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[searlait.livejournal.com]

Thoughts on the name 'Harry'? Not from a Harry Potter standpoint. It sounds nice in theory, like old fashioned names on babies/young children, but I don't know how I'd feel about having a teenaged son named Harry, whereas Gabriel makes me happy all around.

I just can't find a plethora of boy's names I like, which is making me sort of worry about having a bunch of sons. Two I could handle, with middle names, but three? No way. There's not enough boy's names to go around.

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[sailorneptune.livejournal.com]

I'm a francophone and all my life, my mother forbade my sister and I from giving ANYTHING an English name, be it a pet or a stuffed animal. She would go off on a tangent about how we weren't proud of our language, that our people fought so hard for and fought so hard to keep, etc. etc.
She even went as far as telling us, "If you give your child an English name, I won't have anything to do with them. It will be such an insult."

Then, when I became pregnant, we were talking on the phone, and she said to me, "You know what boy name I like? Harry."

????????????

But, she had an uncle named Harry who passed away very recently, and my grandma (her mom) was very close to him.
I don't know.

Personally I like the name, but I couldn't use it, because my significant other would associate it with "Faerie Potter", as he calls it.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

"If you give your child an English name, I won't have anything to do with them. It will be such an insult."

No offense to you or your mother, but that's pretty harsh. I would be so mad at my mother if she ever told me that.

I don't think I could use it either even though I think it's sort of sweet and nice. I think it's another name banished to the Future Pet pile.

[sailorneptune.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I was quite insulted when she said that to me. That she would have nothing to do with her grandchild if he or she had an English name? Jesus...

But no. My significant other is anglophone and odds are, our son will have an English name (or, at the very least, a bilingual name)... and my mom is fine with it now.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, your mother's the language police! XD

Sorry, I just think it's funny. Maybe what you could do is give the kid an English and a French name, but the French name would have to come first, and the English name would have to be smaller.

My grandpa's francophone, and he wanted to name my mum Gertrude.

...I don't know, my family's insane.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

I think Harry's ok. It makes me think of rugby-playing posh boys though.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I agree, I could name two boys happily but three?.. i'd struggle and then feel bad that I didn't love son number 3's name enough.

I think harry is perfectly fine as a baby/teenager/man. I know people of all ages called harry and it definitely works on teenagers.

[bluekoala.livejournal.com]

Oh, I always pronounced words like Harry with a very very flat a, as in Dad, and I'm American.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I prefer the English way of Harry, not the American.
Had I been born a boy, I would have been Harry, which is unfortunate because we live in Canada, so it wouldn't sound nearly as nice.
I really like it though!

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I really like it. Actually, I like the name Henry with Harry as a nn.

[moldycelery.livejournal.com]

I like it as a nick-name for Henry, but not on it's own. And honestly, I wouldn't associate it with Harry Potter, despite the books being so famous. It's a regular name in it's own right, and there have been loads of other people named Harry.

Hermione, on the other hand...

[minimepending.livejournal.com]

I don't like it much as it's my husbands (slightly funny though mostly crude) uncle's name. And our last name? Butts. Yeah, think about it.

[coolteamblt.livejournal.com]

I don't like it much simply because of the hairy/Harry sound alike in the US. I do like how the Brits say it, though. Also, if I was going to use it, I would name him Henry and call him Harry. Harry just doesn't sound formal enough to me.

And thirdly, I could easily name three or four boys by myself, it's getting my fiance and I to agree on a second boy name, let alone a third one, that'll be the hard part.

[easter.livejournal.com]

I really, really like the name.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I like Harry on a kid, but not an adult. I like it as a nickname for Henry, because Harry works on a kid, but he could be Hank or Henry when he gets older, which fit teenagers/adults a lot better, at least in my opinion.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

I love it on it's own, but I would have to use it as a nn for Henry cause the the Harry Potter connotations are too strong for me!

I could easily name about 7 or 8 boys with names I loved. The problem is getting the BF to agree with them! So far we're upto two fmeale names, and no male names! Haha.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

Lol I always think of hair when I see Harry...I'm so literal. Its an alright name.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

I like it.

Maybe you can't see Harry on a teenager now, but if you named your child that and saw him grow up to be a teenager I doubt you would see him as anything else.

Gabriel is also super cute. My cousin's name is Gabriel and he goes by Gabe.