Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Help! I need the boy name version of 'Annabel' ...

85 replies

frazzledoldbag34 · 12/12/2008 14:16

Please help, I just found out it's a boy and I need the boy version of Annabel which was my chosen girl name. Any ideas?
(and don't say Sebastian because DH will say no).

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
MerryChristmasToYou · 05/09/2024 17:05

What prompted you to post on a thread from 2008? @Haley1234

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 05/09/2024 14:39

What is with the revival of all these zombie threads recently? The child in question is fifteen.

Haley1234 · 05/09/2024 14:35

Anthony?

delightedoldbag34 · 15/12/2008 14:16

Well done harpsiheraldangelssing - Rory is on our list! Great minds etc etc

harpsiheraldangelssing · 15/12/2008 10:06

OK well I called my dd2 Annabel and if she had been a boy I would have called her William.
or Rory
does that help at all?

crazyloon1 · 15/12/2008 10:02

Lol at OP!!!

How about Anakin? As in skywalker?

MrsSeanBean · 15/12/2008 09:58

Great website walkingprimrose!

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 21:22

loving Annabellend happychristmasyourarse
Have added that to my list

HappyChristmasYourArse · 14/12/2008 21:19

Annabellend

(to add to gigglewitch's list )

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 21:13

Oh I thought you might know bronze!

bronze · 14/12/2008 21:00

Cweeven I think but you might be best asking someone who knows better than me

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 20:58

gigglewitch - ha ha very funny

bronze - how is Caomh pronounced?

bronze · 14/12/2008 20:45

Caomh
It means lovable as does Annabel

gigglewitch · 14/12/2008 20:41

Haven't read the thread - how many of these have already been mentioned by the norty contingent......
Annabill
Annabob
Annabert
Sammabel

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 20:38

I think that's fine though Liffey as by the time she's planning to have her next baby (about 3 yrs from now) the hamster will most likely be dead!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 19:49

Yeah that'll piss off your SIL! If you get to use the nme first, but for a HAMSTER!!

MadamAnt · 14/12/2008 19:27

Lol luvly, but wouldn't Annabill be more apt?

luvlydECMOrations · 14/12/2008 19:17

Annabob

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 19:13

Not that SIL is pg and she may go on to have another girl.
But you know what people are like about 'their' names and other people 'stealing' them. I'd never do that to her.

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 19:11

Can't use Bruno. DD1 is getting a hamster for christmas and is calling it that. (Bruno Tonioli actually after he on Strictly). Plus SIL has it on her short list for her next boy.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 19:07

The coe on Ross is the sporran though. Ross has been decelted and it's gone mainstream. Nothing wrong with that,but to put a bit of kilt back in to it, you need that 'coe' on the end!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 19:05

Is there a Scottish form of Tadhg? Pronounced like the first syllable of Tiger?

Tadhg with Tiger as a nn could work! I like Bruno too. Now Bruno was the name that I begged to be allowed call my son. Was allowed. That's a bear's name I was told.... It would have suited him. He's three now and I could still imagine him being called Bruno. I call him tubby bear sometimes anyway. He's not very fierce though. More of a chilled out, fond of his food, do I have to move? bear.

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 19:04

Hmm not sure you'd get away with Murdo outside Scotland. Even in Scotland there were only 7 Murdo's registered in 2007. (Although our Murdo is actually a Murdoch on his birth cert).

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 19:02

DH says Ross yes, Roscoe no.
He's so dull.

MadamAnt · 14/12/2008 19:01

I absolutely LOVE Roscoe (Roscoe Beck is currently touring as Leonard Cohen's bassist). It would be a strong contender for my hypothetical DC3, if it wasn't for the fact that I would then have three DCs with "R" names, which might be a bit odd.

Sholto, Mungo and Murdo are all also fantastic.

However, DH and I were talking about the possibility of having a "Murdo" and we decided that it sounds better with a Scottish accent (Murrrrdo).