Please please say I can have Clementine

[IdentifyasTired]

Hi MNers

A few years ago I posted asking whether I should name my baby Clementine. The answers were a resounding no.
I'm now back again, because I clearly can't take a hint.
So...our surname is Harrowdyne. Can I use Clementine (ending 'tyne' ) or am I once again deluding myself?
Feel free to hand me a grip if I need it.
Thanks!!

[ArthurandJessie]

Sorry op I dont think it goes with the surname !

[SavageBeauty73]

You can't do that with your surname!

[Ickabog]

I'm really sorry OP, but it's a no from me. You have a lovely surname, and Clementine is a beautiful name, but they just don't go together.

[IdentifyasTired]

Ok. I'm 1 down so far...kinda expected it. But...I'm staying optimistic until the last!

[IdentifyasTired]

Oh a few cross posts there...hmmm

[Toilenstripes]

Clementine is a great name. So what if it rhymes with your surname! She’ll probably get called Clem or Clemmie anyway.

[IdentifyasTired]

I love you Toilen

[icedaisy]

I actually like it.

Clementine harrowdyne. Sounds like a character from a lovely wind swept book.

[IdentifyasTired]

And you daisy.

[MikeUniformMike]

They rhyme and Firstname Surname doesn't flow that well, and outside the home that's who she will be.
A middle name won't break it up.

It's up to you OP. I wouldn't but if you and the father-to-be are happy with it, then no reason why you can't.

What makes you like it?

[Bubbletrouble43]

Didn't bother the parents of Dave Davies. Go for it op.

[Ragtime69]

I LOVE IT! excellent name

[IdentifyasTired]

I always have going back years. Some inexplicable magnetic attraction that I can't explain. I just love it. But I hate that our surname rhymes.
Not that it makes a difference but our surname is spelt Harrodine.
Which is also massively outing since there are almost no other people in the country with that name. By meh.

[icedaisy]

I have just finished a book where the little girl was clemmie for short.

[IdentifyasTired]

Ooh, this is going better than last time. I'm going to need to print this out as a keepsake.

[allfurcoatnoknickers]

How about Clemency instead?

[MikeUniformMike]

What's wrong with Dave Davies? Are you having a pop at the Welsh there Bub?

I know a Steve Stevens.

[Nonnymum]

It's a lovely name. But not with a rhyming surname.

[thewisp]

I love it! I think it goes really well with your last name. And she can always go by Clem / Clemmie.

If you love it OP, don't let other people on here put you off. This is the website where owning a toilet brush is akin to murder after all.

[IdentifyasTired]

Clemency I also really like but the association with death row and pardoning makes me doubt. Plus it's more out there than Clementine. I think...

[MikeUniformMike]

Clemency is lovely, use that. Top suggestion @allfurcoatnoknickers

[Sober4Summer20]

Clementine is my absolute favourite girls name and I think it sounds lovely with your surname. My husband really doesnt like it so we chose a different name for our daughter but I think it is really pretty and I love Clem as a nickname xx

[GlennRheeismyfavourite]

Always loathed the name - will end up with Clem or Clemie- which rhymes with phlegm!!!

[MikeUniformMike]

And she won't get jokes about satsumas.

[IdentifyasTired]

thewisp you're right. MN is where the toilet brush owning, silly hippie woo nature people come to self flagellate!