I thought of Basil Brush when I saw the thread title

But I agree with Bath in the sense that neither the Fawlty Towers reference or the Basil Brush cartoon reference will be big with his peers... so really its probably a non issue

I think it sounds fabulous with your surname... and agree with Suse - its definately a little retro & its also a name for someone with a definate personality

FWIW - I think its amazing if it has special meaning for you and its an older name.
We named our little man Carmelo as its tradition in DH's family to name the first born son after the paternal grandfather. If we had elected not to give him that name, we would have broken 76 generations of 'Carmelo's'... there was no way I was going to do it - but also, its lovely that he has DH's dads name - and it means a LOT to DH that we chose to give it to him.
And we both like it anyway... it was a decision we didn't even think about! (Probably wouldn't have been so easy if his name was Bruno or another Italian name similar )

If you & DH both like it, do it
He will get different things anyway (like Baz... or like you said with Harriet getting Harry, Barry, Larry etc :lol)

FIL gets Charles instead of Carmelo a lot... and a lot of my family refer to our Carmelo as Charlie...

I say if you both like it, go for it