I love this old name...

[VisualiseAHorse]

... Euphemia.

What do you think?

[cherrybombxo]

I went to school with a girl whose middle name was Euphemia and she was mortified. I think Effie is lovely so she could shorten it but I'm really not a fan of the full name.

[scaevola]

I like it.

Buy it does make me think of Nuns on the Run and Sister Euphemia of the Five Wounds, "Five Wounds for short"

[Cereal0ffender]

Makes me think of respiratory disease

[ConcreteElephant]

My Nana was Euphemia, she died when I was little so I don't remember her but by all accounts she was a wonderful, formidable woman.

I'd never heard it but on a walk round a graveyard in Edinburgh I saw that it had clearly been a popular name in Scotland, and indeed she was Scottish.

I like it, but I think today it would be shortened to Effie or similar to modernise it. As Cherry said.

[ConcreteElephant]

I also agree with Cereal that in full it sounds like a disease, though I feel very disloyal to Nana saying that!

[VisualiseAHorse]

I first saw it on a gravestone from the 1800s in Scotland. It does sound a little like a disease doesn't it...? Hmmm.

I like Effie too.

[ConcreteElephant]

I don't know if it has much history in England/ Wales. I'm from Devon which may be why I'd never heard it before. Nearer Scotland it may not sound so unusual if you were to use it today.

[Thurlow]

I'd have to go with disease too

[MissPB]

Not keen - it makes me think of a musical instrument called a euphonium.
It is very Victorian consumptive sort of name. Sorry if you love it so - it would be quite a hard name to carry off.

[Sidney]

Effie makes me think of effing.....

[sonniebonnie]

I know an Effie whose full name is, I think, Euphemia. I quite like it.

[florascotia]

It was popular in 18th/19th cent Scotland, but is Ancient Greek in origin. And there was a saint with the name.

As you know, it means 'good speaking'

Effie was the usual Scottish nn, but occasionally also Phemie...

[Poledra]

My late beloved granny was a Euphemia. She told her four children that if any of themever named a child after her she'd never speak to them again, until after she was dead when she'd come back to haunt them.

Just sayin'....

[UriGeller]

Is it a euphemism?

[DitzyDonkey]

Like it but LOVE the shortening to Effie....in fact I would just use Effir in the birth cert!

[DitzyDonkey]

Effie not Effir

[MrsBungle]

The euphemia I know's nick name is phemie (pronounced fame-y). She is early 30's.

[catsofa]

Is it a euphemism?

^ this, sorry.

[burgatroyd]

Its great. Don't like Effie though. Prefer Phemie as nn.

How about Eugenia? I know one. Known as..Eugenia!

[KatieKaye]

Faye is my favourite nickname for Euphemia. It used to be very popular in Scotland, in the same era as Agnes (aka Nessie or Senga), Chrissie and Jessie.

[squoosh]

People are really getting into nun's names. It's frazzling my mind.

Euphemia, Bernadette.......... where will it end, Concepta? Assumpta? Majella?

It's a NO from me.

[hels71]

I taught a Euphemia known as Phemie a few years ago! the only one I have come across in 16 years of teaching...

[Honeezreturn]

I used to work with a Euphemia, she called herself Faye

[rembrandtsrockchick]

Beautiful name.

Effie.
Fi.
Fifi.

[nevergoogle]

There was a Phamie in my primary school when I was little. I like it.

Not so keen on Euphemia though.