Woody Benjamin and Orla Clementine

[kitsmummy]

Not sure if we're having boy or girl, but what do you think of our chosen names???

Honestly? Are you sure?

I like Benjamin.

I like Orla (my sis!)

I also quite like Clementine but not sure it goes with Orla and not sure it works as a second name.

Orla is lovely but I think Clementine as well is too much

Benjamin also good, but I would never use Woody.

Do you have a really plain surname you're trying to make up for?

What about Orla Catherine instead?

Don't like Woody either, sorry, but Benjamin a fine name

i like orla. orla clementine sounds like you want her to grow up to be a shabby chic/boho textile designer adn that fashion will be soo over by then.

woody just sounds like you watch too much tv.

orla is lovely name if you're in ireland, if not i'd worry about anagramatising teenagers. similarly woody lends itself to off-colour jokes. i wouldn't use either.

Orla is lovely but she would inevitably get the "oral" jokes.

Woody lends itself to far too many jokes to mention - love Benjamin, though!

Oh God, you all pretty much hate one or both of our names! No our surname isn't particularly plain, certainly not a "Smith" type surname, we're not Irish so it would be an English Orla, don't like Catherine for a middle name and we both love Woody. Ah well, I did ask for opinions I suppose

If you do pick Orla make sure you dont make our mistake and spell it the Irish way lol my neighbour still cant get her head around the Orlaith bit she continues to call her Or Late!! Think we will have to resort to wnglish spelling for school etc and just use proper spelling on offical stuff. Btw we chose Louise as a middle name.

english oops

I can see you're set on Woody, but imagine if he wants to be a barrister
or a surgeon
or he gets a knighthood

Woody Allen's real first name was Allen
Woody Guthrie and Woody Harrelson are both really Woodrow

I rather like Woodrow...

or you could go all Blues Brothers and plump for Elwood

Woody is great! Although Woodrow would be a nice formal name, then you could still call him Woody.

Orla is nice too, and I love Clementine!

I agree all lovely names ....

Benjamin's alright.

I think Orla Clementine is lovely.
Not keen on Woody, Woodrow is good.
Benjamin lovely too.

i like orla myself, as in orla kiely
but it didnt go with our surname

I think Orla means foreskin in Hebrew

(just to warn you)

It may be an urban myth of course

you have to go with what you both like, regardless of other's opinions.

wish i had with ds.

countess .

not heard that one.

Orla's becoming increasingly popular tho isn't it?

Yes I know about 3

its because she does good prints

I have an Orla - lovely name! [sticks fingers in ears so as not to hear any references to foreskins or anything worse!]

Benjamin is lovely. Woody Benjamin makes me think of some pinochio-eske child though.

Orla also nice.

As I said my sis is Orla - she did get called Oral and Orca but it was character building!!