Boo for a girl?

[NickiStan]

We have just started thinking about names and I really like Boo for a girl? We have quite a long surname so would like something nice and short. I know it sounds quite cutesy but think the lack of a middle name would help.

Thoughts?

Thanks

I do this...imagine your boss at work. Now imagine her name is Boo. Could you take her seriously? No.

Silly name.

In fact, it's not even a name, it's a sound.

Oh the playground torment. All those pre-pubescent boys yelling "Peeka..." every time she rounds the corner

Apparently it's an Irish name, and means 'star'.

(Well I never)

Cute name but not sure it would work very well as an adult. I know someone who has it as a middle name

It was my nn by my dad and stil is. As a proper name sorry I don't like it at all .

My DD is 4 and her name is Isabel but her nickname and what we call her 90% of the time is boo/boo-bar. Love it as her nickname but never never ever as a first name

The Irish for star is "realt" ray - alt, with the diminuitive realtin - ray alt cheen.

Not sure where Boo comes into it!

Hmm. It's what my friend's sons call their distinguishing mark of gender, shall we say. Not keen.

Beatrice "Boo Boo" Glass v. Salinger, therefore in my book a brilliant name.

Boo Radley anyone?

My ex boyf has a daughter called Boo. Everyone slags off the name choice behind their backs.

I think it's ok as a name myself, but the world thinks it's ridiculous.

my dd is called ruby, she was always on the boob so Boo stuck, it is now Boo Boo from her little sister. Boo is lovely but not a name i dont think

How about Blue? Not my style but slightly less cutesie nicknamey maybe.

I had Bo picked for 3rd daughter but changed it as cousins the same age and called Joe. I prefer Bo, Boo is like something off a horror film.

Boo just makes YOU look an attention-seeking sadcase. If you can handle seeing that in peoples' eyes everytime you say her name, do it.

Sorry, my previous post referred to Boo as an actual name, nickname would be fine.

Even in Monsters Inc. It is not actually the little girl's name.

So we've established:

A) it is far from unusual to call your child Boo, albeit as a nickname
B) it is not actually a name, more just a sound
C) where it has been used as a name historically It tends to be for males

Based on this I'd advise no, don't call your child boo

my childhood nick name was boo, lol. SO glad it's not my real name though.

This is the name of my DH's grandmother (short for Elizabeth). She was a beautiful debutante in the 1930s. Our DS's middle name is Elizabeth after her and she now gets called Boo too Put Elizabeth on the birth cert and call Boo for short.

Sorry DD's

I think it is OK as a nickname or middle name.

As a nickname, yes, we call dd it as well as Pootle etc etc. But as a name.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We called her Ella Louisa ha ha!

My son is boo as nn
His sister called him baby poo and we changed it for obvious reasons to baby boo and it stuck.
I love it and never seen monsters Inc but remember boo radleys and to kill a mockingbird brilliant!
I'm surprised at how many boos there are out there reading this