Digby - tell me what you think please!

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A little help would be appreciated - what do you think of the name Digby for our possible DS1 (4 weeks to go)? Our surname begins with D as well - not sure if DMPD would work as initials.

My preferred alternatives would be Frederick (Freddie) or Benedict (Dickie) which I like because you can shorten them, but no such convenience with Digby - unless it is to 'Dig' which i don't like........

Help!!!

I love it and a friend has just given it as a middle name to her DS (she wanted it as first name but her DH wouldn't agree).

Digby - Jones. Or a big dog.

Just to warn you -(although after a mammoth thread about something similar, I do hope you're not offended) - my 9 year old ds would find the thought of someone being called Dickie hysterically funny. It does seem that he ithe only mumsnetter's child with such a prurient sense of humour though!

I just think of the biggest old english sheepdog in the world ...sorry

IT's a bit try hard.

Digby, brother to Hamish and Arabella.

KInd of Boden model in waiting with unshorn hair at the age of 8...

Sorry but it's dreadful. Fine for a dog though.

I amnot keen, ssorry.

I prefer fred/freddie

Great big dog, nothing else.

I love the name Digby :)

Agree with seeker re. Dickie - my three would find this funny too.

Not my taste,
I like both Frederick and Benedict, but I would never shorten to Dickie, surely you would choose to shorten to Ben

I can't stop thinking about 'Sir Digby Chicken Caesar' but I am an idiot.

I can't remember what the blokes are called - it's a comedy sketch.

'Tis making me laugh though - hell knows I need a chuckle.

On a more useful note, Benedict is delicious! :)

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Oh yes I had forgotten about Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

think it was Mitchell and Webb

I don't like it. There used to be a Digby College around here so it would have those associations to me. I like Frederick and Ben, not Benedict though.

If you call your son Dickie then you may have to pay for him to go privately.

Benedict is lovely, as is Ben. Sounds studious and handsome.

That's it! :o

Frederick/Freddie is my favourite from your list.

Benedict is OK, not sure about Dickie though, prefer Ben as a nickname.

I don't like Digby at all, sorry. Also the initials DMPD might get "dumped" jokes.

Ah wow - thanks everyone!

Not remotely offended by contra views, each to their own. To be honest we are a bit of a Boden-wearing, Guardian-reading, Waitrose-shopping family anyway so middle-class connotations do not scare us at all

I think some of you are thinking of Digby the biggest dog in the world - well that's not a bad association to make.

I must say I hate Benedict being shortened to Ben (although if it is a boy, and he prefers Ben to Dickie once he is old enough to choose then it's his choice I guess!). I love the name Dickie and am not put off by the thought of anyone sniggering, I never have and I know about 4 of them!

Now have "Digby the biggest dog in the world" song going round my head. Rememberhim driving an ice cream van?
Benedict is a fantastic name.

We have a Digby in our family (man in his fifties). Sill means a dog to me

Hideous.

cartoon dog was my first impression.

Judging by the other dog posts, we are all of the same opinion.

Would not encourage the shortening of Benedict to Dickie...your son will NOT thank you!