Vibe check: Julius

[SharpGoldWriter]

What does this name bring to mind? What time of child/family do you envision? (Thanks in advance - really helpful as we are are narrowing down names!)

Makes me think of Julius Caesar

Edited to add I would think the family were likely middle class and maybe the name comes across as a bit try hard. Sorry!

I like it. The dad was called “Julius” in the TV series “Everybody Hates Chris” and he was a nice character.

Caesar, obvs. And he'll probably be called Jules which I quite like. No strong thoughts on the family, although I'd say either chavvy or very posh...not so much the middle!

Laidback, quirky, clever. I didn't even think of Caesar, probably because he's generally known by that name, not Julius.

Lovely - I’d think baby Julius had siblings and cousins named Hector, Barnaby, Dougal ie middle class, but not out there posh like Merlin or Mungo which the very posh I know named their children. I imagine him dressed in mini boden and wearing bright colours with wild hair and the family gun dog is his best friend. I probably sound mad but you asked.

Julius - If we're going for total assumptions I would think posh, or at least pretentious without having had too much of the classical education that the 'old money' types seem to have. My reasoning for this is purely based on the Julius Caeser connotation - I imagine there are far more exciting Classical names to pick and someone who had been knee deep in ancient greek and Latin since twelve years old would have come up with a more interesting one.

There's also Julian, but that for some reason makes me think of a bed-wetter.

But that opinion says far more about me and my own prejudices and opinions than it does about you or your family; if you chose Julius (and presumably you like it if you're considering) he will soon just be 'your' Julius.

Provided it's not a ridiculous name (and it isn't) it really doesn't matter. Plenty of my friends kids have names on paper that paint a certain picture (some regularly get called out as 'stripper names' on here). When it's on an actual living breathing human who you know, it just becomes there name.

I think of this guy.

I wouldn’t really think anything. There was one in my child’s nursery class and they weren’t ‘posh’ at all! Just a regular family, the mum was Polish and the father was from Albania. We have a wide range of names where we live and nobody bats an eyelid.

Love it! I nearly called DD Augusta!

Slightly pretentious and try hard.

It reminds me of my favourite film pulp fiction. A classic name with a cool edge

When DD was little one of her friends was called Julius, I kept calling him Caesar but he didn't understand the reference. All the kids in his family had J names, all 10 of them!

I think of Julius the Paul Frank monkey

Difficult to pin a class on Julius, which is nice. I would think artsy / intelligent / bit off the wall family. I guess gives kind of crunchy vibes maybe?!

i didnt think of julius Caesar first, i thought of the dad from Everybody Hates Chris. No bad thing though

Julian makes me think of the Famous Five

My uncle who was shot by the Nazis!

What on earth are crunchy vibes?!

It made me think of a young man who was on Made in Chelsea who seemed quite up his own derrière.

One of my cats

Like a bit Montessori / waldorfy / all wooden toys and natural food. Like crunchy peanut butter / crunchy granola lol. Isn’t crunchy a thing in England? It’s used in Canada to mean the above

We named our ds this because he was born with dark curls that fell onto his forehead & DH said he looked like Julius Caesar. He’s in his 30s now.

Kind of love it

100% this! Daddy wears red cords and grandmama definitely lives in a run down country house

Hippy dippy eco types.

Thank you 😊 I geddit now!