Clementine?

Parent of an older teen Clementine (pronounced the English way 'teen like Churchill, not the American way 'tine) and nobody has ever, ever sang the song to her. I doubt she'd be able to sing it herself.

Clementine Churchill was a strong, highly capable and intelligent woman with passion and compassion. I couldn't think of a better namesake.

She was known as Clemmie too.

No one has sung that song to us you need to be clear whether you pronounce “teen” or “ine”. We love it more each day was our only name was reading book about winston Churchill when pregnant so kept reading that name over an over again and loved the look of it

Clementine is such a pretty AND unusual name, in that you don't hear it very often. If I was ever having another child id consider it. Very pretty. Minerva......just no, no, no . Sorry but it sounds like a car/ people carrier or a contraceptive. If you like the nickname Minnie, why not just use Minnie? Or if you only want a nickname what about using Miriam and then using the nickname Minnie?

I LOVE Clementine, would definitely have chosen it for this baby but having another boy! It’s just gorgeous. Really really dislike Minerva, sorry! To me it’s a drug or sea witch...

A lifetime of people humming "Oh my darling, Oh my darling, Oh my darling Clemintine ..." Nope. Don't do it!

I don't think a child will thank you for Minerva/Minnie either.

Sorry.

I quite like both. I do like Clementine - it's pretty but strong at the same time - but I might be concerned that it's a style of name (Victorian/Edwardian florid) that is already perhaps on the wane and might seem a little fussy in a time of simpler names. Minerva is more left field but I like that as well.

een not even ^^

Love Minerva.

Don’t like other eyen or even endings of Clementine, prefer Clemency.

Clementine: the 2001s called & they want their name back

Minerva:ok!

Sorry @MsTSwift

We managed it!

Better?

Clementine is too fruity for me. Minerva isn't pretty and looks like the name of a trading estate or something.

It's a gorgeous name. It has character, class and charm. Love it!

“We managed it” you sound rather humourless just a light hearted remark most names even the most innocuous can be linked to something silly/funny/unpleasant

If you reject names on grounds like that you will never find one!

We managed it.

Lovely name. I hadn't connected it to the song until others mentioned it.

Love it. Song never mentioned it’s hardly a current track is it?! Think I sang it once at guides in 1984. If you reject names on grounds like that you will never find one!

Love them both!

I do quite like Clementine. Wasn't Winston Churchill's wife called Clementine? Not suggesting that you are naming your child after her, but just think I remember reading about her somewhere.

People may think of small oranges, but as someone already said, as a name it long pre-dates those.

I'm not a fan of Minerva. Nor of Minnie either (Minnie Mouse).

@MrsSchadenfreude I have a Clementine and so far have noticed posher people pronounce it Clemen’teen’ and people like me (not posh ) pronounce it Clemen’tine’
She gets Clemmie and Clem too.

Every time a Clementine thread comes up people always make comments about it rhyming with phlegm, the song oh my darling Clementine and being named after a fruit and as both a parent of a Clementine and a daughter of a Clementine.
I always want to say the name came before the fruit and even if it didn’t it’s not any different to flower names like Lilly, Fern, Holly, Sage.
As for the song, there are a good selection of awful songs out there with girls names in them. Alice is super popular at the moment and no one mentions living next door to Alice songs on the name boards whenever Alice is mentioned and as for rhyming with phlegm I’m pretty sure you can get any name to rhyme with a gross word if you want to.

Personally I really love the name Clementine op, I don’t see it as overly girlie or anything like that. It personally always reminds me of the leading lady character from Eternal Sunshine and she rocked the name.

Would you pronounce it with a “tine” or “teen” ending? I like it, and Clem is cute too.

If you like Minnie as a nickname, how about Minna as a formal name?

I also like Ginevra - Ginny is nice as well.

Clementine is ridiculously fussy and even clem for short just sounds like phlegm.
Minerva is quite different in a good way but looks like a contraceptive and minnie is awful.
I think we may just have different tastes in names.

I love it, she would probably get Clemmy.

My great grandmother was just called Minnie (no longer name) so it is usable as it is

I love Clementine but my first thought was ‘Oh My Darling’.

I too thought of the contraceptive pill when I read Minerva in the OP. I love the name Clementine but not keen on the shortening of it.