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This is growing one me. I find it elegant, yet simple and clean, but is it maybe a bit pretentious?
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I know a boy who's nearly one year old with this name. I must admit it's not a name I ever thought about that much, before I met him! I quite like the name now.
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It's not pretentious at all, seriously. I much prefer Viktor, though. Victor looks very feminine to me indeed, most likely because of Victoria. Just dropping the "ia" from the end isn't enough to change the gender for a name, at least for my preferences. Also, whenever I see Victor I (for unknown reasons) want to pronounce is VIS-tor. Viktor is so dramatically masculine and eastern European that I see no confusion. My favorite combo is Viktor Constantine.
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Victor is growing on me, too! I really like it. I don't really care if names sound "pretentious."
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Always loved it!
I've loved this name since I was a little kid, and I still love it as much as I did then! I don't think it's pretentious at all. It really is elegant, simple, and clean.
I've loved this name since I was a little kid, and I still love it as much as I did then! I don't think it's pretentious at all. It really is elegant, simple, and clean.
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I like it. It's known, but not overly used. I love to see / hear these kinds of names being rediscovered.
As an aside, I love the combinaiton Victor Emmanuel. There was an Italian king with this name once. I think from the north, Savoy, but don't quote me on that. I thought that was an inspired combination of names. Victor I usually think of as hard and rugged. I wouldn't have thought that a soft name like Emmanuel would would work with it. But to me it really comes together nicely. Perhaps the king is too well known to use this combination for a real kid -- hopefully not. But I just had to mention it.
As an aside, I love the combinaiton Victor Emmanuel. There was an Italian king with this name once. I think from the north, Savoy, but don't quote me on that. I thought that was an inspired combination of names. Victor I usually think of as hard and rugged. I wouldn't have thought that a soft name like Emmanuel would would work with it. But to me it really comes together nicely. Perhaps the king is too well known to use this combination for a real kid -- hopefully not. But I just had to mention it.
This message was edited 6/26/2008, 12:50 PM
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there were 3 of them
They started out as kings of Piedmont of the Savoy dinasty, then Victor Emanuel II became king of the whole of Italy when the country united in 1860s. I think it would be a rather infortunate combo on a real kid, esp. one part-Italian as my hypothetica future kids would be, lol. Victor Emanuel III was king during WWII and has a terrible reputation because he allowed Mussolini to become dictator and fled the country after the Allied invasion.
I do like Emanuel as well very much, incidentally.
They started out as kings of Piedmont of the Savoy dinasty, then Victor Emanuel II became king of the whole of Italy when the country united in 1860s. I think it would be a rather infortunate combo on a real kid, esp. one part-Italian as my hypothetica future kids would be, lol. Victor Emanuel III was king during WWII and has a terrible reputation because he allowed Mussolini to become dictator and fled the country after the Allied invasion.
I do like Emanuel as well very much, incidentally.
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I like it!
My son (6) likes it too. It's one of the names he like to say he is going to change his name to when he grows up :0)
I think it's very handsome.
My son (6) likes it too. It's one of the names he like to say he is going to change his name to when he grows up :0)
I think it's very handsome.
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