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Octavius, thoughts?

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 17:14

Opinions on Octavius? Smile

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 18:18

How am I having a wind up? I'm just asking for name opinions like anyone else does Confused I've even put up some others we like... I didn't realise you could ask for name advice, unless you were asking about top 10 names.

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 25/09/2016 18:16

Well that's what I mean. It's even too posh for the upper classes

CrystalMcPistol · 25/09/2016 18:16

I can picture an obese King Charles spaniel called Octavius.

Vixxfacee · 25/09/2016 18:16

You're clearly having a wind up.
Waiting for you to bring out mumsnets shittest name Ptolemy

AnyTheWiser · 25/09/2016 18:15

The upper classes don't call their children Octavius.
More like Frederick, John, Phillip and Charles.

SecretNutellaFix · 25/09/2016 18:13

I'd only use Octavius for an eighth child and only as a middle name!

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 18:13

I suppose he will be in an upperclass environment? Whatever that means.

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HmmmmBop · 25/09/2016 18:11

I think that you would have to be confident that your child could always be part of a very upper class environment if you wanted to call your child one of these names. Unless it's a joke and I didn't get it.

CrystalMcPistol · 25/09/2016 18:08

Very flouncy.

I prefer Octavian. It's slightly less grand.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 25/09/2016 18:04

Unless you're the Royal families' superiors superior. It's just being something you're not,

MrsJoeyMaynard · 25/09/2016 18:04

I like Octavius a lot.

But I wouldn't use it for one of my DC because it's just that little bit too unusual for me.

BoneyBackJefferson · 25/09/2016 17:57

Doc Ock.

AnyTheWiser · 25/09/2016 17:50

Hector?
DH wanted Peregrine.

AnyTheWiser · 25/09/2016 17:50

I understand, as my very favourite name is Septimus. There's no way I'd have seven children to get to use it though! ( I blame my love of Septimus on an early Rupert the Bear obsession).

PoshPenny · 25/09/2016 17:49

Now I know a Peregrine and that would put me off choosing that name, because I'd think of him every time Grin. Whereas my Titch, well, she has a beautiful soul and I couldn't be more proud of her and what she's achieved. All those 8s are supposed to be lucky...

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 17:48

Egbert? Leonidas?

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dailyarsewipe · 25/09/2016 17:47

Oh dear. No.

Only1scoop · 25/09/2016 17:44

Dear Lord

IminaPickle · 25/09/2016 17:43

Does your baby smoke a pipe? They're both rather elderly names Wink

IminaPickle · 25/09/2016 17:42

Otto is lovely- nothing to do with 8, but being born in the 8/9 is a bit tenuous anyway.

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 17:41

We also like Peregrine

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HunterIs · 25/09/2016 17:39

PoshPenny, we thought the same! He was born on the 8th September Smile

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Only1scoop · 25/09/2016 17:38

Awful
I guess Otto as a short version in passable but the whole shebang NO

PoshPenny · 25/09/2016 17:38

Why not, but then I Chose Octavia for my younger daughter. So named as she was born on the 8th August (and we were completely stuck for a girls name). 21 years on, there are no regrets.

Having admitted my bias, what's wrong with it? It's very livable with compared to some of the naff and pretentious names punted on here by parents to be.

SpeckledyBanana · 25/09/2016 17:37

I don't like it.

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