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

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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

I have two boys. I wanted to call the first one Felix. DH wouldn't have it but four years on he came round and now we have an Oliver and a Felix. Felix so suits a name which means happy. I liked Cecily too btw.

We called DS2 Felix and he was that for all of 4 hours until mum got wind of it. She blasted me with a tirade about the unsuitableness of Felix as a name and we decided subsequently to change it. We couldn't bear the idea of the child's grandmother telling everyone with "that" look on her face what he was called and explaining that I (his mother) "must have been very tired when the decision was made".

I'm not sure men are allowed to read Georgette Heyer novels - will rack brains for any other cool Felixes

We eliminated it because of the cat thing, but actually I now know a few Felix's and have never made that link. It's quite common in these parts, if that bothers you.

Where are you catMandu? It bothers me slightly although DS is Noah which is fucking everywhere these days.

Not for me

Anymore for anymore?

I like it. I work with someone called Felix, he's great. Never made the cat association with him.

I know a couple - one toddler, one late 20s. Both attractive with a mischievious glint.

Personally I really love the name and don't think 'cats' at all. Anyway, cat food hasn't put anyone off the name Arthur lately has it.

I think James Bond's American counterpartin some of the books was called Felix.

Homebird8 I am truly at your mother. My MIL looked like she had just sucked on a lemon when we told her DDs name but tough! There was no way I was going to change it. DH and I both love it and that's what matters. You are never going to please everyone.

I could and I would.

I think you responded on my thread recently re: Cecily.
I like both Felix and Kitty a lot.
I think that, with both names, you may get the odd feline comments but there is a downside/ teasing angle with every name so if you love them, I would go with them!
What are your other children called?

(oh btw - Felix definitely means 'happy' rather than 'lucky')

My friend has a little boy called felix, i have not once thought of cat food - until now!

No, Felix in Latin means either happy or lucky - see Wiktionary (although in the style of that Tory aide I could have edited the page to support my story )

DH also vetoed Felix - it reminds him of 1) the Odd Couple (Felix and Oscar) and 2) Felix the cat.....

Aaah - I've always thought Felix and Oscar go well together. That's where I've heard the combo before. Doh!

Both great names though. And the Odd Couple was aaaages ago.

Other two are Madeleine and Noah, loobylu.

I love Felix (oddly, ds1 was going to be Finn - untill he was born and he just didn't look like a finn...)
DH vetoed it but I have regretted it ever since.Especially since meeting a lovely family with a younger Felix. The dude lives up to his name and is the luckiest, happiest little chap I know He is 8 and the name works because everyone knows him.

I quite like it actually. We did consider it, although I think it's because DH likes Felix the Cat as a child.

I know a little boy called Felix and it really suits him.

Love the name Felix - one of my best friends kids is a Felix and DS would have been if he wasn;t such a bruiser - it just didn;t suit him - he ended up a Max (to suit his rather large frame!).

I have never once thought of a cat when talking to or about my BFs little Felix though.

LOVE Felix

It's on my list for the next kid if I have a boy. So please don't use it. I would like there to be as few of them as possible

I would, but couldn't. Surname would be Stone.