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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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MrsMitford3 · 07/01/2025 17:24

It is very very clunky.

My vote is a big fat no.

agree with this^

Nanny0gg · 07/01/2025 18:09

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

Briar- Rose if you want double barrelled

Straight out of a fairy tale

Your choice? Sorry. No

myhundredk · 07/01/2025 18:08

I like it. Reminds me of Briar Rose which was Sleeping Beauty's name when she was being raised by the fairies 🧚‍♀️ Sweet and as you say she can pick to be known as just Briar or Rebecca if she so wishes as she grows up. I would skip the hyphen only because a hyphenated name can be a pain when filling out online forms. I'm not sure why someone above has said it's cringey to name a child after sleeping beauty- there's plenty Aurora's out there now. Plenty other princess names too- Belle, Jasmine etc so my advice would be choose a name you and your husband love OP and don't pay too much mind to the opinions of mumsnet Wink

RaininSummer · 07/01/2025 18:07

Sorry not been. Together awful. Individually Briar is a bit too much like Brian. Rebecca is harmless but kind of dull and a bit Amish like.

Sunnyflow · 07/01/2025 18:07

Briar Rebecca is much better!

AgricolaOrBed · 07/01/2025 18:07

Ridiculous.

RedToothBrush · 07/01/2025 18:06

Just have an extra middle name and drop the hyphen.

Double barrelled is a pain in the arse.

Ilovemyshed · 07/01/2025 18:04

I just spat out my tea. For the live of god don't saddle your child with that.

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.

SemperIdem · 07/01/2025 18:04

Briar on its own is fine. I know one who is around 10.

Briar-Rebecca is like having Ocean-Jennifer, River-Elizabeth. Doesn’t go.

I really dislike hyphenated names as a general rule but most at least sound right together, Sarah-Jane, Lily-May and so on.

Waterboatlass · 07/01/2025 18:01

I don't get why you'd call your child thorny?

But if you're set on that:

First and middle name, fine. Not as a convoluted double barrelled name though

. It just sounds like you've tried to think of something more original than Briar Rose and it's clunky.

Bryony or Bronwyn are nice

CaptainBeanThief · 07/01/2025 18:00

Er.... FYI to all you snobby posters I have a hyphenated name, it is not looked down on, I was born in the early 90s.
Anyway this is a ridiculous name OP, seriously? What is this craze with people trying to out do each other with the "out there" "cool mum" names 🥱

KilkennyCats · 07/01/2025 17:58

villainousbroodmare · 07/01/2025 17:24

Terrible, sorry, when hammered together like that. It's two names.
Incidentally in Ireland calling someone a briar would be akin to calling them a bitch. Thorny etc. I don't know if others would hear it in that way.

Yes, I would.

HornyHornersPinger · 07/01/2025 17:58

Gently ... No, please don't call your child this.

NewGreenDuck · 07/01/2025 17:58

Why do you want to name your child after a thorn?

YoYoFlo · 07/01/2025 17:57

Too much of a mouthful as a hyphenated name. And the Rs don't sound right as pps have said.

Both nice names on their own though!

I would pick a different middle name though eg

Briar Elizabeth
Briar Caroline
Briar Kate
Briar Penelope

thinktwice36 · 07/01/2025 17:57

Sounds very contrived.

Azandme · 07/01/2025 17:54

Patty78 · 07/01/2025 17:30

How rude. Fyi? Who even speaks like that?

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It's true though... It's just a bit naff.

Particularly if you hyphenate first names AND surnames.

OurFlagMeansAfternoonTea · 07/01/2025 17:53

Without the hyphen is ok.

There was a girl at my daughter's school with two hyphenated 4 syllable names , like Theodora-Alexandra. So cumbersome and shit for the child.

IsThePopeCatholic · 07/01/2025 17:52

Awful.

Joystir59 · 07/01/2025 17:51

Briar: if you don't expect her to go very far in life.
Briar-Rebecca: if you dislike her and don't want her to go very far in life
Rebecca: lovely name.

HotCrossBunplease · 07/01/2025 17:51

Anyone reading a handwritten Briar will read it as Brian!

You can’t have a hyphenated name where the first part ends in the same letter as the beginning of the second part. It’s physically too hard to say.

SeaDragon17 · 07/01/2025 17:50

Briar is one of the most popular spaniel names.

WhiteReindeer · 07/01/2025 17:49

I like them without the hyphen

CaptainMyCaptain · 07/01/2025 17:48

Needmorelego · 07/01/2025 17:16

As a first and middle name it's fine.
Not all as one name.

Agree.