2 days to go and 2nd thoughts on Edwin

[beccas]

Please give me your opinions on Edwin....
Do you think it is

• quite normal now that you come to hear it and therefore you like it
• totally old fashioned and not suitable for a baby

I have an elective on Thur, don't know the sex, and whilst I'm 100% on our girls name, I am totally not sure on our boys choice.

Full name would be Edwin Albert Thain surname.
Thain being my late grandmother maiden name, I actually would love it as a 1st name, but I'm not that bold!.
Albert was DH late father's middle name, and whilst I like it, he hated it so the reference to Grandpa is more that he hated his name. Though perhaps he'll be up there laughing !
Both died last year, so if its a boy, the middle names are definite, but its the Edwin bit I am worried about.
Honesty appreciated, even though I have posted about Edwin before....

I think Edwin is awful tbh and with another old man name following as well.

Thain would be fantastic as a first name imo-much superior to Edwin& also sounds great with Albert as a middle mane.

I think anyone who calls their baby Edmund/Edward/Edwin etc should be prepared for the fact that all the kid's friends are going to call him Ed or Eddie as soon as he's old enough to go to school. All kids shorten all names wherever possible!!

In saying that, both Ed and Eddie are pretty nice, innocuous names. So if by some chance your DS ends up not liking being called Edwin (even after you play him some classic Orange Juice records!!), he can just use Ed or Eddie and it won't end up being a problem for him.

Well i am biased as my DS2 is called Edwin - he is 18 now and it has always suited him. I musy have been ahead of my time with the old lady/man chic lol. He gets called Ned as a nn

I really like it.

It's not one of my favourites, I'm afraid.

I think I commented on your earlier thread. Edwin is a fine name. My cousin (now in his thirties) is an Edwin, and mostly is known as Edwin (I can't remember him ever being known as anything else). He's a pretty cool guy, creative and comfortable in his own skin. Edwin is good because it can be totally normalised if you don't want to stand out (Ted/Ed etc) or be that little bit different if that works for you.

No, not for me at all. It sounds like a name for a peevish, sickly aristocrat in a fairy tale. However, there will always be people who don't like the name you pick and the important thing, imo, is that you love it without reservation and can trumpet the name with pride. Everyone who counts in your child's life will start to like the name simply because it is associated with your lovely baby, even if they started out thinking OMG what a stinker of a name. There are names that I now have a soft spot for because friends used them and I love them and their kids that I never imagined I could find remotely likeable! But to repeat, you've gotta love it. There's an awful "embarrassed about telling people my baby is called Xavier" thread at the moment. I think that must be terrible. I love telling people my children's names. I don't care if they don't like them because I genuinely think in every fibre of my being "No, no, no you're wrong!"

Anyway, all this might be beside the point now, if you're cradling a newborn girl as we type. Hope everything went well.

Edwin's a nice name - and for what it's worth, I have taught a 'Thane' in primary school - he's probably about 10 now. Also a nice name.