To wonder who would call a child Elektra?

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Heard this when out yesterday. Didn't the original Elektra want to kill her mother?
Also the mother (real one, not the Greek one) had the table manners of a famished farmhand.

These judgey pants are terribly tight!

Superhero fans?

You'd hate my kids names!

Are you Katie Hopkins?

She could be named after Carmen Electra? That poor poor child!

I love it, it's a classic name.

I quite like it.

YANBU
Fascinating story...the mother wasn't at all nice either.

I have always disliked the name Cain.

Jam I've always wondered about Cain too. I've never met an Abel, but I have met a few Cains and I've often thought it strange that the popularity isn't the other way round.

Pah! Next you'll be saying calling my DS Oedipus was a bad idea!

OP here again. Surely it's the equivalent of calling a boy Oedipus?
She seemed a nice little girl but with parents who haven't really checked the connotations of the name. The original wanted to kill her mother, I think, and the name is now associated with penis-envy? (I'm prepared to be corrected on the latter, obviously).

I wouldn't. My best friend is an Elektra, we called Sparks (as in electricity) We were an un imaginative friendship group, tbh.

i thought electra wanted to have sex with her dad - the female oedipus?

Same person who called their child Rocket. Yes seriously. I heard it in a supermarket and thought they were simply announcing they'd found the rocket, in a bingo caller type way, but no. A small child trundled on after them!

She killed her mother to revenge her father - mummy dearest bumped (or had bumped) DF off when he came back from the Trojan wars with an OW and DTs.

I think DM was the one who killed herself by, erm, impaling herself on a sword.

Electra was alright. Maybe a bit bitter, but basically OK.

(I know want to rewrite all the Greek tragedies in MN language. Oedeipus fancied his DM so offed his DF etc etc )

Not my taste but if everyone liked the same things there would be a LOT of children with the same name, may get a bit confusing. I don't think it's too bad, she could shorten it to Ellie or something if she grew up hating it

Perhaps they liked the name?

I know someone with a little girl called Elektra. I think it's lovely.

Oh and while I'm at it, I also heard a child being called to its mother 'Come on Hemingway!'
Sorry I'm am ancient and grumpy and brought up on the 'Janet and John' books.

I met a little girl called Beauxdicca (sic) today. Yipes.

I know someone who has a son called blade. Nothing wrong with that til they decided the next son would be called Razor. And my children have unusual names but that one did make me

What about Nemesis for a girl?

I suppose no different to Ophelia and Cordelia? All lovely names.

(as an aside, a friend of a friend has called her child Summah, which I just think sounds incredibly gormless!)

Or Medusa. I quite like that one!

fine as long as the dd didn't get a complex about it

Electra joins her brother in killing their mother and her lover (depending on the version of the story she sometimes persuades or bullies him into it). Their mother had killed their father (in his bath), who in turn had sacrificed their other daughter Iphigenia in order to guarantee success in the Trojan War. Not really a normal family.

The Electra Complex is supposed to be a stage of psychosexual development in girls, where they compete with their mother for possession of their father.