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Ok how about Artemis.....

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boodleboot · 12/08/2009 19:50

please slate at will....i really like it..

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Aranea · 14/08/2009 22:40

Antigone's not a happy name though, is it? I'd avoid tragic heroines myself.

MrsBadger · 14/08/2009 15:26

Ariadne is fabulous

also Antigone (although I suspect some people may start of pronouncing it Anti-gonn)

sassmonkey · 14/08/2009 15:19

Artemis is lovely. On my list for middle names. As are Juno and Ariadne.

What about Arra or Ara (Ah-rah) for a NN? My sister in law is Andrea and somehow it's been shortened to Arra, which is quite pretty.

mrsbean78 · 13/08/2009 21:37

How about Iris Artemis, or Artemis Iris and then you could call her either one, depending on how you felt about it after a while??

mrsbean78 · 13/08/2009 21:36

Well at least a little dark haired, dark eyed dc might carry it.. really don't think it would work on a average-incomed ginger kid with pink skin and freckles!

Tidey · 13/08/2009 19:07

I was just about to post about Cutting It too, I think that character would've found it in a baby name book rather than actually know about Greek goddesses. God, I loved that show, it was so trashygood. I think it's a lovely name anyway.

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boodleboot · 13/08/2009 19:01

balls....i am very not rich....not poor but if we got it we spend it....

deffo not greek but DH is mixed race so any DC will most likely be dark haired dark eyed......

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jemart · 13/08/2009 18:20

It's very pretty but definitely a rich kid sort of name.
Perhaps could have it as a middle name instead? unless you really are actually quite rich........ in which case, great name, go for it!

Greensleeves · 13/08/2009 18:08

I like it a lot - strong, elegant, different

and Missy is very very sweet

mrsbean78 · 13/08/2009 18:05

I think you'd only get away with it if you were very, very rich or very, very Greek.

screamingabdab · 13/08/2009 18:04

I do not like Artemis, but LOVE Juno. I don't think the film ruined it .....

duchesse · 13/08/2009 17:00

There's a 16 yr old Artemis at my children's school! Apparently she's lovely.

Cluttergump · 13/08/2009 16:55

I do love Artemis but can't imagine a child actually called it....how about Hestia? or Iris? both greek goddess names

LionstarBigPants · 13/08/2009 12:15

Prefer Artemesia, after Artemesia Gentileschi - one of the only female painters to hold her own in the Baroque period. We saw some of her paintings in Florence recently and they were fierce!

duchesse · 13/08/2009 12:05

Love it. Bloody pissed off about it being used for a boy in those books. What was Horovitz thinking?

Ladyem · 13/08/2009 11:49

There is a dog food called Artemis...

skihorse · 13/08/2009 11:26

Ruby's daughter in "Cutting It" was called Artemis... I always thought it was a stretch of the imagination that the script-writers thought Ruby had even heard of the Greeks!

pixiestix · 13/08/2009 10:41

Artemis is FAB!!!! And definitely a girls name.
Bollox to conventional names, I would hate it if my name was on mugs etc.

NorbertDentressangle · 13/08/2009 10:34

OK, he has :

Geronimo
Galileo and Artemis (twins)
Athena

NorbertDentressangle · 13/08/2009 10:29

Hasn't that bloke that was in Blur but now has a cheese farm got a child called Artemis?

IIRC hes also got a Gallilleo (sp?) and another with an unusual name.

Off to google.....back in a mo

MarshaBrady · 13/08/2009 10:25

Clovis is a great name, makes me smile. So Saki.

Quite like Artemis too.

castille · 13/08/2009 10:22

I know an Artemis (boy), it wouldn't cross my mind that it could be a girl's name.

His brother is called Clovis.

I quite like its slight barminess!

tkband3 · 13/08/2009 10:13

Ooh I really like Juno (I quite liked the film too )

GrendelsMum · 12/08/2009 23:21

I rather like it. And if Juno's a name, why shouldn't Artemis be a name?

Or could you have Artemisia? Artemisia plants are not only beautiful, they are also used for malaria treatment, so are life saving.

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boodleboot · 12/08/2009 22:02

lovely....but hasn't that damned film rather ruined it....

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