I have discovered the most fantastic girls name, it is so cool, I might have to have a baby to call her that.

[Carmenere]

Well obviously I won't as I hated all the horrid pregnancy and childbirth nonsense but I heard this name today and after googling it I think it is FABULOUS.

[Macdog]

well????

[yogabird]

yeah - well?

[jellybelly2007]

come on ......

[Carmenere]

Statia, not only is it a proper name that used to be common in Ireland from the St. Eustatia but it is also the name of a gorgeous tiny little island in the Caribbean! How nice is that?

[Bowddee]

[Bowddee]

x-post

[lilymolly]

Statia
pronounced "staytier" or "Stattia"?

[gagarin]

Stay-shu I think

[gagarin]

i meant stay-sha!

[ParCark]

Message withdrawn

[QuintessentialShadows]

Ohh! I like it. It is almost like Portia. Just nicer.

[Carmenere]

Staysha and I heard it originally on a Colm Tobin story on R4 today, which was being read by Killian Murphy which makes it extra nice.

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

There was a Eustacia in one of the Chalet School books.

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Sounds a bit too much like Stacey for my liking.

And I knew a girl called Aysha and she was a complete mentalist.

Eustatia makes me think of auricular biology.

[Bronze]

Oh yes Stripey

"There is no disguising the fact that Eustacia Benson was the most arrant little prig that ever existed."

Having said that I like Statia. I think theres an Irish folk violinist called Statia

[Bronze]

I should say fiddler

[Bronze]

And actually I think shes a flautist. Anyway the point is it's not completely unheard of as a name now.

[Carmenere]

Well I like it and that is all that matters as it is my imaginary daughter that is going to be called it

But seriously, I just really liked it when I heard it as it had resonance for me, it is Irish without being Gaelic (not that I mind Gaelic names, I love them) and it has character. so I thought I would send it out into the mn collective consciousness in case anyone else liked it.

[pofaced]

Mmm.. Statia (pronun Stay-sha) is also short for anastacia/ stasia (pronun ana-stay-sha)... both close relatives of railway station in the pronunciation department rather than Tolstoy characters... DD1 given classy Irish name (ie unusual but gorgeous) in UK and desperately unfair- no-one could say it and when it came to learning to write her name it was completely meaningless...

please give your children names that have some meaning in the culture in which they grow up

[expatinscotland]

i don't like it.

sounds like a medical term.

[Carmenere]

Um Pofaced, I am Irish and my dd has a well thought of, appropriate name that will serve her well whether she chooses to be a politician or a hair stylist.

[Carmenere]

The nice thing about this thread is that I don't care if you don't like it because I am not actually contemplating it as a name for an actual child

[expatinscotland]

If you like it, though, how about getting a dog and calling her that?

I can't talk, my girls have Gaelic names and DS will be named Struan. Scottish names for Scottish children.

[Tortington]

parcark "sounds like a disorder" pmsl!