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Vera!

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SnapesOnAPlane · 14/08/2011 20:12

I had a thrill of excitement when I saw this in the baby name book today, before that it was an old lady name!
What do you think?
Ooh think I might use it regardless... even if baby is a boy :o
I kid, I kid.
I think :o

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Minstrelsaremarvellous · 18/08/2011 09:35

My DD is a Verity and we always get nice comments about the name - there aren't any others that we know. I like Vera too - I can imagine a very cute little girl!

littlebrighteyes · 17/08/2011 22:22

my mums name was vera-i also have it as my middle name -ive never been really keen but as it was my mums name i couldnt argue much-it means FAITH in russian .x

Greenwing · 17/08/2011 20:12

At the moment (but for how long - who can predict?) it is an old lady name but I LOVE it because of a heroine of mine - Vera Brittain, a writer, feminist and pacifist born in 1893.

She wrote a memoir of her experiences in WW1 which began when she was 21. It affectedly me deeply when I read it, being about the same age at the time.
This is info about her en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain
I highly recommend the book and the name Vera!

crispface · 17/08/2011 18:07

I like it. It was my nana's name, a lovely dignified lady. I would use it. Verity is an awful name Grin

Bandwithering · 17/08/2011 18:02

eeeeyoooow. When people ask "what do you mean by try hard?' this is it!! Vera is trying very hard to be different.

pacinofan · 17/08/2011 17:13

Love it. DD1 has Veronica as a middle name, and has recently said she wishes that was her first name instead. First name is in top 10, always will be, and sometimes I wish we'd had the guts to use something a bit more unusual.

Go for it, it's lovely.

mathanxiety · 16/08/2011 20:01

I like it, and think of it as a Russian or Eastern European name. It sort of belongs with Cora too, in my mind, so I associate it with Irish ladies of a certain age. Nicer than Cora though imo. And far nicer than Verity, which I consider very twee quite twee.

Hedwig3 · 16/08/2011 19:45

LOVE it! Smile

lolajane2009 · 16/08/2011 19:14

Verity, although it is a PCOS charity :)

DoctorX · 16/08/2011 16:55

Beautiful name - go for it!

Hope88 · 16/08/2011 16:55

I prefer Verity too.

reelingintheyears · 16/08/2011 15:38

Are you kidding....Vera is awful.

And Veronica's get called Vronks or Ronnie.

pranma · 16/08/2011 14:03

I prefer Verity

ragged · 16/08/2011 13:23

Thumbs down from me.

SaffronCake · 16/08/2011 13:09

What? How do so many people think it's awful? I think it's brilliant, totally brilliant and I love it.

It can also be short for Verena which is a short e sound at the front (veh-ren-na) whereas Vera is a long e sound (veer-ra).

It's positively fab and anyway Vera Duckworth has been off the telly since 2008, at least 3 years before baby is born. Three years before I was born people were watching Columbo, Runaround and The Good Life. None of which I can name a single character from.

tammytoby · 15/08/2011 21:14

Thanks meditrina, I still don't recognise her (but don't watch that much tv). As you say, most children today would have no associations like some of you.

I still think it is a lovely sounding name that works well in most languages. And not widely used. So I'd go for it Smile.

hangon · 15/08/2011 20:45

Is that a joke

BodyUnknown · 15/08/2011 20:13

I love it. But the baby name book I had said it was old lady and Verity is a better (i.e. more modern) alternative!

meditrina · 15/08/2011 20:02

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/07/23/vera460.jpg&imgrefurl=www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/jul/23/veraduckworth&h=300&w=460&sz=38&tbnid=kK1J5aY0cdEPrM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=128&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvera%2Bduckworth%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=vera+duckworth&docid=5tWqpzzQ-KOJAM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_2tJTrHINcSphAfOzNyeBg&sqi=2&ved=0CEYQ9QEwCA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This is Vera Duckworth, this is wiki, and this is a fan site. As one of the characters in the most watched TV programmer for over 30 years, I think you will find an awful lot of people who know the character and they'll be around for a good while yet. Not DD's peers obviously, but the adults around her.

tammytoby · 15/08/2011 18:41

Who/what is Duckworth Hmm? I've been in the UK for 20 years but have never heard of her... And I therefore wonder whether kids will associate the name with her..?

Verahaspurpletwuntypants · 15/08/2011 18:25

I had a great aunt called Vera.

Shoutymomma · 15/08/2011 18:13

Oh please, no.

Catsu · 15/08/2011 18:00

My about to be born dd is going to have vera for her middle name!

usualsuspect · 15/08/2011 17:59

awful

meditrina · 15/08/2011 17:55

Duckworth. Quite a character!