Velveteen - cool, cruel or just mental

[xxEvadneCakexx]

A friend of a friend is slightly obsessed with the name Velveteen for a girl.

I can't figure out what I think about it - on one hand the name Velvet does seem kinda boho and pretty but on the other it's reminisant of a stripper.

Whats your opinion on it?

I bet mummy buys all her clothes at Gudrun Sjödén

I'd go for Leatherette, myself.

lol leatherette.does have a nice feel to it

Yeah sounds like either - name of fake cheese spread, man-made fibre for cheap tracksuits, or prostitute psuedenom (spelling!).

Maybe i should suggest Minky to her and see what she says?

Ooooh - how about Binka?

Terrible.

Ort Slub for a boy.

Still snorting here at Polly-Esther.

Here is the ingredient list on the package: MILK, WATER, MILKFAT, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ALGINATE, SODIUM CITRATE, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE.

Maybe if op's friend has any more children they could be called Alginate (for a boy, obviously!); Annatto is also nice, for a liitle girl. Enzymes might get him teased at school, though...

Not great

Dare you to start an Annatto thread, ami.

Sounds like toilet paper.

Natinal Velvet?The girl is called Velvet Brown in Enid Bagnold's book.
Velveteen is just plain stupid as a name imho.

Habbibu oh don't dare me, please! I'm always tempted by dares!!!

(Plus I've not started my own thread yet...shy emoticon)

Dad used to swear blind the woman in the queue in front of him when he was registering my name wanted to name her girl Utensil. She was very insistant and the registrar not keen and suggesting alternatives. Turns out she'd overheard a mum on the bus call her DD Hortensia...but knowing my Dad he probably made the whole thing up heard incorrectly.

Vulva. Has no-one mentioned vulva yet?

splutter at Vulva.

The Velveteen Rabbit, that's all I can think of....

No No No. Velvet is slightly better but it reminds me of one of the wrestlers in TNA. She straddles the rope and wiggles her bum as she gets in the ring

velvet is a euphamism for the inside of yer fanny

velvet glove

velvet...whatever the lezzer bbc programme was called

come the fuck on

and then ther is the band velveteen reveolver

get a top hat and frizzy hair and call the kid slash ffs

AWful. Sounds like a name for you know what.

Even Velvet is bad, but there is a writer whose daughter is called Velvet I think. Suzy Godson. what was she thinking?! I think the toilet paper came out afterwards.

Lol, my mum suggested Velvet to us. The thing with my last name (quite a frilly french one) it would just sound like a showgirl/drag queen/worse.

One of my 'tests' when considering a name is how would I feel introducing myself at a business meeting with that name? It helps bring me back to real life!

I know a little girl called Scarlett Velvet

Cruel, Mental and v uncool

Know a 'Velvet' and that's about as far as I'd go...

Velvet is seen as very cool and her parents are seen as being a bit 'alternative' by her friends.