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Sibling for India and Rafferty

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3babessoon · 10/08/2021 20:48

Looking for inspiration for a name which goes well with India and Rafferty? Don’t know what we are having. Quite like Bodhi for a boy but nothing really shouting out to us in the way of girls names. Georgia maybe possibly?!

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HelloDulling · 12/08/2021 06:48

I’m in South Wales and could walk out of my front door and knock on the door of an Athena, an Evangeline, a Georgiana, a Blythe and a Rex. I love an unusual name.

cheeseandpickle12 · 12/08/2021 03:19

Aniq
Georgie instead of Georgie for the state thing maybe

octoberfarm · 12/08/2021 03:12
  • Madeleine

Ps, love the names of your older two!

octoberfarm · 12/08/2021 03:11

Marigold
Ivy
Madeliene
Juniper, nn Juno
Adaline
Tabitha
Wren

Jasper
Jonah
Tobin
Kit
Liam

StartupRepair · 12/08/2021 02:47

I know a family with Rafferty and Lola.

Ashard20 · 12/08/2021 02:11

Solomon
Mimi

mathanxiety · 12/08/2021 00:11

We don’t want to change our kids to suit the bullies but rather educate them about these kind of people.

Well said.

Puffalicious · 12/08/2021 00:05

This is funny because I know 2 very working class families in my area of the Midlands (the sticks) with babies called Bodhi. Bizarrely one male and one female!

I'm very surprised by this. Never heard of it in life and I'm in a cosmopolitan city (not London). How strange.

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3babessoon · 11/08/2021 23:42

Well you are a lovely person aren’t you?! Did you not learn manners?

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3babessoon · 11/08/2021 23:42

Kids will always find something to bully other kids about. We don’t want to change our kids to suit the bullies but rather educate them about these kind of people.

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DaisyWaldron · 11/08/2021 23:28

I live in Yorkshire and know plenty of kids with dames mentioned on this thread (or similar) and afaik none of them have been teased about their names. Except possibly one, whose name was fine when she was born but gained extra connotations a few years later.

VonHerrBurton · 11/08/2021 23:23

I know someone with your two names. They also have a Tabitha (Tabi) and a Skylar. Good luck with the new one x

LowlytheWorm · 11/08/2021 23:22

Tallulah and india both finish with an “ah” sound which I wouldn’t like but appreciate some people would be fine with.

I think Juno would go well with the selection, and Saffron (Saffie is cute) and I love Delilah.

Germolenequeen · 11/08/2021 23:16

There speaks a non-Londoner

True dat 😆

TatianaBis · 11/08/2021 23:12

@Germolenequeen

People are always so rude on these threads

Not as rude as the kids will be at school if some of these ridiculous names are used 🙄

There speaks a non-Londoner.
TatianaBis · 11/08/2021 23:11

Keevak pointed out that Chinese were referred to as white by Europeans until Europeans decided they were yellow at the point they resisted cultural imprint of the west. (In the 18c)

Germolenequeen · 11/08/2021 22:56

People are always so rude on these threads

Not as rude as the kids will be at school if some of these ridiculous names are used 🙄

Ruthietuthie · 11/08/2021 22:56

@TatianaBis, not to derail the thread but the racial categorization of Chinese people is a complex question (See Michael Keevak's "Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking" (Princeton, 2011).
However, to clarify, what I meant was Euro-Americans who know very little about Buddhism (and have man buns).

sunnymoo · 11/08/2021 22:55

Bodhi is a lovely fit. Violet for a girl would go well too

Germolenequeen · 11/08/2021 22:55

So rude! Tabitha doesn’t strike me as a very catty name

Really? It suited her perfectly

TatianaBis · 11/08/2021 22:48

What colour are Chinese Buddhists? 🤔

Man bun and surfer dude are spot on but so what?

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3babessoon · 11/08/2021 22:46

So rude! Tabitha doesn’t strike me as a very catty name.

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3babessoon · 11/08/2021 22:44

Oh Romy is nice too. My daughter has suggested Roxy and Lexi. I quite like Anaya but doesn’t really flow with the other two.

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Ruthietuthie · 11/08/2021 22:40

Hooray for Tabitha! I think that's the perfect name match for your siblings (whose names I love too - apologies for my Bodhi joke, it is just a name I have really strong negative feelings about, partly because it is very "white people do Buddhism/but only the bits they find white enough" kind of name, and has a "surfer dude" vibe that, to me at least, doesn't seem to match with your lovely other names.

Cosima is another suggestion.
(No-one liked my baby boy's name, I should add. I went with it anyway, and now people can't imagine him as anything else).

CoffeeRunner · 11/08/2021 22:39

I love Tabitha - nn Tabby.

India & Rafferty are lovely. Names I think might go are:

Valentine
Romeo
Torin
Sebastian
Casper

Natalia
Rosa
Lilia
Matilda (Matty or Tilly)
Nancy