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!

I don't like the k

One of the Geldof girls called a boy Phaedra.

I have seen at least 2 versions of Phaedra and many, many years ago read part of Phèdre not in translation.

Re Regan I think I have come across that. Goneril just sounds too ugly regardless of the back story.

Bugger, lost my post!
One belief about Lilith was that she was the original first woman who demanded equality with Adam and refused to submit and lie under him. Instead she flew away, possibly had sex with Satan, gave birth to Djinn, and was possibly a 'great mother' figure to settled tribes but gradually became a child eating succubus through years of religious doctrine and myth. She was even blamed for wet dreams at one point..
It's a lovely name, so is Electra (don't like the version spelled with a k for some reason though).

I like Electra. Less so with a K however.

But then I am awfully pretentious and like Antigone,Persephone,Hermione,Cordelia etc as well. And yes, yes I know the back stories to all.

I went to school with an Electra. She was lovely.

Um. it wouldn't be high up on my list of baby names. But I am rather traditionally-minded in that area.

I used to hear some corkers when I worked in v.posh children's shop. Cnut. Cammy. Rococco. And twins Matilda and Thor ("Oh, have you met my son, the God of Thunder?").

Why?

at Beauxdicca. Why, oh why, would you play around with the spelling?

Elektra isn't my favourite of the Greek names. Though is probably because we had an Electra fridge freezer, so lost its appeal for me as a given name.

I prefer Electra but Elektra is presumably correct. I was going to mention Antigone , Persephone and Demeter.

Persephone is a lovely name but she always seemed so wet! All the versions of the myth I ever read give the impression that she doesn't actually do anything apart from cock up and eat when she shouldn't.
I have a fabulous book that gives the stories of as many mythical people/creatures as they could fit in, it's bloody brilliant and some of the names had us arguing for weeks when we were expecting DD2.

My Dad's friend's wife was called Elektra. She was Greek. I absolutely adored her as a child. Gutted my parents fell out of touch with them

My Mum (was a teacher) had a) twins called Bonnie & Clyde and, later, b) a Shervorne (Siobhan) in her class.

And someone I worked with (in FE) told me about the girl in his class who had named her baby Jack Daniels because 'that's what she was drinking when she got pregnant'. True story.

Stateyasagalleon Cammy? Just short for Cameron here ( that weird Scottish thing of using surnames as first names)

Answer to title Q...

Do you remember in the original Total Recall movie the red faced woman whose face actually splits apart quite dramatically? Actress real name was Priscilla & she was a drama teacher by trade.

BUT her DD was an Electra, in the yr below me at school. Ordinary, very popular! None of us saw the greek myth as relevant.

Cammy is also short for Cameron (used for a girl, for Cammy, if a boy Cameron, it's Cam) or variants (I know a Cammy=Camryn etc;).

ninah

That cheered me up!

Florence Nightingale's sister was called Parthenope. Any takers?

Oddly, I know this. Frances, I think was Parthenope Nightingale's first name?

I don't mind Parthenope. Perhaps, the vaguely similar, Penelope is more palatable, however.

Poor Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

They come on here a lot OP.

I like most of these names. Better than top 10 names which are so so dull. I especially like Phaedra.

I am the OP. in real life I have a very ordinary first name but feel that I had a lucky escape as my father wanted to call me Janice. (Apologies to all Janices).

Cammy is probably Camille but pronounced the Frenchy way.

@ "Janice"

I have nothing against Janice (perfectly normal name) but that just made me laugh!

Janice reminds me of Friends!

Oh yes!

I bet Janice isn't that common in the USA.

It would have to compete with More "bouncy" girls' names.

I know an Electra. One Greek parent. I think it is a fine name in that scenario. To her mum it would be odd to call her Janet.

I actually also came across a Beauxdicca with just that spelling last year. Wonder if it is the same one. Guess she would be about 2 or 3. I think at least one American parent.