I want to call my daughter Cambria.

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We're not Welsh, I just think it's lovely. It's easy to pronounce, easy to spell, and not too long.

Is this just hormonal madness or is it a nice name?

I think it sounds like the name of a car or a county, it is quite pretty though. Does it go nicely with you surname? It does sound like a girls name.

DEFINITLY avoid it if your surname is Coupe or Shire or similar

It's pretty OP, and somehow it's almost a bit classic, like simple and elegant.....go for it

It's growing on me

Calibri maybe Two?

Cambria is the name of a 100 year old barge

It is also the name of the crescent I used to live on. So it's a no from me I'm afraid!

I think i would get used to it.

Yes it's a font. Calibri is a different one.

Beautiful, I love it. makes me think of rocks and fossils (- that being a good thing in my book!)

If it helps, my son is called Kester - another very unusual but fairly easy name. I love the sound of Cambria, it seems so feminine and elegant.

Seems to be a real split between those who don't like it at all and those who love it. I can see the confusion between Cumbria but not understanding the confusion with Camembert

You know, I normally hate "made up names" and my kids have very old, well known ones. But these two are really nice. Plain, simple, unpretentious - I can really see why you like them

And if anyone says "why would you use an ancient name of a country for a girl?", there's a fine precedent set by Erin.

I grew up with my friend and cannot remember anyone calling her Cumbria or Camembert She was called Cami or Cam a lot, but she was a really pretty girl and it suited her, if I had another girl I would call her Cambria.

depends....are you happy with people laughing at your daughters name because its a place? If so no problem. Also it will be shortened to 'cam'. Which is generally the shortened male appelation for cameron.

Sorry don't like it..

There are plenty of Camillas called Cam. What sort of person would laugh at someones name

If someone wants to make fun of you, they can do anything with your name. It doesn't have much to do with the name itself. One of my middle names is Margeurite- so I was Pizza for a bit. My first name sounds like the French word for church so I got called that too. What daggers eh....it's hardly going to wound you for life! makes me laugh now

Cambria is one of two current Windows fonts, along with Calibri.

A computer literate generation will be aware of this!

I'm gonna call my baby Comic Sans :)

I did think of Camembert & Cumbria, sorry. If you love it then go ahead but bare in mind that you are setting your dd up for some playground teasing.

Thanks all. Now I need to decide what to use if it turns out to be a boy instead of a girl.

No, made me think of cheese too.

It doesn't sound like a name to me, so I don't like it (and your dd may well get a lot of people doing the 'come again' thing when she gives them her name, which is frankly quite annoying, and she will have to spell it out frequently, also annoying).

I'd also not use it with a ds called Kester because it's very matchy, almost tongue twistingly so. It's also a bit odd IMO to have one child with a very Scottish name, and other with a name that means Wales.

Lovely name. And i usually only like very traditional names. Might add it to my list btw I'm a web developer and the font reference wouldn't bother me. Can't see why it matters if its a font or a place or anything else (unless they were horrible things).

Sorry made me think of Sheep or cheese - Cambrian I know but....

The Cambrian Welsh, or mountain sheep,
Is of the ovine race,
Its conversation is not deep
But then observe its face.

I like it. And I like Cam as a nickname.