[Closed] Girls names?

Means dark and noble, does Brunhilda/e.
Good strong name that.
Bit Wagnerian though.

How about Agatha Marples, or does that break the detective rule?

I have an unusual name, it is a family tradition so the only other person I've met who shares my name is my grandmother.

I realise by sharing my name i make myself searchable - but I'm trusting I'm not going to pick up any weird stalkers. But I will as I feel I have to rant a bit about it.

My name is ione, I'm named after ancient Greek water nymph called a nereid.

It's quite nice having a bit of history behind my name and why I have it but...I get fed up with -

People calling me iona - it's ione pronounced eye-oh-nee (all though it's ancient Greek so this can be open to debate - so much debate my grandfather refused to call my grandmother by her first name). People even reply to my emails signed off 'ione' with hi iona - do they think I can't spell my own name?!

When it's written in Arial or similar font I then get called lone! Why? If you see Ian written down you don't call them Lan

I grew up in a village and was a bit of a nightmare in my teens - there is no anonymity if you have an unusual name.

The song 'I only want to be with you' was in the charts when I was a kid - I hated having it sung to me

I wouldn't change my surname as it goes with my first name - but it definitely put me off taking my ex's surname - 'wareham'

I guess these days there are more and more unusual names - so it may not be as bad. I wouldn't change it now - but I grew up wishing it was something less unusual

(sorry - had to get it off my chest!)

That's a lovely name and is getting added to the list. People always spell my name wrong and it's really common. Mrs Funkmaster's maiden name is quite unusual and I wish we'd taken it rather than mine. Used to get some truly comical mispronunciations too.

I grew up in a village and was a bit of a nightmare in my teens - there is no anonymity if you have an unusual name.[/quote

I'm basically a doppelganger of my father and know far too well what a pain in the arse being a tearaway teen with an easy identifier in a small village can be.

 

I realise by sharing my name i make myself searchable - but I'm trusting I'm not going to pick up any weird stalkers. But I will as I feel I have to rant a bit about it.

I've only ever heard of one other person with your name, and now I don't want to say who in case it's you.
🙂

If the person you have met was in her eighties and riding a Russian cossack motorcycle outfit - that'd be my grandma not me 😉

If you're looking for something different, unusual names I've come across include Pebbles and Princess- dear little Princess said I could call her by her middle name of Jacqueline if I wanted - I guess she preferred that.

It sounds very much like the same person.
🙂

You don't get many Jaquelines these days, although I do work with a bubbly blonde lady of that name, nominative determinism fans.

If you're looking for something different, unusual names I've come across include Pebbles and Princes

There's unusual and there's bloody stupid / borderline cruel

There's unusual and there's bloody stupid / borderline cruel

Ione Wareham sounds great, you could have been known as ‘on a Friday’ - or maybe not 🙂

When I actually ponder unusual names I've liked, I was in a cafe and over heard a girl being called by her mum.

Zinnia - which is actually the name of a pretty daisy type flower. She would be spelling it forever but it's a pretty 🙂

But everyone would keep saying to her “where is it?”

We chose Carly...not a made up name, not too popular, quite feminine. At 8 months old she is reacting well to the name ?

cheers_drive - Member
Our daughter is Mathilda, it works in English and Danish unlike many names.
Had a French girlfriend called Aureli once, I wouldn't recommend that name.

I've got a very lovely Belgian friend called Aurelie!

Lief (pronounced as leaf) ?

Or Bob.

Jolene as the Dolly Parton song,

Don't choose Lola

I'm called Gene, so people often sing Jean Genie at me, no bad thing

People calling me iona - it's ione pronounced eye-oh-nee

I remember you explaining that one when we met (was it on one of the Pook's Pootles?)

We really liked Isla but it appears to be very popular now which puts me off for some reason.

One of my nieces is called Isla. Nice name, better than the other one who is called Annabelle but they shorten it to Annie which I hate. Anna is fine. Ann(e) is fine. Annie sounds awful.

It's quite interesting dealing with youth groups, schools etc and you can see name trends by year. One year there'll be a glut of Hannah's then it's Rebecca (Becky, Bex...), then Elizabeth (Lizzie, Beth, Liz, Eliza...) and so on.

