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Indigo

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softlysoftly · 18/06/2014 00:35

Too try hard?

I like India as a short name.

Feel I may have started going a bit off track with my name search!

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somedizzywhore1804 · 19/06/2014 11:46

Sorry- it's terrible.

A friends sister who is named something very dull (think Carol) has recently changed her name by deed poll to Indigo as she feels it's her "spirit name". That's everything you need to know about the name indigo IMHO.

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softlysoftly · 19/06/2014 11:46

Ok it's now officially junked!

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funnyossity · 19/06/2014 11:43

Inigo has more (and better imo) history attached.

NigellasDealer · 19/06/2014 11:33

kind of try hard would be hippy name tbh

Hakluyt · 19/06/2014 11:29

here, indigo, crystal and rainbow children

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Hakluyt · 19/06/2014 11:25

There's Rainbow children too.......

WaffleWiffle · 19/06/2014 11:25

Jodie Kidd's son is called Indio, I think?

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funnyossity · 19/06/2014 10:12

The Indigo children would put me off.

Hakluyt · 19/06/2014 10:08

Oh, I'd forgotten Indigo children! They've been superseded by Crystal children, haven't they?

scarletforya · 19/06/2014 03:42

Me too Coruskate

It's a new agey nonsense name for brats I'm afraid Op. That would put me off using it.

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BreeVDKamp · 19/06/2014 03:27

I met a girl Indigo nn Indi, so seems very girly name for a boy to me!

I thought it was v cool. Had sisters Dolce and Aubrey if you like them?

Lesleythegiraffe · 18/06/2014 22:22

Have never heard it used as a name, but know of an Indie - not sure if it's short for India, Indigo or just a name on its own

miffybun73 · 18/06/2014 22:20

I only know one Indigo (a girl)

I didn't know that it was an actual name, but rather a colour of the rainbow.

Sounds pretty though :)

florascotia · 18/06/2014 18:48

If you are thinking of India as a short name, then what about Indiana (unisex) as the long version?

Was used as a name for heroines in 18th/19th cent novels (by Fanny Burney and George Sand) long before Indiana Jones.

Personally, I'm not too keen on place names as personal names but if you like the name India then that is presumably not a worry for you.

Or what about long names Indira and Indrani (both girl's names)?

PetaPipa · 18/06/2014 18:10

Oops united = unisex

PetaPipa · 18/06/2014 18:10

I have only heard of it for girls, but would think it's fairly united. Indio and Inigo however are definitely boy's names.

ChickenMe · 18/06/2014 15:55

Like it. Great colour, mysterious and unusual. Nn Indie v cool.

Boudica1990 · 18/06/2014 15:46

Not my taste but still nice :)

Does make me think of the old light spectrum roygbiv though. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo, Violet.

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softlysoftly · 18/06/2014 15:42

I think its the NN I like. We are a shooting, fishing, farming type family so perhaps not lentil weavy enough for it Grin

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Basilplant · 18/06/2014 15:41

"Indigo is a boys' name, not a girls name IMO. I love it. It's not the kind of name I usually go for (bit of a traditionalist, me), but I really love Indigo."

No it isn't. It's not a name at all- it's a colour, Inigo is a boy's name........

MummyBeerest · 18/06/2014 15:40

I like it, esp with Indie as a nn. I actually see it as more of a girl's name.

Mrsindecision · 18/06/2014 15:37

I know a young female Indigo and it really suits her - she goes by Indi as a nn.