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Felix, would you.............could you?

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suwoo · 18/02/2009 21:59

Only 15 weeks, bt really struggling. Was liking Finn, but just not sure. My favourite girls name was Cecily but DH has declared it poncey and pretentious knobhead. I am now liking Kitty for a girl and Felix for a boy. Is Felix just too........feline? . Is everyone always going to think of the cat food or is it just a twats name?

Heeeeeeeeelllllppppp

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funnypeculiar · 18/02/2009 22:00

I love Felix (you know it means lucky?) Dh vetoed it as too pretentious

2pt4kids · 18/02/2009 22:02

Love it

suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:03

Well lucky is very apt for this one.

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southeastastra · 18/02/2009 22:03

i would think of felix the cat all the time

Heated · 18/02/2009 22:03

I wouldn't but admire it on anyone else's child

Tommy · 18/02/2009 22:04

it means happy - not lucky (from the Latin)

I don't like it at all I'm afraid - I know one and he is not the a good role model

(I also used to have a cat called Felix!)

preggersplayspop · 18/02/2009 22:06

I love Felix. My DH has very strongly vetoed it though. He says its a cat's name. I know a Felix though and no-one associates him with cat food, I think its a cool name. I wouldn't go for siblings called Kitty and Felix though!

janeite · 18/02/2009 22:06

I thought "cat" - sorry.

Cecily is lovely.

TheCrackFox · 18/02/2009 22:07

I like it but it would clash with my surname.

funnypeculiar · 18/02/2009 22:09

Well, I was sort of right - happy, lucky, it's all good

babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Felix.html

Ivykaty44 · 18/02/2009 22:10

My dd has a saying "Felix is as fit as a fish"

suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:10

LOL at Kitty and Felix together, I am hoping its a boy or a girl preggers. It doesn't neccessarily 'go' with our surname either, but nothing really does.

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suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:10

to preggers, I wasn't being arsey.

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Clary · 18/02/2009 22:12

I love Cecily .

Felix is nice too. Don't worry about the cat. I know a Felix and he's lovely. Easy to spell, hard to shorten, everyone has heard of it but there aren't hundreds - yep, ticks all my boxes.

Maybe wouldn't do Kitty and Felix as siblings tho

Clary · 18/02/2009 22:13

Oh I see preggers made my joke already

ABetaDad · 18/02/2009 22:14

Course its nice. I used to work with a bloke called Felix and his business partner called Pinky (Pincus).

mileniwmffalcon · 18/02/2009 22:14

it was on our my list, but dp was strongly against, he thinks poncey, i think cool. it gave fil the screaming heebie jeebies so obviously we taunted him with it as often as humanly possible

preggersplayspop · 18/02/2009 22:16

No offence taken, you didn't sound arsey suwoo.
I love names with an X in them for some reason. I'm going to have another go at persuading my DH to add Felix onto our short-list for if I manage to get pregnant again. I've decided I really really like Felix again now!

mileniwmffalcon · 18/02/2009 22:16

btw we have kitty as a mn

SamVimesIsMyHero · 18/02/2009 22:17

Not for me. Just a bit pink-boden-trouser-wearing. Love Kitty though.

suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:17

You see DH doesn't think its poncey- or he hasn't said so. He neally snorted beer down his nose when I suggested Tobias- that was apparently too pretentious. I am loving the meaning of lucky as this baby was never meant to be conceived and was a HUGE stroke of fate that it was.

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suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:19

Now falcon, funny you should say that- that is the 'image' I aspire to. Although would never wear Boden myself .

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funnypeculiar · 18/02/2009 22:21

I am also hugely influenced by a lovely boy Felix in a Georgette Heyer novel (Frederica I think)

suwoo · 18/02/2009 22:24

Sorry, my last post was to SamVimes not falcon. Hmm will have to get DH to read it FP, need to influence him more methinks.

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janeite · 18/02/2009 22:25

Now Tobias, I DO like - well, I love Toby anyway.

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