Myrtle

[Rhubarbgarden]

What do you think? Is it a bit drippy?

Myrtle the Fertile Turtle

I quite like it but would not use due to HP connection - think of playground taunts etc.

Strangely enough, I used to work with a Mrs Potter who's DS1 she named Harry....about a year before JK Rowling's work really got well-known. Bet the poor little bugger is enjoying school....

How about Mabel? It was my great gran's name and is having a small revival. :)

I really like it - but my view might be coloured by the fact that I know a little one who's name it is and she's the cutest thing ever.

Awful - sorry

I love Myrtle - BIG fan of lovely little old lady names. Thought of a great name today which I can't use as my DD is already tagged - what do you think of Ivy? Another plant-based one.

Horrid.

Urghhhh. (Myrtle has that sound in the middle).

Very drippy.

Horrible, sorry.

Sorry it's horrible and can't quite put my finger on why...

It's the joint ugliest name in the world.

Myrtle and Beryl.

No. Just no.

Sounds awful. Sorry!

don't liuke.

terrible name.

I know a Myrtle and she is a way cool teenager. But tbh I think it depends on how confident the child is, because you need a great deal of chutzpah to carry it off. And that, of course, is an unknown.

Funnily,(and somewhat poncetastically) the French version Myrtille, is much much prettier and lovelier, imo. But I don't think it really works in English - difficult to pronounce in English.

It is one of those names that I think I should love but am not quite sure.

Definitely NOT drippy, though, quite strong.

Both Moaning or The Turtle comes to mind.

A Marmite name.
I love it.
I know a Myrtille, like Myrtle but "Frenchier"...

Hmmm. Myrtille is very nice. Dh's ponceometer would probably go off the scale with that though. He thought Fleur was pretentious.

I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised how many do like Myrtle though.

i love myrtle! it was my number one name if i was having a girl.

it won't be to all tastes, but what name is? and don't worry about the turtle and moaning associations.

good luck!

You could call her Myrtle with Tilly as a nn

Ok, but ....
Children at school would call your child Moaning Myrtle and your child wont like it.

I don't think it's drippy at all. I think it's lovely.

Cool, makes me think of Gatsby.