Cosmo? Connotations?

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DH are due our second child in June, we don’t know the sex yet. For a boy we both like the name Cosmo. He’s worried it might be a ‘council estate’ name, particularly in Scotland (he is Scottish but has been away 20 years). Does anyone have any more up to date knowledge?
Thanks.

Very posh. I thought about Nigella Lawson's son but it's actually her daughter who's called Cosima so i was wrong there.

Kids born now are not going to have the Seinfeld association, or most of the rest. There’s much more acceptance of a wider variety of names now - if it’s your favourite name just use it. I quite like it.

I think of the buffet place too unfortunately. But it is a nice sounding name.

Traditionally, it’s definitely quite posh. Characters in Rosamunde Pilcher and Jilly Cooper, though I’ve never known one in real life.

Does no one else remember Cosmo and Dibs? Don’t hate the name but that is what springs to mind for me!

It sounds very upper class to me( from Mary Wesley novels). I like it.

Love Lachlan nn Lucky
Names that might go with that:
Ruaridh
Cameron
Alistair
Alexander

1. magicians
2. posh boho kids born in the 80s-90s
3. the magazine

I like it a lot.
but am not Scottish.
You sound very snobby.

1. Buffet restaurant chain
2. Magazine
3. The drink

If I'm honest a lot of naff associations whether that's brand names or popular culture characters (none great).

I would save it for your next retriever as it's one of those that"s just chosen because it sounds ok which is a bit baseless and tacky unless you're Italian by descent (Cosimo). I can't speak for your son but I'd personally rather have a name connected to my roots than just the world at large in another language.

I think upper class Scots.

Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury during the abdication crisis.

I like it.

Cosmo is a cricketing Old Etonian who was reading Greats at Magdalen when he was posted to the Western Front. Died at Mons, along with his brothers Piers, Rolo and Giles.

I work within a school. We have a child called Cosmo and his brother is called Rocco. Lovely boys, but I always think, what happens once they reach adulthood.

That's exactly what I thought - and was it Cosmo or Dibs that was the slightly dense one?

What do you think will happen?

Cosmo makes me think of Singin’ In The Rain - Make Em Laugh, Fit As A Fiddle, Moses Supposes etc. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly)’s best mate.

Also the cocktail, the magazine (in)famous for its quizzes - What tribe of best friend are you? Tiger, antelope or sloth, what’s your boyfriend type? - and a posh lad from
the 80s with his cousins Bunny, Lucien and Araminta.

Cosmo Kramer.

I knew a Cosmo once - he was gorgeous! It's definitely not a 'council estate' name in England. I love the name, and funnily enough until I read this thread hadn't at all associated it with the magazine. I'd use it.

I think of the cocktail but that probably says more about me..

Could see how it could work for a boy but wouldn’t link it with Scotland or say it really “goes” with your current sons name.

I really like it but it reminds me of the cartoon Fairly Odd Parents from the 90’s.

I second this poster.

Cosmo is a great name imo

You can’t move for Roccos when I am so I don’t think anything will ‘happen’.

my own husband has a daft name courtesy’s of his mother who lives in Brooklyn.

He’s got a hugely successful job in finance. He wears a tie and has meetings with other boring folks from all over the world. He’s at the absolute top of the tree.

Alexander
Alasdair
Cameron
Brody
Blair
Hugh
Iain
Keir
Ruiradh
Murdo
Murray / Moray
Robert
Struan
Harris
Lennox
Arran

good Scottish boys names that go with Lachlan

Nigella Lawson child is cosmo I think

Why? They are totally ok names for grown men