Thoughts on Wesley (wes)

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I've only just found out I'm pregnant with baby number 3, we have two boys and I'm assuming the 3rd will also be a boy.
I've always liked the name Wesley nn Wes but I can see from old threads some people think it would be cruel, is it really that bad? We live in New Zealand where the names not common but not unusual.

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It's super cool, Jamaican, 🇯🇲

Awful very 80s

Absolutely love it!

I like it, it was my Dh's Grandfather in the US. I never met him. He was pilot in WW2.

I really dislike it, sorry!

Shut up Wesley!

I'm a Star Trek fan, so it reminds me of Wesley Crusher.

That said, it's not a bad name, and certainly not a common name.

My DC went to school with a Wesley, so he'd be 20 now. I don't think I've ever met anyone else with the name.

Love it. Never heard anyone said it would be bad / uncool.

Love it.

I think this is a marmite name

I personally dislike it but I do have a bad association as worked with a pervy Wesley.

We have an 8 nearly 9 year old Wesley and even 9 years on I still absolutely love the name ❤️ and would never consider it being anything else. He has plenty of nn with it Wes, Wessers, Weserly and even WW by his nearly 2 year old brother ❤️

He is named after The Princess Bride character which was my favourite film growing up, although that was Westley which I wasn't so keen on.

He is the only one we know of so I guess it isn't very common nowadays but I wouldn't change his name for the world.

Sounds like the name of a rogue demon hunter 😉

As. You. Wish.

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Is that Rogue Demons or...

I like it a lot. My 3rd is the opposite sex to no 1 and 2

Ok for an over 50 man. Not a baby.

Wes Streeting - Wikipedia

I don't particularly like it, but it's not awful. I'd expect a Wes to be the same age as Darren and Gary.
Leslie is nice but not much used now.

No

Yes I think if it as that age group and perfectly nice sort of guy but maybe a bit geeky? Definitely not a looker. Maybe that’s just me …
It also looks, at first glance, like Weasley to me.

Aah sorry op. I posted before seeing someone had a young Wesley and now feel bad.

Truthfully you make these names what you them to be by having the courage to use them on a new person who inhabits them. I’d maybe think very differently if I knew a young Wesley.

My son has a friend called Wesley, nn Wes. I think its a great name.
With responses on here, you have to allow for the solid 35% (minimum) of Mumsnet who think that anything other than Christopher, William, Sophie, Charlotte etc is not a nice name.

Great name!

Uncommon without being weird

I knew a child called Wesley growing up

The nice young man who delivers our newspaper is Wesley.

Haha! Yea that's definitely the sort of Wesley I know 😂

Really? I think of Wes Morgan, the handsome footballer first. Isn't it odd how we see names so differently dependent on our experience. My DS has a name that is regularly described as "chavy" or a "naughty boy name" on MN but again, I think of some extremely good role models with the name - they seem ignored by a lot of people because again, they are Jamaican.