Cecil, clement, hector...?!

[Ttforty]

Thoughts (unvarnished) much appreciated please on

Cecil
Clement
Robert
Hector
Edmund
!

My favourite in your list is Hector by far. Then Clement but love Hector a lot more.

Cecil is a girl's name for me - I know it used to be a man's name too but it's more widely used for girls where I live.

Robert is okay but a bit bland.

Edmund sounds a bit try-hard and antiquated to me.

Try as I might I can’t make myself like Cecil.
Clement similarly unless the intention is to call him Clem and then I’d say just do that and don’t lumber him with Clement.
Robert is a family name on DH’s side but in recent years has been more often used as a middle name. Edmund just isn’t to my taste and Hector, I think has the potential to end up trendy.
For what it’s worth my view is if you love these names you should ignore what people on here think about them and stay true to what you like.
I say this knowing a family who chose names in a very similar vein for both sexes (won’t say what they are because it would be very outing). Initial reaction to each of them from moreorless everyone was ‘those poor children’ but they didn’t turn out to be those poor children at all and just grew into the names they had been given.
Nowadays unless it has a rude connotation I think a child would be very unlucky to be bullied because of its name, unless of course they had heard their parent making unkind comments.

I was aiming for "in-keeping with the OPs list". Sounds like I nailed it! 😆🖐️

I love Robert, great name. Edmund is OK, though I prefer Edward.

I wouldn't have said this until recently, but Clement has grown on me because I've recently got to know a grown up one who goes by Clem and he's a really nice guy. It's funny how our view of names is influenced by people we know with that name. I love Clementine for a girl, too but that's not relevant here.

Anyway, I digress...

Hector and Cecil are a step too far for me, but I don't think they are awful.

Hector's house...

I think I’m slightly more your target audience here than some PPs lol

Cecil and Clement I don’t love, they remind me of elderly gentlemen.
Edmund is okay.
Robert is okay Robbie is a cute NN.
Hector I love.

Names I love that have a similar vibe:

Benedict
Victor
August
Francis
Rupert
Quentin
Julian
Oswald
Vincent

I like Robert and Edmund.

To add to the list of posh idiot names...
Sheridan. As in Bucket 😂

Sorry OP.

Robert is nice.

The rest are truly awful and try hard.

Why not add Horace to your list - my grandfather's name.

I really like Clement and Robert.
Edmund - ok, I prefer Edward.
Cecil and Hector not for me.

You might like Clarence? Feels a similar vibe.

I like them all except Hector.

I LOVE Cecil
I like Clement.
Robert is boring.
I dislike Hector because it puts me in mind of someone who bothers people.
I dislike Edmund because isn't he the nasty boy in Lion Witch Wardrobe?

Yup I hear you! My thoughts exactly (trying to settle family diverged views on this!).

Thanks all. I know what you mean

Sorry OP but some of those are awful.

Robert and Edmund are OK but I prefer Edward.

Clem, really? All I hear is phlegm

Robert is a nice name not very similar to your other choices.
I like Clement - knew a Clem/ Clemmie when little.
Cecil is a sissy.
Hector sound like a bully (a hard name)
Edmund is fine - would be a gentle boy

Your list does sound rather like part of a roll call at a 1930s public school, tbh. I like Clement, and its equivalent (Clemens) is not unheard of in Europe, but I wonder if the obvious shortening Clem might not go so well given quite a few girls are now being called Clementine. Robert's fine. I'm not keen on the others - particularly Edmund I think has a not-very-nice vibe.

All sound like posh twats, sorry! Wouldn't make a good first impression. Robert is more normal but sounds like a 50 year old accountant and will inevitably be shortened to Rob or Robbie.

Are you writing an sequel to Swallows and Amazons? That sounds like the character list.

Only like Robert from your list.i think that the rest are awful.

Robert is fine. The rest are totally dire.

I like Edmund a lot.

Cecil just sounds wet to my ears....

I’m surprised at the reaction - I’ve posted about Hector a few times and while love for it hasn’t been universal, it’s been mixed to positive. I don’t know if it’s how the whole list reads than the individual names on it. Maybe James, Clement, Robert, Joseph, Hector, Edmund, Cecil, Theodore, and Alexander might not have been met with such a negative reaction.

Cecil - I don’t mind in theory but (maybe as I have family in Zimbabwe) I find the Rhodes association hard to shake off
Clement - I don’t dislike but don’t love. I don’t like Clement as a nickname for a boy or a girl though
Robert - in contrast to most other posters, my least favourite from your list. I love Robin but Robert is dull and dated to me
Hector - I love Hector, and it’s on my list for if the baby I’m having is a boy. I also don’t find it too culturally charged (or priggish as someone suggested)
Edmund - I love Edmund and vastly prefer it to every other Ed- variant. Depending on if you want a more unusual name, an Edmund might end up lost with all the Edwards and Teddys.

I like Clement and Edmund best

I hate the meaning of 'to hector' and find Cecil very lispy sounding

Robert is dull sounding, I know so many of them, most end up as Rob (to rob isn't great either)

I'd probably choose Clement!