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To ask you if you like this name for a baby.

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Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 13:46

Don't worry, it's not Balonz.

One of our friends is having a little girl and she's asked for suggestions from our group. She wants one name from every member.

She would like something a little unusual but nothing that's going to make problems for her child in the future.

I was watching YouTube (okay, I was trawling it for cat videos) and I came across this channel called Esselle and Eric. This chatty cat is really adorable but it's the woman's name that really struck me. Esselle. I've never come across the name before and I think it's a lovely name but I'm not sure if I'm being swayed by the fact she's sounds like a really nice person.

I was thinking of putting the name forward as my suggestion.

I know it's not a massively big deal in the grand scheme of things but I don't want the group laughing at me or thinking I'm weird.

Can I ask what you think.

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Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 18:14

I'm off now. Thanks for the responses. I'm going to just pick one of the top 20 and leave it alone, as previously suggested. It's bad enough being made to feel like a twat on an anonymous forum without opening myself up to potential ridicule from people who actually know me. Although, I have no reason to believe any of them would be rude enough to mock if I had suggested the name.

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Rainbow1235 · 11/03/2025 17:36

Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 14:49

I feel a bit unkind now. I hope any woman whose name it is doesn't come across this post. I thought it was a nice name but I'd better carry on thinking or keep my suggestions to myself.

Thank you for your opinions and suggestions.

I love it

FastFood · 11/03/2025 17:34

Bonjour moi c'est Armpit

ColourlessGreenIdeasSleepFuriously · 11/03/2025 17:31

It does however sound identical to the French for armpit

ColourlessGreenIdeasSleepFuriously · 11/03/2025 17:27

Furthermore, esselle means 'forsaken' in French

No it doesn't

ColourlessGreenIdeasSleepFuriously · 11/03/2025 17:24

Brand of vaginal mesh

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Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 17:23

FoolishHips · 11/03/2025 16:02

Not sure about the name but that's a great way to advertise the YouTube channel.

Yes. I am advertising my YouTube channel. (That's sarcasm by the way, not an actual admission).

Somehow I am a British woman with an accent I can't identify who owns a house, a cat, a car, a YouTube channel, talks about a daughter in university and can be seen tending her garden with her cat.

All at the same time as I am hiding my broad Black Country accent, the fact I live in a small flat, can't drive, don't have a video channel anywhere, don't have a daughter, have no access to a garden and am wildly allergic to cats despite loving them, hence why I have to view cats from afar. I'm amazing. I'm so amazing I can be seen in cat videos walking about even though I'm in a wheelchair.

That's only my amazing powers of transformation from the few videos I've seen. Maybe I should watch some more. See what else I've been up to while housebound and terminally ill.

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Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 11/03/2025 17:19

Like others, I suspect that anyone with the name Esselle is going to find that any forms filled in verbally list their name as SL. And that it might give problems when companies think that SL are the initials and there's no proper name been given.

Sahara123 · 11/03/2025 17:16

By coincidence I was just looking at rugs on Next, there’s one called Esselle..

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Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 16:49

BunnyLake · 11/03/2025 16:42

My guess is the YouTuber’s initials are S L.

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I already agreed that makes sense and is probably the case.

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BunnyLake · 11/03/2025 16:42

Floppyflippers · 11/03/2025 15:14

Seems probable it's a made up YouTube handle as previously suggested so I will go with something else.

Like I said, maybe I was just being swayed slightly by the nice personality of this cat video maker.

Once again, thanks for steering me in a different direction.

My guess is the YouTuber’s initials are S L.

Floatlikeafeather2 · 11/03/2025 16:37

Apart from a scented sanitary towel, as someone said, it sounds like somebody's initials and, as you came across it on YouTube, it very probably is. Sarah Louise, Susan Linda, Serena Laeticia.

nonmerci99 · 11/03/2025 16:36

I’m sorry, I hate it. Agree it sounds like a pharmaceutical. Estelle is nice enough, though.

mathanxiety · 11/03/2025 16:36

Mylittlebobble · 11/03/2025 15:47

In that vein, how about Estee? As is Estee Lauder. Think its pretty, not too out there, and wouldn't be too many in the class.

ST - not great

mathanxiety · 11/03/2025 16:34

Esselle is really S L, though.

I think it sounds like a shampoo or the name of a nail salon, or as a pp said, an oral contraceptive.

Estelle is much, much nicer.

Floatlikeafeather2 · 11/03/2025 16:31

sprigatito · 11/03/2025 14:41

Sounds like a scented sanitary towel

I completely agree with this. It's the first thing that popped into my mind. I can even see the writing on the packet, a bit like Cushelle.

SquashedSquid · 11/03/2025 16:23

My first thought was that it sounds like an oral contraceptive pill.

WatchingTheClowns · 11/03/2025 16:07

NO. Estelle would be better

bettydavieseyes · 11/03/2025 16:05

No it's awful sorry.

Estelle is nice.
Esther
Elise
Eloise

I like Sylvia

FoolishHips · 11/03/2025 16:02

Not sure about the name but that's a great way to advertise the YouTube channel.

ShodAndShadySenators · 11/03/2025 16:01

You could suggest Estelle though, lots of people seem to like that and it's fairly unusual these days? It's a pretty name

outerspacepotato · 11/03/2025 16:00

SL.

Say less.

No.

itsgettingweird · 11/03/2025 15:58

I like Essie but as a nn of Estelle.

So I'm another with suggesting Estelle instead

Nameychangington · 11/03/2025 15:56

I met a girl who I thought was called this when I was a kid - turns out it was SL, short for Sarah Louise. Probably the same with the person you saw, it's a nickname based on her initials not an actual name.

Astrak · 11/03/2025 15:47

No. For all the good reasons mentioned above.