Like liesel for a Germanic name pronounced leesel,
Don't know how common it is.

Leeloo

Yes that was me 🙂 I think it's actually easier to be adjustablewench - that can raise eyebrows but people seem to remember it

Had lots of Darren's, James's and Paul's when I grew up, when the phone rang my mum would say Paul's on the phone, Paul who I would reply.

We called our daughter Cecily. Original idea came from the story of Cecily Parsely but it also turned out my great auntie had the same name. Not many about and people often comment on what a lovely name it is. Thanks wife.

We went with Chloe Sophia for our daughter's name.

We had quite a few girl options but were struggling for boys names.

Other girls names we had were Emily, Scarlett, Rose, Freya and Kayleigh.
I really like the name Kayleigh but my wife wasn't keen.

My wife's middle name is Liisa. Yep that's how it's spelt, with 2 i's. Finish apparently, and maybe a girl her dad had a fling with!!

She's forever getting forms and things sent back to her with her name 'corrected'....

My Daughter is called Daisy, sort of named after my wife's grandma who's was also called Daisy and died a couple of months after my daughter was born. We knew she wouldn't last long after my daughter was born but we were so pleased she got to hold her.

Grandma Daisy was a wonderful women.

Can't believe this got to three pages and nobody has suggested this, well I don't think so anyway I'm not reading every comment, I have a life.

*clears throat

[u]Miss[/u] Marple

I thank you........

My best mate's middle name was Marloes. She loved it as a link to her family's Dutch roots.

[quote=adjustablewench ]I realise by sharing my name i make myself searchable - but I'm trusting I'm not going to pick up any weird stalkers.

No more than you have already

When it's written in Arial or similar font I then get called lone! Why? If you see Ian written down you don't call them Lan

Maybe not, but I do have a friend called Iain who somebody thought his name was pronounced as "Layne" (he suggested it was cool having the same name as the lead singer of Alice in Chains).

Ione is a cool name though.

Am I too late to suggest Throat-Wobbler Mangrove?

How are you spelling that?

CaptainFlashheart - Member
How are you spelling that?

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We named our daughter Lyra, four years ago.

Lyra is a constellation, Greek for harp, is the main character in my wife's favourite book and is also the name of one of the rarer My Little Ponies!

Zena is my mother in law's name. Her mum was called Aija, which is a lovely name.

I’m liking Simon Luxury Yacht

Seven, works for both the Trekkies and Seinfeld crowds.

Phatarsia

(Yes it does look big in that)

Glass ? Given your surname

Bob

You’ll find he has a great sense of humour

He, sir, he? He?

See - you’re laughing already.

Our two are Isobel (in the year where Isobel or variations was the most popular girls name) and Eloise (who has only ever met two other girls called this, and one was French). Jessica and Hannah made the shortlist.

Bobra.

Eloise is a great name - I still have my copy of this
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We chose a name that was virtually unique in 2006, yet recognised by most and without being the name of a wine or a reincarnated granny name. Weren't we clever.

Then 2013 and thanks a bunch Disney.......

I still think MY Elsa, named after a Lion that roars (so yeah, **** you too Boris for stealing that) is way cooler than all the Elsa come latelys.

Could be worse, my 21 year old niece is called Isis. Everyone used to think it was a beautiful name.

It's amazing how quickly a name can change in popularity - I used to think Stella was quite a classy girls name - now it's a much less classy beer it's lost its appeal 🙂

Don't choose Lola

My niece is called Lola, her surname is Ferrari......

Darren

or, if you want to be classy, Darreen

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Corrected for accuracy.

You should name her Captain after Flashy.

Captain Marples.

Sounds like a superhero and will get you a discount on orthopaedic shoes

Thanks CFH 😳

Alison
Shona
Karen

I've definitely had crushes on girls with these names, so I've always liked the classix

Strava

Whatever you do, just remember that's someone's name.

Mrs friends named their new boy Maverick recently.

Goose jokes welcome.

We went with Maya, pronounced My-a (like the Mayans) She seems to like it. Only met a couple other littlies with the same name but spelt Mya.

