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What names can be shortened to Coco

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VintageLuxury · 05/02/2011 17:26

I love the name Coco for DD2 but DH thinks she should have a longer name on her BC. She's due in August so plenty of time, but I can't think of I any names that can be shortened to Coco, but love it too much to let go of it! Can you help?

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VintageLuxury · 06/02/2011 14:11

Lycheemartini Coco Lavender and Coco Fuchsia are stunning!, this is too hard! Coco Phoenix, Coco Lavender or Coco Fuchsia????

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VintageLuxury · 06/02/2011 14:14

What do you think of Coco Blossom?

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BibiBelle · 06/02/2011 14:24

Coco Violet
Coco Velvet
Coco Isis
Coco Ismay
Coco Bea
Coco Fleur

lycheemartini · 06/02/2011 14:44

Glad you like them VintageLuxury, I LOVE them, gorgeous names and I'm quite jealous! Wink

Coco Blossom is lovely too, but slightly less unusual. Think its a middle name of one of Jamie Oliver's dds..Petal Blossom?

lycheemartini · 06/02/2011 14:44

Glad you like them VintageLuxury, I LOVE them, gorgeous names and I'm quite jealous! Wink

Coco Blossom is lovely too, but slightly less unusual. Think its a middle name of one of Jamie Oliver's dds..Petal Blossom?

thunderbird69 · 06/02/2011 14:56

Looks like you've almost chosen, but I was jsut going to say that you could give her Coco as her middle name - I know quite a few people who use their middle names rather than first names.

Nightstar · 06/02/2011 15:10

Why not just name her after Coco Chanel?

Her real name was Gabrielle.

Why not call her Gabrielle and have coco as her NN, that way she has a 'normal' name if she needs it and everyone will understand why she is called coco as a nickname if you say it is after coco chanel. The woman is a massive icon after all!

hocuspontas · 06/02/2011 15:17

Coco Calypso would be fab!

freerangeeggs · 06/02/2011 17:02

I think Sorocco is a very cool name. I would definitely be jealous of a Sorocco. I can find a few references to it as a surname, but not as a first name.

Calypso is fantastic and could easily be shortened to Coco.

Sorocco might need something a bit more 'normal' in the middle though, to balance it out. That doesn't mean it has to be boring, though.

Sorocco Violet
Sorocco Liana
Sorocco Daniela

SilkStalkings · 06/02/2011 19:00

OK, let's get this straight folks.
Socorro is a place in New Mexico (see google images for some rather uninspiring landscapes).
Sorocco is perhaps a surname but could well have originally been a misspelling of Socorro.
Scirocco/Sirocco - a warm south wind

Coco is fine on it's own, please don't go clutching at gibberish for long names!

ValiumSandwichTime · 07/02/2011 18:40

Socorro also means 'help' as in, what you might call out if you were being mugged.

spaghettina · 07/02/2011 20:24

I love Coco! How about Coriander? That's quite hippy boho and continues the food theme of Honey :)

Scirocco, the warm south wind, is pronounced "Shirocco" in Italian if you're interested. But it reminds me too much of the VW car!

BeeBox · 07/02/2011 21:43

Coco Clown? Grin

Seriously, I do know a little Coco who is just Cococ and a grown up Coco, who is Calista.

MrsSchadenfreude · 07/02/2011 22:01

Oooh I was going to say Coco Clown. Or just Cocoa, Grin [unhelpful]

seeker · 07/02/2011 22:08

Oh, for heaven's sake, call her Jane.

Sje will, without doubt, be the only one in her school - unlike practically all the other "unique" names you're talking about.There will be hundreds of them!

You're naming a teenager and an adult woman. Not a baby or a kitten.

barmbrack · 07/02/2011 22:37

Oooooh a bit relieved (having red the whole thread) that I'm not the only one thinking some of these names are a bit bonkers.

Coco is sweet as a nn, but Honey and Coco - would be too much for most! Also, I think f you're going for a bit of an 'out there' first name, you owe it to the poor kid to give her a relatively sane middle she can use when she becomes a barrister. Beatrice would be ideal, as your DH suggested.

barmbrack · 07/02/2011 22:37

read Blush

Imps7 · 08/02/2011 22:32

Haa I was just looking at the 2009 ONS list of all names registered in 2009 - Coco came in at 291 (83 of them born that year) and the name directly above it (also 83) is Chanelle! What a coincidence!

For what it's worth, I love the name Coco and personally wouldn't try to lengthen it, particularly to something that isn't seemingly a real name, but if you've found something that both you and DH love then grab it with both hands because that so rarely happens!

Middle name...I like Bryony.

Imps7 · 08/02/2011 22:33

*491, not 291

sleepywombat · 09/02/2011 04:22

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Guacamole · 09/02/2011 04:51

Isn't Sorocco the name of a car, that new VW? I'm sure it is, my DH has been looking at them? Does that bother you? If not then ignore me.

seeker · 09/02/2011 09:40

Sorocco is a collection of letters. It is not a name.

Why on earth would you give a child a coolection of random letters as a name?

seeker · 09/02/2011 09:41

And cool ection was not a Freudian slip!

Imps7 · 09/02/2011 11:25

What about Rococo?

seeker · 09/02/2011 12:56

Baroque? Or is that more of a boy's name?