My feed
Premium
Please
or
to access all these features

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Baby names

Is this TOO weird/out there?

78 replies

RunRabbit · 13/10/2013 19:45

Temperance Grace.

Yay or nay?

OP posts:
Report
quoteunquote · 13/10/2013 20:18

Love it, fab name.

Report
r3d3 · 13/10/2013 20:19

Tampax for short.

Report
RunRabbit · 13/10/2013 20:24

Cadence is very American to me, like Madison.

Elizabeth Grace maybe or Catherine Grace - Too common/popular.

OP posts:
Report
EhricLovesTeamQhuay · 13/10/2013 20:28

Temperance is very religious. Are you? Because if not, it's a bit weird. And a weird virtue to name your child after IMO.

Report
sonlypuppyfat · 13/10/2013 20:36

It's a bit Ned Flanders

Report
looki · 13/10/2013 20:43

Its truly awful.

Report
LizzieVereker · 13/10/2013 20:45

I love it, makes me think of Spencer's Faerie Queen.

Report
QOD · 13/10/2013 20:53

I like it and I read Tempe as tem pay and I like that too!

Report
BlueChampagne · 14/10/2013 15:23

Not keen on Temperance (or Chastity). Liberty came to mind, shortly followed by the phrase 'taking liberties' so that's out too.

How about Tamsin or Tamara, or even Thomasina?

Report
MrsBungle · 14/10/2013 15:25

I quite like it although it sounds very religious.

Report
youretoastmildred · 14/10/2013 15:25

aren't two virtues overkill, and perhaps contradictory? True grace can be very intemperate.

Report
youretoastmildred · 14/10/2013 15:26

Also, it is very dodgy that meek virtues are always given to girls as names. You would expect her brother to be called Bullet Ram or something. or Manley Tank or something like that

Report
PoppyAmex · 14/10/2013 15:27

Temperance sounds like an African American middle-aged woman from the deep South in the US, who spends most of her time in a Baptist Church singing in the choir.

Report
LowLevelWhinging · 14/10/2013 15:30
Report
CruCru · 14/10/2013 17:04

I love it. Do you like Patience?

Report
curlew · 14/10/2013 17:05

Clemency Grace

Report
curlew · 14/10/2013 17:08

Starrystarryknut- I know a Cadenza!

Report
PatoBanton · 14/10/2013 17:08

Noooo...sorry. I like Patience and Constance is Ok too. But Temperance has got 'temper' in it which to me has the immediate association with a bad one. Also reminds me of the AA thing...

hmmm.

Report
PatoBanton · 14/10/2013 17:08

Ooh Thomasina ...now you're talking Smile

Report
squoosh · 14/10/2013 17:21

Temperance is awful, I don't really like virtue names but this is worse than most. The kind of name I'd expect Carrie's mother to have.

Report
reelingintheyears · 14/10/2013 17:22

Yes.

Report
RunRabbit · 14/10/2013 17:50

Seems like it's either loved or really hated Grin

OP posts:
Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

LillyNotOfTheValley · 15/10/2013 05:49

Really bible belt to my ears. Constance is much easier to live with.

How about Honoria Grace?

Report
RaRa1988 · 15/10/2013 12:26

Don't like it, sorry. Temperance is long and awkward and doesn't sound nice - and is there any way of shortening it?

Report
TallulahBetty · 15/10/2013 13:20

Honoria sounds like gonorrhea Shock

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.