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Otis? Oscar? Milo?

34 replies

Char09 · 25/03/2009 14:45

Surname would be Wilkin.

Thoughts please MNers!

Oscar was the first choice but have heard it's becoming quite a popular choice...

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sonniebonnie · 25/03/2009 14:48

Oscar is becoming very popular round here (Surrey), so I probably wouldn't choose it.

Not keen on Milo as I never know how to pronounce it (Meelo or Mylo).

Love Otis - very cool, sophisticated and not still quite unique!

ScorpiowithabigS · 25/03/2009 14:49

I love Milo. What about Otto?

screamingabdab · 25/03/2009 14:50

What about Nigel?

Peachy · 25/03/2009 14:50

Otis is /was manky puppet on kids TV, no!

Oscar is adorable, don't know any here (S E Wales)

Milo is OK,but my Dad has this thing about rhyming names and would immediately name hi Milo The Silo (to go with Sam The Spam and Stirly (Stirling) The Girly . Luckily he'd given up by ds3 / ds4 LOL)

sonniebonnie · 25/03/2009 14:52

Peachy, on that basis, Oscar is/was the grouch on Sesame Street .

Peachy · 25/03/2009 14:58

true & milo is in tweenies

Soprry Char, reqests for names denied on grounds of excessive adoration of puppetry

Hawkmoth · 25/03/2009 15:37

Oh I love Otis.

KAEKAE · 25/03/2009 16:29

I like Oscar, I wouldn't have it now because I have an Oliver and I think they sound funny together. I don't like Milo it reminds me of that puppet. Otis...I am not sure on.

juneybean · 25/03/2009 17:26

Colleague had a son called Otis, I thought it was really original, but it does conjures up thoughts of oatibix... lol

Can't decide if it goes well with Wilkin though....Otis Wilkin?

Prefer Oscar Wilkin.

nappyaddict · 25/03/2009 18:23

I like all 3.

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dragonbutter · 25/03/2009 18:25

i like otis, but am put off by it being the name of the company that make lifts in department stores.

oscar is too popular for me.

milo is a bit pretentious.

my alternatives would be orson or miles.

hayley2u · 25/03/2009 18:35

yer otis is a name of a lifet, i have friend called otis and he s lovely but he hates his name and actually said he spent his live getting the piss taken out of him poor love
milo is the dog of tweenies you do no??? i cant match it with anything else wen i hear it just thing of the big red dog.
not too keen on oscar but prob best out of the 3 xxx

Peachy · 25/03/2009 18:57

NA how on earth do you do that? I can pick ut all the MN abbies LOL (including the weirder parts of my boy's names)

Peachy · 25/03/2009 18:58

haylet Doodles is the dog, Milo is the purple trainee gangster kid

Podrick · 25/03/2009 18:59

all boys names ending in the letter O are dreadfully pretentious in my view

BonsoirAnna · 25/03/2009 19:01

Bruno

Podrick · 25/03/2009 19:17

Bruno is the son of Nigella

tummytickler · 25/03/2009 19:22

Oscar is very popular, so that would put me off personally. You cant swing a cat here for Oscars!
Dont like Milo at all, but dont have a good reason for it, just not my taste.
I love Otis and this was on a list for dc4, but as pp said - it was the make of the lift we went up in on our way to the hospital so that was taht!

tummytickler · 25/03/2009 19:22

Oscar is very popular, so that would put me off personally. You cant swing a cat here for Oscars!
Dont like Milo at all, but dont have a good reason for it, just not my taste.
I love Otis and this was on a list for dc4, but as pp said - it was the make of the lift we went up in on our way to the hospital so that was taht!

nappyaddict · 25/03/2009 19:30

Peachy how do i do what?

mountaingirl · 25/03/2009 19:30

I have an Oscar and he is gorgeous ds2 .. thought about Milo for ds1 but decided it wouldn't work in French and Otis is nice & unusual makes me think of Otis Reading....
Didn't realise Oscar was popular in the UK.

WinkyWinkola · 25/03/2009 19:33

Otis is a brilliant name. V. cool and timeless.

pointydog · 25/03/2009 19:39

Osacr is ok

rosieposey · 25/03/2009 19:42

My dogs called Otis and I named my 6 week old DS Milo - i love it, its a name that sounds good if you are young, middle aged or old and it really suits him - anyone read 'Catch 22'? Its a cool name

As you can tell im keen on two of them at least

Tinker · 25/03/2009 19:44

Otis is tainted by Otis Ferry who is a dickhead.
Milo - no because of Tweenies and Oscar too now for me