Sibling for Mont,Doll,Herb&Boo

Well, I guess I'm just a bit old-fashioned in thinking that diminutives are just that, ie a shortened name rather than a name in its own right. And yes, I did put the full names on my DC's birth certificates so that they could choose themselves whether they wanted to use their full name or the diminutive.

And it was in reply to a post up thread mentioning that Dolly was short for Dolores.

Buster-boo is his first name? Jesus christ.

I love your individuality OP, but I just think about what other people think in regards to bullying, job prospects etc.

I absolutely love dolly dot and would pinch that off you (with permission) if it went with our surname!

I do like bunty- but agree the unfortunate foul swear word would make for opportune rhyming :(

I also like Buster, in fact my grandad used to call my brother buster when he was young, don't quite know why, it's not anything like his actual name!! Maybe it was the comic!?

Precisely Lanny! Dolly Dot is completely different from Dorothy x2.

Prefer Queenie to Bunty as kids will surely find something mean to rhyme with the latter, which is unfortunate as I love Bunty.

I know a thirty year old Elizabeth who likes to be known as Queenie.

Nobody said that they wasn't lovely children of course they are. It's just that there parents have lumbered them with daft names.

Chambers dictionary: "Dolly - see Dorothy", "Dorothy, Dorothea, diminutives Dolly, Dora, Dorrie, Do, Dot, Dottie", "Dolores (Sp) sorrows, diminutives Lola, Lolita."

Oh and to all those rude scoffers I know two lovely boys called Buster.

Love unusual / brave names... I'll include my two boys' names in my suggestions.

Glory
Pearl
Mabel
Queenie - my chosen name if I'd had a girl
Cissy
Dahlia
Margo
Silver

Amos
Gus
Mordechai
Moses
Phineas
Johnny
Ira
Prosper

Let us know what you decide op.

If I had another baby it would soooo have a game of thrones name!
"Theon, come in for your tea!" :)

aliasjoey actually gpy has been considered offensive by the Roma people (the people it's used to describe) for a long time, it's just that others have never cared enough to stop using it (Roma people are some of the most historically persecuted people). Enid Blyton stories and adverts romanticising that persecution are part of the problem - it's Orientalism (look it up). Calling a child gpy is like calling a child n**r.

Dolly is often short for Dolores, not Dorothy.

OP, I would suggest that you might want to avoid 'Bunty', as that was a comic and you already have 'Buster', which was also a comic.

(btw, on reading your names, I thought 'Dandy' would go nicely with the others, but didn't suggest it because of the comic thing).

Kit is usually short for Christopher or Katharine.

Love the name Kit for a boy- what could it be short for?

I'm currently struggling for uncommon boys names.

I quite like;
Teddy James
Henry Michael
Albie (stuck middle names)

Love your other names OP!

None of your children's names would raise so much as an eyebrow where I live. I've said it before, but unless your child is called Bag O'Shite or similar I really won't see the need to pass comment.

Will think on it and suggest a few in a mo'.

I just want to add my bit - I have quite an unusual name - it doesn't bother me as much now as I like a bit of quirk.

However, I despised my name when I was younger - no one could say it, let alone spell it!!

I used to get so embarrassed and upset when at school we got supply teachers and they couldn't say my name. I'd feel sick waiting for my name to be read out as I knew they'd get it wrong and everyone would laugh at me and take the piss out of me. Which they did the little fuckers.

Even at my university graduation, just before I went up on stage to collect my degree, I was waiting at the bottom of the steps and the Dean hesitated (and these guys usually have phd's) and luckily looked at me and I had to whisper my name to him. Imagine having my name read out wrong at my graduation??

Even last week, I was at Starbucks near work and they write your name, I heard the barista whispering loudly to her colleague "how do I say this name?" Oh for fucks sake. And they'd spelt it wrong, to the amusement of my colleagues. And whilst I just get on with it, it does get very very weary.

So anyway op, of course what you (or anyone else) names their children, it's their choice - but please remember YOU aren't the one who has to live with the name - your child does. No child wants to feel like they stand out, because let's face it, kids are vile.

Anyway DP and are TTC and I always swore that I would give my child an original name, but not one that will make them laughed at.

That said, Monty, Dolly and Herbie are fab names

I do t think Monty is unusual at all. Have taught two in my primary school over recent years.

Dolly and Herb are not overly unusual too.

Buster is more unusual but I bet it isn't in America or Australia for example.

But then I work in an infant school with children from many different backgrounds, coming from many different countries across the world. More unusual names really cause no issue for our children and their names are not a cause of bullying at all.

Only one really that's raised a smile from me in last few years was two siblings both named after wine, but the other children didn't blink at it.