Raymond

Reddahlias · 27/02/2023 19:23

Quentin
Stanley
Sidney
Vincent

user1492757084 · 28/02/2023 00:17

Archibald
Alan
Barry
Cedric
Cecil
Desmond
Edmund
Gilbert
Gordon
Humphray
Hector
Henry
Ivor
Jim nn for James
John
Kenneth
Llewellyn
Lindsay
Malcolm
Montague
Neville
Neil
Oswald
Peter
Ralph
Vincent
Wilbur
Walter

Aquamarine1029 · 28/02/2023 01:14

Ephraim

JaneJeffer · 28/02/2023 02:17

River

COPPER3 · 28/02/2023 20:43

Wilfred
Joseph
Vincent

Other than that I am not a fan of old man names..

vodkacat · 11/06/2023 19:29

George
Eric
Bruce
Fred

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