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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Miles or Hugh

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polkydot · 19/10/2014 15:29

We have a boy due in January, and had decided on Miles Alexander as his name, months ago. DH is now having doubts and likes Hugh Alexander. I do like the name, but have been so set on Miles. Any opinions to help?!

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nevergoogle · 19/10/2014 15:31

They are both lovely. Wait and see.

HaveYouHeardOfGoogle · 19/10/2014 15:32

I love the name Miles so that would get my vote

bearleftmonkeyright · 19/10/2014 15:35

I have a Miles

BlueStarsAtNight · 19/10/2014 16:51

I like both, does one go better with your surname? I'd keep both in reserve til you see him, he might suit one or the other.

threefoureight · 19/10/2014 17:43

Miles Alexander sounds lovely. :)

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polkydot · 19/10/2014 17:56

Sorry I disappeared, took the dogs out.

Thank you, I'm glad no one said they're both awful! Maybe that's the best thing to do, wait to meet him. It's the one thing I thought we had sorted though...

I don't think surname makes much difference, it's long and double-barrelled either way.

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DogCalledRudis · 19/10/2014 18:00

Miles -- nah
Hugh -- unfortunately an unsavoury character i know.

Maybe Hugh -- you could think of Hugh Jackman

yellowsnownoteatwillyou · 19/10/2014 18:01

If you don't stay in Scotland Hugh would be my choice.
I wanted it, but the baby would have ended up being called shug or shuggy by everyone apart from me and I would spend my time objecting to it, so didn't want to deal with that.

Flipflops7 · 19/10/2014 20:30

Miles is lovely and I like the alt spelling, Myles.

Squirm · 19/10/2014 21:14

Hugh

DramaAlpaca · 19/10/2014 21:18

Miles Alexander

squoosh · 19/10/2014 21:25

Miles.

rachel234 · 19/10/2014 22:04

I prefer Hugh!

Miles is the plural of Mile. Like Kilometres is to Kilometre.

dreamingofsun · 20/10/2014 17:07

hugh - we have one and its always worked well for him and he likes it. its a sort of works anywhere name

NadiaWadia · 20/10/2014 17:11

Miles is nice. With Hugh you may get difficulties with pronunciation - wouldn't anyone from, say, Norfolk and maybe even the entire USA pronounce it 'Hoo'?

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polkydot · 20/10/2014 18:12

I hadn't thought of pronoun citation being a problem with either of them!

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cherrybombxo · 20/10/2014 18:17

They're both a bit wanky for my taste... couldn't Alexander be the first name?

As mentioned above, "Hugh" becomes "Shug" in Scotland so I definitely couldn't have that! I've already vetoed James from my future name list because I couldn't have him called Jimmy

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polkydot · 20/10/2014 23:40

Don't know what happened there, definitely meant pronunciation. Never known Shug as a nickname, not keen on that, but we're not in Scotland. I quite like that they're both short and don't really have associated nicknames.

Alexander's my brother's name and a family name, so much as I love it, I don't really want it as a first name.

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polkydot · 20/10/2014 23:41

When you say wanky, what sort of wanky do you mean?

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Dovahkiin · 21/10/2014 01:04

Married to a Hugh so I'm biased but I think it's lovely. Miles is a bit more popular, if it's a problem. Only issue DH has had has been living abroad where people occasionally pronounce it 'Huge' but I've yet to meet a man who would seriously object to that.

threefoureight · 21/10/2014 09:47

I've known couple of people called Miles, none were wanky.

In Scotland it seems fairly accepted, English mumsnetters have seemed more likely to say it's posh.

cherrybombxo · 21/10/2014 10:14

I don't know exactly, I just think they're a bit snobby and... wanky. But I'm from a fairly crap area outside Edinburgh and I went to a really rough, crap school where poshness was beaten out of you...

The names are fine, I suppose I've just never met anyone called either so I only have an image of what a "Miles" would be and my mind has decided he would be snobby!

threefoureight · 21/10/2014 10:21

Hmm I went to school in an average area of Scotland with a Miles, so that has maybe coloured my opinion. :D

DecaffTastesWeird · 21/10/2014 15:55

I prefer Hugh but maybe wait and see what he looks like when he is born.

GertrudeBell · 21/10/2014 16:02

I was dead set on Hugh for DC1, until someone pointed out that he would be "huge Hugh" if he were a bit on the big side.

So I called him something else and he turned out to be a GINORMOUS baby (pretty big in fact until he lost his toddler chub at 3). So a good decision for me.

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