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Bambi

103 replies

YellowLily17 · 01/05/2017 17:53

For a middle name?

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Bringmesunshite · 02/05/2017 21:18

She won't be a baby girl forever.

MollyHuaCha · 02/05/2017 18:59

Nice name, but not great for a child or adult - could you it for a hamster or something?

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 02/05/2017 18:11

Francesca is beautiful & Bambi is a cute nickname for a baby / toddler.

Even if Bambi had meant baby girl, though, that would be all the more reason not to use it as an actual name.

FeedTheSharkAndItWillBite · 02/05/2017 17:25

Bambi does not mean baby girl in Italian. There is the word "bambina", but that isn't a name. It's just not, sorry. It's a bit like calling your DC girl or Mädchen... Nope.

Plus, remember what happened to Bambi's mother... You're making yourself bambi's mother in a way. I mean, it's just weird imo.

Anyhow: Francesca is lovely. Really really lovely.

You could use a name that means deer and then use the nn "Bambi"?
Bambi is an adorable nickname. :)!

RustyBear · 02/05/2017 17:22

You could call her Amber. DD is Amber, but she's been called Bambi by her friends most of her life.

BertrandRussell · 02/05/2017 17:21

And anyone who thinks that nobody pays any attention to middle. Ames has obviously never met a crowd of year 4/5/6s- particularly girls. They make anagrams, they write them backwards, they do numerology with them.....

grannytomine · 02/05/2017 17:20

Oh no, just think about what happened to his mother. Not a safe name.

Abetes · 02/05/2017 17:20

It's awful. Please don't.

BertrandRussell · 02/05/2017 17:18

"It means "baby girl" in Italian"
No it doesn't. And she's only going to be a baby for a year. She'll be an adult woman for 60+

GinIsIn · 02/05/2017 17:13

I think too cutesy. How about Venison instead...? Grin

FeedMyFaceWithBattenberg · 02/05/2017 12:58

😂😂😂

pardreg · 02/05/2017 12:57
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HeyCat · 02/05/2017 07:11

It does NOT mean baby girl in Italian!

If you really like it, use it as a nickname but don't actually lumber your child with such a silly name.

PandaCat · 02/05/2017 06:58

I wouldn't use it on the birth certificate personally, but it could be a cute nn while she's young!

PirateQueenie · 01/05/2017 23:52

I think people are overreacting a bit. I like it, but also think middle names are meant to be quirky and somewhat silly. We had a friend growing up who's middle name was Rudolf, it was great! Gives real character!

buttercup54321 · 01/05/2017 23:01

How awful. And Baby girls grow up!!!

PodgeBod · 01/05/2017 22:43

Ah who cares, it's only a middle name. It's cute and if she reallllly hates it she can tell people she doesn't have one. No harm, no foul.

Aquamarine1029 · 01/05/2017 22:08

No, ffs.

Mumoftheark · 01/05/2017 21:10

I know a someone with Bambi as a middle name, although actually since little (she's 16 now) everyone has always used it as her first. Her mother is from Finland and it's quite popular and a regular name there.
I don't think middle names matter too much, it's not like anyone ever uses them.
For a first name I would say no, but I don't see anything wrong with it for a middle

elQuintoConyo · 01/05/2017 20:36

Bambi Berenbaum was an entomologist in an X-Files episode (War of the Coprophages, if you're interested).

All I have going through my head is, "her name is Bambi?"

It wouldn't suit any grown woman in any profession: teacher, bus driver, civil servant, flight attendent...

PirateQueenie · 01/05/2017 20:30

Aww I actually really like it!

Lilly16 · 01/05/2017 20:28

I'm not keen myself but maybe could work as a middle name...I like Francesca.
First thing I think is Disney, then strippers -sorry! ... It doesn't actually translate as baby girl either.

SecretNutellaFix · 01/05/2017 20:18

Bambi's mother got murdered. I wouldn't want that association

Bambi was also a boy.

user1492526833 · 01/05/2017 20:16

Sounds endearing [pun] and innocent, but also reminds me of an 80's American stripper.

Sorry.

Floggingmolly · 01/05/2017 20:14

Even if you'd got it right (!) and it was Italian for baby girl; so what? She won't always be a baby girl, why would you need to incorporate it into her name like a descriptor?

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