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We've got it down to 4 for each - honest opinions if you please

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blueberryink · 21/09/2011 21:53

Boys

Zebedee James
Zebedee Andrew
Zephyr Andrew
Zeno Eddy

Girls

Iona Mary
Ida Mary
Ines Catherine
Iona Catherine

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fridakahlo · 24/09/2011 15:59

How about Zebediah rather than Zebedee, still got great potential for shortening but without the small red ball on a spring connatations.

susylou · 24/09/2011 15:45

Round us too, state and private, a boy called Zebedee (in full) would get lots of pretty unpleasant teasing, and Zephyr too. I like all the girls names.

wompoopigeon · 24/09/2011 15:42

I never normally intervene in these sorts of threads but if you introduced your DS to me as Zebedee I would try to look serious but then I would keel over laughing the minute you had left the room.
So would everyone I know.

Bluetinkerbell · 24/09/2011 15:38

I like Zebedee as a name! But couldn't name a boy like that, so we've named our cat Zebedee! He gets called Zeb or Zebbie, most of the time! Zebedee when we're angry at him Wink

I like Zebedee James and Ida Mary

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 24/09/2011 15:27

Ines Catherine is v sweet. The boys' names are hideous imho.

Clary · 24/09/2011 00:03

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=zebedee&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7ADBS_en&tbm=isch&tbnid=9YihEo7gTgmVcM:&imgrefurl=www.virginmedia.com/homefamily/kids/magicroundabout/meet-the-characters.php%3Fssid%3D6&docid=GKCCwAgpR5HU2M&w=358&h=500&ei=TQ99TpqyBISy8gPm1fiOAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=84&vpy=138&dur=219&hovh=265&hovw=190&tx=84&ty=128&page=1&tbnh=115&tbnw=82&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&biw=1024&bih=600" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zebedee

I know lots of children called Zak or Zach or Zack. I have never ever met anyone called Zebedee, so by dfefinition it is more unusual. Maybe children haven't heard of Magic Roundabout. Adults have tho.

Florence has many other associations (eg Nightingale). Dylan is Bob Dylan. Dougal is not a name I have heard for a child for a fair old while...

icouldbethomasina · 23/09/2011 21:21

I like Zeno and Zeb (not zebedee even on birth cert)
Then for a girl I like Iona.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 23/09/2011 15:12

Oh jesus no, think of the children, won't somebody PLEASE think of the children

Socy · 23/09/2011 15:00

Have you thought about all 3 initials? ZE or ZA could produce something weird depending on what your surname is. I'd play it safe with Andrew James instead.

Thumbwitch · 23/09/2011 14:51

PMSL at "oh it finished in the 1970s" - it's been back on in new and improved format for some time, and even has a full length feature film. Grin

mopsyflopsy · 23/09/2011 14:17

Oh, it finished in the 1970s - no wonder I'd not heard of it Smile.

glittershoes · 23/09/2011 14:09

Love Zebedee and Ida! I don't see why Zebedee is any more strange than Florence, Brian or Dylan (all other Magic Roundabout characters). Also, I don't see why a child would be teased due to the Magic Roundabout which finished in the late 70s!

notsofastmrbond · 23/09/2011 13:54

I want to contribute but I can't take this thread seriously.

I keep waiting for Jeremy Beadle to jump out.

mopsyflopsy · 23/09/2011 13:54

Ragwort, I doubt any of OP's classmates will have a clue who/what Magic Roundabout is.

Ragwort · 23/09/2011 13:50

Ines Catherine is a lovely name.

I really wouldn't call a boy either of the first names you have chosen - I can assure you they will get sniggered at - don't you remember Magic Roundabout? Grin

mopsyflopsy · 23/09/2011 13:47

I like Zebedee James and Iona Mary best. I have a friend called Ilona prononced Ee-lona, which is nice too.

I, like a few others above, didn't grow up with Magic Roundabout, so won't have any negative associations with Zebedee, and I doubt the younger generation will (is the show still on?). I don't think Zebedee is any more unusuall than, say Zachary or Ezekiel, both of which are quite common these days.

strandednomore · 23/09/2011 13:30

I like Iona and Ines, Mary is ok. I love Eddy, hate all the other boys names. Zebedee?

LetThereBeRock · 23/09/2011 13:26

Iona Mary and Iona Catherine are lovely. I don't like the other girls names.

As for the boy names they're all bloody awful,Zebedee is particuarly bad.

Ceiniog · 23/09/2011 13:02

Being Welsh, I have a few friends called Iona, (sometimes shortened from Eifiona, Meirionna, Eiriona etc). But the Welsh pronunciation is "EE"onna. As opposed to the Scottish way of saying it as "EYE"ona, (like the Island). (although my best friend Iona does occasionally get called Una by some English speakers who've just heard her name and not seen it in writing!) :)

evamummy · 23/09/2011 12:35

I like Zeb and Iona.

tammytoby · 23/09/2011 12:24

Zebedee: "It's a red ball with a black moustache and a spring, let's face it"
I have no idea what you mean, and I have been in the UK for almost 20 years Confused.

I happen to like the name Zebedee, as I do Zachary and Maximilian, but thankfully we all have different tastes Smile

jellybeans · 23/09/2011 12:05

Zephyr Andrew
Iona Mary

BedHog · 23/09/2011 10:40

I'd avoid Iona Mary. Mary is slang for fanjo in many parts of the country, and your DD announcing 'I own a mary' may cause a few raised eyebrows! Iona with a different middle name would be lovely though.

I do like Zeb, although would lose the -edee bit, much as if I named a child Max I wouldn't add the -imilian to the end, even on the birth certificate.

Catsu · 23/09/2011 01:36

Ida is lovely for a girl.
All the boys names sound ridiculous, especially zebedee!!!

Thumbwitch · 23/09/2011 01:25

I like Zephyr best of the boys' names but not Andrew - why not Zephyr James? (Definitely NOT Zephyr Eddy - sounds too much like a brand of battery!)

Iona Catherine/Mary would be lovely.

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