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Original poster

I like the name Honey but not sure whether it's a bit brave?

108 replies

xxhunnyxx · 04/01/2009 23:08

Any thoughts?
My mum actually suggested it and I do think it's a really pretty name and like my mum said, how could your little girl not be a little cutie with a name like Honey?
But I'm quite boring and not sure if it's a bit unusual, I've never heard of anyone else called Honey, apart from the girl in the film!

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TsarChasm · 10/01/2009 14:24

'Hun' for short though. Tres Mumsnet.

belcantwait · 10/01/2009 14:23

sounds like a porn name.
oh and i went to school with a girl called honey. she was wet and pathetic and annoying so that puts me off as well. sorry i think its dreadful

chatname · 10/01/2009 14:18

The name Melissa means "honey bee"! Melisande is a related French girl's name.

mrsfossil · 06/01/2009 14:48

I find it hard to see it as a name i always think of bees when i hear it

Sorry pretty name maybe for little baby but not a grown women. Imagine if she wants to be a barrister or brain surgeon, Honey wouldn't really go.

NotanOtter · 05/01/2009 23:45

agree Minky deffo not a trixibelle

MinkyBorage · 05/01/2009 23:38

That's a consideration, we know an 'Angel', and I have never seen a less appropriately named child! Actually, poor old fifi-trixibelle is a good contender now I come to think about it!

NotanOtter · 05/01/2009 23:29

what if she is a munt?

MinkyBorage · 05/01/2009 23:27

deffo porn name

andaSOLOnewyear · 05/01/2009 23:21

LilRed, I remember Blackadder, why did you ask? I didn'tr see all of them though...was there a Honey in it?

LiffeyAnnaLivia · 05/01/2009 16:07

Honor with nn HOney is a good idea, if you must but Honor is nicer.

stillstanding · 05/01/2009 16:04

I think it's very sweet but brave indeed. And, seriously, what kind of job can Honey hold down?

joyfuleyes · 05/01/2009 16:02

It's dreadful - a porn name. Please don't, she won't be a little girl forever.

gauly · 05/01/2009 15:46

Isn't there a Bond girl called Honey?? My first thought anyway. Maybe it could be used as short for something - Honor?? I can't think of anything really nice beginning with "Hon".

LaDiDaDi · 05/01/2009 15:39

There was a Honey a year or two above me at medical school. Rich, posh, nice, big boobs. "Honey's cups runneth over" was the boys tag line for her. I think she's a cardiologist now.

ForeverOptimistic · 05/01/2009 15:34

I don't like it. There was a little girl in ds's nursery called Honey and I cringed every time I heard it is daft it should be a pet name or a middle name but it isn't fair on the child to use something so sickly for their first name.

mummyofboys · 05/01/2009 15:31

I knew a labrador called Honey (also sounds like something you'd read on one of those postcards in a phone box) SORRY.....

RachieB · 05/01/2009 13:28

if you must use it have it as a middle name!

very chav and porn star stylee to me!

Helsbels4 · 05/01/2009 10:07

I think it's lovely and if you like it, go for it! I heard a little girl being called Honey the other day and thought how sweet it was but there again, I like wackier names. Better than being called what everyone else is at school.

BonsoirAnna · 05/01/2009 10:01

Not as a first name. As a second name or a nickname, perhaps.

Thunderduck · 05/01/2009 09:59

I love the name.

LiffeyAnnaLivia · 05/01/2009 09:27

lol at pole dancing labrador!!

You have to give your child a name which will suit her if heaven forbid she is a little overweight and not immediately attractive and/or has her head stuck in a book 24/7 and never wanted a cute name to start with.

LiffeyAnnaLivia · 05/01/2009 09:22

Plenty of people do Not automatically make the connection but to me it is and will always be a name that has become 'sexualised'.

It's cute, but not good enough for a person.

What about Dulcie? Much classier.
Not sexualised.

piscesmoon · 05/01/2009 09:09

It is a very popular dog's name.

WinkyWinkola · 05/01/2009 08:58

I used to work with a Honey. She was a hard nosed, very successful account director and not sweet in any way!

It's funny - names just become names in the end and they tend to lose their original meaning when they're on a person, I find. People just accept them and get on with it.

If you like Honey, then go for it.

serenity · 05/01/2009 08:57

I went to school with someone called Honey. Definitely not a ditsy blonde (She was Head Girl iirc) She was lovely, and it really suited her.