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Spaghetti0h · 2022-03-11T15:52:13+00:00

Following on from my other thread I've amended my name choices. I'd appreciate help/advice on which is nicest. Middle name would be Jean (named for my nana I can't compromise on this). I'm half Korean so have picked some Korean names too this time as well. I could add the Korean name as another middle name after my nanas though: Bae Chin-Sun Minji Moon So-Ok Sailor Ember Cherry Magnolia Bronte Sage Venus Yes I've ditched Apricot & taken on board some of the advice you ladies have given me I appreciate it x

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DockOTheBay · 13/03/2022 04:45

PPs suggestion of Azalea is the best one, that's very pretty. Cherry is also nice.

Legalconundrums · 12/03/2022 21:13

Neroli
Aubretia
Fern
Willow
Blossom
Moon-Rae
Zinnia
Billie

All go well Jean ;-)

lottiegarbanzo · 12/03/2022 18:51

Bah! Yes they would. It's attractiveness as a name pales when one has to remember its spelling as 'fuc k (h) sia'

Crunchymum · 12/03/2022 14:24

@Spaghetti0h

What are your other heritages?

JeffThePilot · 12/03/2022 14:22

@lottiegarbanzo

Tulip and Fuschia are sometimes used for people too. There are lots of flower possibilities.

The problem is people would misspell Fuchsia all the time 😬

RippleQueen · 12/03/2022 14:21

My daughter is called Cherry, age 26 and we’ve not come across anyone else her age called Cherry.

Kanaloa · 12/03/2022 14:17

You guys are so boring whilst being totally ridiculous. I worked with a Mary-Sue in the early 90s in a perfectly respectable job. I went to school with a Laurel and thought it was a lovely name. My own child has a very 'unreal name' - for a person. She is named after a place, which is very unusual (I don't know anyone else with that name globally) but she wants to be a vet and is very ambitious. I don't think her name makes any difference!

I wasn’t raising an issue with the name Mary-Sue, it’s slang for a certain type of protagonist, usually (sadly not always) written by an amateur. Sometimes called a Bella Swan.

Her name might not make a difference and I’m glad she’s so confident. For me if I had to go through school again I’d rather do it without being called a name that sounds like minge or rhymes with penis or is Cherry. Just my opinion.

And yeah, obviously Minji is absolutely fine pronounced correctly and in Busan kindergarten. In a Manchester primary school hearing the teacher call the register and say Mingey? Not so much.

Kanaloa · 12/03/2022 14:13

@fleurpots

A quick Google will tell you that these are real Korean names. Yes, maybe a few don't work in the UK for various reasons, but people needn't be so dismissive and mean about them because they have a different connotations here.

The world is bigger than the UK!

Chin Sun is a Korean name. Min-ji is but obviously doesn’t work for a quarter Korean child being raised in the uk. Bae is a Korean last name I believe, and would be two part for a first name. Same with moon, usually a last name but would be two syllable for a first name usually.

Brontë, ember, Venus, sage, cherry etc are not Korean names or words.

MerryMarigold · 12/03/2022 13:24

@Billandben444

You aren’t naming an anime protagonist or a fanfiction/young adult novel Mary-Sue or a kitten. You’re naming a lawyer/accountant/cleaner/teacher/New Look shop assistant etc etc. A real life human being who deserves the respect of having a real name. This

You guys are so boring whilst being totally ridiculous. I worked with a Mary-Sue in the early 90s in a perfectly respectable job. I went to school with a Laurel and thought it was a lovely name. My own child has a very 'unreal name' - for a person. She is named after a place, which is very unusual (I don't know anyone else with that name globally) but she wants to be a vet and is very ambitious. I don't think her name makes any difference!

fleurpots · 12/03/2022 12:01

A quick Google will tell you that these are real Korean names. Yes, maybe a few don't work in the UK for various reasons, but people needn't be so dismissive and mean about them because they have a different connotations here.

The world is bigger than the UK!

