Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Boo for a girl?

111 replies

NickiStan · 03/10/2010 21:08

We have just started thinking about names and I really like Boo for a girl? We have quite a long surname so would like something nice and short. I know it sounds quite cutesy but think the lack of a middle name would help.

Thoughts?

Thanks

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Hariasa · 27/04/2016 01:06

This is a Zombie thread folks! the child in question was named Ella and will be around 5 yo now.

NickMyLipple · 27/04/2016 00:45

What about Bea? Beatrice as a full name?

jollygoose · 27/04/2016 00:25

you have to be joking

DerelictMyBalls · 26/04/2016 20:00

Presumably the baby in question has a name by now.

LizzieNang · 26/04/2016 17:10

If you call your baby Boo you would not be conforming to the current social norms (shock horror).
Boo is the Mongolian word for a male Shaman who is an intellectual and spiritual leader in their society. Democratically chosen by peers.
A wonderful name for a boy and why not for a girl?

Emelene · 05/04/2011 16:07

Boo as a nickname is cutesy, but please not as a real name. I read of a book character called Elizabeth but nicknamed Boo, so I guess you can choose anything.

But just imagine her as ... Dr Boo?! Mrs Boo?! Judge Boo?!

I really don't think it would work as a sensible adult name...

seeker · 05/04/2011 14:33

Oh, don;t be so stupid. You're naming an adult woman, remember.

lovenest · 05/04/2011 14:30

How about Daisy Boo - like Jamie Olivers DD

bruffin · 05/04/2011 11:51

Another one whose DD 13 is nicknamed Boo (as well as many other nicknames)
This came from Beccaboo nn for Rebecca

iskra · 05/04/2011 11:43

Lovely nickname or at a push a middlename. We call DD Boo almost all the time & I've heard other people do the same.

My great grandmother was known as Boo short for Molly, & DP's grandmother is Boo short for Sybil...

greenzebra · 05/04/2011 09:14

I think best as a nn, could you imagine that person introducing themselves to a potential date in a pub or something or at an interview Hi my names Boo!

Booandpops · 04/04/2011 23:01

My son is boo as nn
His sister called him baby poo and we changed it for obvious reasons to baby boo and it stuck.
I love it and never seen monsters Inc but remember boo radleys and to kill a mockingbird brilliant!
I'm surprised at how many boos there are out there reading this

Original poster
NickiStan · 04/04/2011 18:34

We called her Ella Louisa ha ha!

OP posts:
NorthernGobshite · 03/02/2011 21:30

As a nickname, yes, we call dd it as well as Pootle etc etc. But as a name.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

nappyaddict · 03/02/2011 21:27

I think it is OK as a nickname or middle name.

weaselbudge · 03/02/2011 15:06

Sorry DD's Blush

weaselbudge · 03/02/2011 15:06

This is the name of my DH's grandmother (short for Elizabeth). She was a beautiful debutante in the 1930s. Our DS's middle name is Elizabeth after her and she now gets called Boo too Put Elizabeth on the birth cert and call Boo for short.

Aims80 · 02/02/2011 16:38

my childhood nick name was boo, lol. SO glad it's not my real name though.

PuraVida · 02/02/2011 16:22

So we've established:

A) it is far from unusual to call your child Boo, albeit as a nickname
B) it is not actually a name, more just a sound
C) where it has been used as a name historically It tends to be for males

Based on this I'd advise no, don't call your child boo

IngridFletcher · 02/02/2011 16:18

Even in Monsters Inc. It is not actually the little girl's name.

SilkStalkings · 02/02/2011 16:15

Sorry, my previous post referred to Boo as an actual name, nickname would be fine.

SilkStalkings · 02/02/2011 16:13

Boo just makes YOU look an attention-seeking sadcase. If you can handle seeing that in peoples' eyes everytime you say her name, do it.

fifi25 · 02/02/2011 16:02

I had Bo picked for 3rd daughter but changed it as cousins the same age and called Joe. I prefer Bo, Boo is like something off a horror film.

maryz · 29/01/2011 22:23

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

UrsulaBuffay · 29/01/2011 22:03

How about Blue? Not my style but slightly less cutesie nicknamey maybe.