Roman

[mrsout]

Ooooh, little boy at DD nursery called Roman, what a lovely name! Manly and brave like a soldier. Wish I had thought of it.

I really like this actually.

I like it. I know a couple.

I don't like it

Polanski. Or am I showing my age?

I know two and I'm afraid I think it's a bit trailer park.

Is it? God I've never heard of it before! To be honest, when I first heard the teacher calling him I thought she said "Raymond!" Ah, I thought, must be named after a grandad.

I know one, he has a sister with a equally horrendous name.

I was thinking Polanski - must be old too.
Don't like it. I know a little girl called Romany though which I think is worse

I did once hear 2 people talking on a bus about a mutual friend called Caesar.

nice and surprisingly popular too

Nope, don't like it tbh.

It's 25% too feminine, 25% trying too hard
25% silly, 25% that other word that crops up on the names board with some regularity. But apart from that I love it.

I know this might be quite weird, but I prefer Raymond. It shows braver parents iyswim. Not trying to be cool. Just confident in their own (generally perceived to be horrible) taste.

I knew a Red once, it was short for Raymond. So that makes me think of Raymond as a 'usable' name.

I don't think we ought to name out children in order to illustrate out courage.......!

o bother, i used to like roman and dh is refusing to consider anything else - this thread is confirming my fears

Roman is a common name for children of russia/british marriages as it is a name in both. Russians pronounce it roMAN.

Abramavich.

It would depend on the surname tbh.

I like the name Roman but despise Roman Polanski, so I could never use it.

WEll I wanted to call my son Bruce at one point and I just simply wasn't brave enoguh.

I think I hadn't the chutzpah to go with a name that I knew most other people weren't ready for. (I still think it would have been a good choice and that by the time he would be an adult it would have become more 'normal' iyswim')

I wouldn't just pull a name out of a bag, Brutus, there, that proves I'm brave, ey?!?

But it's not you that has to have the chutzpah it it? It's your child!