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!

My cats name is Monty (short for Montgomery sp) his brother is Mr Rigby

I like Ivo

Vote in favour of Mungo - it's a nice name with a long pedigree.

I really like Ivo. Pronounced either way - I've met both.
Maxim I only like because you can shorten it to Max, I also make the De Winter connection and it's not a good one to my mind.

Jago and Mungo are off the table because it's not fair to take them back off the child or the cat, OR to make them share.

I like PPs suggestions of Roscoe and did I see Rollo? I would add Odo and Wulfric, Woolfie for short. Very much thinking along the lines of pre-Conquest bishops.

Very confusing when you’re calling the cat in 😺

I like Mungo but I went to Glasgow Uni so know the story of the fish, the tree, the bird and the bell. Spot the racism against the Scots on this thread though!

Other less common Scottish names:
Sholto
Balfour
Torquil
Ronald
Murdock

Sorry,that should have been Ranald in that list!

Mungo Mary and Midge...

Jonty is alright but the one I know is Jonathan.

Maxim is pretty cool.

Ivo is fine - I would pronounce it eye-vo.

Or Monty.

Not Mungo though. I think it’s even borderline animal cruelty to call a cat Mungo!

I'm just laughing at the fact that you have a child called Kitty and she is the one not named after the cat.

I was just going to suggest Sholto @CountFosco
Great name.
Also
Inigo

Conrad

Gabriel

Amazingly I know two boys called Mungo and too my knowledge there's been no teasing.

Other suggestions:
Angus
Herbert (Herbie)
Nate (Nathaniel)
Toby
Timothy

Is mungo the giant gingerbread man from shrek? I think that's the only time I've ever heard it. I just keep picturing an introduction where you say "this is my son mungo and this is my cat...mungo." (because people introduce their cats to visitors right?)

Mungo is fine. Maxim is a lads mag.

I accidentally named my cat my favourite boys name and seriously considered changing the cat's name. Luckily I had girls so crisis averted!!

Lynda and Robert Snell in ‘The Archers’ have a five year old grandson called Mungo and he was to be called Mowgli ( as in ‘The Jungle Book’ Spelling?)so it was generally thought Mungo was a better bet.

I’m offering Kester.

@MysweetAudrina
Exactly 🤣

Murdo instead?

Are you Scottish, specifically Glasgow? My husband is from Glasgow and his school was St Mungo’s. I’d never heard the name but DH informed me that St Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow so lots of Mungo refs there apparently. I think Ivo (I’d pronounce it eye-vo) is Scottish too, isn’t it or maybe I just think that because one of the Scottish twins from childhood of our time is called, Ivo. I like Ivo but certainly not Mungo.

Ivo

Well you have a daughter named after cats (kitty) so I dont see the problem...

When harry and Meghans baby name was announced I pissed myself laughing it was my sisters cats name

Clearly you live in a far naicer area than me op. Young Mungo would get the shit kicked out of him at school and be constantly called a horrible disablist name where I am.

@BilboBercow
Agreed, I grew up in Glasgow, wee Mungos life would’ve been a misery.

Are you in Scotland OP?
I quite like Mungo, Ivo, and Jago. Don't really understand the Mungo hatred! Even Murdo sounds pretty good with a thick Taggart accent.

What about:
Kester
Hector
Iolo

Good luck deciding

St Mungo's name was actually Kentigern wasn't it?

So you could use his proper name for the baby, and his pet name for the pet!

My ds (now 17) is named after my mum’s best friend’s cat. I just happened to like the name.