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I love Walter! It is tying for 3rd place on my list, and we were seriously considering using it on our son, except my mother strongly declared it to be an old man name. She thought it was just awful. As for nn, Walt isn't my favorite, but it doesn't really bother me. Wally is awful and reminds me of Willie... shudder.

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I love the -er names too, though not the ones you mentioned. I love Peter, Walter and Hector.

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Walter was a character name for Anne's dreamy artist son in the sequels to Anne of Green Gables, so was when I started to love that name. I think Lucy Maude Montgomery fantastic character names developed my early love of names.