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Thoughts on Quinn

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DOOOSH444 · 02/05/2018 20:03

Do you like the name Quinn for a girl?

Quinn Anne

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Wuss2018 · 03/05/2018 06:21

I have a Quentin so quin gets the thumbs up from me.

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DOOOSH444 · 03/05/2018 06:09

Ok thank you mumsnet Smile

Quinn = Quim

Is enough to put me off Grin

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sycamore54321 · 03/05/2018 01:28

Another no vote I'm afraid.

There is a trend on mumsnet recently of the most commonly-used Irish surnames morphing into first names, seemingly randomly assigned to boys and girls - Quinn, Reilly, Rafferty, Rooney, Brady, Duffy, Kennedy, even Murphy and Murray, all of them ten-a-penny family names in any Irish town. I can't for the life of me fathom where it has come from, and it sounds really odd to me. But I guess what is exotic and unusual for me is boring and everyday to someone else.

I do like that it's a strong sound, with none of the frilliness you get with lots of fashionable girls names right now. But I just know it far too well as a surname to make it work. Plus I'd hate to have Q as initial, for no logical reason.

blairsey · 03/05/2018 00:56

Sorry, not keen at all. Quinn just sounds like such a blah name imo, and the fact that it looks like quim at first glance... a no go.

How about using Quinn as a middle name? I think that there would be too many 'n's to have Anna Quinn, but if you had a second mn such as Anna Jo Quinn or Anna Elizabeth Quinn, it would sound lovely. Smile

DramaAlpaca · 03/05/2018 00:31

Quinn is awful, sorry. I don't much like surnames used as first names, but particularly not for girls.

And of course it doesn't go with Anne, surely that's obvious.

LoveMyLittleSuperhero · 02/05/2018 23:57

I like Quinn but as others have said it reminds me of quim. A big problem with that being it was in one of the Marvel avengers movies recently so a lot more people have heard the word and know it's meaning.

TroubledLichen · 02/05/2018 23:41

I’m a bit on the fence with Quinn. After Glee I definitely think of it as a girl’s name not a boy’s as some posters have suggested. I do quite like it on it’s own but I think it sounds awful with practically every middle name as it sounds like Queen {insert middle name here}; Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth etc.

ineedwine99 · 02/05/2018 23:34

Quinn is lovely, someone I know has a baby Quinn

cloudtree · 02/05/2018 23:34

It also made me immediately think of quim and I watched Glee and Homeland.

Honestly you can't call your child something that at a glance looks like the word quim

Allthecake · 02/05/2018 23:30

I had to google quim as I'd never heard of it! So not sure it'd be a problem in the playground but perhaps not the best as an adult. I'd think it was a male and don't think it goes with Anne and Annie is worse! I automatically thought banana 😳

crazymumofthree · 02/05/2018 23:30

Being halfway through homeland I like the name Quinn but not sure if I like it for a girl!

LadyGAgain · 02/05/2018 23:20

We were going to call our son Quinn. Never occurred to us to use it for a girl.

Ragusa · 02/05/2018 22:32

I don't usually say "they'll get teased" but there is a real risk a girl named this would be referred to as Quim.

RedDwarves · 02/05/2018 22:29

Quinn Anne doesn't work at all.

But Quinn is a lovely name. It needs a longer middle name:
Quinn Elizabeth
Quinn Alexandra
Quinn Amelia
Quinn Genevieve
Quinn Emmeline
Quinn Arabella
Quinn Josephine
Quinn Lillian
Quinn Evangaline
Quinn Juliet
Quinn Leonora
Quinn Madeleine
Quinn Seraphina
Quinn Tabitha

Something like that.

RosieposiePuddingandPi · 02/05/2018 21:42

I really like Quinn. DS goes to nursery with a gorgeous little boy called Quinn and it really suits him.

manicinsomniac · 02/05/2018 21:40

Agree with everyone else. I like Quinn and I like Anne but not together.

How about:
Quinn Amelia
Quinn Alexis
Quinn Alyssa
Quinn Ariadne
Taryn Anne
Jasmine Anne
Fallon Anne
Marin Anne

TatianaLarina · 02/05/2018 21:38

It’s def a unisex name.

TatianaLarina · 02/05/2018 21:37

I really like Quinn.

Joan Didion’s daughter was called Quintana after the island Quintana Roo.

Quinn Anne sounds like a joke version of Queen Anne tho, so I’d go for a different second name.

pipilangstrumpf · 02/05/2018 21:35

I only know boys called Quinn. It sounds strong and masculine like Finn or Flynn, definitely not feminine imo!

So yes for a boy!

GrannyHaddock · 02/05/2018 20:53

Honestly, there are problems with that name; best avoided. Handwritten it would look like "quim" too.

Gizmo79 · 02/05/2018 20:52

I love the first name, but completely floored by it being for a girl - sorry!

Whatalovelymug · 02/05/2018 20:51

I think quim too.

LostPlatypus · 02/05/2018 20:51

I knew a Quinn at school (full name Quintilla) so I definitely see it as a girl's name, albeit a slightly unusual one. It definitely doesn't work with Anne though - too many n's.

IceSwan · 02/05/2018 20:50

I like Quinn a lot. Anne doesn't seem to flow with it. What about Anna

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DOOOSH444 · 02/05/2018 20:50

Keep the opinions coming.
I don’t mind how honest the answers are.
:)

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