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Ianthe, Cicely, Apolline, Paloma, Salome...

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Messalena · 21/11/2018 21:40

Thoughts please on these names for a girl?

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TatianaLarina · 22/11/2018 14:20

What kind of names do you like Dwangela?

DwangelaForever · 22/11/2018 14:17

Wtf have I stumbled into a middle class alternate universe. All of these names are horrid

Choccywoccyhooha · 22/11/2018 14:05

Ha ha Iseult, pedestrian! Brilliant! Grin

I would pronounced Ianthe as Eye-annth-ee.

RiverTam · 22/11/2018 13:59

it sounds like the cast list to a play about some upper class people down on their luck living in a crumbling stately home and eating beans on toast off the Crown Derby whilst coming up with wheezes to get some cash in. Like Topaz in I Capture the Castle.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 22/11/2018 13:57

I prefer Cecily to Cicely. Palominos gorgeous too.

Winterwonderland12 · 22/11/2018 13:35

I like Cicely but prefer Cecily. Apolline is also very pretty!

TatianaLarina · 22/11/2018 13:33

I do think Izzy is a massive downside to Iseult, it’s one of the reasons I decided against not it.

Pemba · 22/11/2018 13:31

Well Antigone was very brave and a role model! Although she had a horrible end. Exactly like many saints who children have been named after for hundreds of years. Like St Catherine of Alexandria who was tortured to death on a wheel or something horrible like that.

BertrandRussell · 22/11/2018 11:56

Would you really want to name your child after Antigone?

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Messalena · 22/11/2018 11:25

Salome has been struck off.

I like Isolde but am put off by Izzy (I know tons of them)

I also quite like Antigone (Tiggy) but I’m thinking it’s most likely too too much... thoughts?

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ManiaTas19 · 22/11/2018 11:24

I LOVE Paloma. I considered it and then someone told me it can be translated as "pigeon" and it put me off since, but I still think its beautiful.

I love Cicely but I'd go for sp Cecilie.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 22/11/2018 11:20

❤️ Apolline (Polly). Paloma is lovely, and I like Ianthe.
Dislike Cecily/Cicely, but like Cecelia (CeCe). Not Salome.

TJsAunt · 22/11/2018 11:01

Apolline just sounds like Pauline with a funny accent...

Love Cicely/Cecily

dirtyandscusting · 22/11/2018 10:48

I massively regret not using cicely it's beautiful!!

RavenWings · 22/11/2018 10:45

Only on Mumsnet would a name currently 4068th in the popularity tables and used 11 times since 2010 be pedestrian

Maybe it's where I am, but I know a couple of kids named Iseult. They all turn into Izzy too, which there are definitely a million of!

keepingbees · 22/11/2018 10:28

I like Ianthe. My dd was nearly Xanthe and I always regret not using it

MarysInTheDyson · 22/11/2018 10:21

Oh i love Polly as nn for Apolline

MarysInTheDyson · 22/11/2018 10:21

I read on here that the "ine" ending on names is considered very classy in France.

BigusBumus · 22/11/2018 10:01

Paloma is the nicest. I wore Paloma Picasso perfume throughout the 90s!

BertrandRussell · 22/11/2018 09:47

“I think Iseult is a bit pedestrian these days”

Only on Mumsnet would a name currently 4068th in the popularity tables and used 11 times since 2010 be pedestrian Grin

BeanBagLady · 22/11/2018 09:39

Eye-anth-ey

Apart from anything else a Salome will be called salami.

Cecile is lovely.

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Messalena · 22/11/2018 09:23

Thank you! Jogs Love your daughter’s name, gorgeous! Does she get mistaken for a Cecily?

Salome is unpopular, then... I think Apolline might be my fave (Polly!)

How would everyone say Ianthe?

Sorry for all the questions!

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RamonaQ · 22/11/2018 09:18

I like Apollonia, I knew one who went by Apple for short, and Polly.
I like Ianthe, but love Xanthe!

LipstickTraces · 22/11/2018 09:15

Cicely is pretty. The others are a bit too try hard for my tastes.

MsNowtyBach · 22/11/2018 08:32

Didn't Salome cut off the head of John the Baptist and serve it on a plate?!

Cecile is gorgeous, not sure about Cicely.

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