Clementine - honest opinions pls

Clementine is pretty....but shortening it to Clem or Clemmie just reminds me of phlegm God forbid she get a horrible cold one day at school and get called "phlegmy Clemmie"
If you're going for it, I would stick to Clementine. Or if you must shorten it, I would call her "tiney" or something using the last syllable not the first!

Do it. What a lovely name!

I love it and have a Clementine ('teen'). So pretty, elegant and uncommon. DD is just over 1 and I have only come across two others in our area (of Greater London). I loved it from the start of my pregnancy and it was the only name I truly could not part with amongst the sea of other lovely but also very popular names, when we had to choose (DD was almost 6 weeks old!). My DD certainly lives up the meaning of the name and is very gentle, merciful and sweet-natured indeed. Ours is sometimes shortened to Clemmie but only within the family so far.

There were only 104 little girls named Clementine in 2014 and 88 in 2013. So very slowly creeping up from the high to lower 400's in ranking in more recent times.

Mine is 6 we love it obviously. Pronounce Tyne though. Know some people hate it have had some blank looks (usually from people with dc with extremely conventional names) so it is abit marmite. Suits dd perfectly though. Was reading a book about Churchill while I was pregnant and just felt right.

Teen. It's the only way.

Are you a tyne or a teen, Clems?

Hi. Actually registered with Mumsnet to reply to this. What a faff!

I'm a Clementine. LOVE MY NAME. I'm a bit of a tomboy anyway but to me, the name doesn't sound too girly. I always get good reactions to my name and love that for people my age it is pretty rare.

I do agree that the nickname Clemmie isn't the most beautiful combination of sounds but once you attach that to a person I think it's fine.

Also - and this would horrify those in the NE Who have posted on this thread - those close to me actually call me Clems. No one has ever mentioned the testicle connection in 30 years. So I think it'll be fine. (though she will have to get used to men asking her if she's "juicy" )

Short version - do it!

Love it,will use it if i have another girl

That's what I meant, NoMore.

I've never heard of that use of 'clem' before. Clem/Clemmed/Clemming actually means to be hungry, starved.

They're always Clemmie or Clem though (Clements and Clementines). I don't think it's hippy/MC just very 'now' and fashionable. There seems to be one in every toddler group in my area.

It's not slang in the UK. It's slang in one region of the UK. NE, I think.

I love it, gorgeous name! I will admit my first instinct is to pronounce it Clem an Tyne but the Clem an teen pronunciation is much nicer.

You'd hope so. I'm not convinced though and so I'd try to avoid naming a kid something that has negative connotations - particularly as I'm assuming it's slang in the UK where I'm guessing op is. She could have to move for work (op that is, with the daughter).

Yeah but hopefully people will be a bit more mature by then, Smug.

It's my top choice for our dd2 due in a few weeks. We are in France though so generally will have less issues with the pronunciation and shortening (nicknames tend to be used less frequently here).

I'm not overly keen on Clemmie as a nickname and will push for people to call her CC (as we've chosen a C middle name too) if we can although i know that's a bit contrived and people will call her what they want

Love it - I had a great aunt called Clementina

and I know a lovely 9 year old girl called Clementine (Clemmie)

The slang thing SHOULD be considered, even if you don't live there. She's not always going to live with mummy and could end up moving there.

'Correct' pronunciation is clay-mon-teen if you want to be authentic. Tyne is better in the UK, the cle-men-teen prounciation sounds so awful and faux, especially with some regional accents.

I wouldn't let the slang thing put you off unless you live in that area.

I don't like it - I think, in part, because Clems are slang for testicles round these parts.
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I think it would be mispronounced plus the few I've know have been called Clem which sounds like phlegm to me and is just an ugly sound.

On its own with your pronunciation it's pretty, but in the real world she'll hardly ever be called that.

I think it's a lovely name but prefer the other pronunciation and think more people would expect it to be pronounced that way.

Not keen on it, personally. I think Clementine sounds very 'weak', Clemmy reminds me of 'clammy', and I have a friend whose daughter is called Clementine, and she refers to her as 'Clem', which is a common word where I live for 'bollock' ("yer clems")

I really like it. I had a good friend at college with the name - from a very regular, non-alternative family - not-hippy-dippy, not posh. She honestly didn't get any comments or jokes about the name. She was mostly known as Clem.