If I call her Aurora, would it just make you think of this weeks tragedy?

[Nemonemo]

would it be like calling her Columbine??

The Disney Princess springs to mind as I live in the uk.
If I was living in the US then I'd avoid the name.

Nope, makes me think 'Borealis'.

I was thinking storm from the xmen.

I think of Sleeping Beauty.

I also think that it's a tricky word to say.

I think sleeping beauty

I guess it depends. If. You liked the name beforehand, go for it.

If you read about the shootings and thought, "Aurora! That's a nice name!" that would be a bit weird!!

Isn't she one of the Disney doe eyed non feminists? Sorry I am not up on my princesses but that's what it makes me think of. It's a pretty name tho.

It wouldn't make me think of the shootings. It makes me think of sleeping beauty.

No it was what we'd decided ages ago, but now it's 'the aurora shootings' in the paper, and I'm wondering if that's going to be the first thing people associate with it. It feels a bit weird to name her that a month after a big tragedy of the same name.

I have known some Spanish speaking women/kids called Aurora. It comes from the Latin meaning 'dawn'. My main reservation would be the way its pronunciation would be mangled in these 'ere northern parts

It's pretty though and no, I would not associate it with the shootings.

No. It might if you lived near Denver, not otherwise.

No

Disney Princess associations for me here too. What about Aurelia? I love Aurelia.

Definitely Sleeping Beauty.

No. Northern Lights.

I didn't even know that anything had happened anywhere called "Aurora" until you brought it up.

Every mention I've seen has used the word "Batman" to clairfy what they were talking about, not the name of the theatre

do bear in mind that A LOT of little kids can't pronounce their rs

she would most likely be Auwowa till about Y2

Apparently sky news are referring to it as Aurora and BBChas used it today. Maybe I'm just picking it up more as that word now means something else to me! Consesus is a no, so maybe we don't have to come up with a new name!

No. It actually took me a moment to make the link to this week's tragedy - I think of it as being in Denver. It wouldn't be like calling her Columbine as that was never a first name (or if it was, not a common one).

Aurora is lovely - it was on my list but DH vetoed it both times.

Well our surname has a lot of 's's and she may well have a lisp, so that sort of thing doesn't bother me.

Sadly, these mass shootings seem to happen annually in America and in a couple of years time it'll have drifted out of people's consciousness.

Not Columbine though, that one everyone remembers.

Plus, people might be reminded of it for a few weeks, but, and I really don't mean to come across as crass here, people have short memories. In a few weeks the UK press will hardly mention what happened except when the guy's trial comes up - possibly on anniversaries etc. Your DD's name will be with her for far longer than that.

Yes it would.

It's a beautiful name. My only reservation is that if she turns out to speak with a soft 'r' her own pronunciation of it might sound a bit odd ...

No it wouldn't as it's mostly been 'Denver' they've been saying. It's a Disney Princess to me though & for that reason I wouldn't use it.