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Thoughts on Paddington, Thatcher or Kipling

93 replies

Vivee74 · 12/01/2013 07:09

I need some honest opinions as we are getting no where with a boys name. 9 weeks to go.

For a girl was keen on jemima Elizabeth Matilda or maybe Cleopatra. Etc.

Don't want a name that is common, or Jack, Harry but also don't want something made up. Needs to have a nickname /formal name they can grow with.

I go through stages if liking the below to thinking they are mean. Please let me know your thoughts not any other suggestions are welcome.

Paddington/ Paddy
Thatcher/Thatch
Kipling/kip
Frederick/Freddie
??????

Please help,

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marriedinwhite · 12/01/2013 10:08

Instead of Kipling, why not Rudyard?
Instead of Thatcher, why not Heath (as in Heath Robinson and Edward)?
If you want the diminutive Paddy, how about Padraig pronounced Porrick I think?
Frederick - pretty normal if you ask me and the one I'd go for.

Alternatively: Merlin, Gawain, Benedict, Artemis ................

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VinegarDrinker · 12/01/2013 10:06

Hah, true. I'll try harder.

Richmond? Kew? Westminster? Highbury?

SillyBeardyDaddyman · 12/01/2013 10:04

London overground? How frightfully common!

VinegarDrinker · 12/01/2013 10:01

I like Wapping

Or how about Croydon?

Farringdon?

Walthamstow?

SillyBeardyDaddyman · 12/01/2013 09:56

Good station names...

Morden (middle name Via Charing Cross)
Edgware (Road)
Rotherhithe
Mornington (crescent)

HoneyDragon · 12/01/2013 09:50

Milk snatcher made me laugh

Ass use has just send me into full on snorty giggling Grin

This thread is brilliant. Thank you op. Sorry about your name choices, but thank you for the larfs Thanks

Bunbaker · 12/01/2013 09:20

Or Harold, Winston, Clement, Tony, David, Edward etc

Vagaceratops · 12/01/2013 09:03

If you really want a former prime ministers name, can I suggest Douglas?

EmpressOfThePuddle · 12/01/2013 09:02

Not Gove though. Even less popular than Thatcher. Especially with your DS's future teachers.

Sleepyfergus · 12/01/2013 08:57

No no no.

How about Marylebone, Churchill or Mulberry? (Last one vair posh)

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 12/01/2013 08:56

Ass use? Will assume

onedev · 12/01/2013 08:56

Great names for teddy bears & dogs Grin

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 12/01/2013 08:55

I agree with what everyone else has said and I LIKE really unusual names.

If you call your kid Thatcher everyone ass use it's after Mrs. T. It may be but do you want to instantly polarise everyone your child meets?

Fred is a great name and not hugely overused these days - top 50 rather than top 10. Alfred would differentiate it.

Paddy is lovely but should be Patrick

Bartholomew, Theodore/Teddy (as you seem to like bears!), Edgar, Wyatt, Christoper\Kit would be along the same lines.

Bunbaker · 12/01/2013 08:54

How about St Pancras, Disraeli or custard cream instead?

ithaka · 12/01/2013 08:54

Teehee mrsbugsywugsy. Made me think of a silly joke:

-Do you like Kipling?
-I don't know, I've never Kippled.

OP - don't do it!

callow · 12/01/2013 08:53

My grandfather was Archer known as Archie.

It is unusual but acceptable.

mrsbugsywugsy · 12/01/2013 08:49

If you call him thatcher then you could nickname him 'milk snatcher', which would be quite appropriate for a baby

EmpressOfThePuddle · 12/01/2013 08:46

Fenchurch is for girls, if you go by Douglas Adanms.
If OP likes Paddy she could have a Patrick. I only know 2 of those, one was my grandfather and the other's in his 40s.

Vagaceratops · 12/01/2013 08:45

Dog names.

HoneyDragon · 12/01/2013 08:43

Mmmmn Tunnocks

Cheeseswept · 12/01/2013 08:40

I think I prefer Fenchurch,Blair or Tunnock personally

SVN · 12/01/2013 08:34

I suspect that this isn't a genuine post.

If it is, then, with the exception of Freddie, my reaction would be that those names are horrific for a child.

SillyBeardyDaddyman · 12/01/2013 08:06

I've tried hard to think of something constructive to say to you op, but all I can think of is bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!