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Do you like Rhea for a girl?

65 replies

babysoon1 · 17/09/2010 20:35

I thought it seemed pretty and not too popular or unusual?

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A1980 · 18/09/2010 20:26

In medicine Rhea is a suffix meaning flow or discharge!

Please don't call a child that.

planetalice · 18/09/2010 19:31

I know a Ria and have always thought its a lovely name.

Sunlightdances · 17/09/2010 23:51

I was at school with a Rhea, and she got called Dier-Rhea and also Rhea Rend. And this was just at primary school, so I dread to think what secondary school was like.

I'm sorry you've only had negative responses to your idea! It has a pretty sound, but will result in teasing by dimwits.

vess · 17/09/2010 23:24

I like it.
How about Rea?
Here's a nicer assosiation with the name:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Silvia

TessOfTheBurbs · 17/09/2010 22:33

Ria looks nicer. It also doesn't remind me of "rear" even though it sounds the same. Spelt Ria, I can take it or leave it.

puffling · 17/09/2010 22:21

A Rhea is a grey flightless bird, a bit like an ostrich.

puffling · 17/09/2010 22:20

I taught 2 of them in one class, one Ria and one Rhea. They were both orange and badly behaved.

brimfull · 17/09/2010 22:15

My Mum is Rea ..I love it but she's never been keen ..nothing to do with diarrhoea though, she lives in Canada and they find it a weird name there and always query it .

WetAugust · 17/09/2010 22:10

Don't be daft -it;s a type of large bird!

If you've got to do it spell it Ria. I've met a Ria.

fishingfilly · 17/09/2010 22:08

My Niece of 20 is called Rhea spelt this way as well....she is the most beautiful girl so I vote 10/10 got for it!!!!!! Smile

proudfoot · 17/09/2010 21:43

Don't like it at all, sorry.

Every Rhea I've ever known has been a right cow, which really put me off (just in case the diorrhea thing wasn't enough!)

Ria looks slightly better but still sounds the same.

I like Thea.

CurlyCasper · 17/09/2010 21:34

I know one. She is lovely.

But does get called diar... now and then.

posey · 17/09/2010 21:34

spiderlight have no idea but I loved it, esp Russell Grin

Horton · 17/09/2010 21:27

Enormous fluffy bird. Not a good association.

pointydog · 17/09/2010 21:21

No. Diorrhea (can never spell it).

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RunLyraRun · 17/09/2010 21:18

aww it's sweet

spiderlight · 17/09/2010 21:17

Dredging up a very old memory, wasn't there a whole thing about the name of the character in Butterflies because the mother had decided on Ria and the father, who'd gone to register her, was a keen ornithologist?

RunLyraRun · 17/09/2010 21:15

Slightly smaller than an ostrich? Same lovely eyelashes though.

posey · 17/09/2010 21:14

Ria is nicer (like the mum in Butterflies...oh how I loved that programme [nostalgic emoticon]Grin

but rhea is definitely an ostrich I'm afrid

howdidthishappenthen · 17/09/2010 21:12

Yup, I'm picturing ostrich here to..

usualsuspect · 17/09/2010 21:09

I like it

SixtyFootDoll · 17/09/2010 21:09

Sorry no, Diaorrhea i'm afrid

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babysoon1 · 17/09/2010 21:08

oh no! I'm really gutted - really thought we were sorted on girls name. . .now you're all making me question it. I just thought Ria was lovely.

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FiveOrangePips · 17/09/2010 21:02

Rhea is the image I get.

nigglewiggle · 17/09/2010 20:56

I like it, but I do prefer Ria as the spelling.