Halcyon and Octavia for my twin girls

kind of much as you are now?the collective opinion most certainly wasnt good.same themes came up from most posters

• skoda car
• benzo drug

and your point is what.edit/limit number of points posts.do you wish to see this across all mn or just babynames

traipse across other threads and tbh mostly same thing goes on,there is nothing unique or so different about tone and contributions to this thread

in fact its pretty tame with 116posts.as i said hardly rockin the mn Richter scale

i imagine it has high ouch factor for op.but then again on internet people honestly will say what they think

expect maybe thats why she asked- to garner opinion

Exactly, MNHubbie. I had no idea that Halcyon was a drug, and even if it is, so what? As for Octavia: it is just a lovely name, and makes a change from Tabitha/Hebe - which are also nice, but there are quite a lot of them around at the moment.

If I had another DD, I'd call her Hephzibah (Eppie for short) with Hortensia as her twin sister. They would go perfectly with my existing children's names (which would undoubtedly be slated on MN as poncetastic and trying-too-hard, regardless of the fact that they are in classes full of children with poncetastic names so fit in perfectly ).

Stating an honest opinion once is stating that opinion. Repeatedly banging on and on about it is a different matter. Someone who does that sounds like they have an axe to grind or has a personal issue with the OP.

Responding a number of times is very different to repeatedly restating the same point.

i do believe thats how mn works.an op and multiple responses. my very gosh same people post more than once....and?

only got 111 posts not exactly rockin off the mn richter scale is it

TBH how do you know she is seeking to up her social status, for all any of us know she may be in a social group where names like these are common.

And whilst I would snigger at "princess tiaamii ,shardonnay,lambrini" I would not go on and on about it over and over belabouring the point to try to twist the knife on the OP as some are...

I think it was the posters who posted not once to say they didn't like the name, but several times.

I'm not surprised the OP hasn't returned.

My opinion for what it's worth is that Octavia is too class-tied for me and Halcyon is too unusual and bizarre and I wouldn't know how to pronounce it. Sorry.

sedgiebaby, it's true that some posters have been a bit harsh but the OP did ask what people thought and, my goodness, she has been told. Hopefully, she will now have some taste of what the people who would meet her "uniquely" named dd's would be thinking when told their names. If she goes ahead it will, at least, not be in ignorance of that.

Totally agree that the names make you seem like you want to up your social status. They're quite naff really.

I just love the way the anonymity of the internet its message boards, brings out this ignorantly expressed rudeness, which is cloaked as an 'honest reaction which was, after all invited' How interesting to see the british at their cynical and discourteous best! newtwinmummy, I don't know who you are, but I somehow feel compelled to apologise.

I had no idea that Halcyon was a name of a drug (am not jenned up on my knowledge of 70s opiates) but still the whole daft name conjures up a chill-out bar in Ibiza run by a bloke from Penge called Nigel whose heyday was the late 80s (where he was probably geed up to the eyeballs).

And Octvavia - means 8th, so unless you have an association with the number 8 is rather pointless. Like calling your daughter June when she is born at Christmas.

There are loads of lovely names available without resporting to those which means (a) drugs or (b) aspires to the pretention of using a classical name but can't count.

Wjat about Ophelia and Hera?

thats the rub ask for opinion,expect to get it.to maintain interest add a funky mispronunciation and yes that will rack uo the posts

oh and how very woolly to say call your children what ever and ignore nay sayers

really no sniggering then at princess tiaamii ,shardonnay,lambrini

oh come off it

a silly name is burdensome and likely to cause your child botheration

Jeez some of you know how to belabour a point don't you. As has been said it is one thing to say what you think and it is another to be downright rude. You've said you don't like it and why, move on.

OP: Octavia Joan you mentioned before and saying it out loud it does work.

Halcyon, Hal or Hallie to her friends is definitely growing on me. Ignore the naysayers they are your children and as long as you feel the names suit them then go for it.

This has to be a wind up ,Halcyon pronounced Hal cee ah nee .

For what it is worth I don't mind Octavia ,although I would'd use it myself,Halcyon ,not a name ,if you want to pronounce it the way you have suggested you need to go with Alcyone which is pronounced with an e sound at the end

the drug is halcion, not halcyon

and it's a dangerous drug, halcyon.

but the drug is pronounced hal-see-on

Halcyon is not a name, it has a nice meaning, but its NOT a name. Octavia sounds pretentious. Sorry.

I thought the OP was saying that the drug, not the name, was pronounced Hal see ah nee?

All I'd say is that you'll spend a lot of time saying 'Halycon' and 'Octavia' together and they're both very long names. You're not going to shorten either, are you? Seriously, you get v.v.v.tired of saying their names. I never did so much with singleton cos I just said 'hey' or 'stop doing that' with twins you've got to identify the one you're talking to! Both my twins have two-syllable names and I am v.grateful for it at times.

Just go round the house saying their names in a sing-song voice, cross voice etc and then see if you feel the same.

How about Augusta instead of Halcyon?

Well exactly - Halcyon is not a name, it's an adjective... Why would you do that to a child?

Octavia is better - at least it's a name!

Please re-think Halcyon, especially if, on top of the fact that it's not even a name, you're going to dick around with the pronunciation.

in what context did you hear it as "Hal-see- ah-nee" newtwinmummy?

pharmacsit/dr with a lispth?
over ennunciated nurse?

I really like Octavia, but I can see I'm in the minority

Halcyon is pretty odd though, it doesn't even look like a name IYKWIM - like naming your child Paracetamol or Engineer.

If you like really unusual names why not go for

Oceana
Ariadne
Aurelia
Artemis
Hebe
Callista
Cassipoeia
Florentyna

OP you do realise that Halcyon is an adjective don't you? As I PP it means tranquil (hence the word making a very good brand name for a tranquiliser - get it?!)

It is an odd choice for a name but if you insist on totally mispronouncing it then it is just plain weird.