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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

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Bluebell99 · 04/10/2010 09:33

Would you as a grown adult like to be called Boo yourself? Didn't think so! This name is for life, might be fine for a baby but for a grown adult, it is ridiculous.

B52s · 04/10/2010 09:29

Good Lord, No.

AllarmBells · 03/10/2010 23:07

wilkos
Imagine being introduced to someone as, "This is Boo, your blind date"
Then imagine "This is Boo, your lawyer"
The point of the test is for the name to pass both parts!

I would say Boo fails the lawyer side.
Ethel or Mabel or something might fail the blind date side. Unless you are an octogenarian.

HTH :)

Remotew · 03/10/2010 23:05

Boo Radley was a boy, also a name of a crap group.

Remotew · 03/10/2010 23:03

It's a nickname, know lots of boys with this as a nickname. Give her a real name.

wilkos · 03/10/2010 23:01

what is the blind date or lawyer test? Confused

AllarmBells · 03/10/2010 22:58

Doesn't pass the "blind date or lawyer" test!

Bo is a Scandinavian name....it's a boy's name but I believe Ulrika Jonnson used it for her daughter (after her father).

Quite like the idea of Boudicca/Bodicea, Boo for short, in a weird way!

Mind you, I've got DD mocked by her class by calling her "sausage" in the playground Blush

tudorrose · 03/10/2010 22:57

It annoys me actually! I have three DD and her name is my absolute favourite and nobody ever uses it! Grin

DinahRod · 03/10/2010 22:55

Have you read To Kill A Mockingbird?

tudorrose · 03/10/2010 22:54

My DD3 has the nick name Boo, everyone calls her that, even her doctors when I take her for her hospital check ups. She looks like Boo from Monsters Inc, her older sister noticed one day and the name stuck!
It's cute now she's 2, but I can't imagine it as a "proper" name to be honest.

faffaround · 03/10/2010 22:52

Can't imagine how little Boo would cope with a trip to a panto Hmm

wilkos · 03/10/2010 22:49

my dd is also nicknamed boo, or boo boo Blush

It was me that started it. however now she is 3 if I accidentally call her it in public I feel like a complete twat

Bunbaker · 03/10/2010 22:48

Oops, you made me jump!

Great as a nickname, but please give her a proper name as well.

Littlefish · 03/10/2010 22:46

It's a noise, not a name.

BitterAndTwistedChoreDodger · 03/10/2010 22:44

DD is Boo - NOT her real name but what she is known as (mostly).

However, her real name is equally hated by MN, so maybe I should reserve judgement.

That wasn't very helpful at all was it? Blush

Heifer · 03/10/2010 22:41

nick name = fine
Real name = she will hate you forever

pointydog · 03/10/2010 22:16

Turrible.

telsa · 03/10/2010 22:13

Boo is a short form of Picabo - a Native American name meaning Shining Waters (used in the Picabo region of Idaho). Same word as Peekaboo actually. I think it is dead cute!

BelligerentGhoul · 03/10/2010 21:57

Noooooooooooooooooooo to Boudicca/any other spelling thereof. Just no.

christabell · 03/10/2010 21:52

Boo Radley!

Agree only as nickname - could call her Boudicca?

BooBooGlass · 03/10/2010 21:32

I'm flattered, but NO

PaulineCampbellJones · 03/10/2010 21:30

I sent to Uní with a girl called Boo. She was gorgeous so it's a nice name to me.

LetThereBeRock · 03/10/2010 21:22

Absolutely not.

honda123 · 03/10/2010 21:21

What about spelling it Bu? I've met a girl called Bu and I believe it's a Vietnamese name meaning lucky...

Love it by the way!

littlemissm · 03/10/2010 21:21

1 of my dd's nicknames is Boo the other is Larly.. not as a real name though