Esme?

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I really like Esme just I'm not too sure about Esmerelda but can't stand names that are shortened versions of others (both my parents have them, just "alex" and "jenny" as opposed to "alexander" and "jennifer", and I think they both indoctrinated me a bit). Middle name Rose.

However OH is not impressed with Esme at all, what do you think?

My sister said it makes her think of lesbians and social workers Not sure that that doesn't say more about her than my choice of names

I thought it was a unisex name but was now used primarily for girls now.

DD3 has Ismay as one of her middle names. I like it

My great grandmother was called Esme, fairly certain she was neither a lesbian or a social worker (not that either is a bad thing, although being a lesbian might of hindered the next three generations!)

eandemum, I think in French Esmee is the female version, just like Renee (e.g. Renee Zellweger) is the female version of Rene.

I think it used to be French male, and Esmee the female, but then it became unisex (in a Saki story - Edwardian times - they find a hyena, they don't know the sex, so they call it Esme. Esme then eats a lost toddler but that's perhaps off topic here).

ROFL Fennel

I really like it but the pronunciation DOES put me off.

This is the exact reasons that we didn't go with Eleanor because half of the world pronouce in El-un-Or and half pronounce it El-en-uh and I could not be fucked to correct half of the world all of the time.

Do love Esme though.

I love the name and was gutted when it started trending so I had to knock it off our list. won't have a top 100 name but that's just me!

I like it but it's the new Sophie round these parts ie - very popular