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Fox?

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greenzebra · 06/03/2011 15:12

My DH and I have been thinking about more unusal names and came up with Fox today, what you guys think. Can a kids have a name like Fox today?

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SueWhite · 06/03/2011 15:13

No.

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MrClaypole · 06/03/2011 15:24

Double no.

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ExitPursuedByABear · 06/03/2011 15:25

And another no from me. So that's three no's then....

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collision · 06/03/2011 15:25

No

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BuzzLiteBeer · 06/03/2011 15:25

No. God, no. What are you thinking?

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MaryBS · 06/03/2011 15:25

Boy or girl? Either way, my vote would be no, but I think it would be worse for a girl (thinking "foxy")

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collision · 06/03/2011 15:26

Imagine if he is a shy little boy with a big weird name he has to live up to.

He will not thank you for it in the long term.

Max
Rex
Alex

if you like the x bit and use Fox as a nickname but do not saddle him with an odd name forever.

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BluddyMoFo · 06/03/2011 15:27

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Tolalola · 06/03/2011 15:27

Noooooooooo! Grin

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gallicgirl · 06/03/2011 15:29

Funnily, I am watching X-Files right now. Fox Mulder isn't quite as sexy with a beard.

Oh and there's Fantastic Mr Fox - get your bandit hat out Grin

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WhereTheWildThingsWere · 06/03/2011 15:30

I know someone who called their baby girl Fox and their surname was Hunter.

I do not jestShock.

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meditrina · 06/03/2011 15:36

There's also the character in Minette Walters' "Fox Evil".

I don't really like it as a name. You could try it as a nn? Maybe for Reynard?

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TaurielTest · 06/03/2011 15:37

for Fox sake, no!

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 06/03/2011 15:38

You are obviously too young to know remember Citizen Smith or you would avoid it.

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meditrina · 06/03/2011 15:52

Citizen Smith? Wolfie

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cloudydays · 06/03/2011 16:04

Grin puddock

What about a normal first name starting with F, and middle name Xavier with Fox as a nickname?

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2cats2many · 06/03/2011 16:08

Awful.

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deliakate · 06/03/2011 16:10

Sort of a cool nn, but not to be on the birth cert imo

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littlepigshavebigears · 06/03/2011 16:11

I like it Blush

but then I like Rainbow for a girl

Have you considered Felix?

Or you could use something like Frederick and use Fox as nn

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DramaInPyjamas · 06/03/2011 16:14

In my head I like it.
In RL, not so much.

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ExitPursuedByABear · 06/03/2011 16:15

But in Citizen Smith wasn't it the girlfriend's mother who always called him Foxy instead of Wolfie Grin

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meditrina · 06/03/2011 16:34

Was it?

Then greenzebra could reverse that, name him Wulfric and have Fox as the nn.

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Onion1968 · 06/03/2011 19:00

my hairdresser has a son called Fox and for the 7 years I have known her I have thought it was a cruel, ridiculous name. Unusual is nice, the name of an animal like that is not. What next, sisters called Bat and Lemur?????

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ItsJustAName · 06/03/2011 20:58

For Fox sake, no! lol

Sorry, it is not a name for a human.

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saffy85 · 06/03/2011 21:09

Why would you name a person that? Confused

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