Loveday

[buntingbingo]

What do you all think? I love this, think it's very elegant, but are we brave enough? And what could you shorten it to?

[MirandaGoshawk]

I've never heard of it. Girl or boy?

[EstaRive]

Its a marmite name and the purists will be on a minute to tell you - only if you are Cornish.

But I love it . I'm not Cornish. I think its beautiful, and wanted it for DD, but DH vetoed.

I used to work with a woman called Loveday and her nn was Lovey.

[ItMustBeBedtimeSurely]

I love this name! We discounted it though, because most people either hate it out v have never heard of it. It is gorgeous and elegant though.

[buntingbingo]

I'm not cornish at all. It's a girls name.

Not sure I could live with Lovey.

But I do so love it.

[GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt]

I love this name, it was a strong contender for DD.

Shortening would be Lovey, I imagine.

[Molotov]

It sounds like a code name. Sorry, it's not my cup of tea at all.

[EsmetheWitch]

I love this name and I was desperate to call dd2 Loveday. DP vetoed it although now he loves it too. Bit bloody late now.........

[MirandaGoshawk]

Dunno.

It's individual, unusual, and one of those names which for me has neither positive nor negative connotations. Dch just 'become' their names & once people get to know them they don't think twice about the name. So it's not one I'd choose but it's not awful.

[PressEscape]

Awful. Sorry.

[girliefriend]

I would pull this face if you introduced me to someone with this name -

I have never heard of it before, think it sounds weird - sorry!

[switchitoff]

Not being Cornish I'd never heard it before until recently when I was introduced to a little girl with that name, paired with an equally-challenging surname. I'm afraid I spurted out my coffee when I heard her name. I think you'd have to be very confident to carry it off because it will definitely attract attention.

[Toptack]

Beautiful - I would have wanted it if we had had a girl.

[boxofholes]

it is the middle name of one of my daughters! I really really love it but hardly ever hear it outside quite a small area (where I come from). DH wouldn't let me use it as her first name, I don't think he'd ever heard it before though I grew up around it :)

[boxofholes]

it's great to hear people thinking about using it, it would be so sad if it died out.

[ShadowFire]

I don't know what you could shorten it to other than Love or Lovey.

I'm not sure what I think of it as a name though. It's very unusual - I've only ever come across one in real life, and only one fictional one (in the Chalet School books) - and it sounds more like a descriptive term than a name. Agree it's likely to attract attention so you'd have to be confident to carry it off.

[LuckyCornish13]

It's a Cornish name, but not a common/popular one.


I only know one; she's 30ish and never heard her called anything but Loveday

[thunderbird69]

Sorry, makes me think of a sex shop

[littleostrich]

I knew a Loveday. Her friends called her 'Lovers'...

[Haggismcbaggis]

I've always loved this name. I first heard it in a Johanna Trollope book I think. Go for it - it's beautiful

[loveliesbleeding1]

I think it's a pretty word, but a strange name.

[milkysmum]

I've never heard this name before at all. If I'm honest it does sound a little ridiculous- sorry!

[bridgetsmummy]

No, awful name.

[Tinkfromlovejoy]

Love it! Loveday is a character in Rosamund Pilcher's "Coming Home" which is a fave book from my teens. There is also a made for TV movie of the book starring Joanna Lumley which is regularly shown on Living or Dave or some such channel. My Dh would never let me use it but I'd love to meet someone in real life with that name.

[marshmallowpies]

I'm not Cornish, though I've always wished I was, and I love Loveday. If I was going to use it, it would probably fall into 'unusual middle name' category for me. I also really love Lamorna, as in Lamorna Cove, as I stayed near there once and remember it very fondly.

[BackforGood]

I would definitely have to exercise my well practiced "do not change your expression" face.

Don't do it!