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Ulysses

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tummytickler · 29/03/2009 12:28

Ok - this is dh favourite (mine is Cedric).
Is it at all useable? I just cant decide if it is too off the wall?

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lockets · 30/03/2009 22:33

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controlfreakythecontrolfreak · 30/03/2009 22:31

possibly lockets, but not the best BOY name in the whole universe...

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KatyMac · 30/03/2009 22:29

I have a people carrier called a Ulysses

controlfreakythecontrolfreak · 30/03/2009 22:28

i know! am proud owner of 2ds.
they both have fab names. one is truly the best name ever (EVEN BETTER THAN AMOS!).....

dont feel i can post it as would out me in rl.... do you have cat and i will tell you it.

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tummytickler · 30/03/2009 22:22

Love Ezra, but have a ds calle Eli too so dont want to use the same initial.
Rueben i love but this was the name of my grandmothers first husband who was killed in the war. My grandad would not be impressed!
Dont like Saul
Seth becoming a bit popular.

Thanks for the list though! Boys names are really difficult!

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controlfreakythecontrolfreak · 30/03/2009 22:18

that is truly a fine name.

have you thought about any of these that imo sort of "go" with it?

ezra
reuben
seth
saul

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tummytickler · 30/03/2009 22:15

Amos. Well i think it is the best name ever and after a 12 hour drug free labour dh was forced by my midwife to agree .

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controlfreakythecontrolfreak · 30/03/2009 22:14

and the best name ever is?? dont keep it to yourself..... share?

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tummytickler · 30/03/2009 12:43

Well, if it was just up to me i would go for Cedric by a mile, but unfortunately dh has to have a say too!!
I dont know - i live in an area where we could probably get away with it, but still . . . its ok - i like it a lot, but not sure if i like it enough - there are at least 5 names i like much much more. trouble is ds2 got the best name ever and now i am a bit stuck.
Still ttc however, so not a matter of urgency

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ItsMargotBeauregarde · 30/03/2009 12:31

ps the one thing about having the name Ullysses, by the time he's 21, he'll have to read either Ullysses by James Joyce or all of the Greek Classics!! in order to avoid looking like a beer-swilling Chardonnay.
Call him Grisham for an easy life!

LetThemEatCake · 30/03/2009 12:31

I like Ulysses. But then, I like just about all names myth-related

georgiemum · 30/03/2009 12:30

Ooo-leee-sss

We have a few around here. They are all French so I assume it's relatively commonplace there.

I quite like it.

ItsMargotBeauregarde · 30/03/2009 12:29

oooh. No. I do know one though. HONESTLY. He's called Ully.

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OliviaMumsnet · 30/03/2009 12:26

DIamondhead - that's what I thought too!
I will now have this in my head all day
(though better than that 118 247 ad, I suppose)
OP I prefer Cedric - Ulysses/Odysseus was a serial philanderer

ZZZen · 30/03/2009 12:16

So have you decided? Is it going to be Cedric?

I was thinking I knew a guy who wanted to call his son Horatio. His surname is Nelson. I wonder if he ever did or if he chickened out at the last minute.

hoppybird · 29/03/2009 20:50

I think Ulysses is rather off the wall, and I really don't like Cedric. Saying that, I had briefly considered Eric when pregnant last time (my dh thought it was a rubbish idea, but the other ideas we had for a boy were equally absurd, so it's just as well we had a girl).

piscesmoon · 29/03/2009 19:01

I think they are both dreadful.

controlfreakythecontrolfreak · 29/03/2009 18:50

edgar
hector
paris
jonquil
jocelyn
tristan
tristram
augustus
phineas

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 29/03/2009 18:45

I would have said that Ulysses was OK if you hadn't said that you had a complicated surname. So I think you need to back-pedal a bit.

Cedric is awful, though. How about Edwin?

dragonbutter · 29/03/2009 18:41

i once knew a ulysses.
american though.
it suited him.

donnie · 29/03/2009 18:35

nobody will ever spell it correctly ahd he will get very sick of it.

Nancy66 · 29/03/2009 18:34

Awful - ridiculously pretentious and will sound even more tease-worthy with a double barrelled name