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Can you pick your top 3 boys names?

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:04

Joby
Jean
Abel
Percy
Anselm
Art
Bram
Enoch
Roald
Garfield
Montgomery (Monty)
Ptolemy
Vito
Wolfgang

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Tazerface · 04/10/2017 17:32

Says who?!

I disagree completely but as you're after 'charmingly unusual' then go for it. And give your son a lifetime of having to explain his name.

HeteronormativeHaybales · 04/10/2017 17:32

I don't like most of them, tbh. Anselm is my favourite. I quite like Ptolemy, and Wolfgang, although it works best in a German context.

Blahblahboo · 04/10/2017 17:31

none. Sorry but o don't I like any of them

KatieHF · 04/10/2017 17:31

Enoch!!. It's such a handsome name

strawberrygate · 04/10/2017 17:29

just charmingly unusual haha. Now I know you're taking the piss

TacoFlavouredKisses · 04/10/2017 17:29

One woman's "charmingly unusual" is another's "unbearably pretentious".

Jobby Grin

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:28

Joby, rhyming with Toby, not Jobbie! Grin

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:27

lovelyprep

I think they seem a bit out there when all together in a list, but if you imagine them in isolation none of them are particularly "out there" just charmingly unusual.

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strawberrygate · 04/10/2017 17:27

I'd love you to go for Jobby

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:26

Tazerface

Jean as a unisex name is recognised.

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LovelyPrep · 04/10/2017 17:26

I literally can't pick one, let alone three. They're all terrible. If you absolutely forced me maybe Art...but still no. Don't do that to a child!

ProseccoMamam · 04/10/2017 17:24

OP where on earth did you find these monstrosities names and WHY do you want to burden a child with them

Tazerface · 04/10/2017 17:24

Then don't use Jean because it's a woman's name! You will look unhinged if someone points it out to you and you say it's Jean pronounced the English way but the spelling is the French way.

strawberrygate · 04/10/2017 17:22

Sorry, but I think they're all awful

NameChange30 · 04/10/2017 17:21

Art. Really cool name and the only one I like from your list.

Along similar lines: Ray, short for Raymond

faintlinesquints · 04/10/2017 17:21

I thought of poo when I saw Joby! (Scottish here too!)

Bram
Enoch
Wolfgang

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:19

I'd pronounce Jean in the same way as Gene, the same was as the female name.

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PickleSarnie · 04/10/2017 17:19

Cross post with sprinkle Must type faster!

stopdragginmyheartaround · 04/10/2017 17:19

Ptoloemy ? Seriously ! Would prob pick Jean, Vito and Art out of that lot.

PickleSarnie · 04/10/2017 17:19

Joby is a Scottish word for Poo btw.

Tazerface · 04/10/2017 17:18

How are you going to pronounce Jean? I'd the French way - are you French? Pretentious if not and people will call him Jean like the woman's name.

If pronounced like female Jean then I'd go for the spelling Gene, short for Eugene.

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Ptol · 04/10/2017 17:15

Thanks for the heads up sprinkle! May steer clear of Joby then don't want sniggers from my Scottish relatives. Jean is my favourite! Not sure DH is keen though. Want to get the list down to about five.

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BriechonCheese · 04/10/2017 17:15

Percy
Monty

PoundsShillingsPence · 04/10/2017 17:15

Sorry - I couldn't pick even one from that list!