Genevieve, Primrose or Virginia?

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Little sister to Tabitha.

Primrose

Primrose is lovely and goes well with Tabitha.

NOT Virginia, or she will be bullied mercilessly.

Genevive. Beautiful!

Genevieve is lovely.

I really thought that said Vagina when I was scrolling down! Nooo!

Think Primrose 'goes' with Tabitha but also think it's a bit wet...

Primrose is just lovely :)

Virginia is the most beautiful of the three names, by a long way. I was at school with a Virginia and no one ever teased or bullied her over her name. Children are often less childish than adults.

I like the idea of Genevieve but I don't really know how to pronounce it correctly . I'd say it like Jen-iv-eve, is that wrong?

Primrose is also very nice, but I do think Virginia would leading to teasing.

Primrose

Please don't do Virginia, no matter how much you like it it really does conjure up the following:

Virgin
Sex
Tobacco
American state.

Nothing exactly overly pleasant/appealing.

Genevieve is not especially attractive IMHO either. Will end up being Genny, which sets my teeth on edge with the G vs J think, a bit like Ginnifer (uurrgh) and will involve a lifetime of spelling out and its just so boring (I have a short name that still requires spelling out and it is thoroughly tedious).

Enjoy: those children grow up to be childish adults you mention!

Also, children are not usually that knowledgeable about virgins, sex, tobacco brands or American states :)

I hadn't thought about the tobacco ... If she's blonde people could call her Golden Virginia that sounds rather glamorous

I've said it before but I must say it again, do not call your daughter Virginia. You may think it's elegant and feminine, she will be teased, maybe not bullied, but definitely teased.

No, it isn't inevitable as I know from my own schoolfriend's experience. She'd likely get shortened to Ginny anyway.

Maybe not 'inevitable' but pretty bloody likely that the name Virginia will encourage teasing and/or smirking.

Why take the risk? So unnecessary, so unkind.

I agree don't use Virginia! I like Primrose. My neighbour was called Virginia. To her face that was her name. Behind her back all the Tweens right up to twenty year olds called her Vagina. Not that people didn't like her. Just immature! I found it hilarious I'm ashamed to say

Primrose.

Genevieve is OK but people will pronounce it different.

Virginina - I knew one and all through school she was known as fanny aor vagina - childish I know but thats how it was.

I love Genevieve (and would try to encourage Ginny as a nn even though not totally natural as I adore it!).

Primrose think is a really sappy wet kind of name.

Virginia (whilst getting you Ginny), unfortunately just makes me think of virgin/ vagina. The o my people I've known to wear it well are American (not sure why though!).

Primrose is one of my favourite girls names.

However I wouldn't use as I would hate to be a 40 year old woman called Primrose. I would feel daft every time I said my name.

Agree with Cloudkitten about Virginia - don't do it to the poor child.