Julian

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What are your thoughts on Julian?

Too dated or due a come back?

Also do you think it risks being shortened to J. I really don't want a name that is shortened to J so have already ruled out many J names, but Julian seems safer?

I’ve always thought of it as a posh name. However, I know 2 Julian’s both in their 50s one is definitely not posh. He has a very down to earth nature and is a manual worker. Both go by Julian.

Love it!

King Julien 🦝

I love it

Great name. Roman. Caesar!

The one I loved was Ju to me, otherwise Julian. Never Jules.

It's a great name.

I like Julian
Hate Ju or June's though.

I like Jolyon better because the pronunciation is more obvious and Joly is nicer than Jules. I know 3 Julians. One's a dick (pronounced the English way, Julian, not dick ;), one's French and lovely and the other is German pronounced Yulian and also lovely, but that's 3 different pronunciations

Love it. And Jolyon, though that's been spoilt by the ghastly Jolyon Maugham.

It makes me think of Stath Lets Flats. The annoying one who was killed off in the last series.

my name ! (16 y/o, a bit young to be here but had to give my two cents), probably a more unusual name, dunno anyone younger than me with it except for, weirdly enough 3 Brazilian boys (unrelated to each other). cultural thing perhaps? either way, its a name we all know, but it isn't another William with 5 in every class.

I love this name. It’s one of my favourites.

I wouldn’t say it is outdated, it’s a Classic name, but uncommon.

Why a problem with names that can be shortened? I love i can shorten my name. Normal acquaintances call me my name, people who are very close call me my short name. I like it. I like Julian, but would call him Jude...

Bookish, wet, useless in a fight

I only like it for a girl (as in Julian of Norwich) — it was only used for girls for much of its history.

For some reason, when it’s used for boys, it reminds me solely of pompous, self-important, all-round insufferable Julian in the Famous Five, who, had he ever grown up past the age of 13, would have turned into the kind of bluff, gouty, golf-playing Tory local councillor who has a prized photo of himself having a pint with Nigel Farage, and thinks UKIP ‘had a point’.

Julius is nice?

I like it. I used to strongly associate it with Julian Clary but I doubt anyone in your child's generation is likely to have heard of him.

I think it's much nicer than Jolyon, which I used to associate with the Forsyte Saga and now associate with the kimono wearing, fox killing lawyer Jolyon Maugham.

Reminds me too much of the Ghosts character, who is also a stereotypical Julian to me.

Famous Five!

I like Julian. DD would've been Julian had she been a boy, after my mum (Julie) and Julian of Norwich

I know an eight year old boy called Julian and he likes his name. I like it too! (It's actually my middle name because according to my folks in the Middle Ages it was a unisex name and there is a famous Saint Julian of Norwich who was a woman. All of which is true but very much not a unisex name now or in the 80s and 90s when I was explaining it in the playground again and again...!)