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Hunter Elizabeth

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MeAndLee · 23/07/2009 21:32

What do you think of the combination Hunter Elizabeth for a girl?

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Lobyd · 04/09/2009 09:12

To buck the trend a bit here...I like it!

Hundreds of Elizabeths around, very few Hunters I would guess.

I think that's a positive - great to not to always be one of many and have to use your last name or initial to tell you apart from your classmates...she might not realise this at first of course!( speaking from experience...)

Tambajam · 04/09/2009 09:02

Hunter a boy's name makes my eyebrows wiggle. Hunter as a girl's name - yikes, yikes, yikes.
But you must KNOW this is likely to be the reaction and you must have reasons for liking it. So ignore us and bring her up to have a TON of self-esteem.

I think one of reasons I don't like it is that I don't have warm and fluffy feelings about killing animals especially killing them for fun.

CheerfulYank · 04/09/2009 08:51

Even here in the US I don't know any girl Hunters, sorry. A few boys but I must say I'm not awfully fond of it. I sort of get where you're coming from; when I was young I liked River Elizbeth for a girl (Rivers are beautiful etc., and when I was growing up in the middle of a forest my dad always told me that, if I were ever to get lost, to find a River and follow my way out...I quite liked it but ended up married to a man with a "noun" last name so would never do.)

Anyway, it's YOUR dd and if you truly love the name, go for it. I personally would, as many other posters have suggested, go for Elisabeth Hunter.

HelenaBonhamCarter · 04/09/2009 08:47

It's like that '1940s film star yourself' game isn't it. Take your grandmother's first name and the town where you were born.

I got Jean Harlow. Neat huh.

HelenaBonhamCarter · 04/09/2009 08:46

Do people really call their daughters Harlow?

I was born there. It's hardly glamorous now is it?

HelenaBonhamCarter · 04/09/2009 08:44

Sorry I don't like it. Using a word describing a job as a first name is really bad unless your child is already a film star at birth. If she becomes one later she can choose her own stage name when it happens.

Thinkiing along similar lines, Tyler, Sailor, TescoSecretShopper etc etc

all bad
get that? BAD

PanicMode · 04/09/2009 08:32

I think you'd have to think of the combinations that children will turn Hunter into - it's not a great list IMO!! I think Hunter for a boy is rather cruel - all I can think of is a thick male Gladiator - for a girl it's beyond cruel, certainly in the UK. Perhaps in the US it would be better?

Elizabeth is a gorgeous name though.

Tortington · 04/09/2009 00:44

its silly

its a frikkin disease

just call her Thrush and have done

LadyGlencoraPalliser · 04/09/2009 00:43

Do you really want your daughter going through her school career with nicknames like cunt and munter? Because she will.

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MeAndLee · 04/09/2009 00:39

I like Hunter Elizabeth as I think it is a pretty combination, it is pretty and glamorous but not too much so. I am not form the US but I know it is a fairly common girl's name there.

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Paolosgirl · 12/08/2009 19:40

as in

Paolosgirl · 12/08/2009 19:39

Hunter - as is wellies and someone who kills and hunts? And the rhymes that will go along with it are too awful to think about, and it's a man's name or surname

No no no no no - get a grip of yourself, woman.

fiestabelle · 12/08/2009 19:32

Think Hunter is very masculine sounding but do quite like the idea of a classic name being paired with something more modern, and I do like surname type names, but dont know if I'm brave enough to go with it myself. If you like this style of name, how about Harper, Parker, same idea but not quite as masculine??

duchesse · 12/08/2009 09:36

Hunter? Really???

pointydog · 12/08/2009 09:35

Hunter's awful

daisy78 · 12/08/2009 09:33

Elizabeth is a lovely name, but Hunter is awful in my opinion. I don't even like it for a boy. Sorry.

She's your baby though so if you like it go for it - but please give her the choice of using Elizabeth when she is older!

cthea · 12/08/2009 00:21

I don't like Hunter at all. Why Hunter? Elizabeth is lovely.

logi · 12/08/2009 00:06

I love the name hunter if i have another baby thats what i would choose.

logi · 12/08/2009 00:05

I love the name hunter if i have another baby thats what i would choose.(smile)

MaggieBelleVirgo · 09/08/2009 23:18

Hunter? That's kind of agressive, even for a boy. Hunting. Killing?

what's for short? 'Hunt'

Cunty Hunter...... omg. it's dreadful.

Elizabeth is lovely.

RortyDogOfTheRemove · 09/08/2009 23:17

Yep, Hunter wellies here too. Four pairs of them. I could not take it seriously as a girl's name. Elizabeth is nice, though.

MrsMc82 · 09/08/2009 23:16

Oops meant BOY or girl... Using my phone to browse - stupid predictive text!

MrsMc82 · 09/08/2009 23:14

Think Hunter is a bit odd for a name - any or girl i'm afraid.... I love my hunter wellies but thats all i can think of when i hear it!.... Sorry!!

hunkermunker · 07/08/2009 18:53

How about Stockard?

As in Channing?

BitOfFun · 07/08/2009 18:50

Also, there is a rogue R in pronouncing it, as in hunter relizabeth because of the second name starting with a vowel.

Plus Hunter isn't very nice. How about Scout if you want a boyish but cute name?