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!

I like Maxim. Reminds me of Maxim de Winter in ‘Rebecca’ so brooding. Magnus is also good. Edmund/Edwin also historical and classy.

Oh God, not Maxim, (though it'll only mean something to those of us of a certain age, and not the youngsters!)

Cross post; I was laughing at "no offence to your cat"

Ivo pronounced eyevo
what about Magnus or Angus or fergus

Mungo is my all time fav boys name. It was point blank vetoed for our son.

I've loved it for years

Jonathan nn Jonty?

Ruan
Ezra
Flynn
Zeph

Not Mungo because kids are horrible and will call him Mongo

Mungo is like mong, mongrel and monger.
Also like minge.

All not good names.

Ivo pronounced eye-vo

It’s Eye-vo in English and Ee-vo in some European languages. Ivo will be this bumps name if they’re a boy, Jago was on the list too but couldn’t convince DH. I think I like it more though - use Jago!

I quite like Mungo

But like a previous poster I'm from Glasgow so it's sort of a familiar name (although I don't know anyone actually called it!) But you can't use a name you've already used for the cat!!!

What about Barnaby?

I like Mungo, as in Mungo Park, the explorer and surgeon. The name isn’t remotely like any of the terms suggested above.

Aramis.

Cosmo as another option?

Well I think mongo is awful for a child but im not posh and my children don't go to private school so what do I know

Norman reedus and Helena Christensen called their child Mingus sooo

Mungo ffs even my phone changes it to mongo

I have a family member called after our dog... Good solid human name though. Mungo is a strange name but to be honest way less odd than some of the other names people are suggesting.

I quite like Ivo. What about Ivor or Ivan?

Quite a lot of jagos in Cornwall, not sure where you are from but it has suddenly become quite a hot trend here, lots of them. Might just be my town though.

Er, sorry to lower the tone... but isn’t Maxim a smutty magazine?

Mungo’s not great though, is it? I think that’s better left with the cat

Ivo or Jago aren’t bad