I want to call my baby Avocado

[allhailtheaubergine]

Not really.

Hear me out...

Okay, I like Persimmon (nn Persi) (which is still in the running) but everyone was horrified to the point where I have a seed of doubt sown in my mind.

So... my children have taken to calling the baby Avocado, and I was idly wondering if there was a nice Latin name for Avocado or an Avocado flower or something, and it turns out that the Avocado is of the genus Persea - do you reckon it's pronounced Percy or Persee-ay?

And, if you're feeling indulgent, can you think of anything else Avocado-y that might work? (But don't just be cutting and acerbic) (unless it's also funny).

Persea pronounced Persee? I like that.

Noooo. Persephone is a beautiful sounding name but the connotations are too unpleasant.

Lol @ baby name black hole. I can't call it Jane or Susan! I do like those names but daughter 1 is called something ridiculous and I have to stick to the theme. I can't have them come to me in 20 years time and tell me Everything Is My Fault for calling one of them Rainbow-Flower and the other Maud.

So we can assume it will be an avocado, then?

I googled, and found there is an avocado.org which lists names of varieties. How about Gwen?

Persea I'd say per-SEE-uh or per-SAY-uh. I think I quite like it (for a girl).

Mind you, your baby won't be an avocado either. In fact, will have rather less in common with an avocado than with a Persian woman.

You could start a new trend of modern names like Grace, Charity, Hope etc.

Persistence.

persimmon is also known as Sharon fruit....

there is also one called velvet-apple

velvet is a cool name

Avocado just doesn't have a feminine ring to it. It ends in an "o"... which is typical of Latin boy names. Why not have it end with an "a" as in "Avocada"? :D

I always think Alioli is a beautiful girls name, wins Guacamole hands down anyway.

Avocada
Testicula
Velveeta

If you really want a testicular name, you could try Orchid?

Or if you must have an edible child, then Vanilla.

Is Orchid testicular in etymology then? How strange when they look so much like fannies.

Vanilla. No.

What about shortening to Ocado? (assuming of course that you had a home delivery.) Nice and aspirational.

What about Persia, prenounced per-say-a?

Please do not name your child after a foodstuff.

DD3 and I were watching Blues Clues yesterday and I thought that Periwinkle was a FANTASTIC name.

I think you should use it.

classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae

Laura!

This is weird. We called DD1 Avocado whilst in utero. It didn't stick.

Oy schobe, nothing wrong with Jane!!

Perdita

Philomena

Pieta

Polydora

Pingu

I would have thought it was per-say-uh.

Why not just call her Percy, that's a great name and related to foodstuffs as in Percy Pig.
Otherwise why not call her Pear?