Please say the first thing that comes into your head when you hear this name

[coochicoo]

Walter

Breaking Bad, Walter Mitty.

Great uncle walter.

Mitty

And an apalling role for Bruce Willis in some godforsaken Blake edwards 'comedy' with Kim Basinger

Walter Swinburn the jockey (aka The Choirboy :o)

It was my granddad's name too - I really like it. I also think of the Sir Walters and the poet.

One more that I don't think has been mentioned. Wally de Backer aka Gotye (Gotye being a play on Gautier which is the French version of Walter).

Mitty - followed shortly by 'that's cruel'

An old American man-wealthy,aged banker sort.

Dennis the menace

"Wally"

"Oh god no, you couldn't do that to your son, whom you LOVE!"

sorry OP - my very first two thoughts!

old nerdy man

The guy from breaking bad (chemist gone bad)

zombie thread

Scrofulous tramp or scruffy paedophile looking man sat at his computer fiddling (I know, but that's honestly what came to mind).

Walter the softy.

Kronkite ( the newsreader who annoced that JFK had been shot)

The Softie

Walter Gabriel - old man from the Archers which I was forced to listen to during my childhood.

wally

Scott

the Beano

Sickhert, the turn of the century painter that some people think was Jack the Ripper.

(sorry!)

Sad skinny geeky American with Brown slacks, patterned shoes and probably not many friends (sort of a bit like Woody Allen on a bad day).

HTH, that's the vision that name conjures up for me. Please don't use it as a first name. He'd be destined to be a friendless librarian if you do.

softy - Beano

surely this child was named three years ago now?

I don't think associations should make that much difference really. The first thing that come into your head when you think of the name Anne may be Widdicombe or Princess, but once you meet another Anne who is a relative or becomes a friend, the others pale into insignificance and you don't think about them.

Wonder if the OP called her child Walter or not....she asked our opinion over 3 years ago