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Sounds like a crossword clue. The answer to which might be 'whale song' or some such bollocks.

It's a bit "Vegas stripper showgirl"

shoo Bear and Tiger are also silly names though...

It's an absolutely daft name.

I thought it was a Doctor Who inspired name (another version of River Song an Melody Pond, but just a bit wetter).

Queues behind Erik.

And over on the right hand side of this page I see in 'Mumsnet latest'... "Opal Moonbaby is our children's chapter book of the month."

Opal-moonbaby. It's on my list, it surely doodley is!

Good point Shoo.

Ridiculous. I totally judge people who hyphenate names, even more so when they aren't even proper names.

Depending what else was on her CV!

Would not look good on a CV.

I once knew of a family that called all 5 of their daughters Ocean-related names.

Ocean (of course)
Coral
Pearl
Marina
(and finally) Sandy.

I think they were starting to scrape the barrel with the last one.

I will never understand silly things like this!

'Ocean - that's not a proper name is it? It's just the sea.'

But lots of names are also nouns (e.g. Miles, Mark, Willow, Rose, Lily, Bear, Tiger etc) and kids are pretty accepting of most names.

I don't mind Ocean but personally wouldn't hyphenate it with Melody. But I certainly wouldn't think 'WTF?!!'. It's just a name.

The trouble is it only sounds pretty and cute on a small pretty and cute girl.
But a grown woman? No chance of gravitas with hypens! Please.
Actually it reminds me of a poncey paint name, maybe a soft blue with hints of aqua.

My 5 year old daughter has a boy called Ocean in her class at school. She came home one day and said 'Ocean - that's not a proper name is it? It's just the sea.'

Combined with Melody, it's leaving the poor child open to all kinds of stick later on.

Agree with coffee i'm afraid.
I'm sorry, it just reminds me of that woman on real housewives of NYC that called her girls Sea and Teddy (Thaddeus). It also sounds an awful like 'river song' (Melody Pond) from dr who. Not a fan i'm afraid.
Melody on it's own is lovely though.

It's not to my taste, put it that way.

I know a Melody-Love

It's quite pretty.

It sounds like the parents were Dr Who fans and looking for a variation of "River Song".

I feel a bit guilty because this is a real little girl's name, after all. I can see the sweet intentions that may have driven the name choice: Ocean and Melody and good enough as first names on their own.

But I'm really how Ocean-Melody would work in reality.
It's too wordy and a bit silly when said aloud together, IMHO.

It's what pammie and the hoff would call their love child

For a dolphin.
Maybe..

Oh thank goodness - I thought you were coming on to get our opinions on it, and I was worrying how the thread would go, and what some of the more vociferous posters might have to say...!

Sounds like a fisher price cot mobile.