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Theodore Sidney George

I love the name Theo and wanted it for ds2 and ds3.........everyone i knew kept going on about the guy from the cosby show and saying it was a name for a black baby In the end i was too much of a wimp to stick to my guns and go for Theo as everyone seemed so aginst it......but ds 3 did end up as Leo! If i had had my way though, he would have been Theo Jude.

with dc4, we will be keeping our name ideas to ourself

i love theo - but my partner didn't. good job with had a girl or i would have argued with him.

its a lovely name

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I love the name. :D I was considering it but I think we'll be sticking with our original choice, Tobias.

Also- Germans pronounce it Tay-o as well! My husband is from Germany and when I originally suggested the name, he popped up with some song that I now can't get out of my head. http://theo-wir-fahren-nach-lodz-vicky-leandros-mp3-download.kohit.net/_/28896 in case you're interested.

mutt!

dp is the antithesis of poncetastic so he gets away with it!

Personally no I do not like it

Ria..."Tay-o?" lol

Surely that's just poncetastic.

Yes, Theo is cool.

dp calls our Theodore 'Tay -o' so much cooler

Love it. V popular in france at the mo - is a top 10 name. Is pronounced Tay-o there though

on the strength of this thread, I asked DH what he thought of the name Theodore (should we have another son) and he likes it too - hurrah!

uh,yes, ds does get called that by a friend

It reminds me of Theo Paphitis - but I think I spend too much time watching reruns of Dragons Den on Dave!

There was a boy at my primary school who had a brother called Theo, I liked it then. He would have been born... um... 1990 ish?

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great minds Maryannsingleton!

my Theo was 1997 ! still the only one in his primary and secondary school,though there is a Theodore - but his name is never shortened.

I think it's lovely.

Theo William
Theo James
Theo Patrick

my theodore 1996 got there before the crowds!

I love Theo. I see it as a short form of Theophilus. Theo(philus) Henry James is nice.

DS is Theo Adam (not Theodore).

It is climbing the popularity charts but still isn't in the top 50, so there aren't all that many - depends what circles you mix in I suppose.

There aren't any others at DS's very large nursery, nor amongst our circle of toddler acquaintances.

DS2 was going to be Theo as a "Birth Certificate" name because I wanted to call him Teddy. But when he was born he was too much of a big bruiser to be a Teddy. So he's called Dewi Henry Theo.

No. Theo is a big, fat Greek bloke.

<disclaimer: nowt actually wrong with big, fat or Greek blokes - just wouldn't want one peering out of a cot at me>

Oh its a lovely name. It would have been dd's name (born 2001) had she been a boy.

BUT by the time we did have a DS (2003) we decided against Theo because they were springing up everywhere.

Its a lovely name, but there are lots of them about nowadays ime.

(Speaking as one whose girl and a boy both have names currently in the top 2 or 3 most "common" names in the UK. Sigh.)

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