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DaisyChain505 · 21/02/2025 00:11

Never heard of it before in my life and i thought it was spoken literally as it’s written and it sounds like the name of some industrial cleaning product.

using it will just burden your child or a life of teasing and being called all sorts by everyone they come across.

Allihavetodoisdream · 20/02/2025 23:30

For me it would be about burdening my child with the vibes of such a name. I am probably a bit superstitious, but just as I wouldn’t call my daughter Ophelia or Desdemona, I wouldn’t go for it because for me it is a name associated with tragedy.

RubyFlewToo · 20/02/2025 23:23

TheWildZebra · 20/02/2025 21:20

It’s a nice name when you say it out loud, but read on a page it seems like the sister of Gaviscon (read it as anti gone)

I thought the same. I knew how to pronounce it, written down it has connotations of anti-septic and anti-bacterial… not the kindest of names to choose.

Notgivenuphope · 20/02/2025 23:19

SorrowsPrayers · 20/02/2025 20:11

Gorgeous! I also like Persephone, Calliope, Cassiopeia and Hermione.

Me too
what a shame absolutely all of those end in some ridiculous ‘ie’ nickname

Moreteaandchocolate · 20/02/2025 23:16

Antigone is pretty but I wouldn’t like to be called it personally - I introduce myself to multiple people per day at work and I could see people round here saying “Anti what?!” and me having to explain my name loads of times a day. But Tiggy sounds a bit informal and like a cat’s name to me for a formal, work situation.

CrystalSingerFan · 20/02/2025 23:16

clary · 20/02/2025 23:07

I can beat that @CrystalSingerFan – aged 16 I recited a speech from Antigone (where she says she refuses to obey the city's laws, and instead will follow the moral laws of the gods) in Greek at a classical speaking competition my school sent a team to each year. I reckon that’s middle class to the nth degree.

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Fantastic! 😍

You win the internet today. And possibly the 'insufferably middle class' prize. (Unless you iz akshally Greek, obvs.) Or we're heading into 'upper class' territory. Or someone comes on from Oxbridge where they occasionally stage classical drama in Greek/Latin, and they've done the whole damn thing.

C'mon Mumsnetters...

clary · 20/02/2025 23:07

CrystalSingerFan · 20/02/2025 23:01

Ooh, cool! Didn't know about that. Merci.

In my wretched girls' school, me and my mates only managed to perform an English translation of Sophocles' Antigone in our sixth form drama festival. Am I now, retrospectively, officially insufferably middle class? My parents would have been so proud.

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I can beat that @CrystalSingerFan – aged 16 I recited a speech from Antigone (where she says she refuses to obey the city's laws, and instead will follow the moral laws of the gods) in Greek at a classical speaking competition my school sent a team to each year. I reckon that’s middle class to the nth degree.

user1492757084 · 20/02/2025 23:01

Antigone is very sweet.
I like the nick names of Annie, Ann and Tiggy.

CrystalSingerFan · 20/02/2025 23:01

BotterMon · 20/02/2025 21:14

It's a beautiful name. Brings back A level French learning the play by Jean Anouilh

Ooh, cool! Didn't know about that. Merci.

In my wretched girls' school, me and my mates only managed to perform an English translation of Sophocles' Antigone in our sixth form drama festival. Am I now, retrospectively, officially insufferably middle class? My parents would have been so proud.

Borborygmus · 20/02/2025 22:59

bellocchild · 20/02/2025 20:32

Even worse, the nickname might be Gonny...

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Probably best to avoid Ria as a middle name then.

LionalRichTea · 20/02/2025 22:56

Toastwithtea · 20/02/2025 19:36

For a half Greek, half English baby girl? Living in the UK, outer London, if relevant!

I absolutely LOVE Antigone as a name and generally love lots of classical ancient Greek names, (although I watched the Play by Sophocles while at Sixth form, which was a bit heavy)! I still love it

Heidi2018 · 20/02/2025 22:48

CarpetKnees · 20/02/2025 22:22

There are a multitude of occasions when the first time someone meets you, they are reading your name.
It's not rude to not know how to pronounce a name you've never come across before. If you are the person calling the next patient into the consulting room, you won't have had the chance to learn it. You call the name, and the person gets up and goes into the room.

Like many others on this thread, I read it as 'Anti - gone'.

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I don't think it's rude to not be able initially pronounce a name but a lot of people on this site seem to not want to learn how to pronounce names properly unless they are perfectly English! 🙄

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Toastwithtea · 20/02/2025 22:28

I really don’t think it is “insufferably middle class” if the child’s parent is Greek though..?

And it would feel much more unusual to be shouting “Charlotte” or something across a playground!

ETA. I do take on board the pronunciation feedback though! I hadn’t realised it might be as widely misread, so that’s useful to know.

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Dutchhouse14 · 20/02/2025 22:28

Clearly I'm rather thick and uneducated but I didn't even regonise it as a name and read it as anti-gone.
Which isn't a pretty name at all😂
An-ti-guh-nee sounds much prettier but wouldnt count in everyone knowing how to pronounce it or spell it so
I think it may be hard work.
Also not sure naming a baby after a character in a play who is sentenced to death by being sealed in a cave and then hangs herself is the best origin/meaning of a name!
But I have learnt something today 😊

showmethegin · 20/02/2025 22:23

I love it but I have deep fondness for Greece and a lot of Greek names. My favourite is Efthalia but DH vetoed it (and we had a boy anyway!)

CarpetKnees · 20/02/2025 22:22

Heidi2018 · 20/02/2025 21:05

To be fair I think hearing a name is a lot easier than trying to read it phonetically.

The majority of people are introduced orally, not by someone reading their name.

I think people saying "people won't be able to pronounce to or spell it" are rude. Ask and learn!

There are a multitude of occasions when the first time someone meets you, they are reading your name.
It's not rude to not know how to pronounce a name you've never come across before. If you are the person calling the next patient into the consulting room, you won't have had the chance to learn it. You call the name, and the person gets up and goes into the room.

Like many others on this thread, I read it as 'Anti - gone'.

dancinginthekitchen · 20/02/2025 22:11

I used to work with a Greek lady called Antigone - she went by Andi as a nickname.

Heidi2018 · 20/02/2025 22:10

Insufferably middle class.

Sometimes I really hate this site 😅

Titasaducksarse · 20/02/2025 22:08

Antigohknee

paranoiaofpufflings · 20/02/2025 22:08

Although as a whole it's a nice enough name, and I know how to pronounce it, when I read it my eyes are drawn to see the "anti", which is negative. This puts me off.
I also couldn't imagine calling it out across a playground.

HeddaGarbled · 20/02/2025 22:08

Love it. The adult Antigone I know uses Ann at work.

pambeesleyhalpert · 20/02/2025 22:05

I love this name so much! I used to have a patient called Anouk and thought that was beautiful as well

LittleGreenDuck · 20/02/2025 22:04

I think it's beautiful, go for it.

Though I am now reminded of Woolly and Tig, which my eldest watched on repeat as a toddler.

ODFOx · 20/02/2025 22:02

If we English can cope with Hermione and Penelope we can certainly cope with Antigone. People will only need to hear the pronunciation once to get it right.
It's lovely.

Sherararara · 20/02/2025 21:57

ScreamingBeans · 20/02/2025 21:53

Insufferably middle class.

And it would be shortened to Anti.

Or Gonnie.

Just no.

Sorry.

This.