Vanessa

[nasara]

DH suggested this recently - I quite like it and popped it on our shortlist - what do you think?

I really like it. I think its sophisticated and glamorous; a name to grow into rather than out of. What I mean is, a lot of names are really cute for a baby girl, but turn out to be really soppy for the woman they will become ( Poppy, molly, Belle... Etc!!!)

Vanessa is a great name for a lady!

Lovely name.

One of my best friends is a Vanessa.

nn Ness, Nessa

Shoulder pads, filofax, hot shot city boyfriend called Jeremy, nouvelle cuisine for lunch, hangs out at winebars, favourite band is Huey Lewis & The News :-)

Having said all that I actually really like it, love that it's such a womanly name. Streets ahead of the Evies and Millies.

:) I like it lots :)

I like it.

Wow - I like it too but possibly didn't realise it.

Not keen. Difficult to spell.

Lovely. Easy to spell.

Love it. great name.

Difficult to spell??

It's a glamorous, sophisticated name. She will have great hair,good dress sense, be popular and gregarious BUT you will almost certainly have to buy her a pony. Then a bigger pony. Then a horse.

Feltz

I love it. Was on my list for dd2. Also had Lara, Anneliese and Rosanna

And it was all going so well, onyx !
Apart from the vile Feltz, I have really good associations with the name.
I had a couple of lovely friends called Vanessa in the eighties and nineties. One of the only names from my school era that could work, I think.

I hadn't thought of this as an option but definitely like it too. Hmmm...

Thanks for the input - it's definitely a strong contender! My other top favourite is Thalia - but that's a whole other thread...

Not keen. Prefer Veronica.

What's occurin'?

Sorry, just been watching too much Gavin and Stacey.

It will change your opinion of Ness for ever.

PS. Thalia is a chain of cinemas and bookshops in Germany. Pronounced ta-lee-ah. How would you say Thalia?

LOVE it. Gorgeous.

I like Tessa too.

The only Vanessa I know has a daughter called Thalia! I think Thalia is beautiful by the way, and Vanessa is a name that I don't think will ever date! x

I like Vanessa. And I went to school with a girl called Thalia (and for a long time I thought her name was Failure cos that's what it sounded like.

Iv met a Vanessa called Vinessa.... Please don't do that to your child

I like it and have only ever met 3 in my life - one that I went to nursery school with in 1987 and two Brazilian children. So definitely don't think it's a common UK name.

The thing with Thalia is that I want to pn it tah-lee-ah, which I realise is probably an Anglicised pn?

I love Gavin and Stacy! The whole Nessa thing wouldn't put me off tbh.

nasara: no, Tah-lee-ah is the correct 5th century Attic Greek pronunciation (aspirated theta). Comes from the Greek infinitive 'to flourish'. Muse of comic poetry. Alternatively spelt Thaleia.