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Original poster

So what do we all think of the name Raoul?

42 replies

sexybrunettemotherof5 · 05/09/2010 23:32

I quite like it, but feel it might be a bit poncey, he might grow up to be a ballet dancer or somesuch. What do you think?

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5DollarShake · 06/09/2010 08:52

I'm ashamed to say, I didn't even think of Moat.

Still wouldn't be on my list. You'd have to very much be a certain type of boy/man to carry it off with aplomb.

Tootlesmummy · 06/09/2010 08:50

How can you say maybe it is manly then, insensitive.

ValiumSingleton · 06/09/2010 08:48

It is my friend's mum's name and she manages OK.

DuelingFanjo · 06/09/2010 08:36

I love the idea that because it's associated with Moat it's a manly name. After all he was an utter coward and weak man.

I love the name Myra but would be loathe to use it because of other people's negative associations :(

ValiumSingleton · 06/09/2010 08:33

Before Raoul Moat, I would have said it was lovely. I think I may have suggested it to people looking for something foreign but familiar.

But now, I think it needs to be rested for a while. I don't think it's in the same league as Myra though. Raoul Moat will be forgotten. Myra is a 'legend'.

MummyLovesSadie · 06/09/2010 07:54

What's wrong with a boy becoming a ballet dancer?

deaddei · 06/09/2010 07:20

Why not give Adolf a spin, or Myra if it's a girl?
Hmm

PaulineCampbellJones · 06/09/2010 06:59
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CarmenSanDiego · 06/09/2010 00:31

I thought of Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas :)

elphabaisgreen · 06/09/2010 00:20

Makes me think of Phantom

TheNextMrsDepp · 06/09/2010 00:16

Agh! Insensitive comment about "remembering" Raoul Moat; obviously assumes you weren't affected by the incident.

TheNextMrsDepp · 06/09/2010 00:13

Yes, but who's going to remember Raoul Moat in a couple of years time? I wanted to call our youngest Leo, but DH dissuaded me because it was the name of Tony Blair's son. Now no-one can remember him now!

ladyharriet · 05/09/2010 23:53

Moat.

(Trivia - apparently his mother was French, hence the name and that spelling. Why this has stuck in my head, I don't know)

Is it also the name of the younger man in the Phantom of the Opera? Maybe that's why you think of ballet dancers?

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sexybrunettemotherof5 · 05/09/2010 23:37

I prefer it spelt as in my OP actually. And yes, Raoul Moat I suppose just goes against the grain of my original thoughts on the name. Maybe it is a manly name after all?

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toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 05/09/2010 23:35

twas the name of the lovely spanish boy i had a holiday fling with when i was 17 ... very chaste and innocent ... sigh ... i like it!!!

hmc · 05/09/2010 23:34

Are you serious?

said · 05/09/2010 23:34

I think Moat now with taht spelling. Isn't it usually Raul?

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