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Somerby

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typsical · 24/11/2010 21:40

I have already mentioned this name on another recent thread... But just wanted to know what you all think of it...? I think it's fab and can't understand why it isn't more popular? (Knowing my luck, it'll be the height of fashion when I come to want to use it! Angry)

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BarbieLovesKen · 27/11/2010 21:53

Oooh Im sorry, I dont like it, when I read the title I automatically thought "that sounds like an address".. and definately didnt expect it to be for a boy!!!

MelinaM · 27/11/2010 20:54

Grin Grin Grin

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typsical · 27/11/2010 00:26

No, but I have just nearly fallen off my chair with laughter! Grin

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catsinthebelfry · 27/11/2010 00:08

Have you ever considered Farah?

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typsical · 27/11/2010 00:06

Not really gonna go with John, Melina! Just trying to keep this miserable sophisticated lot happy! x

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MelinaM · 26/11/2010 23:50

Nooooo Somerby!!!!!Grin ..never did Somerset Maugham any harm!!!

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typsical · 26/11/2010 21:27

Okaay okaay, I'll stick with John! :( FTR "height of fashion" was said with tongue in cheek! x

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ThatllDoPig · 26/11/2010 19:12

I quite like it, but I don't think your ds will when he's older. But if you say it quickly, it does sound a bit like zombie, so he might like it a bit for that!

mathanxiety · 26/11/2010 18:46

It's more of a place name. But not completely objectionable all the same. However, I think unless you have a connection to somewhere called Somerby it's just a bit random.

I've heard Carrington as a girl's name (fancier version of Carrie maybe) and I think Somerby might be more of a candidate for an unusual girl's name than a boy's name, as Summer is established as feminine.

Summertime92 · 26/11/2010 17:01

it sounds way too girly for a boy, i can already hear the teasing, as we all know children can be very cruel. im pretty sure it never be a popular name as it sounds like someone in the victorian period!

PaigeTurner · 26/11/2010 15:36

It sounds like a dessert. Somerby pudding.

ReformedCharacter · 26/11/2010 15:18

I love it.

But, I think it's pretty. I'm surprised it's a boy's name.

cumbria81 · 26/11/2010 15:11

It's horrific.

Islandsinthestream · 26/11/2010 10:38

Because everyone will think your DS is a DD called Summer Bee. The spoken sound is very feminine. He will get caller Summer all the time, like a girl, or else it's not really the biggest leap to Spring Bee, Winter Bee, etc. Yes I know kids can make fun of the plainest names if they want but Summer Bee has just got too much wrong with it for a boy!

Somerby is the type of name that looks better written down than said out loud.

I don't want to sound churlish but I honestly don't think it will ever be the height of fashion.

sparkle12mar08 · 26/11/2010 10:19

For the same sort of verbal sound how about Willoughby? I love this one.

MelinaM · 25/11/2010 20:39

^Fab name Wisteria12!

KERALA1 · 25/11/2010 20:18

Somerset Christmas is a great name. But think it would only really work in the 1870s.

wisteria12 · 25/11/2010 20:09

Interesting. It's a grower. I had a great-great-uncle whose full name was Somerset Josiah Christmas. Grin He was from Yorkshire, too.

fallingandlaughing · 25/11/2010 18:53

Don't worry. It won't become super-popular Grin

gerontius · 25/11/2010 14:03

It's terrible. Sounds like a business. Or a National Trust place.

IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 25/11/2010 13:58

"Knowing my luck, it'll be the height of fashion when I come to want to use it!"

I wouldn't panic too much about this.

MelinaM · 25/11/2010 11:06

Well as you already know I love it!!! Tis quite simply divine darling!
It's preferable to all these cutsie names that continue to plague adorn children todayGrin x

annasophia · 25/11/2010 10:03

I have never heard of it, so just googled it and it seems to exist as a boys name:

The boy's name Somerby \s(o)-mer-by, som(e)-
rby\ is of Middle English origin, and the meaning of Somerby is "summer village". Place name. Somerby has 3 variant forms: Somerbie, Somersby and Sommersby.

What would you shorten it to? Sommy?

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typsical · 24/11/2010 23:35

And all opinions much appreciated! Mixed views expected, of course.

Fluff Saw it in a name book a while ago, and it's on a few online baby name sites too :)

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