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What do you think of the name Ratner for a boy?

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Hilder · 12/06/2008 13:11

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Spar

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Hilder · 12/06/2008 13:30

Ok if you think that sounds cheap [offended] How about
Larry-Doute?

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MingMingtheWonderPet · 12/06/2008 13:28

Again, I actually do know brothers called Spencer and Mark!

zippitippitoes · 12/06/2008 13:22

and his brother Matalan

Habbibu · 12/06/2008 13:22
MaryAnnSingleton · 12/06/2008 13:22

Posh ones
Harrods
Harvey Nichols
Liberty
Hermes
Jo Malone
General Trading Company
Peter Jones
John Lewis

zippitippitoes · 12/06/2008 13:22

Siralan would be a good name for a boy

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/06/2008 13:20

MacFisherie
Aldi
Lidl,of course
Robert Dyas
Monsoon for a girl
Thornton
Waterstone
Costa
Clarks

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Habbibu · 12/06/2008 13:20

Pagwatch, was she Bunty Cupcake in the flesh?

fryalot · 12/06/2008 13:20

I think it's cheap crap

(just in case this is serious, no, I don't like it. He'll get cheap crap jokes all his life)

pagwatch · 12/06/2008 13:20

I actually did know two children called Laura and Ashley.
Always got the giggles when she called them in from the garden

Habbibu · 12/06/2008 13:19

And for the poncy lentil weaver twins there's Abel and Cole...

Niecie · 12/06/2008 13:19

Oh no not Ratner - would be shortened to Rat, not nice.

I do like Somerfield for a girl though.

MsDemeanor · 12/06/2008 13:17

oooh, Ocado is lovely! Boy or girl, do you think?
I know some twins called Toni and Guy, which I think is really unusual and stylish.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/06/2008 13:16

ah cheap jewellers. You dont get many of those anymore. Have to rely on Elizabeth Dukes really....

GeoffWode · 12/06/2008 13:16

And if you were a real MNer, I think you'd probably knit your own name acksherly.

babster · 12/06/2008 13:16

Aldi has a continental ring to it

MsDemeanor · 12/06/2008 13:16

Mark and Spencer are nice names.

wessexgirl · 12/06/2008 13:16

Argos is nice.

Or Lidl for a girl.

Habbibu · 12/06/2008 13:15

No, no, you want modern names.

Like Amazon. Or Ocado.

GeoffWode · 12/06/2008 13:15

WT - I met a Boden the other day!

CristinaTheAstonishing · 12/06/2008 13:15

Or Joules.

GeoffWode · 12/06/2008 13:14

for expat's benefit

How about Morrison.

LucyLamb · 12/06/2008 13:14

Noooooooo !!! ratner will always be synonymous with crap after that awful jeweller man said his Ratner jewellery was crap !! you can't do it to a child - no way !!

Spar is also a shop by the way !

You need to look at that bay name book again - I think you must be looking at a list of high street retailers by mistake !

WanderingTrolley · 12/06/2008 13:14

All these names are crap. You are a mner. Call him Boden.