Hi,
I'm currently pregnant with number 2 (another boy) and I think DS1 has a very sweet name. Obviously we are now thinking of names again and it's so difficult to get a name that is a proper name but not too common.
I was born in Southeast Asia and my parents' generation has the knack of naming their kids really old-fashioned British names (where I grew up used to be a British colony) such as Evelyn, Adrian, Wendy, Vivien, Cinda, Edmund, Edwin (a selection of my cousins' names!) with their 'ethnic' names. I got lucky and I think I have a pretty name (fairly uncommon here but definitely more common where I grew up!), my brother, however, ended up with a proper old-fashioned name that I have to say though not uncommon isn't used as a name that much. In fact, I have not met another person with his name.
His name is: Clarence.
In all honesty, I think it is a sweet name but have asked several people here why it's not common here. Some say 'lion' the moment I bring it up (never seen the movie but is the association that bad?). Of course there is 'Clarence House' as well. What do you all MNetters think? Anyway, I've always wanted to suggest it whenever people ask for proper but unusual boys' names!
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angel1976 · 09/07/2009 09:03
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