Willoughby, Oscar or Albert?

[traceybath]

Currently pregnant with dc3 and already have an Arthur and a Henry.

Shortlist for DC3 if a boy is as follows:

• Oscar
• Albert (bertie or bert)
• Willoughby

Honest feedback please especially regarding Willoughby as DH convinced its not a proper name but one i've made up.

None of them. Re-jig Oscar and get braver version "Victor".

Willoughby makes me laugh. The cad from Sense and SEnsibility!

Albert. No. Just No.

like
oscar but really like Willoughby

Willoughby? Good grief. Think those p/g hormones are playing havoc with your taste and judgment. (It was a surname in Sense and Sensibility, btw, not a Christian name.)

Go for Willoughby, do.

None of them.

Especially not Willoughby.

I think Oscar has become a bit overused, and I really don't like Bert/Bertie (somehow a bit twee in my mind). I have a cousin Willoughby. It is a real name, just unusual (and originally derived from a surname, but then many names are). I wasn't sure about it at first, and I am sure he won't be best pleased when he starts school, but it does suit him. I think it would go well with Arthur and Henry. However if your dh isn't keen then you need to think of something else. Not many Williams around at the moment!

Willoughby -nooooo! Unless you are very aristocratic. Oscar is nice, Albert ok too. What about Digby? Cute, nn could be Digger.

oscar - yes, the rest nonononononononoooooo

Why Willoughby? It's 'orrid. Why not just William?

Willoughby is lovely (don't listen to the naysayers who probably have children called K Fed or Jayden) he can be Will for short.

My child isn't called K-Fed.

Willoughby is ponce-a-rama. He's only going to grow up to be Will, anyway. And then he will tell people his real name, and they will laugh

Willoughby fails my surname-used-as-first-name test (and fair enough if some poor lad is named after his great-great-great-uncle Sir Willoughby Ponsonby Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh, but that's still no reason to spread the misery). Oscar is nice but massively over-used (two in my daughter Melpomene's class). I like Albert, but if that's vetoed, how about Wilfred, Stanley or Harold?

My boy's name is K-Fed, what's wrong with that? eh?
What about:
Clement
Lawrence
Seymour
Hector
Orlando
Aubrey?

Is he called Jayden though Mrs Mattie?

There are plenty of names that are both first names and surnames (George, James, Charles, Scott etc etc) so I don't see that as reason not to use a name.

Quite like Willoughby but it is a surname and I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to use it (middle name perhaps ?)

Think Albert is to close to Arthur. Not so keen on Oscar and don't think its "old man" enough to go with your other names

How about ...

Stanley
Winston
Rufus
Hugo
Barney
Herbert (Bert/Herb)

Bertrand
Betram
Linus
Grover

George.
William.
Marcus.
Edward.
Edmund.
Frances.

willoughby-lolololololol

Not Frances though seeker - Francis.

No he is not Jaden, Kayden or flamin' Hayden!@georgiemama!

PMSL@Linus.

Good God.

georgiemama! What a bizarre typo for me to make when my mother, my dd and I all have Frances as a second name after my grandfather Francis!

I must have been so worried at the prospect of some poor child being called Willoughby.......!

Fab cad he was, though. One of the best. Much better than Wickham!

Arthur, Henry and Oscar.

Any name that isn't Alfie, Riley, Charlie, Tyler or ends in aden is deemed poncey by some here.

Don't think some people realise just how many names were actually originally surnames.
Willoughby has been a first name for 100s of years.

Pah, my other boy is Linus. Linus and K-Fed.

K - Fed

be careful you'll be giving some people ideas