To ask your thoughts on the name Heather?

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Elegant? Pretty? Or just remind you of Hev from Eastenders...

It’s nice I like it.

I hate it

Never liked the name. To my mind not elegant or pretty but I’m not sure why. Sounds old fashioned, dated. I do know of a couple of Heathers in their 40’s but also a 12 year old.

Hevva
Its pretty said properly

Dont like Heather (personally) but in Wales the Welsh version is very popular and i love it. Its Grug

Sorry but I thought about Hev as soon as I saw it

Makes me think of that film Heathers with Winona Ryder - it was very big in my early teens. There were a LOT of girls called Heather at my high school. Heathers and Jennifers.

It’s a perfectly nice name in itself though, and younger people won’t have that association.

I know three Heathers and each of them has, in their own totally unique way, been a truly unbearable bitch. So for that reason the name is spoiled for me. I might have liked it otherwise!

I quite like it.

I like it.

Dated,

I work in a team of 100 with 4 Heathers- all aged 55-60.

I love it!

I've got the Heather = bitch problem too (for 50% of the Heathers I know; one is lovely!).

I like it, I feel it’s particularly suited to those of Scottish heritage

Maybe it’s due fir a comeback as it is not at all popular these days. I am in my 60s & know a few Heathers, totally irrational but none of them are particularly nice people so that has put me off the name.

Just think of EastEnders and hear it pronounced as "Ev" in Shirley's dulcet tones in my mind I'm afraid.

Roses, daisies and violets are all very pretty. Heather is not. I don't know why anyone would name a child after such a dull flower.

I really want to like it, but I don’t.

I love it but it's so hard for me to say. I struggle to say my TH sounds, and it ends up sounding like Hevva as a pp said!

Ha ha, all of us of a certain age seem to think the same .

It makes me think of Highlander ''Another pair of rabbit skin boots for my bonny Heather''.

I've only ever known one Heather. It was years ago. You don't hear it much now.

Horrible.

I prefer Hazel

It's my name, I don't like it. Sounds like a fat woman from the American mid-west in the mid 90s.

@LouiseMiltonSpatula hope I'm not one of the ones you know!