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Briar-Rebecca as name

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Smallceramicfrog · 07/01/2025 17:11

Thoughts on the name Briar-Rebecca, I have an incredibly boring name and am surrounded by siblings with unique names they love!
I think briar is beautiful and Rebecca is nice and classic if preferred could be used.
interested in others thoughts.
thanks

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Smallceramicfrog · 07/01/2025 17:11

Thoughts on the name Briar-Rebecca, I have an incredibly boring name and am surrounded by siblings with unique names they love!
I think briar is beautiful and Rebecca is nice and classic if preferred could be used.
interested in others thoughts.
thanks

I like briar as a name, tbh I'd expect it to be a boys name but I think it is pretty gender neutral. Both names are fine as a first and middle (and I like that Rebecca gives options) but not hyphenated.

SatinHeart · 08/01/2025 13:04

Rebecca Briar (no hyphen) is nice.

Bryony Rebecca is also nice.

Agree with pp if you use Briar as a first name her classmates will call her Brian.

caramac04 · 08/01/2025 13:03

I wouldn’t hyphenate the two names.
What about Brogan?

Mirabai · 08/01/2025 13:03

Bubblebuttress · 08/01/2025 12:25

Briar = thorny bush

So is a rose.

Why do people keep saying this - they’re rambling shrubs like blackberry and sweet briar rose.

mumda · 08/01/2025 13:00

Briar is a pipe.

Don't do it to her.

SprigatitoYouAndIKnow · 08/01/2025 12:58

Both nice names individually, but too much "r" in a row to be one name.

Dreamingoftheunknown · 08/01/2025 12:51

ChateauMargaux · 08/01/2025 12:43

Used in Ireland to describe someone in a really bad mood: https://www.irishslang.info/clare/clare/briar.

Yes, I’m Irish and Briar seems a very strange choice of name to me, though I appreciate that these things are regional.
It’s even stranger when hyphenated to Rebecca.
Sorry OP, I’m not a fan, though I like Rebecca on it’s own.

MajorCarolDanvers · 08/01/2025 12:50

Rebecca is beautiful

Briar is bad. Hyphenated is dreadful.

user1492757084 · 08/01/2025 12:47

Briar Rebecca works as two names.
It is a sweet first and second name combo.
I would never use a hyphen.

SiobhanSharpe · 08/01/2025 12:39

I don't know if they 'modern' hyphenated names are looked down on exactly but i have heard them mocked here and elsewhere in a way that say, Sarah-Jane and Sally-Anne are not.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 08/01/2025 12:37

Briar will sound terrible in most accents bar home counties. It really needs all its letters.

SiobhanSharpe · 08/01/2025 12:30

Wooooah · 07/01/2025 17:47

Bryre is a nice spelling of it. I'd use Rebecca as a middle name as opposed to double-barrelled.

Sorry, but it's really not. It's weird and more complicated and liable to be mis-spelled and evn mis-pronounced. Briar has two distinct syllables, Bryre could be pronounced to rhyme with fire, lyre, mire etc.

Bubblebuttress · 08/01/2025 12:25

Briar = thorny bush

mumtoababygirl · 08/01/2025 12:23

I think it’s very pretty individually but not hyphenated

17caterpillars1mouse · 08/01/2025 12:22

I really like first name Briar, middle name Rebecca. I also think Rebecca makes a lovely, underused middle name as Rebecca is a gorgeous name but im.not keen on the nicknames.

Briar-Rebecca as a first name is too much of a mouthful though in my opinion and I think she'd probably grow to resent the hassle it causes.

Mirabai · 08/01/2025 10:19

Waterboatlass · 08/01/2025 00:37

Names like Sally- Ann, Marie- Claire and Sarah-Jane are looked down upon? By whom?

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There are very few British kids with these names now (Marie-Claire is French) and they’re classics.

It’s Lila-Blue and Ruby-Mae that people object to.

NoCarbsForMe · 08/01/2025 08:38

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 23:17

How do you get from Briar to Priya?

Ummm maybe the r the i and the a?! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Waterboatlass · 08/01/2025 00:37

Azandme · 07/01/2025 18:49

"It's not looked down on"

Sadly, it is - people are usually polite enough not to say it to you/out loud, but having worked in a wide range of sectors I can promise you many, many people are rude enough to be saying it to each other.

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Names like Sally- Ann, Marie- Claire and Sarah-Jane are looked down upon? By whom?

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 23:17

How do you get from Briar to Priya?

NoCarbsForMe · 07/01/2025 23:15

God no! Not Briar.
Priya is nicer.
Rebecca is nice too.

Scrabbelator · 07/01/2025 22:13

Briar!! Please, please, please think of the potential nicknames your daughter will be subjected to. Bramble, Thorn, Barb are the first ones that come to mind. There are many more! Please don't do it. Your child will hate you for it.

RuthW · 07/01/2025 22:06

Absolutely awful.

Call her Rebecca

Sidebeforeself · 07/01/2025 22:05

What a mouthful!

Ineffable23 · 07/01/2025 22:03

kate592 · 07/01/2025 17:31

My first thought for some reason was Brer rabbit . 😂

Briar and Rebecca don't seem to go together at all, they don't run nicely and seem like a very clunky mouthful.

Briar is pretty, ramming Rebecca randomly on the end of it for no reason is crazy.

I mean it's not a surprise! It's also what I thought of because he always ends up in the thorny briar patch somehow or another.

I think it's fair to say that being named after a thorny bush wouldn't be something that I'd be particularly pleased about.