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Indigo Sky

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arizonagirl · 01/10/2010 15:45

Ok ok - you win, Beauden is out. But now I really need your help - baby due any day now.

How about Indigo Sky for a boy? Any better?

I like some of the suggestions but nothing really appeals.

I like soft sounding nature names like:

Aspen (too much potential for teasing)
Cypress (too much like Cyprus)

Can't have Forest or River or Winter which I like.

So, I have listened to everyone but now I have no name. And baby might be born any time.

Help.

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jem1980 · 01/10/2010 23:36

How about Logan (meaning: "hollow")?

Habbibu · 01/10/2010 23:16

Ash?

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arizonagirl · 01/10/2010 23:07

Sorry, pregnancy brain - I meant I agree Indigo is more of a girl's name Confused

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arizonagirl · 01/10/2010 23:07

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

Think you have all put me off Indigo for a boy - I think I agree now that it is more a boy's name.

Do like Skyler and Rowan but dh doesn't. Inigo doesn't really appeal. I guess baby will just have to stay baby for a bit longer although I can't seem to see us finding a name we like and agree on. My husband suggested Coast earlier after someone suggested it with sarcasm. That does sound rather ridiculous.

I really want a name which is soft sounding, has connections with nature and has an 's' sound in it. I only say that because I realised tonight that all the boys' names that I like (but are too over the top) all sound similar:

Aspen
Atlas
Atticus
Chance
Cypress
Cyrius etc etc.

Thanks folks for helping me. I will get there soon - I have to!!

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Skyrg · 01/10/2010 21:14

I think that works the other way MrToad, I hated that my name is so common and I was never the only one! Just made it not feel like 'my name', iyswim. I would much much rather have an unusual name.

MrToad · 01/10/2010 20:56

DP has a very very unusual hippy-ish name, he hates it, spends his whole life repeating/ spelling it to people and explaining why his parents gave him that name.

Please think twice about giving your baby a very very unusual name!

Fennel · 01/10/2010 20:55

DP and I wanted Inigo for dd1. Perhaps luckily for her, she was a girl. I'm not sure we'd have gone through with it.

There are lots of hippy nature names round us in yurt valley. Indigo would fit in well.

ChequeredFlag · 01/10/2010 20:44

How about Kite?

LetThereBeRock · 01/10/2010 20:33

Rowan and Rohan are lovely I agree.

Not Inigo though,unless you want him to have The Princess Bride quoted at him every five minutes,certainly if he goes to the States.

StewieGriffinsMom · 01/10/2010 19:44

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BelligerentGhoul · 01/10/2010 19:43

DD2 would have been Rowan Ashley or Rowan Asher, had she been ds. Maybe I am a try-hard hippy after all! :)

Theincrediblesulk1 · 01/10/2010 19:43

probably short for refer loool!

nannynobnobs · 01/10/2010 19:42

I have to agree with Colditz though, picking a name purely because it's unusual can go tits up for your child in future years. There are a great number of names which are neither common nor 'boring'.

Adair · 01/10/2010 19:40

I like Rowan and Rohan too. And Ash/Asher/Ashley.

Ooh, Leif!

nannynobnobs · 01/10/2010 19:39

Rowan or Rohan are lovely. Indigo I would consider to be a girl's name. I like Autumn.
There was a boy in today's paper called Reef.

Theincrediblesulk1 · 01/10/2010 19:36

Why the flouncy names? whats wrong with a real name?

BelligerentGhoul · 01/10/2010 19:31

Awful - but Inigo is lovely.

They all sound horribly try-hard hippie.

How about Inigo Asher? Or Inigo Rowan?

StewieGriffinsMom · 01/10/2010 19:29

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allyfe · 01/10/2010 19:27

I thought it would be a girls name.

I know a Skylar - again, she's a girl (about 3 now).

Adair · 01/10/2010 19:27

Oh and x-posted, he is a Skyler. Yes, a chavvied up anglicised version of Schuyler.

(PS work in Inner London schools, and never heard anyone being teased for their name. Mugged for their phone maybe...)

Adair · 01/10/2010 19:24

I quite like Indigo Sky (but then I have a little boy Sky myself Smile). You will have to be prepared that a lot of people will think his name is ridiculous (it doesn't bother me, but if it will bother you then maybe you need to choose something else).

Whatever you choose, make sure you love it.

pinkthechaffinch · 01/10/2010 19:22
Skyrg · 01/10/2010 19:20

Ah put pink, how thoroughly did you look? Grin

pinkthechaffinch · 01/10/2010 19:19

Rowan Atkinson was male last time I looked

Skyrg · 01/10/2010 19:15

Sounds namey to me anyway. Indigo doesn't, just sounds like a colour.

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