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Freddie or Gray

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buzzbottom · 14/02/2018 06:43

Top name at the moment is Freddie.
(After my Grandad - who is alive and unaware of our possible plan to use his name)

But we also like Gray.

No middle name decided but don't think they flow together. Well either way, we will be using Freddie as first or middle.

My other two have very normal names - they have both been in top 10 for years!

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Alienspaceship · 14/02/2018 07:08

Gray is lovely - short for Grayson?

Mooey89 · 14/02/2018 07:07

Also if you use Freddie as a middle name and name him Gray he’ll be ‘Gray Freddie’

Why is Freddie Gray? Does he have a stomach bug? Which shade of Gray is he? 50?
Don’t do it.

AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight · 14/02/2018 07:05

Not Gray, please. It's a colour and a unit measuring exposure to radiation, not a (first) name.

BakedBeeeen · 14/02/2018 07:02

Is gray a name??

dancingqueen345 · 14/02/2018 06:59

I know a Grayson (albeit American) who's nn is Gray

Ifailed · 14/02/2018 06:56

Gray for a boy will easily be shortened to Gay at school.

DancesWithOtters · 14/02/2018 06:52

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joystir59 · 14/02/2018 06:51

Freddie is short for Frederick, why not call him that? Gray isn't any kind of name. I think it's a colour in America.

Sparklingbrook · 14/02/2018 06:50

Freddies even. It's early! Brew

Sparklingbrook · 14/02/2018 06:50

I don't really like Gray. It looks like a surname and as above I know a few Grahams and it gets shortened to Gray.

Freddie is ok.There were a few Freddie's in DS1's year.

nooka · 14/02/2018 06:48

My surname used to be Gray. I'm not sure why it's come into fashion as a first name. To me it's OK as a shortening of Graham, but otherwise very 'meh' (not unlike the colour).

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