What do you think when you hear the name Milo?

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And yes, I'm expecting a few 'it's a dog' responses!

Just wondering what you all think of it? Considering it for DC2 arriving in a couple of weeks, DS1 has a 'grandad' type name.

Thanks!

Catch-22 for me too. Milo Minderbinder. And everyone has a share.

I love it!
The Tweenies have not been on for ages so younger people won't think of it.

Tweenies is still being shown on CBeebies.

Like every Australian, to me Milo is a malt chocolate drink. I still remember being absolutely stunned as a young child when I heard that it could actually be a person's name! (I think that was when I came across the Phantom Tollbooth.) I do like it though. It has yummy connotations...

I still think Tweenie.

Mainly because I worked with someone who had a boy called that about 6 months before the show first aired, and found it changed how people saw their choice quite a bit.

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My two DDs loved the Tweenies when they were little. I've just asked them and they could name most of the characters, and could name Milo. My DDs are 8 and 11.

No idea if they're still playing old reruns on some TV channel - but my two under 24 certainly associate Mili with the Tweenies.

Sorry I think of the tweenies

By the looks of it, they were still showing reruns in 2013, as they got into trouble for showing this episode:

www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=117324

I am sorry but I would think middle class, trying hard to be cool, daddy despite it actually sounding quite nice. Not sure a 22 year old Milo would prefer his name to say something like Ben or Jack. He would probably tell you he wished he had been called something else.

Faddy not daddy!

I love the name Milo, and would not automatically assume 'tweenies' or dog.

A milk drink.

My gorgeous Siamese cat Milo, I really miss him!

I don't like it.

My cat. But I love it and wish I hadn't wasted such an awesome name on a cat as now I'll never be able to useit

It is and will always be a chocolate milk drink to me "it's marvellous what milo can do for you... Ole Malaysia" was an advert I still can sing 25 years after first hearing it. I find it comparable to naming your child nesquik.

In the U.K. though it's definitely a boys name. And I wouldn't really bat an eyelid.

Tweenies!

What about Miles instead?

1 of my cats.

It's my 2 year old son's name and I couldn't care less if it's a chocolate drink on the other side of the world. I'm Irish and we have Barry's Tea here and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more Barrys in the world than there are Milos and sharing the same name as a teabag hasn't had a detrimental affect on any of them!

I really do think it's an amazing name. It's not faddy or posh. There have been a few famous Milos out there too - eg Milo O'Shea, the talented Irish actor who passed away a couple of years ago.

Everyone comments that they love our sons name and the odd few who don't are the ones who would name their boys James or Daniel or Stephen - not to my taste in the slightest.

My 21 year old is called Milo and I still love it. Well before the Tweenies came along. When he was born one of the doctors was South African and when I said his name the guy said 'that's a chocolate drink where I am from', but I didn't care.
Interesting what you said wintersprinter as he would much rather be called Milo than Ben or Jack (perfectly good names) of which there were plenty in his year group. I call him Misey or Meeloss as a nickname like the Greek island .

Tweenies

I would just think that it's a nice normal boys name.

I wouldn't know about the Tweenies link and I don't think of it as a dogs name.

Not that I mind dogs name for kids, in fact both of my DS's are named after actual dogs. One was my Aunts and one my neighbours.

the least annoying tweenie
bella was a bossy bitch
fizz was a girlie fusspot diva
jake was a learned helplessness whinger
milo was at his worst loud but by far the best out the four

Change the channel ... The Tweenies is on. :(

A chocolate milk drink, then the movie Milo and Otis