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

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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).

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delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 19:01

I quite like that other posh one with a silly name. He's always doing dangerous gung-ho things.
Bear Gryllis - now he's a sexy man. (but ditto rubbish husband material I'd reckon).
Hmm what about 'Bear'?
(I quite like Tiger but wouldn't DARE)

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:58

He's bonkers but quite attractive is a strange way. Would make a terrible husband though,what with always being in Africa!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:57

Bruce Parry

Pity about Anatoly. Not tempted by Ptolemy then? As recently discussed here. [wretching and wincing in disbelief emoticon}

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:55

Bruce Parry, right must wikipedia him! Anyone who can (or wants to) turn his foreskin inside out sounds interesting.

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:54

and a 'toly' up here is (ahem ) a jobby!
That wouldn't be a good nickname

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:53

Anatoly?
Sounds like a Russian spy.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:52

Bruce Parry!!!! It just popped into my brain. My brain is overwhelmed with all the names just 'popping' in.

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:51

No, liffey you've totally lost me there! DH and I are totally flummoxed........
Bruce Forsyth?!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:51

Got it. Anatoly. I think it's Russian though. Scotland and Russia, both very cold.

(but I prefer Roscoe, is it growing on ya, is it? is it?)

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:50

Teal and Topaz!! Lovely, they sound like pandas at the zoo.

pity about Bruce. I like it. It makes me think of that guy on BBC2 who goes into remote African villages and drinks goat blood and turns his foreskin inside out. Do you know the guy I mean??

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:50

Annaboy.........?
Hmm not sure how that would go down in the playground....

MadamDeathstarOverBethlehem · 14/12/2008 18:47

Annabeau
Annaboy

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:44

We have a good friend Bruce so that might be weird. Quite like it though, but no.
Teal and Topaz for twin girls?.... I dare you!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:41

Bruce? It is on the way back. I put my ear to the ground, by the train track like a sioux Indian and I can feeeeeeel it coming back.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 18:40

Roscoe just popped into my head as being a Scottish name. NO idea who or what the history is. He could be a Scottish warrior he slaughtered a million English in the 16th century for all I know?!

Teal sounds like how the Next Catalogue describes a boring v-neck jumper! I quite like it though. For a girl. Sister to topaz actually!

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:16

Just googled Sholto and apparently it means 'teal duck'.
Not quite sure how I feel about that!
Might start a new thread to assess reaction to it. Suspect it may be .
Although do I give a monkeys? Er no!

delightedoldbag34 · 14/12/2008 18:13

I like Sholto and Mungo. I did suggest Mungo to DH cos I quite like it and he does too. But we have a relative called Murdo and wondered if it's a bit close? And perhaps he might get teased at school? (the Murdo is a child).

Where did you get Roscoe? Hmm wonder if it'll be a grower?

Sandy - no, I know a few and it make me think of men with ginger beards for some (odd) reason.

Any other ideas, I like this game!

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 17:55

What about.................

drum roll

Roscoe

(Sholto and Mungo a bit too McPosh. Roscoe a bit quirkier and rarer).

MadamAnt · 14/12/2008 12:51

LOL at Hannibal Ver good.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 12:49

What about Sandy? Is that boring up in Scotland where there are lots. It sounds very McTartanChic to my ear. I also like Jock. I could really get behind Jock, but Americans all hate it.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 14/12/2008 12:46

That time, I was thinking one thing while typing another thing, and clearly that's more than I can handle these days!

I was saying how everything can be traced back to scotland. But what I typed was nonsense and made me sound bonkers. Which, I'm not, well, not totally!

delightedoldbag34 · 13/12/2008 21:46

Ok, so go on tell me.....what did you say this time?!

And no, writing a book about Scottish kings doesn't make you Scottish! So Richard is a no.
And unfortunately Julius is also a no, but mainly because we have a relative named Julian (distant relative but he is an absolute HORROR). Which puts me right off.

DH currently likes Alexander (with Lex or Lexy for short).
I'm keen but not sure it's THE ONE. Maybe it will grow on me? Must check it in the popularity lists....hmm

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 13/12/2008 19:04

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LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 13/12/2008 19:02

Somebody called Richard once wrote a book about kings and queens of scotland. Does that count?

There was a pope Julius II and his 'arms' are in Scotland. NOt sure what that actually means Hmm

delightedoldbag34 · 13/12/2008 11:04

Good luck with that liffey .........

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