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Rufus is sienna to me though individually R is reddish-pink, u is yellow-orange, f is yellow-green, and s is right in the middle orange. Maybe it's sienna because maybe if you mixed all those colors together it would be a color close to a sienna brown. Which is weird because usually to me a name will be whichever color the first letter is.

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I like Rufus but I don't love it enough to use it largely because I don't like any of the nn's. If you and your partner love Rufus then I think you guys should use it.

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I love Theodora even if it isn't one of my top names and if my husband super loved Theodora I would use it. Theo is a great nn and Dorie and Dora are fairly cute too.

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Romilly Fern is a cute combo, Milly and Romy are cute nn's.

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This message was edited 11/16/2014, 3:47 PM

I like Rufus okay, so yes, I would consider using it. It's dashing with Theodora.

I know a Rufus - a nice man who gives a good impression of his name, if you see what I mean.

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I don't think DH would ever seriously love Rufus - for one thing, he's a redhead - but I'd be willing to consider it.

Rufus is a dogs name that on a human, just sounds silly. I get that it may have been solely human one time but all I can think of is a dog. That or an older male. Sorry but if my boyfriend or husband wanted to use it even to honor, I wouldnt. I would use their other names. I wouldn't want to look like an ass, having people think I'm calling for a dog lol! Not anything horrible about that. Rufus just screams dog to me

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Theodora is pretty but nothing I'd use. Nothing against it though!

I love Theodora! I love most names with the THEO or THEA beginning. I'm a big fan of Greek names in general. Rufus is okay. I think it's growing on me since I just learned that it is an ancient Roman name for someone who had Red hair. I might use it as a middle name, but not a first.

Oh how I love Rufus. I would use Rufus for a child in a heartbeat. It's DH who doesn't like it, and anybody I mention it to says dog name, but I don't see it that way. I would gladly call a son Rufus. It seems to be creeping into the London BAs more and more too.

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I like Theodora, but i'm in the camp that prefers the simplicity of Thea and would use Thea rather than Theodora. It is very popular here (on BtN) though.

I don't dislike Rufus, but I wouldn't use it. If my patner liked it, I would try to compromise with something like Rupert.

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I absolutely love Theodora.

This message was edited 11/15/2014, 8:32 AM

If my partner seriously loved Rufus, I'd pinch myself to see if I was dreaming, because I also love Rufus.