If we have a boy, we're thinking of calling him Roscoe...

[abigail5]

Hi everyone,

It's my first time on here but really keen to hear your thoughts. We're expecting our first baby soon, not sure if it's a boy or a girl. We've got plenty of lovely girls names but stuck on boys names!

Our two favourites are...

Myles and Roscoe

If we have a boy we're wondering if we should call him Myles Roscoe or Roscoe Myles.

Any thoughts?

Nice name. That's what we called our beloved pooch.

I had a lovely pet rat once called Roscoe...

Roscoe is a great name! I prefer Roscoe Myles.

Not keen on either, sorry.
Roscoe doesn't seem like a 'proper' name - maybe too american / 'slang' sounding?
And Myles is spelt Miles is it not?

I really like Roscoe.

I like it but putting a Y in Miles is a bit annoying.

My friends surname is Roscoe and her sons name is myles.
Myles Roscoe
So for me that would be the choice but Roscoe is and always will b a surname for me and not nearly as nice as some of the other surname as first names which have shot up in popularity. X

I like Myles, esp with that spelling, but Roscoe is just Roscoe P Coltrane Dukes of Hazard styleeee!

Yep, Roscoe is a dogs name. I think one of the rescues had a red Staffie called that recently.

Roscoe is a name given to some dog's, as are Oscar, Max and Oliver. Doesn't mean humans can't also be given these names.

I love it. Never heard of a dog called Roscoe, just to counter some of the other posters!

It's a great balance of a real name (as opposed to made up) that is clearly a boy's name but still oscure enough to be interesting.

*obscure

I keep thinking of 'Cybil Roscoe' being said over and over again in a silly voice on a TV show years ago.

God knows what it is though. Or maybe I am just losing it

I've also never met a dog (or other animal) named Roscoe. But I know many dogs called Oscar!

The benefit of using Myles as opposed to Miles it that there is no confusion with the metric Miles (Kilometres).

Rosco is an idiot with a basset hound.

Myles will spend his life correcting people's spelling of his name.

Dukes of Hazzard fans?

I'm usually a bit judgey about names but I quite like Roscoe, but I am old enough to only have the positive association with the tennis player Roscoe Tanner.

And here's the judgey bit; Miles with an 'i' please.

I like Roscoe and loved Dokes of H.
I know an adult Myles and have never heard him complain it causes spelling headaches.

I like Roscoe.

I also like Myles rather than Miles. Miles is a measurement to me, rather than a name.

Ross reminds me of that over-sized kid in the outer hebrides on that sketch show. You know with the school with only one pupil (possibly for G&T)
Anyway, sorry I can't remember the name of it ... you know the one?

Don't like Roscoe at all. In Ireland we were plagued by an evil kid's TV show called Bosco so the rhyme puts me off. Agree it sounds like a dog's name.

Milo or Miles is better than Myles.

I am quite judgy though, and am having a particularly judgy day today, so don't go by my opinion!

Unexpected I met a Bosco once! Sadly he didn't have red woolly hair and a green and white striped smock.

I laughed inwardly. A lot!

Very cool.

Ignore the Dukes of Hazard/dogs' names naysayers.

According to some, we gave our son a dog's name. So far he hasn't woofed

Now I think about it, I've never met a dog called son's name but I have met a hamster

Oh God I've just looked up the wikipedia entry for Bosco. Apparently he's still alive! The evil bastard.

I know a young boy called Roscoe so I'm quite used to it as a little boy's name now. It's no more a dogs name than Oscar/Rex/Max IMO. Fwiw, I prefer the name Miles (spelt like that) to Roscoe so I vote for Miles Roscoe.