Kinvara?

[lucywiltshire]

Considering this as middle name if babba is a girl - first name will be Hope. Hope Kinvara - nice name?

Hmm. I don't want to be negative as first reply! But I'm not keen - what does it mean?

Hope OTOH is beautiful.

I like it

Rooney, it is a place in Ireland. Hubby is a teacher and he taught one a few years ago and she used to babysit our DD1. Trying to think of a middle name to go with Hope and not finding it easy! Want something unusual and long.

Kinvara as in the place? It's nice enough. I did have to check it wasn't a brand of wine though, which was my first (random) association.

Both lovely names but personally prefer Kinvara Hope.

Hope is a lovely name - but I'm not sure about Kinvara. What does it mean, where does it come from?

It's the name of a running shoe made by Saucony so no... Hope is nice though.

Kinvara sounds like the name of a cottage or B&B by the sea to me. As though someone has retired there and called their B&B after their home town.

Hope is nice though - it came up in conversation yesterday as we said Grace is popular, and we wondered if Hope, Faith and Patience would make a similar comeback

Elekra I agree that Kinvara Hope sounds better BUT we have our hearts set on Hope and Kinvara doesn't flow so well with our surname. Hope sounds like the perfect middle name, along the lines of Grace, Rose etc but we really want it for a first name.
Kinvara not sounding too popular amongst Mumsnetters! We're just finding it really hard to think of a middle name for Hope!

Kinvara isnt great as a child's name. It does sound like the name of a cottage or something.

Hope is lovely though.

Kimberley?
Kimbra?

Kinvara is a town in county Galway so to me sounds very weird as a name! It's a nice place but no...

Is your surname Wiltshire?
If so I'd go for something with three or four syllables as a middle name

No, sorry!

no, surname not Wiltshire. But surname doesn't work with any name ending in A which rules out Kinvara as first name for us.

its a place name,dreadful child name.unless you want to be obtuse and different
different usually means a lifetime of slow pronunciation,explanation inflicted by name
if you like kinvara so much introduce self socially as it, yes just call me kinvara.see the reaction

Kiara/Ciara instead?

Same as Galwaygirl, a bit close to home, I think it would be the equivalent to calling a child Cornwall or something, not a name I'd associate with a child.

Not quite sure why it would be a problem that Kinvara is a place name when other place names such as Iona, India, Paris, Jordan are also place names?!
As a middle name she wouldn't spend her life explaining it or correcting the pronunciation!!!

I think one of the former Duke of Norfolk's (not the present one) grand-daughter who is an author is called Kinvara Balfour - so pukka!

look if you have strident reasons why you like it,why are you seeking mn opinion up to you,if youre set on it use it

I thought it was a Hindu god
Sounds nice enough with hope though, as a middle name it's fine as a first name I'd be a bit

Kinvara is Cinn Mhara, 'head of the sea', and a nice little coastal village in Galway. It has a nice ring to it, a pretty name.
Mara is nice too -- means sea in Irish..

Other long and unusual names:
Guinevere
Genevieve
Raphaella
Veronica
Augustina
Valentina
Theodosia
Penelope
Persephone
Evangeline
Emmeline
Evalina
Georgiana
Seraphina
Melisande
Constanza
Anastasia
Magdalena
Gabriella
Christiana

Irish:
Lasairfhíona (pr Lass-a-REE-(uh)-na) means 'light'
Alastríona (pr Aluss-TREE-(uh)-na)

LOVE Emmeline and Seraphina. I love how you can braver with middle names than first names!

What are you thinking for boy's names?