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My husband wants to call the new baby after the cat ...

230 replies

NamechangeObvis · 29/04/2020 20:47

So finally getting DH to start at least thinking about baby names with a couple of weeks to go, and after crossing off the unappealing Cyrus/Aethelstan/Lancelot style names he likes, we finally have a short list.. one of which is the cat’s name Confused

Could people please critique, say which your favourite is, or suggest anything else we might like? We don’t really love any of them... we have a Kitty and a Rafe already and I’d like a name that ‘goes’.

Maxim
Ivo (but would you pronounce it EE-vo or eye-vo?)
Mungo (the cat Blush)
Jonty
Jago (one of ds’s middle name though)

Please help!

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CountFosco · 29/04/2020 23:14

I like Mungo but I went to Glasgow Uni so know the story of the fish, the tree, the bird and the bell. Spot the racism against the Scots on this thread though!

Other less common Scottish names:
Sholto
Balfour
Torquil
Ronald
Murdock

JKScot4 · 29/04/2020 23:14

Very confusing when you’re calling the cat in 😺

ladycarlotta · 29/04/2020 23:12

I really like Ivo. Pronounced either way - I've met both.
Maxim I only like because you can shorten it to Max, I also make the De Winter connection and it's not a good one to my mind.

Jago and Mungo are off the table because it's not fair to take them back off the child or the cat, OR to make them share.

I like PPs suggestions of Roscoe and did I see Rollo? I would add Odo and Wulfric, Woolfie for short. Very much thinking along the lines of pre-Conquest bishops.

GoatyGoatyMingeMinge · 29/04/2020 23:08

Vote in favour of Mungo - it's a nice name with a long pedigree.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 29/04/2020 23:07

My cats name is Monty (short for Montgomery sp) his brother is Mr Rigby

I like Ivo

Fred578 · 29/04/2020 23:07

Ivo or Jago aren’t bad

Fred578 · 29/04/2020 23:07

Mungo’s not great though, is it? I think that’s better left with the cat

Fred578 · 29/04/2020 23:06

Er, sorry to lower the tone... but isn’t Maxim a smutty magazine?

Bubbletrouble43 · 29/04/2020 23:04

Quite a lot of jagos in Cornwall, not sure where you are from but it has suddenly become quite a hot trend here, lots of them. Might just be my town though.

Bubbletrouble43 · 29/04/2020 23:02

I quite like Ivo. What about Ivor or Ivan?

Banaltra · 29/04/2020 22:59

I have a family member called after our dog... Good solid human name though. Mungo is a strange name but to be honest way less odd than some of the other names people are suggesting.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 29/04/2020 22:57

Mungo ffs even my phone changes it to mongo

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 29/04/2020 22:56

Well I think mongo is awful for a child but im not posh and my children don't go to private school so what do I know

Norman reedus and Helena Christensen called their child Mingus sooo

BuffaloCauliflower · 29/04/2020 22:51

Cosmo as another option?

bobstersmum · 29/04/2020 22:50

Aramis.

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 29/04/2020 22:42

I like Mungo, as in Mungo Park, the explorer and surgeon. The name isn’t remotely like any of the terms suggested above.

emilybrontescorsett · 29/04/2020 22:35

What about Barnaby?

ALifeDesign · 29/04/2020 22:34

I quite like Mungo

But like a previous poster I'm from Glasgow so it's sort of a familiar name (although I don't know anyone actually called it!) But you can't use a name you've already used for the cat!!!

BuffaloCauliflower · 29/04/2020 22:33

It’s Eye-vo in English and Ee-vo in some European languages. Ivo will be this bumps name if they’re a boy, Jago was on the list too but couldn’t convince DH. I think I like it more though - use Jago!

Hippopotas · 29/04/2020 22:33

Ivo pronounced eye-vo

Dragonembroidery · 29/04/2020 22:28

Mungo is like mong, mongrel and monger.
Also like minge.

All not good names.

wheresmymojo · 29/04/2020 22:27

Not Mungo because kids are horrible and will call him Mongo Sad

Queenest · 29/04/2020 22:23

Ruan
Ezra
Flynn
Zeph

YippieKayakOtherBuckets · 29/04/2020 22:21

Jonathan nn Jonty?

moleeye · 29/04/2020 22:18

Mungo is my all time fav boys name. It was point blank vetoed for our son.

I've loved it for years