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OK-my last attempt to offer a “new” baby name did not go down well, but I’m sure you’ll like this one....

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BertrandRussell · 16/04/2019 15:42

..Ds’s mates are round for band practice- and the new drummer is..Ivo.

There you go. Simple, classic, easy to say and spell. You can thank me later.

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zen1 · 17/04/2019 08:17

I know someone called Ivo (in their forties). I really like it.

DappledThings · 17/04/2019 08:10

Would have been DC2's middle name if she'd been a boy. After Ivo Bligh.

Marmite27 · 17/04/2019 08:10

I know a family with the surname Iveson. Predictably most of the men are known as Ivo.

Small Yorkshire mining town. I was surprised to see upper class people with the same name Blush

Danglingmod · 17/04/2019 08:08

Arlo, Otto...

Pemba · 17/04/2019 04:31

Not bad, and a bit different too. SO much nicer than Clive!

MercyBodle · 17/04/2019 01:02

I think it's good - quite cool in fact. And certainly fits with modern popular boy sounds - Leo, Theo, Milo, Hugo.

BestIsWest · 16/04/2019 22:37

I just think ‘they’ve forgotten the R’. What wrong with Ivor?

AyahuascaTrip · 16/04/2019 22:35

Oh! “New”, I see!

PinkieTuscadero · 16/04/2019 22:34

I think the 'new' indicates that the OP knows it's not new. She means a new one for her to suggest. I think the last 'new' name she suggested was Geoffrey, or something equally Rover driving Dad.

BaronessBomburst · 16/04/2019 22:31

The salesman in our local bathroom/ kitchen shop is called Ivo.

AyahuascaTrip · 16/04/2019 22:30

It’s definitely not new! ‘My’ Ivo was born around 1700.

MsTSwift · 16/04/2019 22:28

Not sure it’s new. The name of dd2 arch rival at school both 10

AyahuascaTrip · 16/04/2019 22:23

I have an ancestor called Ivo Francisco Something Taco, such a perfect name.

bridgetreilly · 16/04/2019 21:58

I know one, but he's German. And I've definitely seen it in mediaeval-set novels and so on. I think it's cool.

Thrupennybrit · 16/04/2019 20:49

I like it but first assumption would be an Australian Ivor.

Calixtine · 16/04/2019 20:40

I have met a little “ee-vo” but I like it best as “eye-vo”

Harebel · 16/04/2019 20:38

Looks like they forgot the R in Ivor Confused

Jingz · 16/04/2019 20:35

I kept spotting these teenage twin boys who looked familiar to me in my neighbourhood, but I couldn't place them. Clicked one day that they were Alex and Ivo from Child of Our Time.

FoxBaseBeta · 16/04/2019 20:35

DS has a Polish friend called Ivo, (pronounced ee-vo) so I'd assumed it was Polish.

PinkieTuscadero · 16/04/2019 20:31

Yes I like Ivo but I'd wonder if I'd sound a bit wannabe posh if I was hollering it (in an evah so refined manner) across the park.

SouthwarkSkaters · 16/04/2019 20:28

Yes, it’s pronounced ee-vo in Portuguese. I had a maths teacher called Iva once... ~ misses the point of the thread ~

NameChange30 · 16/04/2019 20:26

I expect it's pronounced Ee-vo in all the Romance languages. It is in French.

NameChange30 · 16/04/2019 20:25

I know of an Ivo (pronounced Eye-vo) and I've always thought it's a great name.

It was on my long list for DS but ruled out because it doesn't work brilliantly in DH's language and DH didn't like it.

Jimjamjooney · 16/04/2019 20:22

I knoww a Portuguese man called Ivo (pretty sure he pronounced it ee'voh).

OwlBeThere · 16/04/2019 20:21

It would be Ifor in welsh. My Grandad’s name. I quite like Ivo, feels similar to Asa which I also really like. Short male names are my favourite it seems.