Heath Grant or Edison Grant?

[Elanne]

I have written a post here before, as we love the names Heath & Edison for a baby boy due at the end of May. We both like Heath better, but unsure if it sounds good with the middle name Grant. We would like to take the father's middle name, the surname is 2 syllables. The fact Heath & Grant both just have one syllable, it making me want to go for Edison. What do you all think?

I completely disagree with this. I have a very posh and uncommon name. It was the bane of my life as a child and I so wished I’d been given an unremarkable name and chose my children’s names accordingly.

I did say 'most'. Did you change your name when you reached an age where you could?

Grant isn’t a nice name imo

No. I'd sort of grown into it by the time I was 18/19. I still get comments, usually at hospital appointments "ooh that's unusual". It's got better since I was a child, people don't laugh any more or say things like "why did your mum call you that?" I'm sure most who comment would be very offended if I said "ooh, Sharon, that's of its time, are you working class?".

Sorry to hear people laughed. I'm not saying that nobody I know ever had the odd comment, but it wasn't constant and there were usually other things that overtook it. It was almost like an unwritten rule that it wasn't the child's fault.

Heath grant sounds like something the council pay to sort out the local park.

How will other people know though? What your son's middle name is - will you be introducing him as my son Heath Grant Smith?

I know an Edison. He’s a teenager. He’s known as Ed and is totally embarrassed by his full name. He keeps it a secret.

Don’t be an idiot

My 10 year old has a group music lesson with a younger child whose name he insisted for weeks was Keith.... turns out it is Heath (short for Heathcliff) ..... so there is always that risk!

Don't like either to be honest - Edward is nice. Or Edwin which is a bit different.

Foster?