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Apricity for a girl

112 replies

stairway · 08/05/2020 05:19

Found this word in the dictionary meaning the warmth of the sun on a winters day. Thinking it would make an excellent unusual girls name, particularly one born in the winter months. Thoughts?

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Douberry · 08/05/2020 23:55

No way. It's awful. Go for April or Avril or Felicity?? Go for an actual name.

MrsSchadenfreude · 08/05/2020 23:54

I know someone called Velocity, so why not Apricity?

Hippopotas · 08/05/2020 23:48

Reminds me of Apricots foe some reason

saraclara · 08/05/2020 23:43

Sorry, no. It's either a utility company or a mash up of April and Felicity. Either way it'd be really hard to live with.

And anyway, who's even slightly interested in what anyone else's name means? I don't give it a second thought. A person's name is just their name.

nonicknameseemsavailable · 08/05/2020 23:35

it made me think of Aapri facial scrub...

Monkey500 · 08/05/2020 22:27

@stairway I think people are being very mean, it's lovely and the Apricity we know is lovely too.

Monkey500 · 08/05/2020 22:24

@booboostwo why would I make this up? I hardly ever comment unless it's relevant and this is. It's a lovely name, with a lovely meaning, we all think it's great.

peperethecat · 08/05/2020 14:47

@eurochick Yes! That's exactly what it sounds like.

Ellmau · 08/05/2020 14:25

A nice name for a Business. Ideal for winter sun holidays perhaps. Not for a child.

eurochick · 08/05/2020 13:16

It sounds like a product name one of the teams on a The Apprentice would have come up with.

SoftBlocks · 08/05/2020 13:11

I would have to say no.

herecomesgeralt · 08/05/2020 13:07

Someone I know works at a company called Apricity

Booboostwo · 08/05/2020 12:13

I bet you do Monkey and I bet her sister is called La-a.

Monkey500 · 08/05/2020 11:47

Got a young lady called Apricity in our primary school. Lovely name. No problems with the kids pronouncing it at all.

Nagsnovalballs · 08/05/2020 11:40

Sounds like you wanted to call her April and your Dh felicity so you compromised, badly

2bazookas · 08/05/2020 11:39

Potential abbreviations /nicknames at school Pissy, Shitty?

A "unique " name often sets up the child for a lifetime of (at best) tedious explanations/repetitions and (far worse), wretched teasing/ taunting at school.

Nearlyalmost50 · 08/05/2020 11:35

Tesni is a very pretty name, but Apricity is not. Nickname 'Ape', I don't think so!

BellaVida · 08/05/2020 11:17

I love the meaning but I also googled and the first thing that came up was a fertility clinic. To me it sounds contrived and a bit like a skincare product or something.

There are loads of lovely names meaning ‘sun’ if that’s what appeals:
Aelia/ Aeliana
Idalia
Kalinda
Oriane
Solara
Suree

AJPTaylor · 08/05/2020 11:12

Don't. I know one parent that gave their child a truly unique name. I mean a word that isn't a name, not reported in the ons survey due to uniqueness. It did not go well and name was changed after 2 years at school. Think about what your child would want rather than what you want.

WashYourFins · 08/05/2020 11:05

I just googled it and the first result was Apricity fertility clinic, so I'd assume you'd had problems conceiving and were super-grateful for their help and thus named your child after them. I would think it a bit weird to saddle the kid with the name, I mean, name them after the consultant, whatever, but a company? Nah.

peperethecat · 08/05/2020 11:04

It's the name of a fictional wanky London restaurant in one of the Cormoran Strike books, and apparently the actual name of a fertility clinic (which I just discovered when I googled to see if the restaurant actually exists).

It's a nice word but I wouldn't use it as a name. It sounds like your husband wanted Apple and you wanted Felicity so you agreed to merge the two when you were still high on gas and air.

She'll have a lifetime of spelling and explaining it to people.

LotusClover · 08/05/2020 11:03

Please just use April Felicity. Apricity can be her nickname when she's older if she chooses.

Booboostwo · 08/05/2020 10:58

I have a very difficult to pronounce and remember name for the culture I live in but at least it has the excuse that it makes some sense as a name in the culture I come from. To give a child a name that is difficult to pronounce and remember without having any connection to anything, it is literally a word picked out of a dictionary, is not a good idea.

Bunnyfuller · 08/05/2020 10:57

Are there not enough actual names?

crimsonlake · 08/05/2020 10:55

I am not understanding this constant trend to find an unusual name in the hope that no one else will share it.
I am not understanding the trend when people post asking for names of future children to go with names of existing children, what is that all about?
Do not get me atarted on posts about name regret...
Yes, it is a bonkers name, go for something traditional.

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