Sorry, but I still really like Persimmon.

[allhailtheaubergine]

I'm pronouncing it PER-sim-on. Like the fruit, not the house building company.

I love the nickname Percy for a little girl.

It's pretty. It fits with my other daughter's name.

Is it really so terrible?

[Bingbangbong]

No. It is a house building company.

[pinkytheshrinky]

yes it is that terrible (and I do say this as the Mother of unusually named children)

I blame you hormones

[MmeLindor.]

Yes, it is terrible.

You may as well write BULLY ME on his forehead.

[CroissantNeuf]

No.

Especially if your surname is Homes/Holmes

[picnicbasketcase]

It's horrible, I'm sorry. How about Persephone if you want the nn Percy?

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

It is a house building company. Do not do this to your child, she will Not Like You for it.

[ragged]

It's okay, I can think of much worse (some quite popular choices on MN, lol). Are you quite a hippy dippy sort yourself?

[LovelyCuppa]

Arf at Persimmon Holmes

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Awful, it's not a name, it's a fruit or a house building company...

Persephone on t'other hand, is lovely

[VivaLeBeaver]

Well I always thought the house company was pronounced PER-sim-on.

Yes it is terrible, it's your hormones.

[oohlaalaa]

Persimmon Homes?

[PuppyMonkey]

How about Wimpey?

[schobe]

Why not just Percy then?

Persephone much better if you want a longer version.

Persimmon only possible if she'll never come back to live in UK imo.

2 questions: is it definitely a girl then?
have you stopped vomming?

[schobe]

LOL at Wimpey

[seeker]

It's ghastly. And Percy is a boy's name. And not a very nice boy's name either. Why would you call a girl a boy's name?

[seeker]

And the fruit is pronounced per SIMM on anyway.

[ShoutyHamster]

A sister to Barrett and Wimpey

No no no. Persephone instead! That is lovely.

[MmeLindor.]

Pregnancy hormones are a bitch.

LOL at brother to Barrett and Wimpey.

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

Oh I think it's OK. Plenty of DCs around named after fruit (or spices or herbs or flowers of course) - it's not that out there. Although actually I can't think of any fruit-related names now I've said that...

But if you love Percy you'd be safer going for Persephone.

[allhailtheaubergine]

But... But... We don't live in uk. I had never heard of the house company.

And yes, we are hippy dippy types. Eldest daughter is called something along the lines of Tigerlilly.

And I DO like Persephone, but I worry about the Rape of Persephone connotations.

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

I'm not very up on Greek myths - did Persephone do something dreadful (most of them did, iirc)?

[allhailtheaubergine]

No, it might be a boy

Yes I have mostly stopped vomming

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

x-post!

Persephone was on my list of baby names when I was a young goth teenager. Which isn't I dig - it's such a pretty name. Lorelei was another (connotations again though maybe - like I said, I'm not really up on mythology).

[OriginalPoster]

They used to be McAlpine, would make a nice middle name.

Will you get a NHBC certificate instead of a standard birth certificate (Newborn Human Birth Certificate)?

Seriously, ignore the banter. Just go for it, if it's a name you both really like.

[JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar]

Which isn't a dig I meant to say. I had excellent taste