What do you think of Osian?

[ohnelly]

What do you think of Osian as a boy's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.

i know an Osian... Osh-an, his mum is welsh and he is absolutely lovely!!!!! He is usually called Osh... Go for it!

It's awful
and possibly welsh?
Why would you do that to a child?

Ahem, unless you were welsh...

What's wrong with it? It's yet another perfectly good, absolutely genuine name that because some people haven't heard of before, they leap to assume it's made up and therefore chavvy or pretentious. The only potential problem is that the poem cycle is spelt 'Ossian', so people might assume that it should have two 's's rather than one, though one looks better, if you ask me.

I have a friend whose baby is called Osian, I love it. I had never heard it before him, but apparently it is getting more and more popular in Wales (his mum is Welsh). They say 'Oshan'

I think at first it sounded odd because it was new to me and then you just get over it and that's what he is called and you don't think about it. I think it sounds very masculine.