Active discussions

Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Can't make up our mind - Edward or Cameron?

54 replies

Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:05

Or something else??
We already have a Leo and DS2 is due in April. He has been nominally named Edward (Ed/Teddy/Eddie etc) for a while now, but now we're not too sure.
Any thoughts/opinions would be gatefully received.
We are Australian, so cultural significance is irrelevant as far as I can see.
Robert would be middle name regardless of first name.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
TheFallenMadonna · 18/02/2009 15:06

Edmund.

My second recommendation for that name today

Like both yours too...

MrsMattie · 18/02/2009 15:07

They're quite different names. Cameron is more modern and 'surnma-ey'. Edward very traditional. neither as nice as leo, in all honesty Sorry!

MrsMattie · 18/02/2009 15:07

'surname-ey', sorry

nkf · 18/02/2009 15:07

Edward.

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:09

I totally agree MrsMattie. Have spent my whole pregnancy searching in vain for a name I love like I loved Leo.
TFM, I do like Edmund, but DH really really doesn't like it

OP posts:
2pt4kids · 18/02/2009 15:09

Oh definitely Edward!
DS2 is an Edward (Teddy) and it was a close call between that and Leo right up until he was born, so we must have similar taste in names!

Cameron sounds a bit (dare I say it) chavvy to me

TheFallenMadonna · 18/02/2009 15:11

Alastair
Patrick
Alec

I'm a bit rubbish with names really. We spent very little time going over them for our two. We just loved the ones we used from the off.

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:13

2.4, I really want to hear opinions and I promise not to ask for them and then flounce when I get them!

OP posts:
mloo · 18/02/2009 15:14

I don't like either, but Cameron is very popular choice ime. I much
prefer Edgar.

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:16

You guys are pretty spot-on in terms of the kinds of names I like! Alistair was right at the top of the list, but a cousin has just had a boy and lo-and-behold...Alisdair!

OP posts:
HollyGoHeavily · 18/02/2009 15:17

Edward - classic and good for a male of all ages.

Cameron doesn't do it for me - it's too 'now' and it is more common as a girls name round these parts...

TheFallenMadonna · 18/02/2009 15:17

Damn!

DD would have been Alastair...

2pt4kids · 18/02/2009 15:18

You could have Theodore and still shorten it to Teddy?

How about

Patrick
Oliver
Gabriel
Nathanial (Nate)?

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:19

I like Patrick too, but our surname is a word, so Pat xxxx make me think of someone patting a xxxxx.
Edgar sounds particularly bad with an Australian accent I'm afraid. Our accents are very mild, but I have to always test it out in a Steve Erwin type accent in case it makes my skin crawl.

OP posts:
Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:20

I like Theodore, but then I'd have Theo and Leo

OP posts:
2pt4kids · 18/02/2009 15:21

Oh yes

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 15:23

Wow - had never thought of Cameron as a "now" type name.
I guess I thought of Edward as an oldie English type name, and Cameron as an oldie Scottish name. I guess it's the Diaz factor that has made it trendy and feminised it?

OP posts:
yellowflowers · 18/02/2009 17:01

I love Edward- so many variations too - Ed, Ned, Ted, Woody, Eddie

wideratthehips · 18/02/2009 17:09

shouldn't have read this thread!

we have a cameron, i always thought it sounded rather handsome and steady. disappointed to hear that it is considered 'chavvy' and now.

we used it because of the scottish connection

loobylu3 · 18/02/2009 17:20

Prefer Edward personally. Not overly keen on Cameron.

notsoteenagemum · 18/02/2009 17:26

Why don't you have Robert as the first name, I think Robert Edward sound better than Edward Robert. Not sure about Cameron can't help thinking of David.

Original poster
Bubbaluv · 18/02/2009 17:30

Robert is Dh's name and I just can't cope with 2 of them - I already call Dh by DS's name vice-versa as well as throwing the dog's name about a bit from time to time. It would be too much for my poor brain.
I also say "good dog" to DS from time to time

OP posts:
jellybeans · 18/02/2009 21:32

Cameron is nicer IMO.

Finona · 18/02/2009 22:15

Cameron is not chavvy - and no I don't have one
It's very common in Scotland to call a male child after a surname i.e. Cameron, Fraser, and also as surnames are often placenames, you therefore get Moray, Angus etc.
Slight hijack but hearing a good Scottish name called chavvy makes me
Of your two, I prefer Cameron.

angrypixie · 18/02/2009 22:29

We have a Teddy - scrumptious name