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Briar-Rebecca as name

217 replies

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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Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/01/2025 18:35

What about spelling it Bryher, like the Scilly Isles? I actually know a lad called Bryher, I think it's a great name. But not with the prosthetic Rebecca tacked on.

LostittoBostik · 07/01/2025 18:31

Briar is lovely. But it's a stand alone name. You can't start double barrelling it.

BebbanburgIsMine · 07/01/2025 18:30

Both are beautiful names, I have a Rebecca, but the two names don't go together.

Briar Rose is beautiful too.

Mirabai · 07/01/2025 18:30

Briar is lovely. Briar-Rebecca is really odd. And 5 syllables. Why not Briar with Rebecca as a middle name.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/01/2025 18:29

Although they’re hated on here hyphenated names are fine providing they fit well together.
Briar-Rebecca are 2 of the most unmatched names out there.
They don’t roll off the tongue by any stretch of the imagination. There’s too may B sounds and they both end in an A sound which makes it very harsh.

Mercurysinretrograde · 07/01/2025 18:25

Rebecca is a splendid name.

Briar sounds like the intern who drinks too much vodka at the work Christmas party and throws up in the stationery cupboard.

TubeScreamer · 07/01/2025 18:25

Just awful.

Rebecca on its own is lovely.

OneBadKitty · 07/01/2025 18:23

What about Breeya? I wouldn't hyphenate but Rebecca is ok as a middle name. However, there are nicer middle names to go with an unusual first name.

IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine · 07/01/2025 18:23

The double "r" sound in the middle is hard to say. It's also a very long name- 5 syllables. I wouldn't do it if I were you.

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 18:21

have a hyphenated name, it is not looked down on,I t is, @CaptainBeanThief , and you are looking down on name snobs.

Bryre is a nice spelling of it. @Wooooah , it's hideous.

user23124 · 07/01/2025 18:18

I am so sorry, commented without reading the FT and did not realise Brer Rabbit was "Cancel the cheque"

HugoYorway · 07/01/2025 18:17

Sounds like Briory Becker.

user2848502016 · 07/01/2025 18:17

Rebecca is lovely that's what I wanted to call my DD but it didn't work with our surname.

Briar is awful sorry

Both together hyphenated is even worse!

Bournetilly · 07/01/2025 18:16

That’s absolutely awful, double barrel names are awful too. Briar is ok, Rebecca is awful nowadays sorry.

user23124 · 07/01/2025 18:16

Makes me think of Brer Rabbit 😂

Bessienol · 07/01/2025 18:15

RunSlowTalkFast · 07/01/2025 17:19

Just fyi hyphenated names are generally looked down on.

MN at its finest 😅

BigMingeEnergy · 07/01/2025 18:15

Awful

MolkosTeenageAngst · 07/01/2025 18:14

Makes me think of Brer Rabbit. I would have assumed Briar was a boys name so find it odd to have it hyphenated with Rebecca.

CheeseTime · 07/01/2025 18:14

Dreadful.

dapsnotplimsolls · 07/01/2025 18:14

How about hedge? Bush? Shrub?

WildCherryBlossom · 07/01/2025 18:13

The individual names are good but the adjoining R's don't flow well. Bryony Rebecca flows better. Or Rebecca Briar (although Briar could be taken for a surname that way round).

I think Briar Rose was Sleeping Beauty's pseudonym when she was hiding in the forest. The two R/s still blur together but it's easier to manage with Rose being so short. I always think it's a thorny sounding name though. Isn't Briar another word for bramble?

Marmunia10667 · 07/01/2025 18:13

Reminds me of Br'er Rabbit.

Toddlerteaplease · 07/01/2025 18:11

Doesn't flow well. And too much of a mouthful.

Dotto · 07/01/2025 18:10

Nope. Will get called Brian or Becky.

Swallowdoubleandrunamile · 07/01/2025 18:10

LaDeeDaDeeDa · 07/01/2025 18:04

Bloody awful.

Although I suppose if she decides later on in life that she wants to be a boy it will be an easy transition to being called Brian.

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