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Original poster

Peter? underused classic or boring and will be teased..

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MadameCh0let · 09/04/2008 20:43

I love it, but I have just read a post on a US board where a gentleman with good taste wants to call his son Peter.

All the posters think it is dull and common and that he will be teased.

I said that names like Henry and William are on the up in the US and Peter is sure to become more popular there too.

So what do you think?

Love it or hate it?

(I can't understand why it is so hated in the Us)

Now Give me some peter comments.

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collision · 09/04/2008 20:44

like it

Slubberdegullion · 09/04/2008 20:44

classic. I like it.

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MadameCh0let · 09/04/2008 20:45

Forgot to say, if you don't like it, say so! You are allowed to not like it!!

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EllenJane · 09/04/2008 20:45

Absolutely love it, always have done. Pete is not so good though...

SenoraPostrophe · 09/04/2008 20:45

no child called Peter is teased for their name I don't think. and it isn't common - I don't know any under 30.

Hulababy · 09/04/2008 20:46

Although I have friends called Peter theya re all adults. I don't know of any babies called Pete.

Not a fave of mine personally, but can't see why anyone would be teased for being called it.

snowleopard · 09/04/2008 20:46

I met a baby Peter the her day. I did have to suppress a double take. I don't mind it, it makes me think of Peter rabbit mainly, but I can't imaging calling a baby "Pete". Just brings to mind an old giffer 'aving a fag.

Mind you another friend called her baby Michael just last week so perhaps they are both part of a very bleeding-edge new wave of giffer names.

collision · 09/04/2008 20:46

I dont know any!

JackieNo · 09/04/2008 20:47

I like it. DD has a boy in her class called Peter - age 8.

Ceolas · 09/04/2008 20:47

Definitely an underused classic. It was joint top of our list of boy's names for DD3 last year.

Hulababy · 09/04/2008 20:48

Ah now you see my friend's DS is called Michael and is 6yo, so to be Michael works really well as a little boy's name.

luckylady74 · 09/04/2008 20:48

I know a 6yr old Peter - I assumed it was a family name - it's neither good or bad really imho - just an average reasonable name.

Ceolas · 09/04/2008 20:49

What on earth's wrong with Michael?

Also can't think why a Peter would be teased...

Bubble99 · 09/04/2008 20:50

There must be a resurgence of older names as I met a baby Stephen recently.

ScaryHairy · 09/04/2008 20:51

I like it.
Would not shorten to Pete though.

TigerFeet · 09/04/2008 20:52

My brother's name is Pete(r)

He is teased mercilessly

But that is because his surname is Burns

REIDmylips · 09/04/2008 20:52

I like it too. I teach a yr 7 boy called Peter, he is a lovely young man and certainly not teased because of his name.

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MadameCh0let · 09/04/2008 20:53

Does he have a son William?

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RustyBear · 09/04/2008 20:54

We have a Peter in Year 4 at our junior school & there's another coming up from infants next year, so maybe it's getting more popular.

I'm surprised you think Michael is odd snowleopard - we've always have at least one every year & this year's Year 3 have three of them.

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 09/04/2008 20:56

Lovley name.

Alishanty · 09/04/2008 20:57

I really like the name Peter. I suggested it for ds but dp wasn't keen. I still really like it now.

hippipotami · 09/04/2008 20:58

Underused classic
I really like it. Mind you, I am Petra and my dad's middle name is Peter, so I may be a bit biased.
Ds is at a school with 400 children, not a Peter amongst them. Go for it!

Milliways · 09/04/2008 20:59

We have a Peter in the family, and his Mum used to get upset at his friends calling him "Pe'er", bu that happens to any name containing a T

Tommy · 09/04/2008 21:01

I like Peter.

It was on my list but DH's name is very ordinary (common ) and we thought it might sound like we had no imagination!

BexieID · 09/04/2008 21:03

I know a baby called Peter (Pete, Petey-boy). His mum is a fellow MNetter!

I have an uncle called Peter, which meant that it never made it on any list as my mum kept saying you can't name the baby after relatives. Annoyingly, I have a cousin called Rachael and I really like that name at the moment!

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