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Original poster

When I was pregnant I was going to call my baby boy Rufus or Summer if it was a girl

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charliecat · 04/08/2008 00:44

what did you nearly call yours?

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belcantavinissima · 04/08/2008 22:51

i meant we called dd india, not my gran

belcantavinissima · 04/08/2008 22:50

my grans name was violet. we called her india in the end. wish i had got violet in there somewhere

cadelaide · 04/08/2008 22:38

belcant, I also went through the "harvey" thing, but we didn't go for it in the end.

I too love aurora/coco/bibi/violet. DD would have been a perfect Violet.

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belcantavinissima · 04/08/2008 22:35

aurora/coco/bibi /violet (all names i still love!)

madeleine/amber (which i dont)

otis/sonny/fraser (still love)

harry/harvey (which i dont)- tho ds2 has harvey as his middle name. i conveniently forget that.

the names i dont like any more that i did at the time are quite common now where we live btw

cadelaide · 04/08/2008 22:19

Adelaide.

God only knows why. Now I think it's ok-ish.

muggglewump · 04/08/2008 22:18

Phoebe or Tabitha were the only others I considered for a girl.
She would have been Tristan if she'd been a boy

Bluestocking · 04/08/2008 22:17

Merlin

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ImnotOK · 04/08/2008 22:15

Toby /lola

Adam /Lauren

Charlotte
/nile

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charliecat · 04/08/2008 22:12

I like fawn, and monty Des WHAT? And Vlad, good grief lol

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hughjarssss · 04/08/2008 00:56

Fawn

WipingAssAndTakingNames · 04/08/2008 00:55

Just after my dd1 was born, I in my hormonal quagmire thought in some seriousness about Desdemona or Vladimira. Luckily, enough people gently reminded me it would be child cruelty. In the end we chose Felicity.

I like both Rufus and Monty - is that pg hormones speaking?

LadyOfWaffle · 04/08/2008 00:48

Monty, Rupert (which I still find OK but MW was horrified!?)... can't think of others.