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I was just thinking Bo would make a good cat name! OK. You've convinced me. Thanks for the input and the insight. :-)

Thanks for the feedback. It's good to hear so many responses. I'm not planning on using either one on a real child. But it's still interesting to see what others are thinking.

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:-D

Agreed. "Beau = boyfriend" bugs me too.

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I'm loving:

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Bo Alexander -- the long mn balances out the shortness of Bo nicely
Bo Casimir -- ditto
Bo Hector -- the "r" ending on the mn is alluring
Bo Malachi -- could I tweak it to Bo Malachy?
Bo Meriwether -- cute
Bo Wesley

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But I'm over the moon about Bo Carbery / Cairbre! You couldn't know this, but my mother is from a part of Ireland called, "Carbery's Thousand Isles" and my grandfather was born nearby in Rosscarbery. One of my attraction's to the name Bo is that it means "cow" in Irish. The thought of a feminine animal for a boy's name tickle's me. Few outside of Ireland would know that so I don't feel badly using it. Anyway, combining Bo with Cairbre / Carbery is genius!

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I'm not going to use it on a real child. Those days are over. But I'm starting to warm up to Bo on a cat. Girl cow (Bo) on a boy cat. What do you think?

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So now the difficulty becomes which spelling of Carbery / Cairbre to use. Oh, the toil of it all. :-)

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THANK YOU!

This message was edited 7/3/2013, 9:49 AM

That's what held me back from liking Bo too, that it looks incomplete. It wasn't until I poked around here at BtN that I found it was an actual name. "Yay," said I. "I can like it now and still consider myself all educatedish and lofty."

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But then I did this thread and it turns out this classic name (Bo) is pronounced differently than I thought. "Oh, no," said I. "Now I'll have to think about this. Will I ignore that which is inconvenient in order to continue my new-found love affair with Bo?" Of course I will. :-)

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Anyway, thanks for your input. I too went back and forth on the spelling. And I never really liked the Beau spelling either, except in Isabeau. But that's a different gender / thread. This Beau / Bo thing is complicated enough.

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:-D

A Bo Derek fan, perhaps? :-)

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Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.

Bonifatius is fantastic. Nn Bo is just the icing on the cake for me. Thanks!

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But no one is getting me any closer to a combination for Bo. I had Bo Gavin on a poll recently but it didn't get many votes. I can blame the voters. I wasn't impressed with it either. But I couldn't think of any other mn for it. Perhaps it does need a more formal name like Bonifatius if only to find a mn for it. Bonifatius Prosper, nn Bo? :-)

OK. That's a valid viewpoint. Thanks for sharing. :-)

Interesting. How is Bosse pronounced? Is the "o" a long one, as in Bo, or does it become more like an "ah" sound? Is the final "e" pronounced, and if so, how? Like an "uh," an "eh," an "ee," or some other way.

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Sorry for the pickiness. I just find it fascinating. Thanks for the feedback. So helpful. :-)

Mirsada's dh wants to name a son Boaz, nn Bo. Would that work better for you, in theory? blaaaarg suggested Robert as a formal name, with Bo instead of Bob as a nn.

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I used to think of Bo as silly and cutesy until I found out it's a real name in Swedish and danish. Who knew? :-)

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Thanks for the feedback. It's all helpful.

This message was edited 6/28/2013, 12:18 PM

Robert, nn Bo. I like it.

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I know a man named Robert who goes by Bob now, but he was Boo as a kid. This was decades before the pop-culture use of the word. Too cute. So I can easily see a Robert being a Bo too. Nice one. Thanks.

I definitely have a preference, but I'd like to hear from others first. Thanks!
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Boaz, nn Bo, is wonderful. Your dh has good taste. I'll spill the beans and admit that I much prefer Bo to Beau. I find Beau girly -- and yes, I do see the irony in that. Perhaps it's because I love Isabeau for a girl. Also, Beau reminds me of "The Glass Menagerie" with the mother always pining for her lost youth and the beaux she's forever going on about. So depressing. Compared to that, Bo is downright masculine and peppy. As a nn for Boaz it's even "hunkier." :-)

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Disclosure: One more reason that I love Bo is that it means cow in Irish. So few people know that outside of Ireland that I don't see it being a problem. I just love the idea of a feminine animal being used as a boy's name. Um, so why don't I like Beau on a boy if I find it girly? I know, I'm using circular logic. Just put it down to a weird personal quirk.