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Hunter

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Pineapples · 26/05/2009 21:53

I like Hunter for a boy, what do you think?

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RoxyRobin · 20/01/2012 23:24

Writer Hunter Davies - married to novelist Margaret Forster. It always struck me as an unusual name, but manly.

yellowflowers · 20/01/2012 23:18

Gladiator

SardineQueen · 20/01/2012 19:20

Gladiators.

Montsti · 20/01/2012 19:09

Horrible - sorry!

rosebery · 20/01/2012 17:53

Duh not sub. Double duh.

rosebery · 20/01/2012 17:52

lafille - oh yeah, 2009. Oops (and sub)

lisaro · 20/01/2012 17:42

It's bloody awful. And tacky.

LaFilleSurLePont · 20/01/2012 17:40

Zombie thread.

3boysgirlontheway · 20/01/2012 17:09

I like it, but as someone else said it needs the right surname, and perhaps even the right family iykwim?

rosebery · 20/01/2012 16:22

Hmm no. Makes me think of the gladiators tv programme. Wasn't hunter the one that dated ulrika johnsson?

TeWihara · 20/01/2012 16:09

I had a thread about this when PG with DS as DH was desperate to name him Hunter, general consensus was don't do it.

I really like the name but I wouldn't and didn't use it in England as hunting has such a poor reputation, I also think it would be pretty difficult name to live with if you were a skinny spotty geeky 13yo.

If I was back in NZ, Canada or anywhere else with a similar attitude to hunting I would use it no problems.

ChickensGoMeh · 20/01/2012 15:53

Imagine you call your DS Hunter. Now imagine he grows up to be 5' nothing tall and an IT consultant. It's a lot to live up to, right?

woolly76 · 20/01/2012 15:51

Sounds a bit silly and faddy

onthegophotobooth · 20/01/2012 15:46

I have just named my boy Hunter just because of the reason that he looks hunter.
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CandleQueen · 31/05/2009 22:11

My cousin has just named her little boy Hunter, but then she does live in Pennsylvania!

ilikeyoursleeves · 31/05/2009 22:10

Makes me think of Bear Grylls, sorry!

littlelamb · 31/05/2009 22:09

There will only ever be one Hunter
I do like it though. Needs the right surname with it though

Tn0g · 31/05/2009 22:08

Gatherer

Paolosgirl · 31/05/2009 22:07

No no no no nooooooo

Way too American, and just trying oh so hard.

SoupDragon · 31/05/2009 22:06

No.

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 31/05/2009 22:05

i do love it

thelollipoplady · 31/05/2009 22:04

are you my dh in disguise pineapple?! hunter's on his shortlist ... not mine. it also includes thor and orion...

Heated · 28/05/2009 21:07

It is very romance novel, where the men are rugged and laconic and have brothers called Tate and Ryder. One of those names I secretly like but would never use.

jkklpu · 28/05/2009 21:04

big game

janeite · 28/05/2009 21:03

I have seen (and liked) Paris, Texas.

Don't like Hunter at all though, sorry.