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Thoughts on this combos?

64 replies

PoemBeatrice · 11/06/2022 10:50

we are considering these names:
August Roland Hart
Cedric Amaury Storm
Magnus Roland
Cecily Beatrice
Charlotte Idony
Juliet Melusine Flora

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LadyMonicaBaddingham · 14/06/2022 21:54

Are you planning on saying it SED-rick OR SEE-drick? That would alter my opinion... I really like the latter, but the former is, as PPs have said, a bit weedy-sounding and 'meh'

CaffiSaliMali · 14/06/2022 21:44

I love Magnus and Juliet. Magnus makes me think of Magnus Maximus/Macsen Wledig. I quite like Cecily too.

Thanks to PP who explained about Melusine - knew the name rang a bell! I quite like it and Idony.

August is fine, not to my taste but nothing wrong with it. Same with Beatrice, Flora and Charlotte.

Cecily Juliet would be a nice combination. Juliet Cecily too but I think Cecily Juliet flows better.

You might like Clarissa, Larissa, Marisa and Marissa? Ooh and Iseult, Isolde or Sabrina? (My fantasy twin girls are Alys Juliet and Mari Sabrina)

Some of the middle names you have are unusual but they won't be used much day to day unless the child wants to use them. Most of the time at school and work they'll be Juliet Surname or Magnus Surname.

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 14/06/2022 15:06

August - love
Cedric - haaaaaaate
Magnus - cool hipstery name of the moment
Cecily - a bit wet but not as awful as Cecil on a man
Charlotte - pedestrian
Juliet - lovely

Mumofgirls2017 · 14/06/2022 12:20

Magnus Roland

juliet melusine flora

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 20:54

I think "try hard" is about the laziest insult on the name board Tbf. Anything left of the top 50 is accused of being try hard, pretentious etc., as if people liking different things means they must be pretending to be someone else. But whom? If I'm trying hard to come across as someone else who'd name their kids Persephone and Amadeus then surely that suggests some people are allowed to like those names. Why not me?

Well said Smile I agree with you and don't understand why people accuse others of
´trying hard' when all they're doing is liking a name?!

DoloresMores · 12/06/2022 17:36

If you like Roland, how about Orlando (same name)?

I don't like Storm- makes me think of the Gladiators (you may be too young to remember them) and thus strikes me as a girl's name.

The rest are lovely, although nb no one really thinks about middle names for more than 5 minutes after they're chosen so focus on the first name.

SleepingStandingUp · 12/06/2022 17:30

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 16:04

They just seem over the top and try hard to me.

Try hard to what? You keep implying that someone liking these names has some ulterior motive to imitate someone or to try too hard to be someone or something they're not?!

Can you not imagine that someone simply likes the names?

I think "try hard" is about the laziest insult on the name board Tbf. Anything left of the top 50 is accused of being try hard, pretentious etc., as if people liking different things means they must be pretending to be someone else. But whom? If I'm trying hard to come across as someone else who'd name their kids Persephone and Amadeus then surely that suggests some people are allowed to like those names. Why not me?

RustyBear · 12/06/2022 17:22

For those wondering about Melusine, she was a woman in folklore, said to be half fish, or half serpent. There are lots of different versions of the tale, but a common one is that she marries a man but makes him promise not to see her bathing, and when he breaks the promise, she flies away through the window. She was said to have been the ancestor of the Luxembourg royal house, and through them of the Plantagenets.

SleepingStandingUp · 12/06/2022 17:20

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:30

@SleepingStandingUp

A huge number of regional accents produce grass and bath with a long r. Cricket is not a posh game in many places.

It wasn't meant as a definitive answer, although according to OP my opinion shows I have no class or culture (she def doesn't understand the definition of that one), no common decency and I like to roll with pigs.

YouSoundLovely · 12/06/2022 17:19

I like Cecily Beatrice and Magnus Roland.

I also like Melusine (which is a name, I have heard of it - and it's really not much flowerier than Melanie or Melissa) and Charlotte, but not in those combinations. I never understand the love for Juliet - the story is so bleakly tragic. Cedric would work in continental Europe, but not in the UK, I think. Adding Amaury and Storm makes it a hell of a burden as a name, tbh.

