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Middle names for boden?

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armt · 15/02/2025 17:36

Thoughts on the name Boden (nick names Bode or Bodie)

And middle names (we like more classical middle names) or ideally a fire and earth name

2 middle names needed!

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SwerveCity · 15/02/2025 18:07

Please don’t

doodahdayy · 15/02/2025 18:06

But it's a surname?

Fundays12 · 15/02/2025 18:05

I think it the clothes shop. Sorry but that's the only thing that springs to mind.

YouveGotAFastCar · 15/02/2025 18:05

armt · 15/02/2025 17:42

But Zara?

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UK usage of Zara dropped when the shop became mainstream here.

LadeedahYadaYada · 15/02/2025 18:05

Joules, Hunter & Barbour

WellsAndThistles · 15/02/2025 18:04

Johnnie

EcruCardigan · 15/02/2025 18:02

Catalogue, or am I showing my age.

RoundLid · 15/02/2025 18:02

Very clever way to save time on sewing name tags into his clothes, OP. I like it.

Starryknightcloud · 15/02/2025 18:00

SundaySighing · 15/02/2025 17:52

Isn't Beauden the spelling when it's a first name? Differentiates it from the shop at least and pronounced the same.

I was going to say I know a Beauden which doesn't give shop vibes at least.

MonetWaterlilies · 15/02/2025 17:58

This is hilarious, well done OP 🤣

AllThePotatoesAreSinging · 15/02/2025 17:56

Sorry but that’s an awful name. Why are you naming your child after a cup? Are you hoping he gets bullied? Because he will.

This reminds me of the time when I was 8 months pregnant and I fell out with my husband because he wouldn’t agree to name our daughter Thor. Pregnancy hormones, eh?

and before anyone pulls me up on being mean … we are all thinking it!

so Boden NO MUM

MotherOfCatBoy · 15/02/2025 17:55

Wasn’t Bodhi the Patrick Swayze character in Point Break? Cool surfer name.
Boden, no.

Marylou2 · 15/02/2025 17:55

SnowyPetals · 15/02/2025 17:48

Boden Breton Stripe would go well together.

We have a favourite!!!

worcesterpear · 15/02/2025 17:53

I agree it is more likely to be Bodhi (if a boy). I think it's a Scottish name so things like Hamish, Callum, Fraser, Hector etc.

SundaySighing · 15/02/2025 17:52

Isn't Beauden the spelling when it's a first name? Differentiates it from the shop at least and pronounced the same.

BoldHedgehog · 15/02/2025 17:51

It's heavily associated with the extreme right in Germany. 'Blood and soil' nationalism is called Blut und Boden, a Nazi slogan.

OldieButBaddie · 15/02/2025 17:51

I'm sorry but Boden Tate just sounds like an incel in a jaunty dress

DaphneduMaureen · 15/02/2025 17:50

armt · 15/02/2025 17:40

Hi! Yes I'm aware of the shop name. Thanks for your input :) I find that quite rude.

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Better get used to “finding that quite rude” because people will mention the shop to you on a regular basis.

Not the same as Zara which was an established name, before the Spanish clothing brand was even founded.

ThePoshUns · 15/02/2025 17:49

Johnny

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 15/02/2025 17:49

Really not a fan, sorry.

Digdongdoo · 15/02/2025 17:49

First thing to enter my head was Joules. You can't name your kid after a poncy clothes shop.

SnowyPetals · 15/02/2025 17:48

Boden Breton Stripe would go well together.

JudgeBread · 15/02/2025 17:48

I've only ever seen it as a given name spelled Beauden, as in Beauden Barrett, and only in New Zealand where he's popular.

In the UK it's just the shop. You might as well call him/her Debenhams.

proporop · 15/02/2025 17:48

it means floor in german.

buybuysellsell · 15/02/2025 17:47

Dreadful! Don't do it! Your child will have the piss taken out of them forever.