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Oh god. The shame of finding myself on this section but GIVE ME BOYS' NAMES PLEASE

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 20:54

I am so stuck. I have girls' names galore, please give me nice slightly arty boys' names that won't get hugely popular in a year or two

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Boco · 15/03/2008 22:36

Wolfie!

It has to be, after Wolfie Smith, it's great!

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 22:36

I like Candice
dp says no

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 22:35

bizarrely dp's nickname is Bear

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Aitch · 15/03/2008 22:35

i knew a candida. really and truly. posh english, went like the bog door when the plague's in town.

BoysOnToast · 15/03/2008 22:35

oh i love Jesse. shame.

i know a sonny. nice bloke, but as a name i cant really take it seriously itkwim

Bubble99 · 15/03/2008 22:35

I quite like Bear. There's an explorer that it really suits.

Boco · 15/03/2008 22:35

Yes! Name your son after me.

Aitch · 15/03/2008 22:35

dearie dearie me, boco. either you wanna keep having girls or never travel up north...

BoysOnToast · 15/03/2008 22:34

i knew a lysandra (girl)

she was known as slice.

nice.

(not)

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 22:34

Boco...hmmm.....Diesel?

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Boco · 15/03/2008 22:34

Yes, Ned is lovely.
And Reuben

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 22:34

we've ruled out Jesse, sorry

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Aitch · 15/03/2008 22:34

what about Boco, franny? it's literary...

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FrannyandZooey · 15/03/2008 22:34

the chap who sold our house to us was called Sonny
I really liked it (on him)

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Boco · 15/03/2008 22:33

Quite like Jesse for a boy, would that lead to taunts?

BoysOnToast · 15/03/2008 22:33

ned
fred

the two faves i have not yet used.

oh and of course my faves i did use (which is ok if you use since i only know you in cyberspace)

max
archie
angus (gus)

oh and

hamish

i love hamish.

and reuben

Boco · 15/03/2008 22:33

Agree with Aitch - it just sounds like lice sander. Who wants to sand lice? Not me.

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Aitch · 15/03/2008 22:33

my friend has just called her boy Sonny. in fact, two people i know have boys called Sonny. i was beforehand but he does rather suit it.

Aitch · 15/03/2008 22:31

oh no it's ghastly. it's just in the demographic. lysander. lice for short. nice.

gil is nice in a way that gilbert isn't, iykwim?

sophiebbb · 15/03/2008 22:31

Luca, Mattia, Rafael

Bubble99 · 15/03/2008 22:31

Is it Lie sander or Lee sander?

pointedegg · 15/03/2008 22:31

ok ok. Rewind.

Have you thought of Nuttini

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 15/03/2008 22:31

Noam for the linguists

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 15/03/2008 22:30

i know a pretty gilbert who gets Gil not keen though on name

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