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.

No, her daughter is Cosima.

Yes! So thankful I’m not alone. I have a Cosmo in the family who has just had a sibling and my brain immediately wants to call the sibling Dibs.
The Cosmo’s I know (3) are private school kids

Makes me think of Cosmocol - the constipation medication.

Ditto! Just fallen down a Cosmo and Dibs rabbit hole on youtube! Having rewatched I think maybe Dibs was the dense one, but I also can't work out what they actually are meant to be, creature wise?!

OP - the new generation won't remember the TV show but they might get the magazine assoc. Here in London it would be a very pretentious/posh choice.

Makes me think of awful Smug Married couple Cosmo and Woney.

In response to my comment and some of the posters who have thought to comment about my opinion.

I don't particularly think anything about the names and what happens, when they grow up. But as a person with a younger sister with an unusual name- she found herself always having to address the name choice. Compared to the rest of us who had quite common names.

I don't think somebody called Cosmo will have any problems in life, no different to somebody called John.

But sometimes names that are cute when young, can just hit different when adults.

However to the OP it's your child and your choice.

Cosima and Bruno, I think

I have one, he is primary age. He is a sensible, quiet and conscientious boy who is interested in engineering and science, animals and nature. He's good at maths, bad at tidying up. Ie. He's just a kid! Not posh or rough, not a magazine, has never been in Fraiser...His name is part of him and no one has ever said anything negative. And if they are thinking it, well that's not a care of mine (nor his). If we wanted to eat at Cosmo's, we just...would?! He is a boy, not a buffet chain, not hard to seperate the two 😅 He would probably think it was cool actually.

He's just like any kid called Ptolemy, or Sebastian, or Kai or Kaden.... A load of judgemental women on here, putting their classist (and dare I say, often rooted in weird low-key racist) opinions onto little kids who shouldn't have to be surrounded by their miserable judgement. Etymology is flexible, and such personal choices as names should be no one else's business.

If you love the names and it suits your child, do it. May I suggest you aren't fully into it, hence the cancassing of the opinions of internet randoms?

*canvassing

Not cancassing

Cosmo just makes me think of the magazine Cosmopolitan

Cosmo Kramer....

Me too, but I only know it from Bridget Jones.

‘Knickers, Knackers, Knockers’ was his catchphrase I think

I’d imagine a lot of people in their 40s are going to think of the Cosmo and Dibs from You and Me.

A cocktail..

Magazine

I think of it as a surname (James Cosmo)

Cosmopolitan magazine

Another one who thinks of it as ultra posh.

Posh twattery

I’m sorry, I just find it ridiculous as a name, I can’t even tell you why. It was one that a friend told me she was considering (in Scotland) and I was really shocked. I like unusual names too, I just think it’s silly. Maybe I can’t divorce it from The Cosmos, to me it’s just not a human name.

It was on my list for DS but I wasn’t brave enough to use it. Also Cosimo which I like even more. My worries were that it is too Italian and too try hard.

I LOVE it. Also Cosimo

I used to work with a Cosimo and he had the most magnificent surname. He totally wasted his amazing name working at an investment bank haha

I'm in Scotland and you can bet nobody on a council estate is called Cosmo! Absolute opposite - quite posh!

I should have probably mentioned we do have Italian heritage too (older son has an Italian middle name).