Jago...

[catlifeisthelifeforme]

Thoughts on this name guys? It is Cornish for James

I think your husband might get used to it! It’s such a great name

I like Jago, not keen on Rudy.

I like it. I also like Iago and James. Don't like Jacob.

I think Jago is nicer than Rudy. I think people will assume you're Cornish though so worth bearing in mind.

I really like it. I know a little Jago.

I feel I ought to like Jags but it somehow sounds wrong.

Rudy is just awful! When I was growing up, the "rudies" were what we called sex. Far too close to the word "rude"

Gorgeous. So unique and cool

Jago not Rudy!!!

Love Jago, one of my faves and on my list, but DH next keen. We’ve gone for a different short name ending in o

Rudy is awful

@MikeUniformMike Jacob is crashingly boring

I like it but agree with others you need to be Cornish. Love Rudy.

I love it!

@BuffaloCauliflower, only to you. Safe, maybe, and it's been around quite a while. I know some terrific Jacobs, who are far from boring.

@MikeUniformMike I didn’t say the people were boring, just the name

Not keen sorry. Makes me think of Iago in Othello.

Jago is cornish for Jacob and James. Jago is currently trendy because many four letter names ending in o are.

Jacob could be Jago on a day-to-day basis, or be Jake or Jay, so I'd say it isn't a boring name.

To me, it feels no different to calling a baby Chloe, if you're not French, Niamh, if you're not Irish or Oscar if you aren't Scandinavian. I'm sure there's plenty more examples I could use, given the popularity of french and Scandinavian names that are booming now. The fact that it's Cornish definitely doesn't hold me back.

The feedback regarding pronunciation is helpful, though!

Go for it OP, it’s a great name

Never head it before, I feel like it could either be very pretentious or very chavvy, there’s much nicer names out there, also reminds me of the offensive word “dago”

Taught a Jago once, in a rather posh boarding school. Quite liked the name but I think you do need to be a bit posh to carry it off! Never would have occurred to me not to pronounce the J.

I had no idea it was a Cornish name, this family weren't Cornish as far as I'm aware, and I agree with you OP, there are lots of names which have moved out of their 'original' languages. My name is French; there's not a French bone in my body. I'm London/ south east and if you go back far enough my family is Scottish!

Oh I would much rather a posh "pretentious" name than a chavvy sounding one I think Jago gives me the first before the latter, similar to Hugo (which for me has become too popular to use)

@catlifeisthelifeforme same. I don’t think I have a single not ‘posh’ name on our list. Luckily we’re in Surrey and very well spoken 😉

My gorgeous Jago is 18 today. Obvs he is still in bed asleep! I still love his name and it’s Cornish Celtic, pronounced as it sounds Jay-go. It’s no more pretentious than someone using an Irish name and they are not Irish as someone else pointed out earlier. If you love it op, use it. Others names like Jacob/ Josh are just too ubiquitous

The presenter says that Iago (welsh for James and Jacob) is pronounce Yah-go. That's not correct. It is pronounced YAG-go' (Yag- to rhyme with wag, the go bit is like the go in got but without the t).