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Our final names - opinions please

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whirlpooldeeping · 29/07/2009 23:28

Ophelia Beatrix
Mungo Jeffrey

What do you think? The middle names are family names.

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pedalmonster · 06/08/2009 18:50

Oh No. Surely you jest? Ophelia? can you imagine all the jokes at highschool? I feel ya, Ophelia. And Mungo - honestly, wasn't he the patron saint of homeless people or something?
Unless you are exceedingly posh and snooty, I'm talking several generations of poshness, these names will not work.

Tidey · 05/08/2009 14:53

Ophelia - good, Beatrix - Prefer Beatrice

Mungo -Absolutely bloody awful, Jeffrey - Ditto.

I hope I haven't offended you, but Mungo really is one of the most atrocious names going. Good luck and best wishes anyway.

myredcardigan · 05/08/2009 14:50

Mungo ok if your from Glasgow. If not, I wouldn't. Dh just said, 'It's a shite name but at least up there you'd be patriotic!' (He is also from Glasgow)
Ophelia is pretty but obv has the tragic connotations though as mentioned, so does Juliet yet it's never a problem.
I prefer Beatrice to Beatrix. Do not like Jeffrey, but family names are often important.

mopsyflopsy · 05/08/2009 13:55

I like them both!

I think more important than the first and middle name combo is the first and surname combination.

cyteen · 05/08/2009 13:20

Ophelia is gorgeous. Mungo is the pits.

Not a fan of Beatrix or Jeffrey at all. But did lol at inadvertent Mungo Jerry homage

pasturesnew · 05/08/2009 13:16

Ophelia Beatrice would be more consistently Shakespearian and that way you'd have a tragic and a comic character balancing each other out? I don't think Ophelia is that depressing a character actually, she seems to have had a nice time before Hamlet went bonkers.

I really like Jeffrey, another of these names that could be due a comeback soon perhaps? Mungo just makes me think of beans, I get the Harry Potter connection but that wouldn't be my first choice.

PuppyLoves · 05/08/2009 13:10

oh dear not Mungo. He won't thank you for it.

Beatrix is lovely though

MaElsie · 05/08/2009 13:03

Don't do it. Not Mungo please. Mungo is always the creepy guy in murder mysteries. Sorry.

Ophelia Beatrix is pretty though.

jkklpu · 04/08/2009 16:04

girl's name OK, though prefer Jessica/Viola for Shakespearean options

Mungo - dreadful, and I'm from Glasgow

CountessDracula · 04/08/2009 16:01

I think Beatrix Ophelia is better than the other way round

Mungo is a dog's name

Thunderduck · 04/08/2009 15:59

I don't think that Beatrix works well with Ophelia though.

Thunderduck · 04/08/2009 15:58

I like Ophelia but think Mungo is truly awful.

screamingabdab · 04/08/2009 15:56

You don't want to know.

sorry

Cadelaide · 04/08/2009 15:36

What's happened with Ophelia? Everyone on MN used to hate it.

Re the sad Shakespeare connections, what about Juliet then? No-one ever says that about Juliet do they?

Mungo's just funny.

MamaLazarou · 04/08/2009 15:34

Ophelia is really lovely. Sorry about Mungo Jerry!

sockmonster · 30/07/2009 10:53

replace Mungo with something less cruel and your names are perfect!

Montgomery is not as mean? Milo? Er.. anything but Mungo?

Personally I love the name Ophelia Beatrix

gladders · 30/07/2009 10:43

Mungo is a dog's name surely?

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whirlpooldeeping · 30/07/2009 01:12

How didn't I spot Mungo Jeffrey/Jerry? Must check for other family names now.

Nope, don't like Bellatrix. It sounds made up and we're not Potter fans.

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SarfEasticated · 30/07/2009 01:07

I think Ophelia has rather sad connotations after Hamlet...

LightShinesInTheDarkness · 30/07/2009 01:01

Mary, Mungo and Midge.
Or am I just showing my age?

Vegemitelover · 30/07/2009 00:33

I think of sprouts when i hear Mungo. sorry.

jodie87 · 30/07/2009 00:19

i really like mungo think its a nice name

zazen · 30/07/2009 00:15

Oh-feel-ya!

Mungo - as in Harry Potter's correctional school?
Getting the HP theme from Beatrix/ Bellatrix also.

Humm.... sorry.

jellybeans · 30/07/2009 00:09

Like your girls name, really really dislike Mungo, hideous name, sorry.

skybright · 29/07/2009 23:47

Like Ophelia,sorry i don't like Mungo.