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Leo or Ronnie

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Catlover123456 · 28/06/2025 23:14

Leo or Ronnie
Which one better? 😁

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iamnowslim · 01/07/2025 13:58

Love Ronnie

Mumofyellows · 01/07/2025 13:02

Leo. Ronnie is terrible.

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Catlover123456 · 01/07/2025 12:58

Wow I guess decision made then!
I still like both names (although most ppl got neg comments about Ronnie🙃)
Will possibly go for Leo this time then!
Thanks guys!

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HugoYorway · 01/07/2025 10:04

The Two Ronnies. Both were fine gentlemen, as well as being talented and hilarious.
Ronnie Barker was a genius.

ScruffMuffin · 30/06/2025 21:59

I prefer Leo, but people say such awful things on here. I know a little Ronnie, if that helps. He's in Reception class. Although it's not a name I would choose, I raise the bigoted people on here The Two Ronnies. Both were fine gentlemen, as well as being talented and hilarious.

KayEmAy · 30/06/2025 21:40

Leo 100%

Firsttimebabymummy · 30/06/2025 19:49

Leo for baby and Ronnie for future pup! Lol

vipfyeducation · 30/06/2025 16:35

Ronnie 😁

CatsArePeople · 30/06/2025 13:36

LessPorky · 30/06/2025 12:44

You can’t saddle a child with Ron or Ronald 😂

Thats even worse than chavmungeous Ronnie.

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A child won't be little forever.

LessPorky · 30/06/2025 12:44

CatsArePeople · 30/06/2025 12:34

Ronnie, or better - Ron/Ronald. Leo too popular.

You can’t saddle a child with Ron or Ronald 😂

Thats even worse than chavmungeous Ronnie.

CatsArePeople · 30/06/2025 12:34

Ronnie, or better - Ron/Ronald. Leo too popular.

DryDay · 29/06/2025 22:09

I’m biased but Leo

Strokethefurrywall · 29/06/2025 21:53

Leo - Ronnie is an east end gangster as others have said.

Krakinou · 29/06/2025 21:37

Ronnie is cute but would you use just Ronnie, or a Ron/Ronald?

EggandStress · 29/06/2025 21:19

Leo

shoopshoopdedoo · 29/06/2025 21:10

Leo

notacooldad · 29/06/2025 21:05

I don't like it for a child now; don't think it works well.
I thought that until my colleague called her child that. Maybe it wasn't great as a baby but by five he couldn't be anything else!

YesButNoButMayybee · 29/06/2025 20:48

There are lots of elderly Ronnies. Many of them fine gentlemen, I'm sure.

I don't like it for a child now; don't think it works well.

notacooldad · 29/06/2025 20:46

I think Ronnie is having all bit of a come back! I know about 7 who are under 6!
They are from lovely families who aren't 'thuggish' and or anything like the other ridiculous comments that have been made.

AelitaQueenofMars · 29/06/2025 20:45

Bloody hell. My dad is a Ronnie and he’s as far from the awful stereotypes on here as possible. Not a ‘chav,’ not a ‘thug,’ not a ‘brute,’ nor a ‘bloke having a fag by the roughest pub in the village’. He’s 93, served his country and nearly got blown to kingdom come in the Korean War - when still a teenager! Yes, he was working class. But he overcame the disadvantages he was born into, and the snobbery of his ‘superiors’ in the Army, and clearly the likes of people on here. He had to undergo electroconvulsive shock therapy - brutal, and barely ‘therapy’ - because that’s how PTSD was treated then. He managed to get into a really good university, in his 30s, and went to taught classics. Sorry if that doesn’t fit your ‘Ronnie’ stereotype.

Leave your stupid kneejerk prejudices at the door, seriously!

It’s absurd and actually quite upsetting to read the stupid shit some of you come out with. These names actually belong to people we know and love.

YesButNoButMayybee · 29/06/2025 19:16

Plot twist, it's for a kitten.

MellowPinkDeer · 29/06/2025 19:15

IglesiasPiggl · 29/06/2025 17:08

There were two brothers at my DD's school (recently!) called Ronnie and Reggie. I kid you not.

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Stop it??? Surely no one is that stupid???

mangoglow · 29/06/2025 19:15

I actually prefer Ronnie and think it is quite sweet.

MellowPinkDeer · 29/06/2025 19:14

I think they are both ‘naughty names’ but Leo is far better out of the two

PurpleChrayn · 29/06/2025 19:01

Leo, of course.

You aren’t naming an octogenarian former East End gangster.

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