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

Can I name my child after a Ninja Turtle?

69 replies

TurtlesAreRetroRight · 18/04/2011 15:21

I'm only half joking.

Girls names are fine. But if this baby turns out to be a boy, we're really struggling. We like several names but don't love any of them enough to know it's the right one. DD LOVES Raphael, largely because the Ninja Turtles are her heroes. Usually I'd say because she's 3, her opinion doesn't count (her toy panda is called Roscoetina for example) BUT the more she insists, the more I'm thinking 'well, Rafe's quite nice'. It's the hormones isn't it?

I can't have a Rafe can I? Certainly not just because dd likes the Ninja Turtles this month and I can't come up with any better ideas.

To give you an idea of names I like...

Seth
Silas
Amos
Inigo
Emrys

If it's a girl she'll be Josephine Aphra. It had better be a girl really.

Any ideas?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
plunctplactzum · 27/07/2011 21:31

I'm not pregnant, but I'm getting more and more fond on Raphael and Leonardo each day. Even though they are annoyingly popular where I come from...

cheeseandmayo · 08/05/2011 00:37

Just had to say I love the name Rafael.....but I only think of one.....

Nadal >swoon< Smile

youngmummyb · 06/05/2011 23:58

Are your hormones affecting your name choices?

lol :) x

IngridBergman · 06/05/2011 20:16

Grin I'm ever so glad you got a Rafa. Josephine will have to wait.

caramelwaffle · 06/05/2011 19:49

Congratulations

LoonyRationalist · 06/05/2011 13:24

Congrats Turtle - great name choice :) Lets just hope he look like a Rafa now when he arrives!!

WeAreNewHere · 06/05/2011 12:45

I love the name Raphael (especially after seeing the Sistine Chapel) and would like to have chosen it for our baby, due in September... but I can't pronounce my Rs very well and the thought of yelling 'Waaafael' down the street is excruciating! Rules (wules?) out Rufus too, which I've always liked after Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure...

Original poster
TurtlesAreRetroRight · 06/05/2011 08:15

I promised I'd come back and tell you... Scan was a week ago and it looks like he's Raphael after all. He's mostly referred to as Rafa or Rafe but...

HE IS A HE WITH HE PARTS!

OP posts:
squeak2392 · 26/04/2011 23:35

I like Raphael. Plenty of people are using/considering Leonardo right now, so why not? It's not distinctly Turtle to me.
If I were Italian I'd have them all on my list :p (apart from Michelangelo - he'd have to be just Angelo, I'm afraid).

southofthethames · 23/04/2011 04:07

Was a bit disappointed you weren't thinking of Donatello! (nothing wrong with that one either if you live in Italy.....)... would have made a v lively thread!

Raphael is great (meaning "God heals"). The Ninja Turtles themselves were named after male painters anyway, certainly it wasn't a problem for Leonardo DiCaprio!

MadamDeathstare · 23/04/2011 03:47

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

flyingspaghettimonster · 23/04/2011 03:00

My son is Xavier Raphael - it is a good name :-)

mixedmamameansbusiness · 21/04/2011 19:28

I liked Raphael for our DS3 but the few friends I mentioned it to instantly thought TMNT as we are of that generation.

I think it is great though. I know a MNer who named her daughter Lola because DD1 loved Charlie and Lola.

Hatterbox · 20/04/2011 17:39

Dorothea is Dotty, sometimes Dora or Dot, but never Thea.

Josephine Aphra Mirabel is beautiful.

Thank you, you do too, but that's obvious! Grin

Original poster
TurtlesAreRetroRight · 20/04/2011 17:30

If this one is a dd she'll actually be Josephine Aphra Mirabel but if I have a 3rd dd, she'll be Dorothea. I like Dotty. Lovely.

OP posts:
Original poster
TurtlesAreRetroRight · 20/04/2011 17:28

Oh I love Dorothea. Beautiful name, lots of lovely nicknames too.

You have excellent taste. In television programmes and names. Grin

OP posts:
Hatterbox · 20/04/2011 17:23

I love Josephine, but it was one of two names that my twin sister (plenty of twins in our family!) and I both loved, so we agreed that we'd have one each.

I got Dorothea (the name of one of my twin daughters), she got Josephine (which she named her first born daughter).

Loving Aphra too.

Original poster
TurtlesAreRetroRight · 20/04/2011 16:58

I'm due early September too. Grin

I like Rafi, but it reminds me of Rafiki. Though monkeys are as acceptable as turtles.

I'm rather pleased people like Josephine and Aphra too. I adore Aphra but Josephine is a joint choice.

Ingrid, I do love Leonard (Cohen). Grin

OP posts:
Hatterbox · 20/04/2011 16:54

I'm due early September, but with twins usually coming early, I suspect they'll arrive mid-August.

To my surprise, DH liked Castiel, so I think it's a possibility!

IngridBergman · 20/04/2011 09:10

Brilliant thread Grin

I like Raphael, it's beautiful, also Michelangelo and even Leonardo's not bad but I prefer Leonard (Cohen)

Inigo is also a great name.
Amos is very sweet.

Josephine is a brilliant name whatever. Smile

Bubbaluv · 20/04/2011 09:06

Oooh it's lovely! I know a Raphael who is 3 and he is known as Raffy.

severalyearsdowntheline · 20/04/2011 09:02

Lovely but far prefer Rafi as the shortened version to Rafe.

KarenHL · 19/04/2011 21:54

Raphael makes me think of the artist (as does Michaelangelo, or Leonardo) - maybe you have to be of our generation to think of TMNT's? Grin

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/raphael says a bit more about the artist.

darleneconnor · 19/04/2011 21:50

Aphra's a great choice for a girl.

Original poster
TurtlesAreRetroRight · 19/04/2011 15:27

Supernatural fans would wink and grin at you. They're both fine names. Rafa and Cas. I really like the combination. Congratulations on the twins. When are you due?

OP posts:
Swipe left for the next trending thread