I automatically think of it as an old person's name because it is my grandpa's name and he is the only
Harold I've met plus it ends in old so I don't think that helps. And I'm not too fond of the nickname
Harry, I think hairy, which sounds gross. Oddly it never occurred to me that
Harry is the logical nickname until I heard somebody my grandpa kind of knows call him
Harry and I laughed so hard. The thought never occurred to me because everyone who really knows him calls him by his middle name and everyone who doesn't know him is proper and calls him
Harold or Mr. B______. I do find
Harrison a bit charming and may use it as a middle name for a son someday to honor my grandfather because we are really close. His full name is
Harold Dewayne "
Wayne".