Kester?

[ShortButNotSweet]

What do you think of the name Kester (for a boy, obviously)?

I hate to be rude, but it's awful. Sorry.

dreadful sorry

Not for me.

hideous - sorry
Is it made up ?

I don't like it at all. Sorry.

I think it's nice

I like Kester. There was a Kester in my sisters year at school. Quite a nice kid.

Sorry, not one for me, have to agree with suwoo

and not made up - is a diminutive of Christopher

(I only know this from Chalet School books!)

Kester is an old English version of Christopher.

Love, love LOVE it! but DH vetoed...

It is not made up...

No, not made up. Diminutive of Christopher.

Dreadful.

Somebody suggested Kit a few days ago, as a shortening of Christopher. I like that much more.

Sorry EachPeach!

I know it from the Chalet school books too. There are loads of us obsessives out there...

I think it is quite nice actually.

Awful name. Sounds made-up.
Made me think immediately of uncle Fester.

ditto bonneville, what i was going to write but she had already said it!

There's a rather creepy & manipulative Kester (based on Richard II) in a quite good Susan Howatch novel - that'd put me off.

Christopher with Kit for short?

Yup me too re Uncle Fester - as soon as I read title I thought of Adams Family - sorry. Love Kit.

I really like it!

nope

It's not made up, it's Old Testament.

fwiw I know a 9 yr old called this. He keeps his hair very long and is very often mistaken for a girl because nobody has ever heard of the name before.

I knew a Kester at school - like it much!

Truly awful

I think it is lovely
mainly because as a child I was in love with Kester Woodseaves the weaver from Precious Bane