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If you had Octuplets, what would you call them?

75 replies

Lawks · 24/02/2009 16:37

Mine would be

Oscar Alfred
Solomon Jay
Arthur Dylan
Eric Sebastian
Jack Gordon
Clementine Joy
Noa Lili
Gorgiana Amber

(I had 5 boys and a girl. You can have any combination you like ).

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HecateQueenOfGhosts · 24/02/2009 16:39

I don't even want to consider it! Just the first half of your title has brought me out in a cold sweat!

lulabellarama · 24/02/2009 16:46

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woodenspoon2 · 24/02/2009 16:49

Ottoline
Cosmo
Seymour
Nancy
Sidonie
Estella
Claudia
Octavia
Maybe...

atowncalledalice · 24/02/2009 16:49

Cecily Agnes
Cassius Clay George
Solomon Rufus
Tacita Rose
Clementine Mary
Juliet Susannah
Henry Richard
Edmund Wilfred

I've already used my four favourite boys' names on DS1 and DS2!

woodenspoon2 · 24/02/2009 16:50

Or maybe one boy called Evelyn

mollyroger · 24/02/2009 16:52

the freaking miracles!

(DH had snip 5 years ago...)

SoupDragon · 24/02/2009 16:52

fck fck fck fck fck fck fck and
f
ck

4 boys, 4 girls

MrsSeanBean · 24/02/2009 16:55

I have always quite liked Septimus and Octavia [fan of 'individual' names], so that would be 7 and 8 sorted out, assuming the sexes match. Unsure on 1-6 though. Would have to research and see if I like the latinate numeric equivalents.

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Flightattendant27 · 24/02/2009 16:56

It would depend what they looked like.

MrsSeanBean · 24/02/2009 16:57

Ooh Rollo - that's a good'un!

bronze · 24/02/2009 16:57

Elijah,
Simeon
Gideon
Amos
Elin
Eira
Myfanwy
Seren

though ask me again in 5minutes and it'll have probably changed

ShowOfHands · 24/02/2009 16:58

I wouldn't be naming them. I'd be in the corner gibbering and counting the flecks in the wallpaper.

georgimama · 24/02/2009 17:01

No idea but number eight would definitely be Octavian/Octavia. You'd have to.

I did once see a birth announcement for (I think) a twelfth child and they had gone to the (loopy) expense of naming all elven preceding children. The eighth was called Octavia and the tenth was called Decima!

sweetkitty · 24/02/2009 17:02

I would have four girls and four boys (like it would matter )

Elodie Francesca
Matilda Jacqueline
Amelia Sophie
Claudia Stella

Elliot David
Logan John
Nathan Andrew
Matthew Anthony

georgimama · 24/02/2009 17:02

Oooh, Septimus MrsSB! Good one.

Actually, I'd just do what the princes in Stardust were called:

Primus
Secondus
Tertius
Quartos
Quintas
Sextas
Septimus

there wasn't an eighth but would be Octavian!

schneebly · 24/02/2009 17:02

doc
dopey
sleepy
grumpy
bashful
sneezy
happy
and erm...
Malcolm

MrsSeanBean · 24/02/2009 17:08

I am loving some of the name choices here.

MrsSeanBean · 24/02/2009 17:08

Er, I hadn;t seen Schneebly's post when I made my last remark

MamaG · 24/02/2009 17:10

I'd call them all Ker-ching

mollyroger · 24/02/2009 17:10

lol at Schneebly

WorzselMummage · 24/02/2009 17:13

Including the ones i already have

Grace
Violet
Iris
Clara

George
Samuel
Rory
Hugo

Fuck that though, 8 babies !

MrsSeanBean · 24/02/2009 17:13

It would be wonderful (in theory of course) to have octuplets as you would have such a wide scope for name usage. You could use all your favoutites and not have to worry that some choices would never get used, or agonise over name (a) or name (b), or worry that your boy choice wouldn't get used if next and last DC is a girl etc... (Or is it just me who has silly concerns in this area?)

mollyroger · 24/02/2009 17:13

what would be the odds of having 8 boys?
As I expect that would be my fate...

But if I could choose a ratio: 5 boys and 3 girls
Finn
Isaac
Rory
Felix
Solomon

Rowan
Willow
Tallis

wombleprincess · 24/02/2009 17:15

just
a
minute
you
will
be
next
honest

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