I suggested Hugo to my DP this morning and he said (rather oddly i think) that we don't have the right background for a 'Hugo'!! [hmm]

[sparklesandnowinefor5months]

I didn't realise there was a right or wrong 'background' for names - am i missing something??

I don't know, but in some places I have felt odd bellowing 'Toby'!

sparkles, i have to say that when i hear a name i do have associations i make with it, and the associations do sometimes include what i suppose i call class. i am about this but it does happen.

i would consider hugo quite a 'posh' name and it seems your dh might have the same associations?

It's not something to be proud of though! if you like the name, work on him...

He means it's posh and he doesn't think you both are!
Maybe he thinks it means your dc will be beaten up at school? I don't think it would, by the way.

dh also dismissed Hugo for the same reason, we are not Hugo people lol.

it's either posh or Vicar of Dibley and neither of which appeal to me!

MsDemenor - i think thats exactly what he means! No we're not posh and we're not rich - but we live in a nice (dare i say) desirable village and i don't think its a name that would be 'out of place' in that respect, if thats the way he's thinking i suppose i just don't really think like that

thing is i wouldn't push it if he didn't like the name but he does

odd man

lol @ Vicar of Dibly

if he likes it then tell to not be silly

It's a nice name. Quite posh, yes, but that could be an advantage in life, not a disadvantage.

I have a Hugo See my profile pic of him.

My mum said much the same thing when he was named, "well we could never, ever have used it"

I love it, he is called Hugs alot of the time.

i have a hugo. it suits him.

We shall keep thinking but it will go on the list

guess i hadn't really thought about 'posh' names in reflection to us

I can relate to this. DH vetoed Alice for dd because he thought it too aristocratic. We're not Wayne and Waynetta Slob but neither are we posh and so he seemed to think it would be social climbing to claim the name Alice. I didn't share his views about the class issues but as we could agree on another name (which, frankly, I would say is posher if one really has to rate everything on a poshometer) we chose that one instead. But Alice was my grandmother's name and I still regret not using it.

Good job we never had a boy, as I'd always wanted to call any son Henry Hugo Valentine!

lol we have a Henry which i think is no less posher ( can i say that??) than Hugo

Oh yes one of my favouritist MNers who has trundled onto this thread has an adorable Hugo and as I love her more than gingerbread she'll forgive me for saying she isn't at all posh.

I have a Hugo and we aren't very posh! He is adorable and cuddly and we call him 'go-go' when he dances. I think it is a gorgeous name but then I am biased...

The only Hugo I knew comes from a family with staff (lot of)

My elder nephew (my sister's first child) is a Hugo.

She chose it because it works well in both English and French - in fact, it has been at the top of the popular first names list in France for several years.

Hugo is a fab name. I have a friend from Brazil called Hugo.
We couldn't have it for our boys because our surname ends in -go to so would sound stupid.
It doesn't strike me as a name from any particular background.

I like it and I think it is posh
Fab name

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