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How weird is this name? But I love it!

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WHAT91 · 10/07/2018 19:44

OK, I know it's 'unusual' to say the least but I absolutely love the name Jura for a girl. I'm 33 weeks pregnant and am trying to gather names. So far, I'm unisinpired but my dp and I love the name Jura (we love the island itself and the whisky Blush).

So what I'm asking is, if you met a baby Jura, would you think weird or nice?

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Amshook · 14/07/2018 14:50

My first thoughts are Juror and dura (membrane covering the brain and spinal cord)

Windyone · 12/07/2018 08:31

I don't think it's an unusual name. Plenty of girls called Isla, Jura, Iona and Skye.

WaxOnFeckOff · 12/07/2018 08:24

Re bullying, unless you live in the area then no child is really going to associate it with the Paps. We live in Scotland, I have two well educated and reasonably well traveled teen DSs who will never of heard of this at all. I quite like it but love Lorna or Vaila or Rhona.

MadMaryBoddington · 12/07/2018 07:27

I like it a lot.

Enko · 11/07/2018 23:15

I think coffee machine too but I would get past that soon enough.. Its a nice enough name..

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WHAT91 · 11/07/2018 22:28

Grin so many weird and wonderful responses. Thanks Smile

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Loopytiles · 11/07/2018 21:20

Durex, juror or iuno.

Middle name, perhaps.

Haint · 11/07/2018 21:18

Hound no? Only me?

NataliaOsipova · 11/07/2018 21:17

I like it but said out loud it's a bit too similar to durex

I thought "Durex" too... Blush

EggysMom · 11/07/2018 21:14

I'm going to call my next cat Talisker

Twenty-cough years ago, I named my pedigree Birmans Jura (boy) and Tallisker (girl).

CrunchingIceCubes · 11/07/2018 21:09

I like it but said out loud it's a bit too similar to 'durex'

youmeandconchitawurst · 11/07/2018 16:56

I quite like it but one of your previous posts suggests that you're in Scotland, so no. just no.

if it's a girl, it's like shoving a big sign on her back saying "bully me".

if she has wee tits some immature little gobshite will wind her up with it, and if she's of the Dolly Parton persuasion she's gubbed.

Just don't do it to her.

Saisong · 11/07/2018 16:32

Might spelling it Jurah feminise it a bit? I like it.

Chinnyreckoning · 11/07/2018 16:31

I've taught one. Lovely girl and def no one called her durex or any such nonsense

primoestate · 11/07/2018 16:25

I like it, but my first thought is 'coffee machine'

TatianaLarina · 11/07/2018 16:19

or Lorraine

Even worse!

ladycarlotta · 11/07/2018 16:17

I think it's nice! I knew a (Japanese) woman who named her baby Hibiki. She was always so pleased that I remembered his name, and I never had the heart to say it was because of the whiskey.

Puzzletta · 11/07/2018 14:45

I know two Devons - one a girl, one a boy

MikeUniformMike · 11/07/2018 14:13

Kent could be a child's name. Devon too.

MikeUniformMike · 11/07/2018 14:12

or Lorraine

TatianaLarina · 11/07/2018 14:01

It’s a départment of France, a bit like calling someone Surrey.

MikeUniformMike · 11/07/2018 13:52

Jurassic

iamawagama · 11/07/2018 13:51

My coffee machine is called a Jura. It's very snazzy.

I like it!

spiderlight · 11/07/2018 13:26

I like it (and the whiskey). We have a nephew called Talisker :)

Hs2Issue · 11/07/2018 13:25

I quite like it as a name, however dcat's name is Talisker so may be a bit biased.