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What do you think of Bean?

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Carolinchina · 21/11/2012 20:29

What do you think of Bean as a boy's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.

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sandberry · 04/12/2012 15:44

I once was on a forum with someone who called their daughter Sabean (yes spelled that way) in order to call her Bean day to day, maybe you could do that if a girl. As a middle name, why not? people use all sorts of stupid middle names.

HazeltheMcWitch · 04/12/2012 00:56

I know a Bean. A chap. Yes it is his real name. Yes, it is on his birth certificate. Yes, people ALWAYS question him about it. No, they can never hide their laughter.

Really, don't do it.

TheWholeEnchilada · 04/12/2012 00:52

It's horrid for a proper name because it isn't one and it's a lame overused nickname for a foetus or small child.

Just yuck.

SomersetONeil · 04/12/2012 00:44

So OP, what you're saying is, you like Bean better than pretty much any other name on the planet.

You think Bean is the best choice out there, and trumps all others? You, yourself, would like to go through life with the name Bean?

Is this what you're actually saying?

mybootsaremuddy · 03/12/2012 20:14

I think it realy cute............ on a cat, rabbit, hamster small dog or pigmy goat!

12ylnon · 03/12/2012 19:57

You'd have to be a massive Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love fan.... their daughter was named Frances Bean Cobain. It's fooking stupid.

GrimmaTheNome · 03/12/2012 16:30

A wind-up hopefully surely?
thats beans for you....

LifeIsBetterInFlipFlops · 03/12/2012 16:14

A wind-up hopefully surely?

DorisIsWaiting · 03/12/2012 16:14

Um, there is being different -one of a few, and just plain odd. This is the latter.

JuliaScurr · 03/12/2012 16:01

dp said 'No. It's stupid. And in some countries would be illegal'.

He is right. It should be illegal here.

WankbadgersBreakfast · 03/12/2012 15:49

dd's nickname is "bean." usually she gets immibean. not for a birth certificate name though.

SoupDragon · 03/12/2012 15:49

No. It is stupid.

Imagine yourself going into a room and saying "Hi, my name is Bean." and then decide if you want to do that to your child. Even as a middle name it is daft.

You are naming a person not a dog.

CheerfulYank · 03/12/2012 15:41

It's my cousin's nickname, but she's actually Hannah. :)

As a real name, just no.

EldritchCleavage · 03/12/2012 15:26

Grimma, my sister calls Sean Bean Sin Bin because he's usually the baddie.

TheSecondComing · 03/12/2012 15:25

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EmpressOfTheNorthPole · 03/12/2012 15:22

But why?

It's such an ugly word.

Merrycuckingfistmas · 03/12/2012 15:07

Are you having a laugh? You can't seriously want to call you kid bean, do you want him to get bullied?

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Carolinchina · 03/12/2012 15:04

So definitely no for a first name, but how about as a second name? It's not like we use our second names much anyway, right?

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SorrelForbes · 22/11/2012 23:42

Ah, definitely not my DSiS then as we grew up near London and we have both moved away Grin

LimeLeafLizard · 22/11/2012 22:13

Sorrel, well, yes, sort of. Grew up touristy-rural, now live near London.
My sister doesn't have any children - so if you do, the name Bean is just a strange co-incidence!

LittleAbruzzenBear · 22/11/2012 17:17

DS2 is 4 months old and I call him Squishy Boo Bean, but that isn't his actual name. I think of 'Mr' when I think of Bean.

Cahooots · 22/11/2012 17:13

Nah! Sounds abit silly to me. Smile

SorrelForbes · 22/11/2012 16:27

LimeLeafLizard Umm, maybe??!! Did you grow up somewhere touristy and now live somewhere else very touristy?

JammySplodger · 22/11/2012 16:23

Eer, no.

If you do go for it, please make sure they have a 'normal' middle name to fall back on.

EmpressOfTheMadBoxOfFrogs · 22/11/2012 16:19

Some names are ugly but are still valid names - Bean is a very ugly word and not even remotely a name. If my parents had done that to me I'd have changed it as soon as I could and probably never forgiven them. DON'T DO IT.