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Is it weird to name your child after a dog you used to have?

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findmeintheflowerbed · 19/09/2011 13:53

DC2 due this week...perhaps I am having a hormonal wobble as we had agreed on a name if it turns out to be a boy.
But I used to have a dog called Fred when I was a child, and was just going through that spreadsheet of baby names from the statistics website and saw Frederick. Like it a lot.
Would it be weird to name my child Frederick?

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RunnerHasbeen · 19/09/2011 13:57

You aren't calling him that because of the dog, it happens to be a name you liked then and still like now, so I can't see a problem with it.

Hullygully · 19/09/2011 13:55

I dunno, ds is named after our old dog (his initials make the name), so it seems all right to me.