What do you think of Fairfax?

I like this name, even thou it’s bit short. I like it for a boy, but I don’t like that [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u] is a surname. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you think this might be too pet-like name? Like a horse name?

Any suggestions? Please, three-syllables or longer. I would use supersearch, but I can’t look for three-syllables names, because there’s some kind of glitch.

I grew up in [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u], [name_f]Virginia[/name_f] so I could never see it as a name on a child.

Isn’t that in [name_f]Virginia[/name_f]? I can’t see it as a name really :-/

I think of [name_f]Gwendolen[/name_f] [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u] rather than [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u], [name_f]Virginia[/name_f] but either way I don’t think it’s suitable as a name. It could potentially work in the middle name slot, but I’d ditch it as a first name.

This is actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I would love to meet a little boy named [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u]

I want to like [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u] but it does make me think of horses.

It could definitely work in the middle slot.

Names that have a similar feel:
[name_m]Abraxas[/name_m]
[name_m]Algernon[/name_m]
[name_m]Bartleby[/name_m]
[name_m]Beauregard[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Caradoc[/name_m]
[name_m]Fitzwilliam[/name_m]
Meriwether
[name_m]Montague[/name_m]
[name_m]Mortimer[/name_m]
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Peregrine[/name_m]
[name_m]Rutherford[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]

[name_u]Fairfax[/name_u] isn’t my type of name, though I would be pleased to meet a young [name_u]Fairfax[/name_u].

Here are some suggestions:
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]
[name_m]Marcellus[/name_m]
[name_m]Oliver[/name_m]
[name_m]Napoleon[/name_m]
[name_m]Montgomery[/name_m]
[name_m]Alphonso[/name_m]
[name_m]Archibald[/name_m]
[name_m]Matthias[/name_m]
[name_m]Simeon[/name_m]
[name_m]Theodore[/name_m]
[name_m]Leonardo[/name_m]
[name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m]
[name_m]Timothy[/name_m]
[name_m]Adrian[/name_m]
[name_m]Gabriel[/name_m]

I like it. I’d most likely use it as a middle. But they could call him Fair. Seems like there is a book I’ve read that the male character has that nick name.