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audrey

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helpasisout · 25/06/2020 21:28

could I ask your thoughts on Audrey please?

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ThreeCubesBalancing · 26/06/2020 14:26

Lovely name. I met a lady 12 years ago with a baby called Audrey and thought it was a fantastic name, very chic.

Zhampagne · 26/06/2020 14:23

I was talked out of using Audrey for DD1 with the Audrey Roberts connection. I love the name that we chose instead but it was a ridiculous reason to give up a name that I loved. I'm sure there are lots of people who still watch Corrie but I don't know a single one of them.

DOINGOURBIT · 26/06/2020 14:18

@LizzyAnna99

I love it. I look after an older lady called Audrey and she is just fantastic, so the name always makes me smile
I know an older lady called Audrey who I would also describe as fantastic. Does your one live in Surrey.

Charismatic, elegant, fun - the name will always resonate with that.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 26/06/2020 14:12

Ah fair cop, I didn't.

Still, Audrey = Hepburn.

gotothecooler · 26/06/2020 14:11

I just had to Google Audrey Roberts. A Corrie character who last appeared in 1982?! Not sure that's a good reason to avoid the name

Google again. You didn't read the wiki article far enough

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MikeUniformMike · 26/06/2020 14:10

@SamuelVimesBlackboardMonitor, you didn't look at the link that Google gave you

Audrey Roberts

Audrey Roberts (also Potter) is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, played by Sue Nicholls. Audrey made her first appearance on 16 April 1979 and appeared on a recurring basis for three years until April 1982. She returned over two years later in July 1984, before becoming a full-time regular character from 1985.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 26/06/2020 14:06

I just had to Google Audrey Roberts. A Corrie character who last appeared in 1982?! Not sure that's a good reason to avoid the name Confused.

IsFuzzyBeagMise · 26/06/2020 13:44

It's my name. I've always liked it :)

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 26/06/2020 13:39

I love it. Classy, relatively unusual, but still easy to pronounce and spell. Fits the current trend for more old fashioned names without going all out with a Mildred or an Ethel Grin.

It's dd2's middle name, after her great grandmother on dh's side. So I might be a bit biased 😉.

Krazynights34 · 26/06/2020 13:33

Sorry for causing any confusion!!!

TinyAtom · 26/06/2020 12:36

No, its hideous. Audrey Roberts

RuthW · 26/06/2020 12:16

Ok for a girl. I dislike it for a boy.

MikeUniformMike · 26/06/2020 11:30

Don't like it. Makes me think of Audrey Roberts.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 26/06/2020 11:28

I love how polite everyone is being about the idea of naming a boy Audrey. @Krazynights34 has clarified that she meant her DSis, not her DS!

BrokenBrit · 26/06/2020 11:26

I like it for a DD. It does make me think of Audrey Hepburn. I think it’s a bit feminine for a DS, wouldn’t be my choice.

Cbeebiesrehab · 26/06/2020 10:49

It’s my DD middle name and I often wish it was her first name-she’s definitely cool enough to pull off Audrey! Go for it OP

gotothecooler · 26/06/2020 09:29

My error.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 26/06/2020 08:45

@gotothecooler

The usual pronunciation in most parts of the uk is more like aw-dree.

Yeah; to me that is Odrey?

Do you mean Oh-drey is how they are saying it?

Do you have a Yorkshire or similar accent?

‘Odrey’ implies a short ‘o’, like in ‘box’.
The sound at the beginning of ‘aw-dree’ rhymes with the sound in ‘paw’.

gotothecooler · 26/06/2020 08:41

The usual pronunciation in most parts of the uk is more like aw-dree.

Yeah; to me that is Odrey?

Do you mean Oh-drey is how they are saying it?

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 26/06/2020 08:34

[quote gotothecooler]@Zoflorabore

How would you say Audrey if not Odrey? That's literally how the name is pronounced, I have never heard it any other way[/quote]
The usual pronunciation in most parts of the uk is more like aw-dree.

BeMorePacific · 26/06/2020 08:20

There is an Audrey at my sons nursery. I always think it seems like a grown up name for a little girl. I’m not a huge fan of it. But I don’t hate it! x

gotothecooler · 26/06/2020 08:18

@Zoflorabore

How would you say Audrey if not Odrey? That's literally how the name is pronounced, I have never heard it any other way

LizzyAnna99 · 26/06/2020 04:38

I love it. I look after an older lady called Audrey and she is just fantastic, so the name always makes me smile

Zoflorabore · 26/06/2020 01:50

My 9yr old dd watches a lot of American stuff on YouTube and kept mentioning the name “Odrey” wrote it like that so you can see how she was saying it.

When she showed me I was surprised to see that many Americans pronounce Audrey like the example above and I really like it. Dd called one of her new dolls “Odrey”

I’m not sure on the proper way of saying it though, think it seems a bit old fashioned.

SisterAgatha · 26/06/2020 01:49

Not many children will know the film so maybe she will escape teasing etc but if you didn’t know, it’s the main characters name from Little Shop of Horrors. The girl and the killer plant are both called Audrey.

There’s quite a few lines and songs about the name that aren’t that great.

“Audrey 2 isn’t a healthy girl”
“Between me and you neither is Audrey 1”

Sung in suggestive way “How bout that Audrey?”

Audrey herself sings “I’d meet a man and I’d follow him blindly, he’d snap his figures and I’d say sure”

If you know that already and are cool with it, it’s obviously your choice and the name itself is nice, but it’s just the things that could get said and sung to her for the rest of her life.

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