My husband wants to call the new baby after the cat ...

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So finally getting DH to start at least thinking about baby names with a couple of weeks to go, and after crossing off the unappealing Cyrus/Aethelstan/Lancelot style names he likes, we finally have a short list.. one of which is the cat’s name

Could people please critique, say which your favourite is, or suggest anything else we might like? We don’t really love any of them... we have a Kitty and a Rafe already and I’d like a name that ‘goes’.

Maxim
Ivo (but would you pronounce it EE-vo or eye-vo?)
Mungo (the cat )
Jonty
Jago (one of ds’s middle name though)

Please help!

Oh God no, not Mungo

The baby will get called Mingo

When the baby goes to school, I mean

Maxim. But short for maximilion if possible.

Omfg. Do not name your baby Mungo.

What about Seb - Sebastian? That's a cool name that goes with Rafe

Jude

Evan (I have an Evan)

Maxim and Jago are nice.

You may also like:

Chester
Cosmo
Matias
Enzo
Aspen
Ellis
Ezekiel

The baby will get called Mingo

What's wrong with mingo?

Either way, I would have thought they would be more likely to call him Jerry!!

Feck me, I never comment on name threads, but Mungo has GOT to be a joke.

He is joking, right?

Agree..Evan is lovely..was on my shortlist..

Ivo is nice , I pronounce it as eye vo myself

Other nice names which could go with the names you already have could be

Milo
Alfie
Luca
Milan

I forgot Xanthe.

What's wrong with Mingo?

Minger? Minging?

😂😂😂 your husband has to be pulling your leg with Mungo, hahaha.

No way this is real

Weird having both a pet and child in the same household with the exact same uncommon name

Eye-vo would be my pronunciation

Personally I’m not a fan of your baby names. They genuinely sound like pet names and I’m wondering if by “new baby” you actually meant “fur baby” or not.

I had an uncommon name and changed it by deed poll at 20 - but I had stopped going by my “birth name” years before that. I genuinely hated being lumbered with a weird name, I would urge you to reconsider your choices for the sake of your child who will actually be stuck with it - it’s not pleasant

Ivo. Pronounced Eye-vo. My absolute favourite boy's name atm!

I also love Maxim. That is my favourite long form of Max.

So far similar tastes... but I really dislike your other options, sorry! Jago is OK, I guess, but Jonty is just a comically poncy name (a posh character in a comedy) and Mungo is, well, your cat's name.

Henry
Hugo
Tobias
Seb
Guy
Dominic
Jasper
Dashiel

My cats a girl, the name I was going to use for a boy cat I used for my son (it’s also now my cats vets name!), I have a cat name as well to be fair.

Maxim is my favourite out of all of those, Mungo is my least favourite.

Surely he’s joking with the name Mungo? I was thinking the cat would be called Tom or something. Please tell him to not be ridiculous. As a pp said, poor Mungo would get called Mingo or something equally unpleasant.

Tobias / Toby would go well with the others.

Mungo just reminds me of mung beans

I know an Ibe (ee- bee) ....he is lovely. And a scrumptious Howie!

Magnus or Monty?

Ivo is my first choice - love it. Eye-vo or Ee-vo both work, so go with whichever you prefer if you choose it.
Not Mungo
Not Jago, even though I like it, because you've already used it, and I personally think it's nice for children to have names entirely their own within the immediate family.
Not that keen on Maxim or Jonty.

How about Felix, Sylvester, Tom, Garfield or TopCat?