August, given its meaning, goes a bit far IMO (though I think Magnus OK - not sure why, I'm aware it's a bit contradictory). And you'll have a lot of people pronouncing it like the month.

SleepingStandingUp · 12/06/2022 17:16

No I meant common decency and basic respect to other people..... If you want to call rolling with pigs a culture then sure
So because I gave a half hashed idea of "posh", none of which was offensive, I have no common decency or basic respect and like to roll with pigs. Okaaaaay then

SleepingStandingUp · 12/06/2022 17:10

PoemBeatrice · 12/06/2022 09:38

so you're saying you got no class or culture?

Why would rugby and football over tennis and cricket mean no class or culture?

Private school certainly has nothing to do with class or culture either, it's money and attitude.

What an odd comment.

PoemBea · 12/06/2022 17:02

I had accidentally cleared by browsing data in weekly computer manteinance, and my login and password are deleted. It's me PoemBeatrice.

Kanaloa, you're wrong about me. I'm 27.

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 16:11

Try hard to be ‘special’ and ‘unique’ in the way teenagers do. Of course I can imagine that someone just likes them - but if you ask other people’s opinions then you presumably want to hear if others just don’t like them.

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 16:04

They just seem over the top and try hard to me.

Try hard to what? You keep implying that someone liking these names has some ulterior motive to imitate someone or to try too hard to be someone or something they're not?!

Can you not imagine that someone simply likes the names?

Hadtocomment · 12/06/2022 14:37

I like the name Cecily a lot. And Cicely.

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 14:26

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 13:19

which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names.

Why can you not just simply like the names??

Why the assumptions about trying to 'imitate' something or someone??

Personally I really like most of the op's names and I find them much more interesting and memorable than, say, Jack or Evie.

They just seem over the top and try hard to me. And actually some of them (Charlotte/Juliet etc) are not that interesting. Perfectly nice, normal names. It’s the ridiculous ‘Amaury Storm’ middle names that sound like something from a romance novel. If you like it, fine. I don’t. Presumably op did want to know people’s thoughts since she asked.

WhatIvedone · 12/06/2022 13:45

All very meh names in my opinion. Charlotte, Juliet overused and boring. Boys names aren’t nice - Cedric conjures up a weedy insipid character. Magnus reminds me of magnums. August - even if you liked it before everyone will just think you’re calling it after Eugenie’s baby. Roland the rat. Cecily not a very nice name. Reminds me of Cecil again conjures up an insipid weak man.

Second names are pretty much irrelevant in day to day life so use whatever you like but together they’re all a bit of a mouthful and don’t flow together.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:36

ERNEST sort of way, not Ernst..

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:35

August Roland Hart - much prefer Augustus but nice

Cedric Amaury Storm - I quite like Cedric, in an Ernst sort of way, Amaury fine if it’s a family name, storm a bit naff

Magnus Roland - I don’t like Magnus but it’s getting popular

Cecily Beatrice - lovely

Charlotte Idony - too many Charlottes, Idony is quite nice, due a revival

Juliet Melusine Flora - prefer Julia, or Flora as a first name, but Juliet is perfectly nice. Melusine doesn’t work well in English so unless it’s your beloved French granny I’d rethink

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:30

SleepingStandingUp · 11/06/2022 23:46

Says grass and bath with an extra r sound
Contemplating private school
Kids booked in for tennis and cricket lessons, not rugby tots and football

@SleepingStandingUp

A huge number of regional accents produce grass and bath with a long r. Cricket is not a posh game in many places.

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 13:19

which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names.

Why can you not just simply like the names??

Why the assumptions about trying to 'imitate' something or someone??

Personally I really like most of the op's names and I find them much more interesting and memorable than, say, Jack or Evie.

Sallypally0 · 12/06/2022 11:48

Melusine Flora

This sounds like a weird foodstuff.

Sallypally0 · 12/06/2022 11:46

Cedric? Oh my days..

Not in love with the name Cedric but 'oh my days'.....really?

Are you a teenager stuck in the year 2005?

Mymoneydontjigglejiggle · 12/06/2022 11:28

I like all the names. I particularly like Magnus, August and Juliet. I think the middle names work fine.