Angel for a boy

[SquishingWell]

personally love it for girl or boy but DH on the fence

Don't do it, boy or girl

There's a song about a boy named Sue I think this will be the same he's either going to be bullied or learn how to hit back.

Don’t be daft OP, in the UK it reads as a stripper name, or a male escort name, I guess.

Noooooo

A “Stripper” name really 🙄 only if you act like one?

I will happily take “oh I don’t really like it, a bit too unusual, husband not being uptight” etc…

but some people are just snobby and rude 😂

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That was admittedly what I was alluding to when I said “not as nice in English”…
probably because I have heard the term “angel baby” used in the context of losing a pregnancy and neonatal death.

but I assumed that I was the only one so felt like it was unreasonable to bring up…

I don’t have that association with Angelo or Angela, btw.

You asked for opinions, it's very silly in my opinion. Your baby will be a man one day with his own character and personality would be pretty daft to name him Angel.

How about Alan? It's got some of the letters.

It's not a name that inspires confidence. Unless they were obv Latino, I'd, unintentionally, presume the parents prioritised cute, pretty and other vain qualities above others and as such a doctor, pilot, paramedic, police officer, fire crew, military officer etc who introduced themselves as Angel would not have my immediate confidence. It could be earned eventually but my kneejerk reaction would be a lack of faith in their authority (in the wider sense of the word). It's wrong but then many wrongs exist in life.

Also, I would guess that, with such a name, any normal less than angelic quality (lack of grace or charm, poor behaviour, unkindness) would stand out twice as much as in others. It would be an unconscious thing people couldn't help but notice.

It's less what the name says about your child and more what it says about the parents. And given the parents are the greatest influence on a child people will taint one with the other. Rightly or wrongly.

Crumbs! No

Angelo is ok

Doesn't work in the Uk I think. Like the name Jesus. Font a good UK first name

Buffy the vampire slayer is all I ca. think of

Just no

No, it is the type of name strippers adopt (no harm to them, it’s just to help with a vibe) Heavenly, Harmony, Bliss being others.

I realise in (some) Catholic countries it has quite different associations. But in the UK.. g string.

Angel for a MAN ?

Well, yes. Angels are always referred to as male in any Bible or Scripture. The word angel is from the Greek word and uses the masculine form in grammar. There is no feminine form.

@flutterby1 well yes as I said previously, where my maternal family are from it’s quite common and old fashioned.

It depends, if he's growing up in the UK you will have to consider the reception to the name by the people who he will interact with here, at the end of the day I think you have your mind made up, that's great go with it , sounds like you don't need other opinions. ( not sure why you asked for reactions ?) but just go for it x

I like it and don't find it chavvy.

I automatically think Boy actually. Because of Angel Clare, Angel from Rent and the vampire!

I prefer Angelo and Angela though.

Angelo is quite nice, I agree, but Italian I think and we don’t have any remote Italian connection.

Our other options similar would be Ángel or Angelos really. But again I didn’t really want something that screams “foreign” straight away in the UK? That was my thinking behind using a version that also sounds more English.

although our surname is a typical British and an obviously non British name double barrelled so perhaps they will get the “where is that name from” questions anyway

I'd prefer something sounding foreign than feminine leaving him a target for bullying

I have a male cousin with this name but he is Spanish, it’s pronounced An c el.

Hmmm, I'm not so sure. We had a lad at school with the surname Bates and the 'Master Bates' jokes were endless.

Also a lad named Phillip Ness. When they read 'P. Ness' during register hilarity would always ensue.

Biblically, all Angels were male 🤷🏻‍♀️

Angel makes me think of David Boreanez of Buffy/Angel fame.

It’s a fairly common shortening of Angelo/Angelos in Spanish speaking countries.

Never met a female Angel, so for the above reasons, I think of it as a male name.

Why not Angelo?