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Seraphina / Theadora - what do you think?

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CharlyH · 12/08/2010 10:17

Help! We like both Seraphina (shortened to Sef or Phina) and Theadora (shortened to Thea or Dora) but I am not sure if they sound a bit 'posh'??

What do you think?

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skyeplusbump · 13/08/2010 18:09

love seraphina!
makes me think of the 'his dark materials' books (good witch)
i really wanted this or lyra for dd but it was just as the film came out and i wasnt sure how big it would get...reckon it would've been fine though,

((sulks))

also always really loved jezebel...not sure if i could do it though! Grin

lulabellamozerella · 12/08/2010 15:07

I love Seraphina but it is my ideal name for a girl so I'm not exactly objective

BuntyPenfold · 12/08/2010 13:51

Love Delilah, and my DF thinks Jezebel is pretty, a bit Jasmine, a bit Isabel.

SpringHeeledJack · 12/08/2010 12:48

Theadora was the wife of the Emperor Justinian and she was proper norty (Google Procopius 'The Secret History' if you can be arsed)

...don't let it put you off though. I don't know how many classical scholars she'll run into in everyday life!

I have a dd called Delilah (also reviled as a prostitute/manipulative type) which sometimes- not often- causes a Hmm and it hasn't done her any harm Grin

helenwombat · 12/08/2010 12:39

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BuntyPenfold · 12/08/2010 12:25

If you spell it Theodora it has an odor in it

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BuntyPenfold · 12/08/2010 11:38

Don't think Seraphina is posh as it is our cleaner's name - sorry.
I do like Thea very much.

Takver · 12/08/2010 11:04

Both nice, not in the least too posh to my mind. Theadora is one of my favourite names ever, especially shortened to Thea, but Seraphina is pretty too.

(BTW I know a child Dora, have never noticed any Dora the Explorer comments.)

Pasiphae · 12/08/2010 10:49

I meant better than Seraphina.

Pasiphae · 12/08/2010 10:48

I like Seraphine better than Seraphine, and Theodora is stunning, although I am note sure about the nickname Dora...

Cortina · 12/08/2010 10:21

Seraphina is a Disney cat to my mind (sorry). Loving Theadora/Theodora, shorted to Thea. Dora doesn't work as a nm/shortening IMHO prepare for choruses of 'Dora the explorer'. Dora the explorer needs to vanish from the face of the earth, for lots of reasons, not least my sanity.