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Renley / Renly for a girl?

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Otto223 · 03/11/2024 12:22

I haven’t heard this name often. What do you think?

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Moreteaandchocolate · 03/11/2024 13:43

Renley and Wrenley are used much more
In America than here, but the fact they are used somewhere means they are names. All names started somewhere and what we consider to be a name evolves over time.

Jessie1259 · 03/11/2024 13:39

Awful. Only in America surely?

MrsMitford3 · 03/11/2024 13:39

I thought it was a typo for Henley. (don't use that either)

It's absolutely awful.

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Otto223 · 03/11/2024 13:37

peacejoypancakes · 03/11/2024 13:30

You do know that those baby name sites just make up fake meanings? TBH I suspect some of them are done by AI nowadays. Lea means meadow, no idea what they think the ren part means.

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true AI is everywhere now. That just came up on my first google search so I copied and paste. Also, if you put the name into Facebook plenty of people called Renley or Renly so I didn’t just make up the name. Thanks people!

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Raininginparadise2 · 03/11/2024 13:37

No. Sounds made up.

BookishType · 03/11/2024 13:36

😂😂😂 No

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:33

peacejoypancakes · 03/11/2024 13:30

You do know that those baby name sites just make up fake meanings? TBH I suspect some of them are done by AI nowadays. Lea means meadow, no idea what they think the ren part means.

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Exactly. First google search for me says...

The name Renley is a gender-neutral name of uncertain origin and meaning, but it is likely a combination of Old English words:
Rinc: Means "warrior" or "man"
Rim: Means "edge"
Wraenna: Means "wren"
Leah: Means "field" or "clearing"

Nothing about it being a meadow, just a suggestion that's it's pretty much a newly made up name!

Definitely seems more like a boy's name to me!

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Otto223 · 03/11/2024 13:32

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:29

So? Doesn't change the fact it sounds like the name of a town.

Most posters are saying 'don't do it!'

Why ask on here if you only wanted opinions that agree with you?

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I don’t only want comments that agree with me.. that’s why I wrote on here to get opinions.. I put a laughing emoji as I thought some of the comments were funny. I didn’t say I’m pissed off with the comments 😅

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peacejoypancakes · 03/11/2024 13:30

Otto223 · 03/11/2024 13:26

Omg these comments 😂

The name Renley is a girl's name meaning "clearing, meadow".

if you do a quick google search you can see that it clearly is a name!

You do know that those baby name sites just make up fake meanings? TBH I suspect some of them are done by AI nowadays. Lea means meadow, no idea what they think the ren part means.

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:29

Otto223 · 03/11/2024 13:26

Omg these comments 😂

The name Renley is a girl's name meaning "clearing, meadow".

if you do a quick google search you can see that it clearly is a name!

So? Doesn't change the fact it sounds like the name of a town.

Most posters are saying 'don't do it!'

Why ask on here if you only wanted opinions that agree with you?

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Otto223 · 03/11/2024 13:26

Omg these comments 😂

The name Renley is a girl's name meaning "clearing, meadow".

if you do a quick google search you can see that it clearly is a name!

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Waterboatlass · 03/11/2024 13:25

Also rennet comes quite quickly to my mind.

Ren and stimpy too, which is a brilliant association but not for a person's name

RachelNoire · 03/11/2024 13:20

Otto223 · 03/11/2024 12:22

I haven’t heard this name often. What do you think?

There’s a damn good reason you’ve not heard it often.

ThewaytoAmarula · 03/11/2024 13:20

Sounds a bit like a cleaning or pest-control company

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 03/11/2024 13:19

I actually like it but yeah, it’s a GoT boy’s name.

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:17

Harvestfestivalknickers · 03/11/2024 12:26

Is it a name? Sounds like a small town.

This. ^ Sounds dreadful @Otto223 FGS don't lumber a child with a ridiculous name like Renley!

Why does no-one ever come on here to ask 'is it OK to call my child Elizabeth or Emma or Sophie???' Why do people always put outlandish, ridiculous suggestions? Confused

'Would I be unreasonable to call my baby Lonnadetania, or Crumblemunchford, or Miltonkeynes?'

Never EVER is it a normal name. 😆

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:17

LynetteScavo · 03/11/2024 13:02

I've known it spelled Wrenleigh, and it's quite American. Never met any UK children with any variation of the name.

Still sounds like a town name!

SabreIsMyFave · 03/11/2024 13:17

LynetteScavo · 03/11/2024 13:02

I've known it spelled Wrenleigh, and it's quite American. Never met any UK children with any variation of the name.

Still sounds like a town name!

LynetteScavo · 03/11/2024 13:02

I've known it spelled Wrenleigh, and it's quite American. Never met any UK children with any variation of the name.

NeckolasCage · 03/11/2024 13:00

Oh please!

It isn’t a name, it’s a fairly depressing made up word used as a name. For a man. In a book.

It is objectively horrible which also doesn’t help. Honestly, would you want to be called Renly?

Just call her Sophie and stop with the thinking, you are very bad at it.

HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 03/11/2024 12:59

Baratheon?

MissHavershamReturns · 03/11/2024 12:57

No!

HazelSquid · 03/11/2024 12:57

Sounds alright to me but I’d spell it with a W so she can be Wren if she wants to be.

embolass · 03/11/2024 12:56

Made up daft name is my immediate thought-sorry. Just pick something normal, think of the child

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 03/11/2024 12:55

I like it.

Better than another Amelia-Mae.

Renley was a GoT character. Nice bloke. No reason why it shouldn’t be a girls’ name.

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