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Go on be brutal. We have a list for DS2...

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Kyrptonite · 09/05/2013 13:49

I'm not overly fussed about how well they go with the other DCs. After all as an adult how often do you say yours and your siblings names together?

My names:
Cooper
Thomas
Woodrow (Woody)

DPs names (as I'm pretending to humour him):
Thompson
Gibson
Hendrix
Wolfric

Last name is double barralled. First part rhymes with tasted and second is castle. Other DCs are Lilly, Jack and Alexandra.

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OneLittleToddleTerror · 09/05/2013 16:10

squoosh good thought about Randy Grin

MummyBurrows · 09/05/2013 16:07

Thomas Wolfric rhymes-with-wasted Castle actually has quite a nice ring to it....one to consider as a compromise perhaps OP??

Heavywheezing · 09/05/2013 16:06

Do you like guitars? Gibson and Hendrix.

I like woody and Wolfie.

What about jimmy(page) or barnaby blue (b.b) wasted-castle?

nameuschangeus · 09/05/2013 16:04

Don't let your hubby have final choice!!

Yours, however, are fab.

squoosh · 09/05/2013 16:03

But please give one your husband's nuttso names as a middle name!

squoosh · 09/05/2013 16:02

I think if the name Woody can reduce a forum of women to sniggering school boys well then it's a definite 'no'.

spanky2 · 09/05/2013 16:01

Woody and Randy are boys names in America but not here as they mean different things here! I think Thomas with a more unusual middle name.

ouryve · 09/05/2013 15:59

No one wants a nickname like Woody as a teenage boy.

Just saying, like.

ipswitch · 09/05/2013 15:59

Another vote for Thomas

I really like your other dcs names too,but I think any of the other suggestions makes me think a step child/ new partner thingy going on as they dont fit at all. .

MummyBurrows · 09/05/2013 15:56

Your DP sounds as mental as my DH! Mine seriously wants to call our DC2 Sparticus,Maximus Meridius,Romulas or some other roman name if its a boy!!

Of all the names listed Thomas,Charlie and Henry fit best with your other DCs names. Cooper is a very popular surname where I am so therefore its not a "proper" first name imo...

OneLittleToddleTerror · 09/05/2013 15:56

Do you mean the woody is too big to bear? Grin

sleepingbeautiful · 09/05/2013 15:43

*too big

sleepingbeautiful · 09/05/2013 15:42

They're not my taste, but I can see a mini Cooper (heh) and a grown up Cooper.
Woodrow is the worst one. Woody is to big a cross to bear at school.
I actually had a great uncle named Gibson (Gib), who was extremely British and extremely posh, so it doesn't sound that weird to me.

OneLittleToddleTerror · 09/05/2013 15:27

I think the guess at being American is that woody means a certain erect male organ. I assume this is not the meaning in the US.

It's the same as naming your daughter Fanny.

MadBusLady · 09/05/2013 15:17

By the way, I got given a slightly "out there" name where my brother got a solid, traditional top-10 name, and yes I did/do notice and wonder what the hell they were thinking Grin

MadBusLady · 09/05/2013 15:15

I quite like Cooper and Thompson, but Gibson just doesn't translate to first name use to me. I don't think "Gib/Gibby" sounds very nice as a nickname whereas T(h)om and Coop do sound like boys, albeit possibly boys from a great American novel.

I love Wolf but Wolfric isn't a nice full form - Wulfstan is nicer, though equally out there. Hendrix is ok, not awful, can't get excited about it. Thomas is nice but meh. Woody is an erection, sorry!

JojoMags · 09/05/2013 15:15

re. the American issue (at the risk of going off topic) its because we share a language but they have a very distinctive culture of giving Christian names that in Britain would only usually be used as surnames and therefore seem 'wrong' and uprooted in a traditionally British context.

Ubermumsy · 09/05/2013 15:11

Thomas.

But I'm very traditional when it comes to names. And these threads never end well anyway...

swavesey · 09/05/2013 15:09

Zoe Ball has a son called Woody

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Kyrptonite · 09/05/2013 15:08

I assumed the American comment was because Cooper is quite popular there and I'm pretty sure Woodrow was a presidents name.

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caramelwaffle · 09/05/2013 15:07

Thomas or Henry.

None of the others.

squoosh · 09/05/2013 15:04

Americans do come in for a proper bashing. You'd never read 'Are you French? It's horrible'.

juneau · 09/05/2013 14:58

Are you American?

What the f*ck does that have to do with anything? Why is it okay to bash Americans when it's not acceptable to bash other nationalities? Really pisses me off!

I prefer Thomas or Woody.

CockyFox · 09/05/2013 14:49

Henry would be my choice, better than Thomas.

Allalonenow · 09/05/2013 14:46

I really like Wolfric, and I think Wolfric Wasted-Castle nn Foxy has a good ring to it.

Thomas is also very nice.