girls name has been ruined!! find me another

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girls name forever ruined by project acronym at work.

it was Esme. Don't want comments on Esmeee/Esmay or how it's a rubbish name - i love it and now i'm heartbroken (sniff). But could never show my face at work again or look at her without thinking of stupid project.

other contenders not quite living up to it are Eden, Tamsin, Freya, Briony (which i love and dh doesn't), and poss Mathilda although a shorter name would prob work better with our surname.

any suggestions for an alternative for me to fall in love with?

Evie or Martha or Lydia are my favourites but there are so many nice names for girls

Aw how annoying! How about:

Anya
Fleur
Rosa
Sally
Sadie
Saskia

Martha or Violet? Or Imogen?

Tamsin is lovely.

How about Elsa, Elodie. Emmeline or similar if you can't have Esme?

If it was me I'd be tempted to switch jobs & stick to Esme though

once your daughter is here you won't be thinking about work honestly

but i will have to take her into work and announce 'this is Esme' and they will fall about laughing.

love Elsa due to lion ref, martha also lovely.

keep em coming!

Eliza or Annabel or Romilly would be my choices if I ever had another.

which-I-wont

Is it a project that will be running for a long time? Is it a job that you are likely to be in for a long time?

Personally, if the only 'issue' is that some of your colleagues might giggle and/or raise eyebrows when you take her in during maternity leave to meet them, I would be inclined to use your beloved name anyway.

I have found that although some work things feel massive at the time they can disappear pretty quickly. Whereas if in 10 years time you are still feeling like "oh I love the name Esme" I think that will be a much bigger cause of discontent.

I think Dulcie sounds like it might appeal to the parents of an Esme. Or Lois or Greta or Nina.

Collision that's a lovely list.

Where I worked, we used to talk about going out for a ruby murray. NO way could I have used Ruby. My colleagues would have laughed themselves all the way up brick lane if I'd named a child Ruby. This was at the point when Ruby wasn't so popular. It was still unusual 2002.

Elise is lovely. Eloise?

Melissa
Ariadne
Evelyn

ihave an Emma - and i call her Esme theres a way round it

you could use esme as the middle name and use the middle name.

you could change jobs

consider this... its a secret name but the loveliest name there is, as you are so upset i shall share with you - but don't tell anyone.

this name is Cecelia or to be more commonly refered to as Celia or Cece. Cecelia is the patron saint of music

Consider this a gift to you

Emmeline
Louisa
Talia
Coralie
Xanthe
Juliet
Miranda

My Esme's (imaginary) sisters are;

Iona Elizabeth
Isla

I agree with others and still use it - would your workmates really fall about laughing??

I quite liked Prudence when I was pregnant,but as I was teaching in a Pupil Referal Unit I just couldn't do it!

Custy I met a baby Cecelia just the other day and thought it was an absolutely beautiful name!

I like Flora and Rosamund.

Love Esme, it would have been on my list but my partner didn't. In similar vein

Iris
Esther
Eliza
Eira
Ivy

Though personally would still go with Esme - it is lovely and your daughter will not care about some work acronym which will be obsolete by the time she is old enough to realise

I would go for Esme if you love it. She will outlive the project

If it helps at all, in my last job we used something called Key Lines of Enquiry and everyone talked about KLOEs all the time.

My work colleague still called his newborn DD Chloe though, no one laughed.

Love Matilda.

Also really like Martha and Florence.

Cosima

Maisie

Rosalie

Shona

Cassandra - Cassie
Greta
Marnie
Marsha

Romilly
Ethne
Jeanie
Bo
Estelle
Romy
Bridie

I think if you love Esme that much, just go with it ...and then hand in your notice But seriously, you'll always be lusting after Esme if you don't

Alice is lovely