Stanley - Love it or hate it?

[AggiePanther]

I love it

It is a cool name but not one I would choose.

If your ds is a cool dude and can carry it off then great! - but what if he is an Adrian Mole geek and has a name like Stanley?

It is DN's middle name. DB loves it and DSIL tolerates it!

i thought you were asking about the cooker...sorry

its could be cool or then not.

stan the man was the ireland soceer captains nickname.

I don't think many people can carry off Stanley think it falls into the no-one is cool enough category.

I read the thread title and thought 'Stanley, god what are they thinking'.

Then I thought again and decided actually I really really like it.

I want to have a baby to call Stanley now LOL.

really sorry - don't like it...

Yep I agree it's one of those names he'll have to be cool to carry off ...so he'll just have to be cool
I can picture my 2 year old dd calling him 'baby Stan' too - which makes me smile

I love it, but don't know if I could be brave enough to use it!

I'm expecting Ds2 in Sept, and think its one of those names that would be really cute on a tot and really cool on a teen.
What if he was a geek?!!

I love it!

Love it. Would be one of our shortlisted except for reminding us of a kid we both taught (hard choosing names when you are a teacher ).

If he is a geek, then he will be a geek whatever his name is

Those old fashioned names are all coming back now though! Stanley, Arthur, Alfie, George etc. Surely the geekiest names to give babies now are things like Trevor, Barry and Colin etc!

love it

I really like it, you'd have to buy this book about Stanley, it's fab!

DD would have been Stan, but short for Sebastian.

Hate it!

Risky.

love it - sidney as well

My mum had a cat called Stanley!!

I have never heard of this name before.

Love it. It's on my shortlist for ds1 if he ever makes it out of my imagination into reality!

umlellala was a joke, hence the

Like it. Quite a few round here, but it's not ubiquitous. Agree that some names - Barry, Alan, Roger - seem to have disappeared completely and unlikely to return!

I like it. But not shortened to Stan.

In our house, Stanley is shorthand for a period. When they were "courting", my parents had a friend called Stanley who always turned up at the most inconvenient moment and the name kind of got transferred. So I think my parents would weep laughing if I ever tried to call a DS that.

Without that personal history, though, it's actually quite a sweet name.