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Middle name Beryl

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mealplan · 31/10/2023 22:18

We have just found out we are having a girl!! Due in March.

Now we have the first name sorted. I would really love to have my Grandmothers name as her middle name, however the Name is Beryl. Very old lady and not quite chic.

Any ideas I can get around this as alternative or something that makes it more current like Beryl - rose or grey. Well I dunno, I'm stuck!

Thanks for any input!!

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atthebottomofthehill · 31/10/2023 22:31

I like beryl. It's fresh, no one else is using it. Don't hyphenate it with something FGS, that makes it so cheap! Just go with Beryl or choose something totally different, something vaguely related isn't going to honour her

And it's a middle name so few people wil hear it after the first month!

CuteCillian · 31/10/2023 23:42

I think Beryl is due a resurgence.

Moveoverdarlin · 31/10/2023 23:39

Don’t use Beryl. It’s awful. I’d go with Bea or her middle name. Or something else entirely.

shoopshoopdedoo · 31/10/2023 23:36

I actually really like the name Beryl and think you should go for it! My daughter has my beloved grandma’s name as her middle name. It’s extremely uncool but it made the original so happy when we announced her name. I love it for this reason. Nobody uses middle names regularly anyway.

Iliedwheniwas17 · 31/10/2023 23:22

I don’t love beryl. I was saddled with Margaret as a middle name and always hated it until I changed it as an adult. People used to laugh at me for it.
could you go with Bea as a pp has suggested?

Jewelspun · 31/10/2023 23:13

Beryl is a lovely name.

grayhairdontcare · 31/10/2023 22:48

Just use Beryl. No one ever uses middle names so it's fine

ladygindiva · 31/10/2023 22:44

fivetriangulartrees · 31/10/2023 22:39

I'd go for Beryl, confidently. Make it clear who you're naming her after, and be proud of it.

This. As a name it's fine. Possibly a little dated; but most names given as tributes to older relatives will be dated.

fivetriangulartrees · 31/10/2023 22:39

I'd go for Beryl, confidently. Make it clear who you're naming her after, and be proud of it.

RogueFemale · 31/10/2023 22:32

Beryl is a perfectly good name. It'd sound really awful and crass if you double-barrelled it with a chav suffix.

CanIPetThatDawg · 31/10/2023 22:32

Beryl as a first name would be an actual crime.

Beryl as a middle name is quite sweet. It will be obvious it's in honour of a beloved relative. Go with Beryl rather than trying to find some other name with a tentative link.

atthebottomofthehill · 31/10/2023 22:31

I like beryl. It's fresh, no one else is using it. Don't hyphenate it with something FGS, that makes it so cheap! Just go with Beryl or choose something totally different, something vaguely related isn't going to honour her

TheOwlChronicles · 31/10/2023 22:30

There is no point trying to find an alternative if you are wanting to remember a loved family member. Bea (for example) is nothing like Beryl

So either scrap the whole idea or embrace it

theduchessofspork · 31/10/2023 22:29

Actually Beryl comes from a light green semi precious stone.. so you could go for Emerald? It’s quite the leap though..,

theduchessofspork · 31/10/2023 22:27

Lochness1975 · 31/10/2023 22:21

my great aunt Beryl used to go by the name Bea.

I think this is your only hope. Or did she have a middle name?

Mind you, it won’t sound so grannyish to her generation - I now know three little Enids not to mention a billion Ediths.

Rose and May are fillers and been done to death (I’m assuming you mean May not Grey)

Lochness1975 · 31/10/2023 22:21

my great aunt Beryl used to go by the name Bea.

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