What names give the nickname Ted?

[LizzyIzzyLou]

I love Ted but DH hates Edward (too posh for us apparently )

Are there any other names we can use instead?

Every Ted I have ever known has been an Edward.

Terence?
Edmund/Edwin?

Theodore. Then he can be Theo or Ted/Teddy.

I went through this exact dilema.

We just called him Ted on his birth certificate, not short for anything.

He is just Ted! I love the name and it really suits him.

he gets called Ted or Teddy

I do like Theodore and did consider having that on his bc but decided that for me it was just a tad too pretentious.

Just saw your name - my daughter is called Lizzy!

Edward or Theodore

I really like the name Edward and it definitely isn't "too posh"

Bigted, I have a Ted too and he is just Ted on his birth certificate.

We LOVE the name too!

I would just go for Ted then like bigted, I think it's a lovely name on its own. I have a Theo but we didn't go for Theodore.

monicker2 you are the only other person I have "met" with a real, undiluted Ted!

I am secretly hoping the name will NOT catch on in a big way!

Me too! In fact I hate it when I hear of other Teds, but I'll let you off

My other ds is Noah and that's getting really popular too

I would just go for Ted. There is a Teddy near me, not short for anything. Short names are usual now, more common if anything.

The only problem we have with Ted is that our surname is a one syablle three letter word. So together it sounds a very short name, do you think thats a problem

I spoke to DH and he likes Ted by itself even with our short surname - yay!!

I love Ted and so does DH but he doesn't think it's 'right' as a name on its own, even though we'd call a boy Ted from day 1. And we don't like any of the names for which its a diminutive. However, I did find Tedmund, which is Anglo-Saxon and would match our other DC's names, but DH vetoed that too . Lizzy, you can always give him a 3-syllable 2nd name to compensate

His middle name would be Albert ermintrude, after my late father.

Do you Ted Albert is too much of an old mans name though?

How about Teddington or Tedric ? These are both names that DS1 gets called, though his birth certificate name is Edward. My mum's Uncle Ted was really an Edmund.

I like Albert but I think you should drop the Ermintrude.

singersgirl, that is bizarre. Our Edward also gets called Teddington and Tedric, often, all the time.

Just realised you may actually think I'm going to use Ermintrude, I'm not. I was just responding to the poster called Ermintrude

No Lizzy, just kidding.....

Tedbar.

lol @ Albert Ermintrude. That would certainly get him noticed . I think the whole point is that they are consciously old-fashioned names - Anglo-Saxon in origin and Victorian in terms of most recent popularity - (and Albert is another favourite of mine - I had great-uncles Ted and Albert) so would be better than something modern. Ted Shane? Ted Darren? I don't think so.

If I had another boy I always thought I'd call him Kentigan, just to see peoples' faces when I said he was Mungo for short but DH won't allow it. Maybe just as well. (look him up, he's a Scottish saint)

I think Ted works great with a short surname. It's a good name on it's own. Lol at Ermuntrude, I thought you were considering it too