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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

With great self restraint...

29 replies

GinPalace · 09/07/2012 15:04

I stopped myself cattily telling my Mum, who suggests Roxanna for a girl or Rex for a boy, that I wanted to name my child after neither a Mills and Boonesque stripper nor a dog. :-D

I am struggling to think of boys names though. SO much harder than girls. they seem either very run-of-the-mill of totally whacky whilst I want something more in between.

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GinPalace · 09/07/2012 15:59

Squoosh Grin R & X not compulsory, though it could help the indecision if I narrowed things down like that!
I expect if I named a son Rex it would be no time at all before I could imagine him called nothing else, however, I have a dog and meet many other dog owners all the time, I know 2 dogs called Rex!
My lovely mum was being helpful and getting swept along with her latest TV drama no doubt, she lives her TV dramas. :)

Gregor/Greig/Gregory seems to be a theme... it could grow on me. I think I quite like that.

Girls-wise we have shortlisted:

Cerys
Natasha
Philippa

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VolAuVent · 09/07/2012 15:45

Nathaniel
Jerome
Gregory

Marianne
Clarice
Francesca

amck5700 · 09/07/2012 15:31

What about

Anthony
Daniel
Greig
Gregor
Reece
Dominic
Hayden
Connor

What girls names do you like, it might give an idea of your taste?

squoosh · 09/07/2012 15:10

I'm with your Mum, I love Rex Grin

I'm presuming you didn't stipulate that the name must contain R and X?