What about the name Walter?

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Is this a great name or a complete no go? (It would be shortened to Walt) Honest opinions please!

nice

I'm not keen TBH

I don't like the Walt Disney association but Walter is quite sweet. Not sure I would be brave enough though.

Lovely. Reminds me of Anne of Green Gables - her 2nd son was called Walter.

Makes me think of Walter the Softie from the Beano comic ... sorry.

i love it

Thanks for your quick replies! I think I love it, but am not sure I am brave enough either! Will keep mulling it over (not even pregnant yet, but my imagination is running away with me!).

i like it, and would deffo use it if I were to lucky enough to have another boy

I like

Makes me think of Gracie Fields "Walter, Waaaaaalter, lead me to the altar"

I like it and I like that it can be shortened to Walt.

Also like Ernie.

I'm not keen, although Walt is OK. - It could end up as Wally, which was used as a tem of abuse when I was at school.

Ernie is a name I LOVE.

mkaes me think of Wally

Really not my bag. Walt, Walter, Wally - none of them are very promising.

No, he'll get called Wally at school.

Oooh no - a definite "Wally" in the playground, poor boy.

I like it because of Walter Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables series

Hate it. Sorry. Walt sounds too much like wart.

I love it but wouldn't use it because of the Wally potential

really like it. though it will be very datable - if that makes sense - it fits very markedly along the name evolution of the last 10 or so years from Jack to Henry to Alfred (Alfie) to Walter

Another Beano reader here!

Nope, use Rufus.

Lovely, it was almost our son's name

Was saving it for the next one but hey, you can have it.