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Effie or Ezra ?

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ClementineAndCordelia · 02/02/2015 22:33

Hi everyone - this is my first ever Mumsnet post , so please go easy Wink . DC 2 is due in a couple of months and we're down to two names for a DD . I realise Ezra is usually a boys name, but we live very rurally and there aren't any boys with this name in the area . We LOVE it for a girl . Have also always loved Effie . Middle name will be Clementine .
Which- if you had to choose- do you prefer ? Thanks Smile

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AnnaNimitty · 15/02/2015 17:45

For the record Mick Jagger's grand-daughter has named her baby girl Ezra!
I have always liked the name Effie but don't like Euphemia. Alba is a lovely
name and was the original one chosen for Lord Byron's daughter
Allegra. In case you're wondering - I am a name geek!

whitesnowmoon1014 · 15/02/2015 16:01

We arent discussing a unisex name..Ezra is a boys name and Esra is a girls name.

squoosh · 14/02/2015 16:07

'Out of interest how many girls need to be called a name before its unisex? I would have thought 1 maybe I'm wrong.'

Someone could call their daughter Roger but that wouldn't make Roger a unisex name.

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ClementineAndCordelia · 14/02/2015 14:53

Thanks WhiteSnowMoon1014 - this is exactly what we're thinking now - if baby is a girl . Now it's just a boy's name to sort !

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whitesnowmoon1014 · 13/02/2015 21:25

Esra is a beautiful turkish girls name so I would go with that and that spelling. You will have a unique, beautiful girls name. Anybody who confuses it with the male name Ezra just correct them.

CoffeeChocolateWine · 13/02/2015 00:05

I have a niece called Effie and it's short for Elizabeth. I had never heard of the name before and would never have thought it was a nn for Elizabeth but it actually is!

RabbitSaysWoof · 12/02/2015 21:11

I like Effie and Ezra.
Out of interest how many girls need to be called a name before its unisex? I would have thought 1 maybe I'm wrong.
FWIW I went to college with a girl called James she is feminine, confident and as far as I could see perfectly happy with her name.

Laquila · 12/02/2015 08:09

I know a Hepzibah mm Hep - it really suits her.

ErrolTheDragon · 11/02/2015 23:15

The conjunction of Ezra and Effie makes me think of Eppie in Silas Marner - nn for the biblical Hepzibah.

Emvy1985 · 11/02/2015 23:06

Hi
I've just posted my first post too :)
I prefer Effie, Id prefer a longer name with Effie as a nn but can't actually think of any, which isn't overly helpful is it! Confused

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ClementineAndCordelia · 11/02/2015 23:03

Thanks newbie6- I think
We will :) and Laquila - yes it was on Heartbreak High that I first heard the name Effie all those years ago and loved it . It has stayed with me for over 20 years ?! Grin

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newbie6 · 08/02/2015 22:21

I'm clearly stupid as assumed Ezra was a girls name, love it! Personally more and more names are becoming unisex so you could just start a new trend ??

Laquila · 08/02/2015 21:28

P.S. Has anyone suggested Ephigenia for Effie?? Love that name but don't think I'd have the balls!...

Laquila · 08/02/2015 21:27

Effie always reminds me of Nick's sister from Heatbreak High. (Ugh, please don't anyone say that was before their time...)

Personally I don't agree that "Ezra is pretentious unless your religious", but I suppose it's all subjective.

longestlurkerever · 08/02/2015 18:25

I agree box was very rude! You can give an opinion without being sneery.

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ClementineAndCordelia · 08/02/2015 17:56

What a lovely positive post itsbetterthanabox !

I didn't explain myself well re the rural part - what I meant was that as we live so rurally we have never heard the name until fairly recently ( didn't know it was biblical either until recently ) so therefore we don't particularly associate it with boys/ masculinity / religion / The Bible etc. It's quite new to us and we just like sound that the four letters make when combined together . Simple as that really .Perhaps if we lived nearer a city we'd have heard lots of boys being called it as I think there's been a surge in that name in city areas of late . Anyway all besides the point now as we decided not to go for that name but something very similar .
Re Effie I don't agree it's a babies name only - I think it suits every stage of woman from baby to old lady and it wasn't Skins which led us to it . She was Effy / Elizabeth .Effie is a very popular Greek name .

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itsbetterthanabox · 08/02/2015 00:31

Ezra is pretentious on a boy unless your very religious. On a girl it's worse. I can't imagine why you living rurally has any bearing on this at all? What difference does it make?
Effie just makes me think of the moody girl on skins. It's like a silly nickname not a name. It's a babies name and she won't be a baby forever.

MishMooshAndMogwai · 07/02/2015 19:24

Dp likes rowan but I'm not sold on alliteration for names. It'd be a bit of a mouthful with our surname!

I do like Ezri though...and rolo/rola/Lola Grin

AugustaGloop · 07/02/2015 13:52

And why not Ezra for a DS?

AugustaGloop · 07/02/2015 13:51

Go with aphra.

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ClementineAndCordelia · 07/02/2015 13:42

What about Ezri / Ezry instead?

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ClementineAndCordelia · 06/02/2015 22:58

Arlo is the only boys name we can agree on at the moment MishMoosh... So we might just have to tell people that we could only deal with those 4 letters whilst baby naming ?! Our third could be Rola / Lola / Rolo etc Grin . Jacob's nice btw - have you thought of Jonah/ Jonas / Rowan/ Torin / Rafy/ Rory or Ruari / Elliot/ Ellian / Ellis / Toby/ Jago/ Inigo / Iolo/ Milo . Just a few extras :)

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MishMooshAndMogwai · 06/02/2015 21:48

Shock arlo was top of my boy list too! Got a resounding no from dp though :(

Twotinygirls · 06/02/2015 16:33

I met a female Ezra, she was/is beautiful and I loved the name, I'd never really heard it before. Effie is cute, but at least Ezra is a proper full name.
It's unlikely that she'll have a boy in her class called it as it's such a rare name, and would it really matter anyway.