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Do you prefer the name Indie or Ines?

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London803 · 15/04/2021 17:52

Middle name Rose

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Fauvist · 20/04/2021 18:38

Inès is lovely especially with the accent.

Indie is a not very nice nickname. India is a bit naff.

LaLaLouella · 20/04/2021 16:55

Inès definitely

India if you must

Indie, I wouldn't

worriedatthemoment · 20/04/2021 16:51

Indie especially with rose

Blondiney · 20/04/2021 16:49

Prefer Ines by a mile! I like India too, Ms Knight has tarnished it somewhat though.

Indie just screams try-hard Instagrammer kid.

LozMarieFielder · 20/04/2021 16:45

Hmm I like both. Ines is pretty and Indie is cool. With Rose, however, Indie Rose sounds best seeing as the s in Ines would run into the s in Rose.

Overthinkingalways · 20/04/2021 16:19

Indie will date and is a bit naff. Ines isn't to my taste.

Love India however.

Whatalottachocca · 20/04/2021 13:20

Ines is lovely and sounds classy. 😉

bubblebath62636 · 20/04/2021 12:56

Indie.

Ines is the street i lived on 😂

PrudenceDictates · 20/04/2021 12:45

Sorry, prefer Ines though, and love Rose.

PrudenceDictates · 20/04/2021 12:44

Gosh, don't like either, sorry.
I knew a male Innes (Scottish) so don't think of Ines as a girl name, though I know it is. It's actually quite ugly.

Indie sounds like parents trying (and failing) to be cool. Very try hard.

Edenember · 19/04/2021 17:52

Think I’m alone here in preferring Indie, although I would use it as a shortened form of Indiana. Something about Ines sounds a tad body part / penisy to me.

partyatthepalace · 18/04/2021 16:07

Ines - lovely and underused

Think Indie is made up, not at all distinguished, and will date horribly

Crunchymum · 16/04/2021 19:17

Indie (IMO) is more of a shortening. So I'd go for India (although personally I prefer Indiana - yes for a girl) and let Indie be a nickname.

cachedelete · 16/04/2021 18:11

Ines is relatively common here as there is a large Portuguese population.

Indie is nice, but a bit trendy.

emmathedilemma · 16/04/2021 11:48

I also associate Innes / Innis as being a boy's name from being in Scotland. The only female Ines I know is Spanish and there's an accent on it somewhere.
I prefer India nn Indie.

Comefromaway · 16/04/2021 11:47

@Herewegoagainok

Ines is the name of a horrible contestant from a rubbish reality show in australia that most of uk hasn't seen! So I wouldn't let that put you off but she was referred to as anus and I think that association has put me off forever.
Whereas I immediately thought of little Ines from Hairspray.
Tinty · 16/04/2021 11:42

@London803.

Yes she has a nickname, it is Indy Grin

VenusClapTrap · 16/04/2021 11:13

Love Ines. I think it needs a longer middle name though, like Ines Josephine, or Ines Esmeralda.

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 16/04/2021 08:27

Indie. But as a nn for India.

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London803 · 16/04/2021 08:09

@Tinty does she have a nickname?

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London803 · 16/04/2021 08:08

@rentnotsub I’m glad I haven’t seen it 😂😂

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HairboStrawb · 16/04/2021 07:54

I love Indie, my friend has a 13 year old Indie and it suits her perfectly! I would consider it for future DD I might have

Lemonlemon88 · 16/04/2021 07:50

Prefer India or Indigo. Ines is nice but I think its needs a different middle name to Rose.

Cheesypea · 16/04/2021 07:46

In as left leaning as they come but I hate indie- it like your setting her up to have an alternative lifestyle,

shouldistop · 16/04/2021 07:29

I'm Scottish and know a few Innis', all boys.

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