Rhett vs Nash vs Atlas / Aubrey vs Ottilie

[lunniss23]

We think we are down to our contenders for our first baby due next month, we have kept the gender a surprise.

We both are huge country music fans and that's were some of the inspo on the boys names comes in - I know they won't be everyone's taste.

What are peoples honest opinions, I know the boys names especially aren't overly common in the UK but I think they are recognisable enough and easy to pronounce.

Boys

Rhett Oliver
Nash Jude
Atlas Terrence (Terrence is family name)

Girls

Aubrey Florence (nn Bre or Aub)
Ottilie Honey (nn Ottie or Otts)

Thanks :)

I'm not keen on any of your boys names sorry. And Aubrey is also a boy's name.

Ottilie is a nice name although not as rare as you probably think.

I like Ottilie but with Florence not Honey.

I think Rhett is the best of your boys names but i am not really keen on any of them. We had a big tattooed builder whose nickname was Nash. He was very nice but I'm not really seeing it for a baby. Jude or Oliver would both be nicer.

I like both of your girls names, although wouldn’t have an ‘e’ sounding middle name after an ‘e’ first name. I don’t like any of your boys names, sorry!

I love all the second name choices, the first name choices are too ‘out there’ for my liking, especially the boys. Rhett - as in Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind, Nash - as in Gnasher the dog from the Beano, Atlas - what if he turns out to be a small skinny boy? Aubrey - I think of this as a boys name, Ottilie - people might think it’s Hottilie, could be teased?

I thought Aubrey was a boy's nsme

Putting terrence with atlas is just awful sorry

I like Atlas and Aubrey - good luck!

ps middle names are so rarely used, it doesn’t really matter what you use

The boys names are not great. Why would you call a child Atlas. The Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity.

The girls names aren't much better.

Just putting it out there, the child might not be a country music fan. It's never good to give a child a name they have to carry for life based on their parents interests.

Rhett sounds like retch 🤮. Got to think of what kids do with it also no one will know how to spell it so the poor kid will have that his whole life

I love Atlas abd I prefer middle names to be family names so Atlas Terrence gets my vote.

I prefer Aubrey to Ottilie and I also think Ottilie will date. Its very much going to be a from 2020 era. I prefer that not to happen.

I actually like atlas. Nash and Rhett are awful. Aubrey is a boy's name and ottolie is quite overused now and will be 'the' dated name of the 2020s IMO.

Ottlilie will get called Attila the Hun

Just so you know, it is ok if your child has the same name as another (or a few) in their school. Nothing bad will come of it.

Please don’t call your child Nash.

You mean Attila the Hen - as Mrs Thatcher was once called!

Gosh you lot are brutal lol.

I like Rhett Oliver.
The girl names aren't my cup of tea. Aubrey is a man's name to me

Atlas and Aubrey are the best.

I like Nash. Don’t mind Rhett either but think they’d both raise eyebrows if you’re in an average UK area. Atlas is pretty well used these days, it’s like Arlo a few years ago.

Ottilie - is that ‘country’? There are 3 in DD’s nursery class, it’s pretty popular.

I really like Aubrey and think it’s pretty girly for a boy so I don’t mind it for a girl.

Thanks! That was our favourite - obviously not that well received lol. I feel its pretty inoffensive and not too child like. Done a lot of research, it is far more common in the US especially in the south but it has some traction over here too.

I like Ottilie, but agree that it's not that unusual - we know three!

I only know of Aubrey as a boys name, so although it's lovely, it might lead to confusion.

I'm less keen on your boys names - sorry!

I think Atlas is quite common in other countries. I know a Hungarian one and a Turkish one. Terrence though. I’d be vetoing that one sharpish (and I did veto a similar family name when I was pregnant with ours).

I’ve only ever heard Aubrey as a man’s name. Aubrey works in finance (real estate finance to be precise) and sails at the weekends. Wears red trousers.

Why, why, why would someone mistake Ottilie for Hottilie?? What is Hottilie? What is this thought process??? Someone else said Ottilie will be called Atilla the Hun….. they really wouldn’t, they’d have to be calling whole swathes of children that as it’s a very well used name.
As for people not knowing how to spell Rhett and thinking it’s Wretch…. Do people really have such a small frame of reference? 😅

The boys names are not good. They sound very American and tacky.

Nash sounds like the name of a pet not a child.

I like both your girls names. DD has a friend (female) cake called Aubrey so unlike some posters I think of it as a girls name. Ottilie Honey is a bit much though - I think Florence works best with both first names.

I don't love your boys names but think Rhett works best. Reminds me of Brett and that was a perfectly normal name when I was growing up.