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Apricot for a girls name?

74 replies

snares · 26/02/2010 20:32

Apricot as a girls name ?
I love it.

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Pasiphae · 18/03/2010 12:25

That will be a difficult one to carry.

It is quite "different" and could become a burden to the child.

Fruit wise: Clementine is much more accepted. Or Mirabel, Cerise, Framboise, Prunella.

I do know a Lychee, she uses her middle name instead.

Maggie198 · 18/03/2010 11:22

I think it is a lovely name. It suits a little girl and an old lady but perhaps not a teenager or middle aged woman.

5DollarShake · 01/03/2010 16:50

Give your child a fighting chance in the real world, for heaven's sake...

lucykate · 01/03/2010 16:40

apricot jam tart will be her nickname at school, don't call a child apricot, kids are cruel, parents even crueler for saddling their dc's with daft names.

giddly · 01/03/2010 16:39

Better not introduce her to my DD. She can's say the word so calls them "achey cocks"

lucykate · 01/03/2010 16:39

only if her middle name is jam

AttilaTheMeerkat · 01/03/2010 16:36

Apricot does NOT work as a name, its a fruit. Also it will sounds completely ridiculous when she is an adult. Names are more important than many people realise, please do not lumber her with a no name because you happen to like how it sounds.

seeker · 01/03/2010 16:29

You're not naming a hamster, or a kitten or even a baby. You are naming an adult woman.

seeker · 01/03/2010 16:29

Just plain cruel and stupid.

MonkeyMargot · 01/03/2010 16:24

I quite like it...

My DD's middle name is plum

gingerbreadlatte · 27/02/2010 19:01

why not call her banana?

zozzle · 27/02/2010 18:33

Nooooooooo ...

ShirleyAmbrose · 27/02/2010 18:20

Utterly stupid. I'd pity the kid.

mrsvwoolf · 27/02/2010 16:55

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expatinscotland · 27/02/2010 16:41

you need to stop smoking ice right now.

LilyBolero · 27/02/2010 16:39

Doesn't pass the Prime Minister test.

dolphin13 · 27/02/2010 16:37

Hmmmm with the middle name brandy perhaps. It's wrong.

foreverastudent · 27/02/2010 15:29

Better than Apple but not as good as Peaches, Berry, Cherry and Clementine.

Maria2007loveshersleep · 27/02/2010 14:35

I don't like fruit names even though I know a 'Peach' & she's lovely. Apricot sounds a bit ridiculous to me, sorry. In the same category as Gwyneth's 'Apple'.

WednesdayAddams · 27/02/2010 12:34

April Charlotte with nick name Apricot would be cute. But landing her with Apricot for ever would be too much.

bellissima · 27/02/2010 10:32

Or Amandine?

Or Annemone, (okay fish not fruit - but apparently well posh in France).

Read a book years ago which had a baby Tangerine.

BettyButterknife · 27/02/2010 09:25

How about Mirabel/Mirabelle? It's a type of plum - I think Plum would be a fab nickname.

WeWantTania · 27/02/2010 05:23

I know an Apricot too Boggle - i wonder if it's the same one

jabberwocky · 27/02/2010 04:48

Sorry, but ewwww

LaRagazzaInglese · 27/02/2010 02:12

what CarmenSanDiego said, I think it's cute, if you like those types of names, it's pretty and not too airy-fairy IYSWIM ooh i know someone called Fairy!