Reuben or Edgar?

[Lovage]

Pro Reuben:
I like it lots!
Meaning - 'behold a boy!' apt for various reasons
Like 'Rube' as shortening
Our (godly) families will like it because biblical (we're not godly)

Anti Reuben:
He'd have to spell it quite often, which is an issue as already have surname he'll have to spell every time.
A bit posh? Surname is double barrelled, although each name only single syllable

Pro Edgar:
Seems practical and useful sort of name, easy to spell
Like 'Ed' as shortening
Nicely classless, go-anywhere-name (to my ear, although DP doesn't agree, he thinks it sounds similar to Reuben in class terms - upper middle ish)

Anti Edgar:
No particular reason for choosing it, apart from we like it and it might be better than Reuben
A bit macho? Important to us both not to have very traditional masculine name, would rather have neutral or slightly feminine name (which could describe Reuben as).

Any opinions? On class / macho-ness especially welcome.

Edgar is lush

Edgar posher than Reuben

Edgar sounds posh and dim to be.
Reuben is lovely and IMO it does not suggest any particular class.

Reuben, definitely

DS2 was gonna be Reuben if he hadn't turned out to be DD1!

Reuban!!!!

Reuben, definitely (was our choice for dd2 if she'd been a boy).

Reuben is interesting and perhaps a bit middle-class-y but not posh. It's not an ultra-macho name (like, I dunno, Tom or Dave) but it got past my dh's 'getting-the-shit-kicked-out-of-you-in-the-playground trial'. (That is, if telling people your name would result in you getting the shit kicked out of you in under about 30 seconds - think Gaylord, perhaps - then it wouldn't cut the mustard.)

Edgar to me sounds 'wetter' (for want of a better word) and much much posher. Edgar is a 'properly posh' name. It goes with a stately home and a love of fox-hunting (whereas Reuben goes with shabby home, lots of books, perhaps a bit arty).

Only very thick people would need to ask how to spell Reuben, surely. (It's really not a difficult name.) Whereas little Edgar would constantly get called Edward:

'I'm called Edgar'
'Edward?'
'No Edgar'
'Edward'
'No! EdGAR'
'Can I call you Ed?'
'[sigh]'

To sum up...

Go for Reuben!

Edgar is easier to pronounce in other languages, whereas I find the spelling of Reuben even in English unintuitive...

Sorry, but neither imo. Not keen on Reuben. My brother's middle name is Edgar, passed down through the family (my father has Edgar as a middle name too). My brother kicked/thumped me to bits when I revealed his middle name to his school friends when he was about 11 years old (he always told them he didn't have a middle name). Hurt like hell, but worth it!!

4 year old boy called edgar - i would like him before we had met!

When I think of Edgar, I think of the character in Wuthering Heights. He was sort of safe and colourless, lacking in passion and conviction. I think this is where the "wet" comments are coming from.

Reuben on the other hand brings to mind that great Belgium buttock painter Rubens (OK different spelling) or maybe Reubens Barichello, impetuous Brazilian F1 driver. Maybe a bit too much in the other direction?

Reuben is lovely name.
Edgar is awful....makes me think of a man with a big head for some reason.

Love Reuben, not very keen on Edgar I'm afraid

PMSL @ 'great Belgium buttock painter'

This is Edgar.

You have to go with the 'eldest of the children of Israel' - beautiful name!

Reuben is lovely. Edgar is a bit too dainty.

Prefer Reuben. Edgar a bit bookish. Also the snot in old comics

Reuben definately for me. I know a little Reuben and just think it's original without being too unusual. I don't think of it as upper class at all .... Unlike Edgar ... I would definately associate this with an upper class, and probably middle-aged, man.

I can spell Reuben to, so not sure how much of a problem that would be?

Reuben is gorgeous...not keen on Edgar..however, like Edwin, for some stange or not strange reason

I like Reuben, it's rather cool and completely classless, goood for a small boy, lad and man.

Edgar is a bulldog for me I'm afraid.

Edmund is one of my favourite boy's names.

I don't like either but Reuben is much the better of the two. I agree that Edmund is nice or even Edwin. Edward is lovely.

Oh, definitely Reuben. It does not go at all with our surname, otherwise we would have seriously considered it for dses. Sorry, but I really do not like Edgar. How about Edward? Much nicer.

What did you go with?
I've just had an Edgar, 3mths old and I'm sick of people saying
Edward?
no Eddar
oh that's unusual

grrrr!

Reuben

I dislike Rueben and Edgar.
Much prefer Robin and Edward but then maybe I'm a bit boring.

I'm not too keen on Edgar....