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Loveday?

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Superslinger · 10/07/2012 17:43

What do you think? How would you nn?

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PurpleChrayn · 11/12/2024 20:17

Sounds like a special promotion from a sex shop.

BootballJoy · 11/12/2024 17:14

Reminds me of the character in the Little White Horse (which is a positive association).

MerryChristmasToYou · 11/12/2024 12:06

, everyone with any sense/taste loves it It's awful.

user1492757084 · 11/12/2024 09:24

Loveday is gorgeous if you are near Cornwall.

It reminds me of the names Lovisa, Faerlie and Endellion.
And the boys' names Boniface, St John and Jean Baptiste.

Very romantically classic and historically linked.

Unsure4589 · 11/12/2024 09:05

So weird that people think it sounds like a porn-star's name! For me it's the total opposite. VERY British and super romantic, the kind of girl people swoon over in a very wholesome way (sort of like Catherine Zeta Jones' character in the Darling Buds of May). Maybe I think this because DP fell for a Loveday when he was 11 and I'm pretty sure he's still a bit in love with her. 😂

I think it's pretty, but probably too pretty for my tastes!

CathiO · 11/12/2024 08:15

My hubby says it sounds like a 3rd rate porn star or a lap dancer in a shady bar...🤣🤣🤣

GobblersKnob · 11/07/2012 17:35

I know some people love it, but to me it just sounds like a porn star, sorry.

RancerDoo · 11/07/2012 17:30

It's my dd2s middle name too. I love it, and it isn't that unusual - I have met three, of very different ages.

squoosh · 11/07/2012 14:54

I was going to say Rosamundes Pilcher too minty (best books for when you're stuck in bed with the flu).

It's a bit jolly hockeysticks for my taste but it's not the worst in the world.

Minty82 · 11/07/2012 14:52

I think it's gorgeous - I had a Rosamunde Pilcher fixation at school, and it's one of her characters...

phlebas · 10/07/2012 22:43

but not weird (!)

phlebas · 10/07/2012 22:42

it's my dd2's middle name & I utterly adore it :)

I'm from the west country & went to school with a couple of Lovedays - it is uncommon but but weird there. I would've loved it as dd's first name but dh had his heart set on something else.

(we did have a lovejoy comment once - from my BIL he's a total loser, everyone with any sense/taste loves it Wink )

SmallWhiteWine · 10/07/2012 19:06

It's my daughter's middle name Grin I have always loved it. I wish I'd used it as her first name sometimes.

yousankmybattleship · 10/07/2012 19:06

Loveday? Really? Loveday is usually Saturday in my house to that could by the NN.

VolAuVent · 10/07/2012 19:05

Too surnamey.

racingheart · 10/07/2012 19:03

I knew a girl of this name at school and she was viciously bullied for it, so that puts me off. But it was years ago and names have become far more inventive and varied since the days when you got mocked if you weren't called Susan or Sarah-Louise.

Puffykins · 10/07/2012 18:59

Love it. It was high on my list for DD but DH vetoed it (along with every other name on my list bar one).

MrsHelsBels74 · 10/07/2012 18:58

I don't personally like it (reminds me too much of Lovejoy I'm afraid) & I'd be worried about the nickname Lovey.

minipie · 10/07/2012 18:57

I think it's pretty BUT I think any Loveday would get the piss massively ripped at school. So I wouldn't dare.

MarianForrester · 10/07/2012 18:57

I love it. No need for nn, surely?

TouTou · 10/07/2012 18:55

I love it.
It's not made up, it's got a good strong British heritage and i wish I'd thought of it.
And I normally loathe weird names...

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 10/07/2012 18:54

Beautiful!

Scatterplot · 10/07/2012 18:53

I like it. You could have a Loveday Jennifer nicknamed LJ, two Cornish names.

Takver · 10/07/2012 18:29

Isn't it a Cornish name? I don't know what you'd use as a nn though.

Melindaaa · 10/07/2012 18:28

Honestly? I hate it. It sounds ridiculous.

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