Billandben444 · 12/03/2022 11:47

You aren’t naming an anime protagonist or a fanfiction/young adult novel Mary-Sue or a kitten. You’re naming a lawyer/accountant/cleaner/teacher/New Look shop assistant etc etc. A real life human being who deserves the respect of having a real name.
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Andoffwego · 12/03/2022 08:18

I love Magnolia. Maggie for short. Really pretty.

B0J0ker · 12/03/2022 08:10

I'm loving this thread and enjoying all the suggestions (from the sublime to the ridiculous!!)

Just had a quick look on a Korean names website and there's some LOVELY girls names on it. Here's a few of my favourite OP.
Hope you also like them!

Konnie - meaning steadfast and constant in Korean. Goes well with Jean as a middle name. Could spell it with a 'C' to make things easier?

Deiji - from the Korean word for Daisy.

Nari - after the Lily flower

Please keep coming back OP

lottiegarbanzo · 12/03/2022 08:03

Magnolia is a really beautiful Asian flowering tree, grown in gardens all over the world. Unfortunately it was the name given to a paint colour that became 'universal bland'. Bit like vanilla; delicious and exotic but slang for bland.

I like Camellia as a similar alternative. Cami as a nn is really cute too. (Don't use Cami as a name by itself though, as that would like calling your child 'Vest' i.e. short for camisole).

Tulip tree too.

Maybe not Handkerchief tree.

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Spaghetti0h · 12/03/2022 07:48

@Spaghetti0h

No, I'm serious I don't know why you'd think that its actually a beautiful Korean name? I'm not using it now anyway because I see how it could mean something else over here.

That was to @timeflyin

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Spaghetti0h · 12/03/2022 07:47

No, I'm serious I don't know why you'd think that its actually a beautiful Korean name?
I'm not using it now anyway because I see how it could mean something else over here.

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Spaghetti0h · 12/03/2022 07:45

Thank you to everyone who has been lovely to me I truly appreciate you all 💝
Magnolia, I know someone who named their daughter Magnolia-Mae that's where I got it from. I guess it doesn't sound right without the second part though? I think it's pretty.
Sailor someone suggested to me on another thread, I think it sounds nice with Jean? So maybe both as a first name?
I'm going to look through all the other suggestions now thank you everyone!

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RedRobin100 · 12/03/2022 07:08

Scarlett Jean?

Suki as a suggestion is also cute. Where I am it’s an orange juice drink and also reminds me of cows… but I still think it’s cute!

Timeflyin · 12/03/2022 07:08

@TheScepticalEyebrow

Bae is a moronic overdone word said 5 years ago among the Insta-huns Minji, people will wonder WTF you mean, a cute minge? Moon = the mother is a dipshit hippy that makes life decisions according her horoscope. So-Ok. As in the opposite of not OK. There will be times when your daughter's name is written and read out by people who haven't it before and don't know how to say it. They will say it So Ok as two words. Where did Bronte come from amongst that lot? Everything's so hippy then suddenly we have Heathcliff and Cathy out of nowhere. Anyway, it's a surname. Magnolia is just about the most boring colour on earth, in every new build house everywhere for the last 30 years. Cherry - pop your cherry. A reference to virginity and sex in the UK.

Honestly, they're all mad. Just give your kid a normal name that won't cause her embarrassment or problems, for fuck sake. I say this as someone who was landed with a similarly absurd name which blighted my life and I changed the minute I turned 18.

Completely agree with this . I’m sorry but I’m not even sure if this thread and these names are for real or a piss take. I mean minji? Come on now .

lottiegarbanzo · 12/03/2022 07:05

I quite like Camelia, which sounds like a cross between Camilla and Amelia but is also a lovely flower - bit like Magnolia but works better as a name.

MrPickles73 · 12/03/2022 07:03

Magnolia is a flower /shrub and a bland cream paint colour. I would avoid.

lottiegarbanzo · 12/03/2022 07:03

Tulip and Fuschia are sometimes used for people too. There are lots of flower possibilities.

miamiibiza · 12/03/2022 06:59

I like Sailor Jean

lottiegarbanzo · 12/03/2022 06:56

How about Zora?

Im2022 · 12/03/2022 06:42

I like Moon.. there’s a hippy Moon in Cobra Kai.

What about Billie?