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Kelly for a boy???xx

37 replies

CinderellaRach · 08/02/2010 09:43

Hi MN's thankyou for your replies when I asked if you liked the name Finn.I still love it and I realise that DH's mind will not be changed no matter what I say!!
I have a son Ellis and expecting second son in 4 and a half months.
The only name we can agree on is Kelly.Does it go with Ellis and is it too girly??

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theminniebobble · 08/02/2010 11:35

oooh I like. It reminds me of Kelly Slater, the champion surfer who I used to drool over as an adolescent. Google him and have a butchers.

mrsvwoolf · 08/02/2010 11:30

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crumpette · 08/02/2010 11:28

I personally think it's truly awful for a boy

shoobidoo · 08/02/2010 11:25

I really like Kelly for a boy and know a lovely 7 year old one (whose never had any issues with it as far as I know).

Wolfblass · 08/02/2010 10:18

Ooh there are some lush Kelly's in this world

(Welsh Rugby players and the lead singer of Stereophonics for one!)

It all depends on your community and your schools.

I have a Gabriel and people said the same about that - BUT have grown to love it (in t he short 10 months he's been here x

MaggieTaSeFuar · 08/02/2010 10:12

No. It's like Kerry. There are some male ones but they are old very old.

what about kelly as a nn for Killian/cillian/Calum

tegan · 08/02/2010 10:01

i love it i love it i love it. i think it sounds lovely together. i would of loved kelli for a boy buy dh wouldn't have it even though he chose sidney for our dd

MadameCastafiore · 08/02/2010 09:57

And say them together quickly - far too many LLL sounds.

MadameCastafiore · 08/02/2010 09:56

He will get beaten up when he goes to school or you will get sniggered at when you tell people what you have called him because for most it is still the name of a 35 year old woman!

Ziggurat · 08/02/2010 09:56

I would take a certain boy to carry it off with aplomb - and of course, there's no way of telling whether he is that boy...

momofnearly2 · 08/02/2010 09:55

I like it. Went to school with a boy called Kelly. He never had any problems!

izzybiz · 08/02/2010 09:45

I wouldn't personally, but each to their own!

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