John ?

[NightSkyWanderer]

Yay or nay ?

My 8yo is John, he was named after my FIL. We always call him Johnny but maybe he will go by John when he’s older.

TBH, when I read on here that a name is dull it immediately goes onto my ‘possibles’ list. It tends to mean that it’s passed the “would anyone scoff at it, think it’s pretentious or misspell it?” test. MN approved ‘fun’ names are inevitably laughable.

I like John. Totally classic and versatile.

Love it.
Great middle name if you don’t want it for first name but still want to honour your dad.

I think it was very rude of your friend to say that.

lovely name. so nice to finally see someone here not wanting to name there baby chandelier or prada

It seems solid and unfussy compared with many of the trendy names.

I love it, so classic. It was FILs name and is DS middle name.

FIL died v close to DSs birth and it would have been too raw for DH to use as a first name otherwise we would seriously have considered it.

Clearly not many Elis and John Show fans on here. It's a great name - mainly because of John Robins ❤️

Massively underused and totally ready for a revival. A fine, solid name.

Classic name that has many variants in other langauages and European cultures.

My son who is 50 is called John and he has never been ridiculed for the name - maybe it was popular when he was young.
His second name is David so his young nickname was John D.

One of mine is a John (still a teenager). He’s never met another of his generation. Weirdly some people think his ‘real’ name is Jonathan 🙄.It isn’t ( and we’re not Jonathan fans either).

I prefer the Scottish version- Iain.

I really like it: it's simple, timeless, classless, and will let his own personality take centre stage as he grows up, rather than some batshit unusual name.

Perfectly fine.

Well I know several Jonathan's all called Jonathan and all nice guys sadly the John reminds me of bad exes so I don't like it lol

How about a derivative of John if you're not sure? Evan or Ivan for example.

My ds 19 is John. He’s not met another one amongst his peers.

no

Jonathan and call him Nate. Honour your dad, but also a bit more modern name.

How about a derivative of John if you're not sure? Evan or Ivan for example.
Defeats the object IMO, but there are a lot of them to choose from.
They tend to go out of fashion after a while.

Jonathan and call him Nate. Honour your dad, but also a bit more modern name.
It's not honouring someone if it's a different name.

Loads of Johns in my family. I love it. Think my dad was known as Johnny when he was younger. Not keen on Jonathan though. Don't consider them to be linked names.

I love Jonathan, and Jon.

I work in the US a lot and John is what they all call the toilet.

Really ? 🚽

I'm Scottish and don't think I know an Iain younger than about age 45. Don't name him Iain!

Jonathan seems middle aged to me. I don't think it naturally shortens to Nate.

I know an Iain who is younger than 45 but he's not Scottish. Ian seems very dated.

Or even Jonathan 🙄