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A name you like but you feel is unusable

171 replies

LisaJohnsonsFacebookMole · 13/12/2024 22:55

Stressing the you and the subjectivity.

I quite like Nessie but it's unusable anywhere that speaks English. Possibly even beyond 😂

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DreamingDaisies · 14/12/2024 17:00

Emmanuelle, so so pretty

She's fast. She's quick. She's in a porno flick.

Mugcake · 14/12/2024 16:56

Tatiana (tatty)

Pinkyhere · 14/12/2024 16:55

Isis
Gorgeous name (imo) totally unusable

Marcipex · 14/12/2024 16:50

Isis
I know one who always goes by a nickname.

Madeleine, lovely name and perhaps in another twenty or thirty years…

featheryfancy · 14/12/2024 16:41

Delilah. Beautiful name, would be my first pick for a girl but we live near Stoke on Trent.

PinkoPonko · 14/12/2024 16:41

Ohnonotmeagain · 14/12/2024 16:06

If the film didn’t exist would you really have considered calling your child Prometheus?

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Well, it was in the top three. I also seriously considered Beowulf and Aurelius, so I’m obviously beyond the pale for mumsnet! 😂 It would have been fine, though. I don’t live in the UK and there are very diverse and rare names around here.

TrippTover · 14/12/2024 16:31

Mallory (bad meaning)
Israel (er, obviously!)
Omari (purely because doesn’t suit our heritage at all so might be rather odd! Love it so much though).

petitdonkey · 14/12/2024 16:28

I really wanted to call DD Serena but feared she’d be anything but serene!!
(she’s not particularly, wonder if she would’ve been had I named her that!!)

Jellycoconut · 14/12/2024 16:16

Alexa

Emonade · 14/12/2024 16:12

I have a Fox, not an aged hippy or pretentious just loved the name and stuck with it even though family were anti it

Ohnonotmeagain · 14/12/2024 16:06

PinkoPonko · 14/12/2024 15:39

Prometheus, because of the Ridley Scott film.

If the film didn’t exist would you really have considered calling your child Prometheus?

RanchRat · 14/12/2024 15:57

Balonze

PinkoPonko · 14/12/2024 15:39

Prometheus, because of the Ridley Scott film.

Washingupdone · 14/12/2024 15:37

Messie Nessie children at school could be chanting.

RacingThoughts111 · 14/12/2024 15:37

ShaggyPutItOnWhatAPongItGaveHimTheShakesNShivers · 14/12/2024 13:20

What's wrong with it? I know it's a bit on the posh side, and should technically only be used if she has seven older siblings; but it's a nice name.

Is it because of the car?!

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Theres nothing wrong with it, I love it! I know nothing about cars I didnt know it was a car type 😅

It's too "out there" and wouldnt match my childrens names, they have quite plain names

Justleaveitblankthen · 14/12/2024 15:33

Hermione.
Alexa.
I just imagine the poor child getting sick to the back teeth of the same remarks day in day out.

FayCarew · 14/12/2024 15:22

It sounds lovely with an English accent It doesn't in many English accents. @BibbityBobbityToo

RosesAndHellebores · 14/12/2024 15:12

Candida
Fleur
Virginia
Fanny (many in France)
Humphrey
Percival
Lancelot
Horatio

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 14/12/2024 15:11

Agnes, but pronounced the French way 'ann-yez' is as near as I can come to rendering it. My middle daughter was very very nearly Agnes, but a midwife said 'ooh, Agnes (pronounced the very very English way), lovely', and it changed my mind (this was 32 years ago, before Agnes had its resurgence in popularity. It was still a 'granny' name back then and I couldn't do it).

Now live in Yorkshire, where any name ending in 'y' is pronounced 'eh'. So I had to avoid Emil-eh or Soph-eh as well, which I liked.

TheCalmQuail · 14/12/2024 15:05

DHs favourite name is Eric. I said no immediately, I think of hairy oafish Cantona and couldn't imagine a baby Eric - but it actually has grown on me

Mine is Bruno, love it. Annoyingly everyone always parrots "that's a dog's name" and yet when I ask them how many dogs they've met named Bruno... ZERO. It really winds me up when people regurgitate opinions they've heard without applying actual logic, and it's the sole reason I can't use that name.

Enko · 14/12/2024 15:05

For boys names I love Basil, Cecil and Cedric but dh was on noway.

Enko · 14/12/2024 15:02

Allanah. I love the name but was dhs x and they ended very badly.

Flora both dh and I love it but surname means it's a no go.

TribeofFfive · 14/12/2024 14:54

Delphiniumandlupins · 14/12/2024 02:03

Any names which are also possible characteristics. Grace, Patience, Belle, Honour, Joy (all girl's names I realise) just seem to be tempting fate

Yes to this! I work in a high school in an extremely deprived area. The few Graces we have in school really don’t live up to their names.

TribeofFfive · 14/12/2024 14:51

TrainsCarsBoat · 13/12/2024 23:19

Verity or Clemency. Love both but we're not posh enough!

Verity isn’t posh! I put Verity with Donna, Sharon etc
I wouldn’t use it for a baby but not because it’s posh.

inthemudwithyou · 14/12/2024 14:45

I came on here to say Ira.

First heard it on This American Life podcast. Ira Glass. Pronounced Eye-ra.

And my husband is Irish.