Girls name thoughts please!

[beijingaling]

Thoughts welcome on the following first names for a girl:

Harper

Vesper

Darcey

I seem to see a few posts on other forums about Darcey for a girl becoming very common (as in popular I think). Don't want a common name but live overseas so don't think it would matter.

Vesper is partly from my love of the Bond books and partly a link to my mother's and grandmother's middle name of Vesta. Mentioned to OH that I wanted Vesta as a middle name and he arrived at Vesper as a first name without realising the Bond connection. Also means evening star which I LOVE.

Thoughts? I know they are not for everyone and I do plan on a "normal" middle name in case she hates her first. Should also say that I have a normal first name and I hated being one of hundreds at school!

Vesper is really nice and unusual.

Harper is a boys name for me.

Darcey = Bussell which isn't a bad connection but might explain the popularity.

I like Darcey, not so sure about Harper (too US for me).

Don't like Vesper, sorry - makes me think of wasps or high church evening prayer.

Yes I'm not sure about Harper to be honest. It just ended up on our list because we were both ok with it over actually loving it.

Please don't apologise for being honest onimolap!

Vesper is too much like Vespa (the scooter).

I like Harper - it's definitely a girls name - Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Though Harper was actually her middle name.

Darcey Bussell... well, not sure I would be proud to name my daughter after her, considering the BNP connection.

Never heard the name vesta before but it is lovely! Similar one is Hestia which I think may also mean evening star and is (I think) a Greek goddess too.

"I like Harper - it's definitely a girls name - Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird."

I don´t know why, but that made me laugh.

It doesn´t make it a girl´s name imo, just means a female has at some point been given it.

Sounds like a surname tbh.

Harper Valley PTA. brilliant song, poor name.
Vesper - matches with a red head
Darcey - no.

I love Harper

Tricky. Harper is a lovely sound and I totally get that it can be a girl's name, but for me it's of the Carter/Bailey/Mason/surname-as-a-first-name genre.

Vesper, makes me think of the scooters, sorry.

Darcey, prefer the spelling Darcy but I like it.

skippingturtle... any reason you prefer the spelling Darcy? I'm open minded about the spelling.

Really appreciate everyone's thoughts. I'm thinking Harper is dropping FAST off the list which leaves Darcy/Darcey and Vesper.

Any other opinions?

Not keen on any of them. Vesper makes me think Scooter. Harper is alright but not great. Not keen on Darcey. None of them are very feminine and all sound like they might suit teenagers but not children or older women IMO.

I wish I could say there were some clever reason why I prefer it without the 'e'! To me that just looks the right way to spell it. Had a check, and it seems the version without the 'e' is the original spelling, so perhaps I'm terribly clever after all!

You can't call a child Vesper! Really???

Scara - are you sure you're not getting confused with another Ballerina (Simone someone or other) re the BNP thing??!!

Darcey is so much prettier than the other two IMO.

Darcey (or Darcy) lovely, as is Harper.

Really, really not keen on Vesper. This is a Vespa in my mind!

Vespers= evening prayers?

yes diddl vespers = evening prayers. Not religious but the connotation doesn't bother me.

Lots of votes for Darcy (thanks skippingturtle for the spelling tip!)

Few for Vesper. I know it makes lots of people pull a face which is why I'm teetering about it. Should I worry about what others think? Do you actually meet people with odd names and sneer or just think "whatever!"

ARGH!!! Sometime I just think it would be easier if kids got given a number at birth

That or I'm way overthinking this lol!

I'm afraid I don't like any of them. Harper makes me think of the ditsy girl in Wizards of Waverly Place, Vesper isn't to me a name at all, and Darcey seems masculine (Pride and Prejudice). They are all too surname to me, but might be totally cool where you live (I live in Canada and naming boys after professions seems popular here - Cooper, Tanner etc seems very odd to me, but each to there own).

If you are going to go for Vesper - and I really think you shouldn't - had you thought of spelling it Vespa? I suspect most peopel will spell it that way anyway, and it soulds more like a girl's name tht way. Even if it does mean 'wasp"!

Hi Beijingaling,

I'm going to go against the grain here and say i love the name Vesper. I may be a bit bias here as my DS was named after a character from the James Bond novels but I definitely do not regret it. Vesper is unusual without being too out there and it's still easy to spell. I say go for it, i've heard far more unusual names.

I prefer Darcey. Harper sounds like a boy's name or a surname. And I'm sorry I don't like Vesper at all. It made me thinks of evening prayers, and Vespa is an annoying sounding scooter.

I didn't realise that Darcey Bussell had links with the BNP.

She didn't, it was Simone Clarke! Before we all get taken to libel prison...

Sorry OP, but I don't like Vesper at all. It also reminds me of wasps and buzzy stingy things.
Harper is a nice name for a boy, if he was best frinds with Huckleberry Finn and wore dungarees with vests.

(Ignore me. I am weird.)