Mungo: Cool or cruel?

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Cruel. Pretentious. Unnecessary.

Steady on Anna

wasn't there a kids book/programme called Mary Mungo & Midge??

I think Mungo was a dog.

don't like it - sorry

I have an uncle Mungo...
He is very lovely but a bit... umm... eccentric, great with kids you just wouldn't take him out to a posh restaurant...
I still think it was a slightly self fulfilling prophecy on my grandparents part calling him that.
Then again his brother is called Aonghious (angus) to me thats crueller.

It reminds me of a mango.

Mungo is a posh person with gingery beard and flappy hands. There are worse fates, but...

the trouble with mungo is that it is ugly as well

what about cosmo

Cosmo is nice.
Jago is cool too
Or Inigo
Lots of good names ending in "go"

I met a baby Iggy which I think is kind of on a par with Mungo and found myself hoping that the kid would be cool and confident enough to carry off that name. It could go either way depending on the personanility of the child - but of course no way of knowing if your baby will end up cool and popular and carry off Mungo with panache or bookish, thoughtful and quiet so will secretly hate you for lumbering him with it.

oh i was just going to suggest inigo

...er there's Django as well.

A few to avoid:
Bingo
Bungo
Bongo
Twingo

LOL versdesociete! You have just described my uncle perfectly! (do you know a Ginger Mungo who is mid 50s? - He's a paediatrician...)

my son went to nursery with a boy called mungo. He did have ginger hair that looked like it had been cut using a bowl (placed on head and cut around not actually cut with a bowl...)

He was a nightmare apparently.

My son's Mungo and he is handsome, clever and creative. He's Scottish and it's a common enough name up there. (St Mungo's Cathedral, Mungo Park, etc).

I love the name, but DP has banned me from calling any of our children it.

My Mungo has huge blue eyes and blond hair. He was almost pretty as a baby/toddler. He's tall and slim and athletic. He doesn't get teased much about his name but they do call him 'Chutney' (Mango chutney). No skin off his nose. We've always told him he can call himself by his second name if he wants but he says he doesn't want to.

Heehee Peapod, no, but I do know a couple of 30-something gingery flapping mungos. Perhaps if you are Really Scottish your Mungo can avoid this fate, a la Bridie's DS?

Depends what circles you mix in. The parents have to be honest with themselves here.

Tone it down a little and use Jago perhaps??

Mungo Bean

I would say no
respect to anyone who has done it and pulled it off, though
it isn't a bottom line dreadful name, but it does knock you back a bit when you first hear it

oh God just don't do it.

My DS3's middle name is Jago which I love.
His other middle name is Zinzan - which has stirred up the outlaws!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

unless you really want to, in which case STILL DON'T DO IT

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Although in its defence St Mungos was an amazing person. Patron Saint of wandering Celts, son of a single mother, rowed from Ireland to Glasgow (or visa versa ) in a coracle, had his own hospital for magical maladies and infuries in the Harry Potter books!

Have just asked my 11-year old about his name. This is what he says:

'It's unusual and you stand out. It's a good name. I'm proud of it. If anyone teases me I just ignore them. It's Scottish. I wouldn't want to use my second name instead [insert boring English name]'

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