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Clemency, yes, no, maybe?

82 replies

RoseApp · 31/10/2024 19:47

I really like Clemency. I feel it is a positive , happy name and a feisty one. I really like Clemmie as a nickname but when I mentioned it to a friend she was really down on it.

i had a French friend at uni who was called Clémence which I thought at the time sounded so sophisticated but again very negative reaction from family

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SweetBaklava · 01/11/2024 05:03

I love it! Kate Silverton (former newsreader turned child therapist) has a daughter called Clemency.

PurebredRacingUnicorn · 01/11/2024 04:32

It's a bit like calling your daughter Prudence or Charity; there is plenty of precedent for doing so, but she probably won't thank you for it.

Anonycat · 01/11/2024 04:02

Ditto

HoppityBun · 01/11/2024 04:01

Love51 · 31/10/2024 22:02

My first thought was "ask for Clemency" but tbh primary school kids won't have that association. It seems a little old fashioned like Prudence / Verity. I've met Mercy / Blessing /Charity /Precious in recent years (adults in their 30s) so clearly the virtue names are still here!

I do wonder if parents give thought to what these names mean. What is “feisty” about clemency?

GoldenLegend · 01/11/2024 03:43

I like Clemence but not Clemency for the same reason everyone else gives.

Love51 · 31/10/2024 22:02

My first thought was "ask for Clemency" but tbh primary school kids won't have that association. It seems a little old fashioned like Prudence / Verity. I've met Mercy / Blessing /Charity /Precious in recent years (adults in their 30s) so clearly the virtue names are still here!

Northernalignment · 31/10/2024 22:00

I think it’s lovely. I’ve never been hugely keen on clementine although I know it is much loved on here but I just think of small oranges. Clemency is so much nicer.

BasiliskStare · 31/10/2024 21:58

Ds has 4 friends "Clemmie /Clemmy " either Clemency or Clementine. I don't think it's a name to be "down on" . I think Clemmy / Clemmie is rather pretty.

twentysevendresses · 31/10/2024 21:57

Hard no from me 😱

Evenstar · 31/10/2024 21:50

It’s a beautiful name, though I also knew a lovely little girl called Clementine nn Clemmy.

NeckolasCage · 31/10/2024 21:23

DrizzleMySwizzle · 31/10/2024 21:11

I'm not a big fan of virtue names. Find them a bit wet.

I picture Clemency as the morally upright heroine of some very chaste Victorian novel for young ladies. 'Clemency - Faithful and True'.

She probably dies of TB. In a ladylike fashion.

Miss Clemency Millington and her spinster chaperone, Great Aunt Euphemia.

TribulationPeriwinkle · 31/10/2024 21:20

I love it.

Nannyfannybanny · 31/10/2024 21:14

No, and Clementine is an orange.

FennelFan · 31/10/2024 21:12

Too death-row-y for me

DrizzleMySwizzle · 31/10/2024 21:11

I'm not a big fan of virtue names. Find them a bit wet.

I picture Clemency as the morally upright heroine of some very chaste Victorian novel for young ladies. 'Clemency - Faithful and True'.

She probably dies of TB. In a ladylike fashion.

NeckolasCage · 31/10/2024 21:05

Bideshi · 31/10/2024 20:53

Love it. Nice virtue name like Verity.

Verity is lovely

NeckolasCage · 31/10/2024 21:04

No seriously… it’s not great. It isn’t actually a very nice sound, it’s a bit hard to say, will sound terrible in some accents, Clemmie just sounds like clammy or phlegm- don’t do it.

NeckolasCage · 31/10/2024 21:03

I prefer BustedFromJail or IDoneMyTimeGuv

Bideshi · 31/10/2024 20:53

Love it. Nice virtue name like Verity.

Moreteaandchocolate · 31/10/2024 20:53

I’m not the biggest fan of any of the Clem names as I’m not too keen on Clemmie, but that’s just my personal preference- and if anything I think I prefer Clemency to Clementine.

LlynTegid · 31/10/2024 20:46

No.

bitsalty · 31/10/2024 20:46

PumpkinSpicedLatte · 31/10/2024 19:50

Clémence Or Clementine is lovely . Clemency reminds me of the term of like getting off jail time

This! I really like Clementine especially.

seven201 · 31/10/2024 20:43

I know a Clement and he gets shortened to Clem or Clemmie, although I guess he'll grown out of that one as he gets older. I like it.

HumphreyCobblers · 31/10/2024 20:40

I too thought of Susan Hill's third daughter. I love this name. It is nicer than Clementine IMO.

It is a perfectly normal name also!

DearGoldBee · 31/10/2024 20:40

Awful. Sorry OP

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