coriander?!

[biscuitracer]

I'm thinking of calling my next daughter coriander, what do you all think?

It doesn't remind me of India.

It reminds me of the herbs and spices section in the supermarket.

Ht about Maggi Chicken Balti? Its a mixture of spices in a plastic bag. Reminds me of India.How

Bollards!

How about it? Julia and Bag Spices.

It seems cardamom gets a better reception than coriander. Still think its a future classic name.

It seems cardamom gets a better reception than coriander. Still think its a future classic name.

In all seriousness, don't.
Corrina is fine. Cori Anna dooverlacky better.

Cardamom is equally as heinous.

I think, however, that Tzatziki, Cinnamon, Rapadura and Chai are names you should also consider.

"I'm sorry to disappoint but its a serious suggestion."

What planet do you come from?

Well, I've just been looking at the baby name statistics for England and Wales for 2011, and Coriander doesn't appear anywhere. As they don't list names given to 2 or fewer children, this means that at most, 2 girls in England and Wales may have been named Coriander, and possibly no girls were named Coriander.

So at the moment, any increase in popularity is very very very small.

Cardamom.
Diminuitives Cardie or Mom. something's not right there

Cassia is nice? Aka Ceylon cinnamon...

And Kezia is the biblical version of Cassia.

Sorry to lower the tone, but has any Googled "biscuit race", for example?

Oh my dearie me.

[hsmile]

I know a Juniper. I didn't like it at first but I quite like it now. June, Junie...

That's pretty grim, MrsPinault

I can hardly believe that biscuit racing is so common that it's been named [hshock]

That's disgusting. Why would you Google my mn nickname? Obviously unrelated, and a little below the belt if I'm honest.

OP,

even if the majority view is against it, if you like it, ignore us/them and go ahead! How boring it would be if we all had to keep to specific names as I think used to be the law in France.

I think the sound is lovely, just that I am not one for herby names (don;t like herbert either - boom), really, and as I got teased about my name would want to avoid another child being teased for hers.

But you may indeed be ahead of the curve. And if you still like it after all the cold water poured on here, almost a frankenstorm, you will be in a good position to weather other views.

Thanks to everyone for their opinions on the name. Probably stick with it but appreciate all the suggestions. Start of a trend maybe?

It might be the start of something, but probably not a trend.

Think possibility of it becoming commonplace is nil.

But on that note - have you considered commonplace as a name? Shortened to Comma?

OP, whatever floats your boat, but really, do think of your DD. and also, as someone pointed out earlier, it brings out no ethnic association for me whatsoever. It's not even called coriander or anything like it in any part of India.