Our daughter is Freya, which we both just took one look at and agreed was good, "goddess of love and beauty" isn't too bad as a meaning either

Our daughter is called Pia ('Peeya'). Which is Italian apparently but we have also come across it a fair but in Denmark. We love it. Her nickname is Pipi ('pee pee'). Which is great...but She is french and we live in France and it produces quite a lot of stares at times....

Also when telling her off it can become Pia,Pia No....Which my sisters gormless husband worked out as soon as we let family know her name...

We still think it's a beautiful name though, rare, but traditional.

Captain Marples.

My great uncle was Major Marples. Musician with a proper olde times handlebar moustache.

Freya is a lovely name and already on the list. I like Alafair, name of the daughter of the protagonist in a series of novels by James Lee Burke. Mrs F isn’t convinced though

We really liked the name Iona for our daughter - but it didn't really work with the surname.

Evangeline was also another one the Mrs liked.

Do you have a Naval tradition in the family? If so how about Horatio.

If we had a Naval tradition we’d call her Boaty McBoatface 🙂

iona is a great name, but surnames are important.

Couldn't be Cox for example...

We've another Amelie. It wasn't common at the time. Honest.

The boy is called Noah, he was almost called Mordecai or Zephyr but we had an attack of the sensibles.

We did have a list of girls names but I'm jiggered if I can remember any now. The only one that does spring to mind is Imelda.

Doreen was my granny's name. Doreen Marples will make her sound 85 before she's even born.

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Rhymes with Karen, and easier to spell, apparently (thank you Mother) . Pick a name that has a simple, obvious spelling.

Eva Marples
Lucy Marples

and definitely nothing which people will overwhelmingly assume is a boy (Rowan).

Frogmella?

Doreen Marples will make her sound 85 before she's even born.

Are you me? That was my Grans name and she lived to be 89. Some names just sound old.

Pick a name that has a simple, obvious spelling.

B, after the best character from Prisoner Cell Block H

after the best character from Prisoner Cell Block H

You can't call a child Vinegar Tits. That would just be wrong.

Are you me? That was my Grans name and she lived to be 89. Some names just sound old.

Oh no, mine wasn't a Marples she was a Walker. I was just adding yours to the end of it. Sadly she died when I was 8 or 9, she was bloody brilliant, knew loads of rude/sweary songs that would inevitably end up in me or my brother getting a clip round the ear if we repeated them within earshot of parents.

Jenny is a nice name, unless your surname's Taylor

I also like Charlie as a girl's name (Charlotte if you must). Charlies sound a bit naughty.

I’ve always loved Jenny as a name, even before I discovered it was my Gran’s name, no idea why, I just love the name

Provided the surname isn't "Taylor"

Vinegar tits = bad although sugar tits gets you put on a register.

My Daughter is Nancy, named after the French town as I liked the way it looked on the sign driving to Morzine years ago. Good job the wife liked it too. ;o)

named after the French town as I liked the way it looked on the sign driving to Morzine years ago.

I’m sure there were some Americans who called their daughter Llanelli for the same reason.

petec - Member
iona is a great name, but surnames are important.

Couldn't be Cox for example..

I used to work with a chap with daughter called Iona.

Their surname was McIntosh...

Criteria I had for naming our daughter were:

Nothing on any top 10 lists, ever.
Nothing religious.
Something authentic (we're Scottish so as nice as some French names are they were out)
I wanted her to be the only girl in her class at school with her name.
Initials don't spell anything.

We chose a very rare old Gaelic name that we instantly loved, and we've never met another one yet. I live in fear that the name gets "discovered" and becomes one of the next trendy names.

iona is a great name, but surnames are important

I went to college with someone called Iona Hoare.

She changed her name.

I went to school with Gaye Kidd - I think she is now known as Gayle

iona is a great name, but surnames are important
I went to college with someone called Iona Hoare.

She changed her name.

Which one?

Surname.

Some of my family worried about my choice for my lad, Gabriel, as they thought he'd get teased at school (Gay etc). I thought it was a strong name and so it's proving to be. All now agree it suits him perfectly.

Maxime Marples