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Hope

58 replies

noahsmum256 · 11/04/2020 23:16

Can I just ask for your honest opinions on Hope please?
I keep coming back to it. However, in my head I keep doubting whether it would work on a "real person".
Ive done some googling and some sites say Hope gets nicknames such as Hopefull or worse Hopeless. Which obviously wouldn't be great if there was teasing potential. Hmm....
Also, would Hope go with Noah? Or not really?

Thank you 😊

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Icanttakethiscrapanymore · 12/04/2020 00:09

Hope is a beautiful name.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 12/04/2020 00:08

I think it's a nice name... I also like 'Verity'.

I didn't call my daughters either name though.

IDontLikeMondays88 · 12/04/2020 00:08

Lovely.

Very pandemic appropriate too.

bridgetreilly · 12/04/2020 00:06

Literally every name has teasing potential and if you find one that doesn't, the child can get teased for something else.

Hope is lovely.

SundayGirl86 · 11/04/2020 23:24

I love Hope and think it goes well with Noah!

LightACandleHoney · 11/04/2020 23:23

I love it. I know a couple and they both get Hopey as a nickname. I would have used it as a first name except it doesn’t really work with our surname. We used it as a middle name instead and DD has always loved it and been really attached to it. She has said plenty of times that she actually prefers it to her first name. We use it almost as a double barrelled name for her a lot because it does go so well with her first name and she loves it so much

BikeRunSki · 11/04/2020 23:22

I know a Hope, she’s a teenager, and I don’t believe her name her ever given her any grief. Not in a big way anyway. It’s also DD’s middle name, but he is named after the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, where DH and I used to live.

Whatsyourflava · 11/04/2020 23:18

Don’t like virtue type names sorry.
Don’t really like it with Noah either.

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