Okay so here goes,

[Shiraz]

I am currently 29 weeks pg with our second child and we are expecting a boy . Of which are very few and far between in both our families so we are absolutley over the moon.

Our daughter is Georgia-Mae and will be 5 in 3 weeks time, indeed she is incredibly excited.

When pg with Georgie we really struggled with names for boys. Dp really liked Gabriel - i was not keen at all. I absolutley adore Harry - but he will not tolerate the name (family mambers with said name)

As soon as i fell pg this time around we both said we still liked an unusual name that we liked when pg last time around

Rossi

and bump to be will be Rossi James (James as a middle name)

We've had very mixed reactions - i can personally imagine a 3 year old, 10 year old, 30 year old, 50 year old and so on with this name.

Just thought i'd put it out for a test run here.

[jinglebelles]

NOT SURE ABOUT ROSSI, WHAT ABOUT JUST ROSS??

[Nancy66]

Rossi is awful - sorry, really naff.
Gabriel, however, is a great name

[lea1980]

I know a woman called Rossi!!! Not sure if it is a nn or not but it suits her, cant say i can see it suiting a man of her age though!

[vess]

Sounds like a girl's name. Don't do it!

[SoupDragon]

Girlie.

Don't like it at all.

[Shiraz]

In all honesty i think we are just going to go for it.

I have decided that we are just about tearing our hair out with every other suggeston as he likes none that i give him and he has struck Gabriel off of his list now and refuses to use it - if it wasn't good enough for me 5 years ago why is it now is his opinion!

I've tested it in several other places and do have mixed reviews. A number of people have said they love it many have loathed it equally.

If our son hates it he can always revert to Ross or use his middle name etc.

At the end of the day most people are not ecstatic what their parents named them and most people have a nn.

I truely believe there are some absolutley horrible 'names' that people are called or are planning to call their child that i could not envisage myself -so we will just go with our feelings.

Many of our family members and colleagues like it and have told us just to go for it.

Many thanks for your opinions
x

[surrofab]

Its lovely and god on you for thinking outside the box.
I think it is a name that can grow with the lad.
xx