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Wolfgang
What do you think of Wolfgang? Is it too much for a first name, do you think? I've grown more fond of it lately.
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I like it as a mn, but not a fn. If you want a Mozart-reference fn, you might get away with Amadeus "Deus". Or just something random for a fn, mn Wolfgang, and nn Wolf.
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I like it too. It'n on my PNL, AAMOF. I think you could use it as long as you called him Wolf.
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I prefer Wolfram.
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I like that name, thank you. :)
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I don't see it as usable. The Mozart connection is cool and all, but for English speaking people, it's the words "wolf" and "gang" put together. A wolf gang. Great. And what could you call him for short? Wolfie? My daughter actually considered this for a brief time, because she's a great admirer of Mozart. In general I stayed out of her and her husband's name considerations, knowing the choice wasn't mine to make, but in the case of Wolfgang I felt that I had to step in and strongly advise against it.Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli got away with it because they're celebrities, so their son, as the child of celebrities, would probably be immune to the ridicule an ordinary child would be subject to. And aren't celebrities supposed to be quirky and different? But for the average child, yes, it's too much.
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Fair enough. :) I wouldn't be using the name after Mozart, though people keep assuming that. My strongest tie to the name would be Goethe, the writer.
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I think it would be too much as a first name. It would be a cool middle name though. I like that it has Mozart as a namesake too.
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I think it is too much. I want to like it because it has a cool out there vibe, but at the same time it seems too strange and I don't like how it looks like two words put together.
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Well, I'm from Germany, where the name kind of comes from. For me it's more than old fashioned. The men I know who are called Wolfgang are all 40+ if not 50+. "Wolf" has the same meaning in Germany as in English speaking countries and we also know the word "gang", even though it's got a different meaning (you could translate it as "corridor" - I think BTN is wrong here with "path"), still nobody laughes at those who are called Wolfgang.
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I really like old fashioned names. All of my favourites, from English speaking countries or not, seem to be this way. :)
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