To call my baby this

[m0mmy2be]

So we decided this name in September 2017. We had been trying for a baby for a while and knew this would be our girl name when we eventually fell pregnant.

Anyway, we have since found out we are having a baby girl and I am due very soon.

We decided to call her Cove.

But now I'm worrying that it's too close to Covid, especially since she will be born during the pandemic.

I'm not too worried about people liking the name personally, but more worried about whether she'll be teased in future because of its association with Covid? Am I over thinking?

I think Cove is lovely. But then to me a name just becomes someone's name if you see what I mean. I'm sure it would suit your little girl and in a year or sos time I don't think anyone would make the connection, especially not her peers.

You would get a few raised eyebrows naming her it right now due to the pandemic but also because a lot of people just don't like the name. Don't let it put you off.

Just don't.

JFC. Are you serious?

Do not call her this. Not only is it not a human name, but EVERYONE she ever met would think you’d named your baby after Covid-19.

It would be tantamount to cruelty to call your child this. It’s also a stupid name.

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OP, I have a beautiful baby girl called Cove, born in the midst of a pandemic, but we loved the name before Covid and we love it equally now.
Don't change if you love it

I’m with @thumbwitchesabroad. Call her Cleopatra and shorten it to Cleo. Or just call her Cleo. It’s a lovely name.

I do agree that it does seem a little too much to call her that now. And people will prob always remember the year 2020 for covid.

My 13 year old dog is called Isis. Not going to change it. It suits her 😊

Please, no Cove, or Clove for that matter.

Love the idea of Cleo with a different middle name and save cove for another daughter. Even better if her birth certificate has full name but you don't tell anyone unless you want to so she can whip it out when she wants to be fabulous

Cleopatra juniper sounds lovely

I think Cove would be lovely as a name.

Once the novelty of Covid has (hopefully) worn off in a couple of years, I don’t think people will associate it with Covid (you wouldn’t associate Polly with polio or Flo with flu) but yes probably in the short term you’d get some snide remarks.

@TitsOutForHarambe

I didn't make the association with covid until you said it at the end of your post.

I think that once we have a vaccine it will quickly become a distant memory. Remembered by many but not often thought about.

"Not often thought about"? . The longer it goes on the more people die and are permanently damaged, and their families and friends won't ever forget. Not to mention the people who will always associate covid with the loss of their job, livelihood, business, home.

I think you’re making this up

I know a 5 year old Isis, who must have been named at the height of Isis being prominent everywhere in the media. That struck me as a very weird choice of name!

Cove

As if

Cove - no

I like Cleopatra - you could just call her Cleo .... its a classic name and I like a name with a family/cultural connexion and use that as a first name

I also like Juniper and Evelyn not so keen on Evie thats nowhere near as classic as your other names

I didn’t make the connection to Covid.

If you are fixed on this name maybe use it as a middle or second name. The association with this virus is not a pleasant reminder. My nephew has just had a baby boy whom they called Lake, which is a gender neutral name and although unusual it is a real name and has meaning, it's at least in some child naming books. I think you would want to forget this horrible virus and not be reminded of it every time you call your child.

Funny old cove isn't he?

@nannykatherine

I think you’re making this up

It an opinion and a personal choice, not a joke

Name your child whatever you like. Seriously, some people are so bloody rude. Like someone else said by the time she goes to school kids her age won't remember covid (hopefully)

Hearing that name doesn't particularly remind me of covid, but it does spring to mind the dark cavernous place babies tend to come out of

A Cove is slang for a rotten cheat...