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Boys names like Hugo & Digby

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Sweetsdo · 05/07/2018 19:39

I love the names Hugo & Digby but my friends have recently used these names on their dc.

Any suggestions for names along the same lines? Nothing too popular..

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MiniMaxi · 07/07/2018 23:00

Mungo?
Dickon?

TheFormerMrsPugwash · 07/07/2018 22:42

Cloud's suggestions are excellent.

Tigger001 · 07/07/2018 22:36

It's hard when you like names and the they get used and your back to the drawing board. But I like barnaby and that's of the same ilk. ( In my humble opinion lol )

CloudCaptain · 07/07/2018 21:21

St John
Aurelius
Hector
Dirk
Francis
Benedict
Turion
Darcy
Louis
Barnard
Barnaby
Oscar
Jasper
Onto
Gustavo
Magnus
Julian
Alistair
Soren
Alaric
Centric
Marcus

Bubblysqueak · 07/07/2018 21:07

Rupert
Rafferty
Diggory
Hector
Wilfred
Edmund
Eddison

Disfordarkchocolate · 07/07/2018 21:03

Jocelyn?

tarheelbaby · 06/07/2018 18:10

second for Cosmo, Rufus or Rupert
also
Mungo
Hugh
Theo(dore/bald)
Cecil
Ludo(vic)
Roland
Aubrey
Inigo
Cyril
Sebastian
Guy
Pascal
Basil

vickyb83 · 06/07/2018 17:59

Rupert
Theo
Byron!

diddl · 06/07/2018 17:42

"I love Humphrey! Just wondering how that might be shortened?!"

Daughter's friend has a horse called Humphrey-he's Humpy for "short"!Grin

Humph?

MariaMadita · 06/07/2018 16:47

I agree with the pp, Cedric seems to fit.

Louis, Hector nn Heckie, Otto, Barnaby, Dashiell, Clancy, Rafferty, Quincy, Ludo, Arlo, Otis, Rufus, Amos, Gideon.

David is lovely, btw.

SumAndSubstance · 06/07/2018 15:33

I also don't get the whole anti-'posh' names thing.
I wouldn't put Hugo and Digby in quite the same camp though - I think Hugo is 'posh' and Digby is 'old man chic'.

Like Hugo: Monty, Quentin, Tristan, Sebastian, Cosmo
Like Digby: Stanley, Wilfred, Raymond, Arthur, Ernest

spugzbunny · 06/07/2018 14:33

Jasper

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 06/07/2018 14:33

Lysander
Quentin
Jeremy
Fabian
Florian
Felix
Gideon
Peregrine
Nicholas
Constantine
Aloysius
Sebastian

mycatplotsdeath · 06/07/2018 14:16

Monty
Barney
Seth
Tobias
Milo
Nate

hellololly · 06/07/2018 14:14

Cedric!

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Sweetsdo · 06/07/2018 13:56

I have heard of Digby the biggest dog, still wouldn't put me off using it if my friend hadn't got there first :)

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Disfordarkchocolate · 06/07/2018 13:50

For those of us a little older than you probably are there was a very popular children's film. Digby, the biggest dog in the world.

SemperIdem · 06/07/2018 13:30

I went to school with a Digby. Only one I’ve ever met, would be mid 30’s now, a couple of years older than me.

There was also an Antigone, Portia and an Athena. None from the same family.

Completely average state school in Cardiff.

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Sweetsdo · 06/07/2018 12:22

I don't understand the fascination with people saying certain names are dogs names.
I know a dog called Daniel, woe before anyone who tries to name their child Daniel now Grin

ITS A DOGS NAME!! Hmm

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/07/2018 10:53

Good grief! I'd missed that. Is that a very old pronunciation of Jacques, like saying Don Quicksot instead of a vaguely Spanish pronunciation of Keehoetee, or forehead to rhyme with horrid instead of fourhead? I wouldn't give much for anybody's chances trying to enforce a pronuncation of Jake-wheeze over the far commoner French pronunciation, or a bad British attempt at same.

Giles, Guy, Miles, Edmund, Edmond, Roland, Rowley, Gideon, Gilbert, Nicholas.

Troika · 06/07/2018 10:38

I can’t get past the Jacques (Jake-wheeze) post

Mousefunky · 06/07/2018 10:28

Rafferty?

Hugo is very southern and private school. Digby is a dogs name.

Joeybee · 06/07/2018 09:22

I love the name Hugo, but it doesn't 'feel' right for our baby.
Other names I'd considered (before picking the name we are actually going to go with) are Raphael, Rafferty, Elliot, Nathaniel, Cedric, Otto, Milo, Otis. Also a name which I heard, which to me is similar is Bellamy.

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Sweetsdo · 06/07/2018 06:07

Humphrey is in the lead at the mo, we love it. Thanks for the suggestions :)

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crumpet · 05/07/2018 23:23

Jago

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