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What do we - the Mumsnet Collective - think of the name "Neo" as a middle name for a boy?

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 27/08/2008 21:57

Thoughts please?

First name - Aiden..

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WickedBitchoftheEast · 29/08/2008 23:36

Sorry, forgot to say Aiden is a lovely name.

WickedBitchoftheEast · 29/08/2008 23:35

It's crap ! think of the poor kid who as to live with it

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 29/08/2008 22:42

She isn't spelling it incorrectly, she is spelling it differently and has a valid family reason for doing so.

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KateF · 29/08/2008 15:26

My friend has an Aidan Thomas-very nice but please tell her to spell it properly

lastboxoftampons · 29/08/2008 15:22

Cestlavie - A friend of mine when I was in school was called Trinity. It's a real name!

cestlavie · 29/08/2008 15:17

Neo was "The One" though, wasn't he!

I'd be inclined to call a child Neo, but only on the condition that I could call his siblings Morpheus and Trinity.... oooh, Trinity for a girl, I like that!

SoupDragon · 29/08/2008 15:03

Aydan??? Please no!

oi · 29/08/2008 15:01

Neo fascist

first thing that came to mind

lastboxoftampons · 29/08/2008 15:00

newbie, Podrick?

I thought it said Nemo orignally and thought no, that's a fish! Neo is not a name it's a prefix...!

puggie81 · 29/08/2008 13:25

i love neo if my baby was a boy was having it as a first name go for it

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 28/08/2008 18:31

LOL CD

And Podrick - no - absolutely not! I have to disagree with that!

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Podrick · 28/08/2008 18:17

The worst name yet on these threads

CountessDracula · 28/08/2008 18:16

As long as your surname isn't Nazi I guess it is ok (if you like that sort of thing)

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 28/08/2008 18:16

Stand by, he may yet be Aydan Thomas

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3andnomore · 28/08/2008 16:25

conversation had moved on, hadn't it....lol....note to self...must read whole thread before replying...

3andnomore · 28/08/2008 16:25

conversation had moved on, hadn't it....lol....note to self...must read whole thread before replying...

3andnomore · 28/08/2008 16:24

Aiden Neo doesn't run to easily of the tongue, tbh....

Janni · 28/08/2008 10:01

See, now we can convince ourselves that we actually have an influence on real life events. Fantastic. I hope it's Aidan James.

QuintessentialShadow · 28/08/2008 09:32

I suggested Aidan James! ti hi!

Lovely name.

(And well done on the birth experience, I read your thread with tears welling up, it was so beautiful, but then had to rush to ds2 and forgot to reply on it)

ghosty · 28/08/2008 09:20

Two of my nephews have middle names beginning with N ... one is Nathan and the other is Niall ...
If that helps.

Wasn't really headbanging the table

Weegiemum · 28/08/2008 09:17

Thats nice SHiny. Personally I prefer the more usual spelling, but any more Aidans/Aidens/Aydans in the world is good for me.

I means "a flame: firey" and is after St Aidan, who came from Ireland to Iona to Northumbria to convert the pagan English. St Aidan was a great bloke. It was said of him :

""He neither sought nor loved anything of this world, but delighted in distributing immediately to the poor whatever was given him by kings or rich men of the world."

I like that. He founded Lindisfarne (Holy Island) and here is his Wiki entry.

Eddas · 28/08/2008 09:15

I see we moved from Neo now, but it's not as bad as a friend of dh's who's children are

Eric Danger

Daisy Boo

there's a third child now too but not sure on the name

Another friend has Xavier as their dc's middle name, and it's because of his dads love of comics

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 28/08/2008 08:59

Weegie I think it is going to be Aydan James but I will report back if this changes again .

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Weegiemum · 28/08/2008 08:48

Shiny - it would be nice to hear what she decides in the end. Cos Aidan is such a cool name!

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 28/08/2008 08:38

It's not me, it's my friend and I was asking on her behalf. No need to cause yourselves injury with headbanging and the like.

Thank you for opinions.

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