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A sister for Nigel

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ZombieComforts · 11/04/2011 12:35

I need a girl's name that doesn't seem too chalk-and-cheese with Nigel. Suggestons please.

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BodyUnknown · 15/08/2011 20:19

My DD's female elephant is called Annabel.

poppyknot · 14/08/2011 22:16

Are you making plans for him?

ShoutyHamster · 14/08/2011 22:11

Phyllis.

Clary · 12/08/2011 22:25

Joanne, Karen, Julie, Clare, Nicola (tho a bit twee with matching initials), Mandy, Dawn.

(reads thread) Oh phew its not a 3yo boy called Nigel!

I was just listing all my friends for you, as Nigel is a typical over-40 boy.

I actually think Nigel and Nicky might be nice for two toys.

AlmaMartyr · 12/08/2011 18:58

I know a Nigel with a sister Angela.

PuppyMonkey · 12/08/2011 18:32

Nelly.

blushingm · 12/08/2011 18:29

there is a nigel in dc school - he will be going into year 2 - i've aways thought Shock and Hmm

Hellishday · 10/08/2011 20:28

Nigel is awful ...and I have a dh called that.
It's foul.

AberdeenAngusina · 10/08/2011 20:24

Nigel Pargetter's sister is named Camilla.

I like the name Nigel; it's the name of Robert the Bruce's younger brother.

SaffronCake · 10/08/2011 10:25

Cattleprod of course an elephant can be brothers with a dolly, tsk tsk, and all the toys are the little girl's babies too, and they can all go to a school taught by a beany baby owl or somesuch, who is also the grandma of half of them too (in spite of being little girls baby as well) and they can also marry each other and have babies/kittens/tadpoles as required. It makes perfect sense.

shmoz · 10/08/2011 10:19

Mabel is nice

Cattleprod · 10/08/2011 10:17

An elephant can't be a brother to a dolly Shock!! There must have been some sick old bestiality sessions going on in your playroom. I bet Tarquin was involved.

QOD · 10/08/2011 10:12

Deidre or Doris

SaffronCake · 10/08/2011 10:11

Aw look, everybody's making plans for Nigel.

SaffronCake · 10/08/2011 10:09

Debbie of course!

ceeceeanne · 10/08/2011 09:16

does that mean a girl called Nellie would be thought of as an elephant notanumber? Its a fave of mine for pending baby and your honest opinion is valued. I can take it!

freesias · 12/04/2011 12:29

i'd been too polite to say nything but thank god you don't really have a son called nigel
istand by my earlier suggestion of elizabeth but shula or julia might also work

Margles · 12/04/2011 12:04

Lizzie, Julia, Shula, Pip, or Shuvvy as in Siobhan?

notanumber · 12/04/2011 11:19

This is all ridiculous, anyway. Everyone knows that elephants have to be called Nellie. Thems the rules.

everlong · 12/04/2011 11:18

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burntsienna · 12/04/2011 11:04

Leave Stuart out of this, please.

Bucharest · 12/04/2011 09:14

Thank goodness Notanumber had the courage to ask the question none of us dared

Meditrina, it may be common in men over 45. That doesn't make it not terrible. It's terrible-ness is second only to Trevor and Keith. Grin

allbie · 12/04/2011 08:59

Nigel. Keith. Kevin. Gavin. Graham. Stuart.....yeuchhhh.

meditrina · 12/04/2011 06:57

I'd say it depends on your age. It may be an unfashionable name at the moment, but it's very common amongst men over 45 and so seems normal not terrible.

notanumber · 11/04/2011 23:39

No, no. There is plenty wrong with the name Nigel. Plenty.

I was going to add a little of-course-that's-just-my-opinion-and-we-all-have-different-tastes-eh? on the end of that but I can't, I just can't. Nigel is terrible. Terrible. That's just unarguable fact.