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Mungo: Cool or cruel?

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Flum · 01/04/2008 23:45

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FrannyandZooey · 02/04/2008 17:15

I would say no
respect to anyone who has done it and pulled it off, though
it isn't a bottom line dreadful name, but it does knock you back a bit when you first hear it

hifi · 02/04/2008 17:12

Mungo Bean

MadameCh0let · 02/04/2008 16:11

Depends what circles you mix in. The parents have to be honest with themselves here.

Tone it down a little and use Jago perhaps??

VersdeSociete · 02/04/2008 16:09

Heehee Peapod, no, but I do know a couple of 30-something gingery flapping mungos. Perhaps if you are Really Scottish your Mungo can avoid this fate, a la Bridie's DS?

Bridie3 · 02/04/2008 16:09

My Mungo has huge blue eyes and blond hair. He was almost pretty as a baby/toddler. He's tall and slim and athletic. He doesn't get teased much about his name but they do call him 'Chutney' (Mango chutney). No skin off his nose. We've always told him he can call himself by his second name if he wants but he says he doesn't want to.

meglet · 02/04/2008 16:06

I love the name, but DP has banned me from calling any of our children it.

Bridie3 · 02/04/2008 16:04

My son's Mungo and he is handsome, clever and creative. He's Scottish and it's a common enough name up there. (St Mungo's Cathedral, Mungo Park, etc).

muppetgirl · 02/04/2008 16:03

my son went to nursery with a boy called mungo. He did have ginger hair that looked like it had been cut using a bowl (placed on head and cut around not actually cut with a bowl...)

He was a nightmare apparently.

Peapodlovescuddles · 02/04/2008 15:59

LOL versdesociete! You have just described my uncle perfectly! (do you know a Ginger Mungo who is mid 50s? - He's a paediatrician...)

VersdeSociete · 02/04/2008 15:48

...er there's Django as well.

A few to avoid:
Bingo
Bungo
Bongo
Twingo

zippitippitoes · 02/04/2008 15:48

oh i was just going to suggest inigo

kerala · 02/04/2008 15:48

I met a baby Iggy which I think is kind of on a par with Mungo and found myself hoping that the kid would be cool and confident enough to carry off that name. It could go either way depending on the personanility of the child - but of course no way of knowing if your baby will end up cool and popular and carry off Mungo with panache or bookish, thoughtful and quiet so will secretly hate you for lumbering him with it.

VersdeSociete · 02/04/2008 15:47

Cosmo is nice.
Jago is cool too
Or Inigo
Lots of good names ending in "go"

zippitippitoes · 02/04/2008 15:45

the trouble with mungo is that it is ugly as well

what about cosmo

VersdeSociete · 02/04/2008 15:43

Mungo is a posh person with gingery beard and flappy hands. There are worse fates, but...

hungrypanda · 02/04/2008 15:25

It reminds me of a mango.

Peapodlovescuddles · 02/04/2008 15:15

I have an uncle Mungo...
He is very lovely but a bit... umm... eccentric, great with kids you just wouldn't take him out to a posh restaurant...
I still think it was a slightly self fulfilling prophecy on my grandparents part calling him that.
Then again his brother is called Aonghious (angus) to me thats crueller.

devonsmummy · 02/04/2008 14:47

wasn't there a kids book/programme called Mary Mungo & Midge??

I think Mungo was a dog.

don't like it - sorry

doggiesayswoof · 02/04/2008 14:17

Steady on Anna

Anna8888 · 02/04/2008 14:15

Cruel. Pretentious. Unnecessary.

doggiesayswoof · 02/04/2008 14:14

Well, he's the patron saint of my home town but...

No. never.

How about Magnus instead?

cheesesarnie · 02/04/2008 14:11

i usually like slightly unusual names but not sure on mungo.sorry

mejon · 02/04/2008 14:09

I like it - but for those of us of a certain age, it'll forever be associated with Mary and Midge!

WindUpBird · 02/04/2008 12:27

I have an unwanted housemouse called Mungo so for me, cruel in the extreme!

ninedragons · 02/04/2008 00:40

I love it. It's one of those names that's so out there you'd really have to grow into it and make it cool. My cat was called Mungo, which I think my husband is relieved about because it meant he never had to argue vociferously against calling any son Mungo.