Aibu to really like the nam Cercei for a baby girl???

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i know she is a bloody horrible incestuous cow bag in game of thrones but the name is so pretty!!

I think when you name a child you have to think of the child going through life with that name and not see your child as an extension of your ego or interests. Give them a name that they aren't constantly being asked to spell, that doesn't make other kids giggle, that is suitable no matter what they choose to do in life and if you are going for the name of a Greek Goddess don't give it your own cutesy but wrong looking spelling.
I'm not keen on nicknames as names either, give them the full longer name and they can shorten it if they choose.
Circey is on a par with Jaysun or Arryadney to me.

Her daughter is no more or less likely to like the name Cersei than any other name.

I have one of those names that was top ten for about 57 years, and wherever I go I met one. I don't actually dislike the name in itself, but it's so overused as to be utterly meaningless to me.

Lots of us with safe, normal names wish our parents had been a bit more original.

I always thought the names in GOT were a bit naff, like George RR Martin liked Welsh and Greek and Norse influences without actually understanding anything about the roots of names in those cultures. Reminds me of when people spell a common name with 1 letter wrong. There's a Martyn Lannister ffs, and a Kevan.

Circe is not pronounced as Cersei is and if you go with Circey (you'd be better off with Sersey if you wanted it to sound like Cersei but spelt differently - Circey to me = Kirkey (as in Circe) or Cir-say at a push) then you've essentially made up your own name - which is fine - but there is no relationship Greek or GOT or whatever names there.

I'd seriously avoid names that have a specific set of cultural resonances that are very unlikely to be relevant to the kid's generation.

I'd also avoid names that have negative connotations. OK, there have been plenty of Myras out there who aren't serial killers; plenty of girls my grandma's age called Dolores, shortened to Lola and sometimes Lolita. But why on earth would you want that to be the thing that comes into most people's minds the first time they meet your kid? Why inflict that repeated unconscious association on the kid if you don't have to?

I have only one forename, and it's one that instantly generates adoration and myriad invalid assumptions from pretentious snobbish gits of my parents' generation. The character in question was also insane, vindictive, and hardly the world's greatest role model. People either can't spell or pronounce it and think it's weird, or they make all sorts of assumptions about me on the basis of it. I absolutely hate the name, and hate the associated activity - I probably wouldn't have loathed either the name or the activity if I'd been called Sarah or Rachel or something. The only reason I haven't changed it by deed poll is that my relationship with my mother is complex enough already and she's getting old and wouldn't understand and would be very hurt.

Don't do it! You can appreciate art without calling your child Michelangelo Leonardo Donatello teenage mutant ninja turtle Caravaggio...

What I think, looking at this name is 'um bit like Cecilia, oh I know, Cecily'.

My brain is trying to relate what it sees to the category 'names'.

Cecily is probably due a revival though. It's in the 'Edwardian great-grandma' category so popular at the moment but hasn't been rediscovered yet, as far as I know.

Circe is quite nice.

Cercy and Circey are PAINFULLY BAD.

Cecily is lovely. I think its Peter Capaldis daughters name. When I heard it I thought 'good taste!'

People can get way too anxious over names sometimes. I reckon the country would be a far more interesting place if we had a few more Obediahs, Aethelreds and Godivas around.

If you want to call your daughter Cercei, op, do it. Just give her a middle name as well so she has the options of swapping her everyday name if she wants.

"You can appreciate art without calling your child Michelangelo Leonardo Donatello ..."

Tyrion and Tywin are both actual names. I know a couple of both who pre-date got by a good few years.

Anyone who has studied Greek myths even casually

So glad that what the names of candidates for jobs are would be some way down my list of criteria, knowing no Greek myths (that I can think of, or not knowing them to be Greek if I do know them, IYKWIM).

If they're OK with spelling, maths, can use a computer, and write English sentences, not "text speak", then that's likely to be good enough... Degrees and/or puzzling names, not needed.

If someone the other end of a phone cannot instantly recognise a name, they probably would not be one for me to consider getting a job.

Cercei, therefore, quite unlikely, Ella / Ruby / Claire / Sarah, fine, of course.

Do they pre-date the books? Both names were in the first one released almost twenty years ago.

I like unusual names, but I know someone whose son is called Neo and I can't hear it without imediately thinking of the Matrix.

Cadie

Tyrion is a misspelt Welsh name, Tirion. Or indeed Tirian, for a girl. Pre-dates the books by quite some margin.

By quite some margin indeed then! The girls version is lovely.

It's such a nice name but slightly ruined now, everyone but everyone would link it to GoT. A shame!

Tywin is also Welsh (more commonly spelt Tywyn) and is hundreds of years old.

How would you pronounce Tywyn?

How would you pronounce Tywyn?

I've been told it's sort of Towin, where the 'ow' is like the 'ou' in ouch.

Gah - double post. MN's playing up just now.

I want a cat called Hodor, just for the fun of calling him in at night

In Greek mythology, Circe pronounced [kírk???] is a goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft herself. I like it

In Greek mythology, Circe pronounced [kírk???] is a goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft herself. I like it

In Greek mythology, Circe pronounced [kírk???] is a goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft herself. I like it

In Greek mythology, Circe pronounced [kírk???] is a goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, and Perses. Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur. Other accounts make her the daughter of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft herself. I like it