Is Robin Rose for a girl ridiculous? How about Riley or Minnie?

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Anybody else thinking potentially of Robin for a girl or Riley? I like Robin Rose and Riley Rose but not 100% in love with them. I also quite like Minnie and Dotty but are those names likely to get picked on?

PS did you know Snowdrop is an actual name!

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Robyn spelled with a 'Y' is much nicer for a girl in my opinion..

Riley is nice, not keen on the others though, sorry!

Robyn is lovely, can't see any problem with Robyn Rose. Riley is a surname and sounds like a surname and Minnie is unspeakably twee. Dorothy/Dotty is nice though.

Robin is OK. Rose is lovely. Rily is a last name. Dotty is short for Dorothy and OK for a nick name but seriously mean for a given name and Minnie is common classroom slang got the female genitals.

Oh I love Minnie, but I think it needs to be a nickname. I did think about naming my DD2 Marianne with Minnie as a nn.

Robyn I like.
Riley is not a "real" first name as far as I am concerned.

Minnie can be a contraction of Wilhelmina - not twee if a contraction IMO.

I like Robyn, but think Robin and Riley are more boy than girl.

Depends where you are as I've never heard Minnie as slang for a foof.

My nanas a Minnie and I love it, would definitely consider it :)

Thank you, I thought Riley was a surname too but found it in my baby name book as girl name?? Worried Robyn sounds a bit american with Y but maybe its more feminine. This name business is not easy, is it!

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I love Robin.

Riley is straying into surmanes a first territory where you'll find the 'chav' word used.

Dorothy is nice with Dotty for short.

Minnie not sufficient unless as a nickname.

Robin is OK, not with Rose though.

Minnie is slang for a fanny is it not?

Riley is very American. I think Elvis Presley's granddaughter is a Riley. I don't like it.

OP what about Greta, Dulcie, Lois or Maggie? All of those are unusual. There may be others out there but I think they are unusual enough. (I know you said on another thread that you don't know anybody else with your name and you can't imagine your child having a popular name.)

I have a sister called Robin, she has always had a lot of 'but that's a boys name' comments.
I do think Robyn is sweet and indicates a girl!
Not keen on Riley as it's the in boys name for a certain sector here.

I agree about Minnie slang for genitals. Also called fanny. fairy, mary around here. That could be a thread on its own. :)

Thanks for your suggestions ValiumS, that is really sweet of you! Oh my god I had know idea that Minnie was slang for fanny!!! Funny enough my mum suggested Greta!

Looks like Robin is most liked, we will see...

Thank you everybody again.

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It sounds like a name from the Wild West. Pistol Pete, Buffalo Bill, Robbin' Rose...

Dorothy is good if you like Dotty or Dot.
Yasmin or Jasmine also have Minnie as a shortened form.

Riley - no. No. No. No.

My dd is minnie I love it obv. Robyn is really nice.

I really like Robin,but Riley and Minnie are horrid.

Minnie is my favourite!

Robyn very much NOT american, Robin for a girl is american, unnecessary Y's always look a bit stripper to me.

Robin is really nice, what about Robin Louise or Robin Michelle?

Yes.

Robin is a boy's name.
If you spell it Robyn then is a girl's name.

When my sister Robin went to uni she was assigned to the men's hall of residence as they thought she must be male.

I said 'I suppose they didn't look at your middle name.' (one of the above) and she said they had, but thought she was a French boy.

um, well in my british baby name book it is spelt Robin for girls and boys, unisex name. I guess I only like Riley because it has family history and we both like unisex names...Robin is sweeter..

Elsa, Dilalah, Lola, Betsy, Ishbel (gaelic for Isabelle - I am scottish)) any better?

I like all of those names brockley

I love the name Robin and I know it is meant to be unisex, it just never seemed like it in real life.
Everyone said my parents must have wanted a boy, which was true , they did.

PS Also, she was called Redbreast at school, she says, though I don't remember (much older than she was)

Love Robyn, Rose and Minnie. Riley sounds like a member of the Rooney family, sorry .

Delilah is lovely (with an 'e') but a very loaded name when you consider the biblical connotations.

Betsy is very sweet.

I like Lola, but you'll get a lot pof 'ooh, no' comments on MN.

Elsa OK. Not keen on Ishbel.

Love all your names ESP Riley v cool xx