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Please help me choose between 3 boys names

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DrizzleHair · 17/05/2017 11:15

Help please! Which is your favourite out of:
Roscoe
Flynn
Holden for a boy?

Will have a normal British surname beginning with E

Thanks.

I'm sure lots of people will hate some/all of these so I'd be really grateful if they'd just decline to comment rather than tell me how awful they all are

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DrizzleHair · 17/05/2017 14:40

Oh and incidentally I love the name Margot and wanted that as my preferred girl's name but OH vetoed. No idea if you like the name or just used it in your username...Good life?

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MargotLovedTom1 · 17/05/2017 14:41

Yes, the Good Life Wink.

SugarMiceInTheRain · 17/05/2017 14:46

Flynn. Roscoe sounds very redneck to me.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 17/05/2017 14:48

Roscoe

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 17/05/2017 15:10

Flynn.

MiniMaxi · 17/05/2017 15:23

Flynn or Holden sound good to me

Flynn was on our shortlist and I have a cousin called Holden (he's in America - does sound quite American to me)

OyWithThePoodles · 17/05/2017 15:26

Flynn

moreshitandnofuckingredemption · 17/05/2017 15:27

Flynn

Thornyrose7 · 17/05/2017 15:56

I also remember Roscoe from the Dukes of Hazzard. Wasn't it Roscoe.P. Coltrane?. A sniggering cop. So to me it sounds too Mid western.

I loved Holden Caulfield when I was 15. Now not so much! I think the name is a bit open to jokes, too.

Choose Flynn, OP. It is very dashing.

ColourfulOrangex · 17/05/2017 16:13

I quite like Holden

Pemba · 17/05/2017 16:22

Flynn

Sophronia · 17/05/2017 17:51

I only like Holden.

Jooni · 17/05/2017 19:57

Love Roscoe and Flynn, in that order (I think).

Not keen on Holden.

BertrandRussell · 17/05/2017 19:59

Flynn- if I have to choose,

KarineAimee · 17/05/2017 20:28

Really like Flynn!

CrispyBathTowel · 17/05/2017 20:29

Flynn - by a million miles. Love Flynn, I won't comment on the other 2 choices.

Tomfunsnumber1trolley · 17/05/2017 21:23

Roscoe (yes I like the Midlake song too) - it was on my list whilst pregnant with DC2. Love Flynn as well but it rhymes with our surname. Not keen on Holden but can see the appeal.

ChrisPrattsFace · 17/05/2017 21:34

Love Flynn and Holden.
I know many dogs called Roscoe... So that would be a no go for me! Grin

TheVanguardSix · 17/05/2017 21:37

Holden.

I know too many dogs named Roscoe.

Joeybee · 18/05/2017 00:36

I don't like Roscoe, it sounds like a pets name, or a company name to me.
Flynn is a nice name - easy to say and spell and not too popular or unheard of.
I like the name Holden...but for myself (and probably most Aussies) it's unusable because of the car manufacturer Holden. It'd be like calling a child Mercedes or Honda or something. However in the UK I'm sure people wouldn't make that association.

searchingfornames · 18/05/2017 12:35

Flynn

DarkestBeforeDawn · 18/05/2017 12:39

I have a Flynn! Love the name obviously!

MaidenMotherCrone · 18/05/2017 12:57

I too have a Flyn, with just the one n though.

It means son of a red haired man. Which he is. Does his father have red hair?

auntym · 18/05/2017 12:59

Flynn

EweAreHere · 18/05/2017 13:07

Flynn or Holden, both great names.

Roscoe makes me immediately thinks of the dimwitted hick sheriff in The Dukes of Hazzard show/movies. "Rosco Purvis Coltrane is a fictional bumbling and corrupt sheriff character in the American TV series The Dukes of Hazzard along with the movie Moonrunners and the movies that followed."