Wilfred?

[jette]

I quite like the name Wilfred but I just emailed it to my DP and he was absolutely AGHAST.. I honestly don't think its that old/strange/bully-magnetising etc but then I'm not British..
Is it really so awful? Its the first name of your (second) greatest war poet..

I am not surprised that your DP is aghast!

I like it! Its my late grandads middle name and i think would be cute for a little one!

I rather like Wilf but not Wilfred, one of the few names where I would put the shortened form on the birth certificate.

My DS2 (11 months) is Wilfred and we call him Wilf or Wilfie for short. If he decides he wants to be Wil when he is a teenager then that's fine, the option is right there. When we announced it we had loads of rude screwed up faces and the occasional "Well, we weren't sure at first but it's growing on us" (PIL of course) which just incensed me... there is no way I'd turn my nose up at someone's new baby Jack or Thomas (for example) and say, "God how tedious."
Now it's just him and he's as cute as a button.
God it's really hard not to take it personally when your baby's name is slated en masse though isn't it!!!!

Have just found this thread my ds is a 12 year old Wilfred and my mum was surprised when we gave him that name... I was very moved by Wilfred Owens poems... the bizzare part of it is that we found out that our Wilf was deaf when he was 2 and a half and my late dh's first boss was a daf man called Wilfred... very spooky.....

Daf should read deaf!! Sorry

I wouldn't use it myself as I am too boring but I vaguely know two young Wilf'a who both seem very sweet. Both are white and strawberry blond, coincidentally.

Wilf'a ?! I meant Wilfs

well I love it. Am desperate to call my bump wilfred (due on Thursday) but dh is also aghast, as are my sisters and I am getting a lot of flack for it. Am probably going to have to give up the ghost. Hope you have more luck than me. Isn't Wilf just the cutest???

Wilfie is quite cute..........although it does make me think of moustaches (for some inexplicable reason).....but then maybe that's my problem, not yours!

One of ds1's peers at postnatal club was a Wilf and I was good friends with his mum for 5 yrs til we moved. I was a bit surprised by the name at first, but soon got used to it.

If you like it, go for it!

I like it, but it is very trendy. Old man names will be out of fashion in ten years.

Cranmorefifi dont give up go for it!!! I remember when my Wilfred was a baby reaching down to get him out of the playpen in the swimming pool changing room and saying "come on then Wilf" There was another little boy in the playpen and his mother looked horrifed and said " not another Wilfred?" and i replied with a grin "I know how awful someone else has chosen my sons name!!" and walked out!!

Wilfred Pickles = Steptoe

It is a great name.
Could be Will, Wilf or Fred.
I know a couple, it isn't that unusual now.

so many great combinations. So many possibilities but I think is a no go. Sooo annoying!

its okay but only if your giving birthday to a 90 year old man

are you?

I should hope she isnt giving birth to a 90 yr old,,,,,,,,, would be rather uncomfortable.................. Wonders why people make such silly comments???

Love it

Wilf is a fab name!

I love it, too. Was our choice for a boy's name but we had a girl. My parents and inlaws were grateful we had a girl, they hated the name so much. But we're having another, and if it's a boy, a Wilfy he shall be.

Yep! Love it! I got one,.. Wilf cally himself Wilfy. He gets Wilfred when he is being spoken too!

Wealso have an Edmund but he gets Ted ir Teddy

Wilf & Ted Brilliant!

not for me, sorry!

i'd be afraid he'd come out with a flat cap, pipe and slippers

This book made me laugh,.. its so so like my Wilf.............

www.amazon.co.uk/Watch-Out-Wilf-Jan-Fearnley/dp/184428509X