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Who's going to have the first mumsnet Romeo?

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janh · 01/09/2002 13:13

Well, HE has arrived and all the news progs are predicting a rash of Romeos...not that I've come across another Brooklyn yet but then I don't get out much...come on, girls, who'll it be?

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aloha · 02/09/2002 14:08

Believe me, even as I was reading it, I knew I shouldn't. Like a car crash, though, hard to look away...!

Willow2 · 02/09/2002 17:08

There's some bloke in the So Solid Crew called Romeo - maybe Posh has gone a bit garage.

jessi · 02/09/2002 17:26

lol Willow2!

SueDonim · 02/09/2002 17:47

Just a question - how is 'Romeo' pronounced?? Living abroad where the media is singularly uninterested in the Beckhams, meaning I haven't heard any news, it's just dawned on me that maybe the baby is named after the Alfa Romeo car. Possibly because, following in their tradition of naming babies after the place of conception, he was conceived on the back seat......?

batey · 02/09/2002 18:09

It's Romeo as in Juliet. Poor kid!

leander · 02/09/2002 18:51

SueDonim, I was thinking the excact same thing !!

jessi · 02/09/2002 19:26

lol Willow2!

WideWebWitch · 02/09/2002 19:43

Or maybe he was conceived in Rome and they got it a bit wrong

jessi · 02/09/2002 22:50

lol Willow2!

XAusted · 03/09/2002 10:58

Could have picked a worse Shakespearean name: Puck, Bottom, Banquo, Dan Cupid ... (Apologies to anyone with any of those names.)

SoupDragon · 03/09/2002 10:59

Bottom Beckham... it has a certain ring to it!!

bundle · 03/09/2002 11:03

I quite like Banquo Beckham too

aloha · 03/09/2002 11:46

This is really strange, but the name's growing on me...

aloha · 03/09/2002 12:05

And I really like Paris, too, but for a boy (named after the Shakespeare character and mythological figure, not the city)

bundle · 03/09/2002 12:07

I loved Angel for a boy (like in Tess of the D'urbervilles) but dh said NO NO NO and it was a girl anyway!

rdw · 03/09/2002 15:08

#4 due on saturday, a boy, any good websites that match names with names and aspirations

bundle · 03/09/2002 15:15

babycentre.co.uk has a babynamer - not sure how good it was, looked pretty American

bundle · 03/09/2002 15:15

rdw - what kind of names do your others have? trad? or what?

rdw · 03/09/2002 15:47

theodore, margot, philip, will try babycentre as they are part american after all

Rhubarb · 03/09/2002 15:48

I wanted Morticia at first as I adored her character! Luckily sense prevailed! We also thought of Pelagia as we were reading 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' on our honeymoon, but we thought that would be a tad pretentious coming from Preston!

Azzie · 03/09/2002 16:14

We really fancied Charis for dd but we weren't sure how to pronounce it, so we chose something else.

rdw · 03/09/2002 16:18

theodore, margot, philip, will try babycentre as they are part american after all

pupuce · 03/09/2002 16:50

What about Charles Quincy ???? This is what a friend called her son and neither parent is British or American !

karenanne · 03/09/2002 19:21

it was agreed that if we had a girl i would choose if we had aboy my dp would.luckily we had a girl whom i named natalya.if she had ave been a boy he would have been called langley sebastian!!!langley i loved my mums maiden name was langley and my grandad was really chuffed but langley sebastian sent terror through me.trouble was i was really convinced i was going to have a boy.
shows how wrong you can be!!!!

WideWebWitch · 03/09/2002 19:21

Oh Azzie, I like Karis (if it's the same as Charis)too and would consider it if I had another and it was a dd. Presume it's pronounced Karis as in Harris. Wasn't one of the Jaggers called Karis?

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