Antigone or Tigris

[DaveMccave]

I know it will be a minority that could consider either better than the other but anyone have an opinion to a preference? nn Tiggy.

Ah...Tygra! Yeah I was a big thundercats fan as a toddler... Maybe this is where it's come from. I think I actually prefer Tygra but it rhymes with dd's name.

thecatfromjapan We didn't find out the sex, so this topic could be pointless. I would probably use it for anymore future girls though as I find girls name agonisingly difficult compared to boys.

The response so far is much more positive than I thought. I'm presuming popular name fans are wisely ignoring though.

scaevola. Euphrates would be the third child. No prizes for naming the one in the middle.

It's a bit of a mouthful is Antigone, but not awful, just unusual. I like it. My Chanel lipstick shade is called Antigone!

Tiggy is awful though, sorry!

SingingSands

Tiggy is not awful

My cat is called Tiggy, it's a lovely name for a cat

Neither.

Antigone sounds like some sort of decaler or cleaner. Tiggy the clown?

Antigone mildly better than Tigris who sounds like the character from Kung Fu Panda.

Your name reminds me of Dr Seuss and the Daves (was mcCave their surname?). My favourite name in that is Marvin O' Gravel Balloon Face. And I think that is marginally less bizarre than Antigone or Tigris!

I thought they were places you were thinking of visiting on holiday. But names?? Both equally dire. Sorry.

Oh, Kung Fu Panda's one is Tigress.

Or there's always Soggy Muff (also from Too Many Daves).

merrymarigold mn declined the use of Marvinogravelballoonface as a username, much to my disappointment

Am assuming your dd1 is Lyra, which is relatively normal in comparison to these two names.

Well, let's hope it's a boy. Bodkin van Horn here you come!

Oh Dave, that is a tragedy. I wonder why. My kids cannot have that story read to them without cracking up the entire way through! I just love the way it does that to them - and me. It's brilliant.

MerryMarigold beat me to it.

I was going to suggest Soggy Muff. Try reading that story with a straight face!

Both of those are simply random collections of letters, not names.

I love antigone, and tiggy. Wanted to call my dd that, but didnt go with our boring surname. Go for it, its beautiful. My greek friend's sister is an antigone but nonnie for short.

People who like Antigone, can you explain Why? Just curious, as I think potatoprints comment on descaler/cleaner was spot on!!!

Just googled Antigone and realised its a girls name. If I were named this by my mother there is no question I would be changing my name!!! Sorry

lolly

I like the on-ee ending. Same reason I like Hermione and Persephone. Granted I like the latter two names more.

There's something quite Victorian/Edwardian Bohemian about naming your child after a Classical heroine.

As Dave points out: the name has strong associations (didn;t Hegel write on Antigone? or was it just the post-Hegelian, late C20th French philosophers who did? And I think Antigone was quite "big" in late C20 feminist political thought, too).

And it's a name that would be equally apt on a model, actor, scientist, head-of-industry, civil servant ... Prime Minister - so it's one of those really flexible names.

Great choice.

How do you pn it?

I think it does sound good too.

An-tig-on-ee

Its obviously not a Northern name Can only assume you live in the South, probs SouthEast

Ok I didnt realise that, she would prob get pronunciation problems from normal people like me (i.e. not privately educated on Greek mythology)

It was the first story that made dd (not Lyra, but has all those letters ) belly laugh out loud, at stinky face which definitely isn't the funniest. And I love it because it's the shortest story we have. And the comedy value of saying Soggy Muff with a straight face.

Don't be ridiculous floggingmolly. They are both names, with meaning and Greek and Latin origin. Just because they are not widely used or you dislike them does not mean they cease to exist. What bizarre egotistical logic.