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Remy..

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CinderellaRach · 03/03/2010 08:32

Finally found the name I love for ds2 due in less than 4 mnths.Have an Ellis James already.Was thinking Remy (pronounced Remmy).Does anyone know a Remy?

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ChoreDodger · 03/03/2010 08:33

Is it for a boy? I think it's a feminine sound. It might grow on me.

belgo · 03/03/2010 08:35

Only in France.

salander · 03/03/2010 08:35

i know a french boy Remi - sounds lovely with that accent

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CinderellaRach · 03/03/2010 08:44

Yes I'm having a boy and it's a boys name(although some people have used it as girls names).Thanks for comments

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Binkster · 03/03/2010 08:46

It's also on our list- I love it! I know one in real life as well. Great choice!

pooka · 03/03/2010 08:49

makes me think of the mouse from ratatouille. or remy from allo allo.

only good if pronounced with definite french accent imo.

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CinderellaRach · 03/03/2010 08:49

Thanks Binkster!Now to convince DH hehe...

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CinderellaRach · 03/03/2010 08:51

Do you everyone will think of a mouse?

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AnnaSceptic · 03/03/2010 08:56

I always thought it as a girl's name.

Allo Allo is Rene

pooka · 03/03/2010 08:59

No! Only those with an encyclopaedic knowledge of disney films engendered by having watched all of them goodness knows how many times (thanks ds1 and dd).

I do like the name, but really, as I said, only with the rolled 'r' you find with french accent. And was while I was saying it out loud to myself that I remembered Allo Allo.

pooka · 03/03/2010 09:00

Doh! of course it's bloody Rene!

MiffyWhinge · 03/03/2010 09:01

just makes me think of brandy

dizzydixies · 03/03/2010 09:11

was there not a film with Phoebe from friends in it called Remy something?

I quite like it, could be a grower

skihorse · 03/03/2010 09:33

Kind of. Remy Ma is an American female R&B/rap artist who was on her way to biiiiig things when she pulled a gun on a friend and shot her over an argument about money/men and is now in prison... That aside her music is brilliant and it's a lovely name!

BessieBoots · 03/03/2010 09:36

I like it, though I would have thought, seeing it written down, that it was pronounced Reemy.

ChynaDoll2006 · 03/03/2010 10:00

Only thing of Remi Martin, whose full name is Reminisce. I think she's in prison.

ChynaDoll2006 · 03/03/2010 10:00

Sorry, Skihorse, didn't see your post

skihorse · 03/03/2010 10:18

Reminisce is perhaps an unfortunate name given her current circumstances...

AnnaSceptic · 03/03/2010 10:21

lol!@ all the closet hiphop fans

QueenofDreams · 03/03/2010 10:23

When I was little one of my favourit TV programmes was called 'Remi' It was very sad though.
I love the name Although it will always make me think of Remi losing everything he loves in the world, but finally finding his mother

gorionine · 03/03/2010 10:28

It remind me of "Remi, sans famille" (without a family, there was an actual movie as well, even sadder) I think it is the same as yours QueenofDreams very sad story but I love the name.

QueenofDreams · 03/03/2010 10:46

Yes that's the one!
Havne't seen the movie, but the tv series made me bawl. (made my mum bawl too )

belgo · 03/03/2010 11:10

I've only heard of Remy as a boy's name.

I love the name Rene and Renee is the girl's version of that.

gorionine · 03/03/2010 11:17

There was a girl called remy in Dd1's class a few years back, I had forgotten as I generally think of Remy/Remi as a boy.

Sunshinemummy · 03/03/2010 11:40

I love the name Remy and it's on my list - Remy Moses was a famous footie player in 80s I think.

Downside is it's the name of the rat in Ratatouille but it's a fab name.