Dylan?

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What do you think of the name Dylan?

Love it

Sadly it just reminds me of Dylan Mulvaney now.

I should have mentioned, for a boy 😊

Teenage mums.

Love it!

Middle-aged Welsh man's name.

The Welsh pronunciation?

Well my DS is Dylan so I clearly love it! He's a teenager now. We chose it because of my Welsh heritage and my husband's love of Bob Dylan!

I love it because I have a teenage Dylan. We live outside London and have no Welsh connection. Strangely, he is still the only Dylan we have ever come across, through primary, secondary and now uni. I thought it would end up being more popular. He knows a few with the Asian heritage spelling of Dilan. He likes it and nobody has ever said anything negative.

Like all names, it gets shortened by mates - in his case to Dyl or Dips or Dippo, no idea on the latter two.

He was also after my Dad's love of Bob Dylan, who sadly died shortly before he was born.

I love it, always loved the sound of it and the way it looks written down. It went through I popular phase something like 30 years ago, but has remained smart and classic IMO and is ready to be used again! Maybe an OTT way of thinking about a name, but some names are stuck in an era, or overused, or boring. Dylan is lovely, to me.

We considered it but rejected it on account that it wouldn't be pronounced the Welsh way and that would have annoyed me.

My sons friend is called Dylan, lovely name and lovely young man, they call him Dyl for short.

@Elphame what's the Welsh way? I'm Irish and only know 2. Both called 'Dill-an/un'

I like the name

Love it!

It’s okay. I’m British Indian and it’s a very popular name amongst the same community. Mainly because it transcends cultures, and Dhillon is an Indian surname so the old people are used to saying it (many names are picked on how easy it is for the old Indian people to say!)

@Elphame , Dylan is an old Welsh name pronounced DULL-ann.

Yup.

For those of us of a certain age, Dylan will always be a spaced out rabbit on a magic roundabout…lol

Dylan was extremely popular in Wales in the 1960s and 1970s so it seems like a 'dad name'
I thought the Magic Roundabout rabbit was Dillon. (wiki says otherwise)

I love it. Wanted it for my boys but couldn’t persuade DH either time. My mum associates it with the Magic Roundabout but I always think of Dylan from Casualty when I hear it.

My mum always says that about Magic Roundabout to my son. He just smiles politely and nods. He has no idea what she is talking about😁given it hasn't been on tv for 50 years.

Equally teenagers barley watch TV now and I just askw him if he'd ever watched casualty and he'd never heard of it.

I asked him if he could think of any famous associations with someone called Dylan and he said some YouTuber I have never heard of.

Name associations are very different across the generations and I think if you call a baby anything now it's almost irrelevant what people 2 or 3 generations before think of it.

That dipshit Dylan Mulvaney is annoying, I grant you, sooner he fades into obscurity the better.

It’s a very cool name!

love it

Not sure why you are tagging me?

I know how it is pronounced in Welsh however DS would have been forever correcting people who use the English pronunciation (even here in Wales) and it would have been never ending.