Persephone

[Puddles1234]

One of the names me and my husband love for our baby if it is a girl is Persephone. However we are struggling with the middle names.

We need two or three middle names. These can be English names or Classical Greek.

I am open to suggestions.

Many Thanks

I agree with Oscar - However, if you are definitely having Marina then I would maybe strike off Helena and Alexandrina as they are a bit "sing song" when combined I think...but then i guess that depends on how you were pronouncing Helena. I pronounce it Hell ee na rather than Helen a.

How about:

Persephone Marina Joy
Persephone Marina Juliet
Persephone Marina Alicia

Avoid a string of middle names which are all long and / or ending in the same letter/ sound at least.... I guess Persephone Marina Iris is OK ... when you have so many names it is hard to avoid them just sounding like a random list, rather than somebody's name...

I guess though only the first name matters, just make sure the initials don't spell anything .... Usually if you have one outlandish name its pleasant for the child to have a fairly ordinary middle name incase they really, really hate the very unusual one...

Persephone Marina Isobel?

My point, puddles, is that you are saddling your child w a massively embarrassing name that sounds more like a classical history list than a person. In the manner of Paula Yates and other z list slebs (i recall you posting that you are a wag so maybe you want to self identify as a footballers wife by naming your daughter something so overblown).

But your child, your choice.

Ps I pointed out I know 2 persephones and they both are known as penny. So it might happen to your Persephone too

I have not a clue how it is pronounced, is it percy-phone or is that a common mistake?

I most certainly did not mean you OP.

Percy-phone sounds awful, correct or not!

angeltulips (i recall you posting that you are a wag so maybe you want to self identify as a footballers wife by naming your daughter something so overblown). When did I ever say that I was a wag? I am certainly not a wag. Will you stop posting your ridiculous drivel.

It is not pronounced PERCYPHONE so only uneducated people would make that mistake.

I do not want to enter in a debate on whether people agree with how many middle names our child will have etc.

Thank you to those who have posted extremely helpful suggestions and advice.

Aren't you the one who was posting about how all the school mums were jealous of you and you had started dating an actor and couldn't tell anyone because you were already fantastically rich due to marrying a footballer? Apols if not

It's still a stonkingly ridiculous set of names to give a child. And I live in Kensington too, so I look forward to seeing little kitto (as I shall nickname her) around the area.

'Aren't you the one who was posting about how all the school mums were jealous of you and you had started dating an actor and couldn't tell anyone because you were already fantastically rich due to marrying a footballer? Apols if not'

Ooooooh my favourite kid of thread! Though footballers and their wives don't tend to call their child Persesphone do they?

Sephy is a much prettier nickname than Percy. Percy is a rosy cheeked man of about 82.

*Aren't you the one who was posting about how all the school mums were jealous of you and you had started dating an actor and couldn't tell anyone because you were already fantastically rich due to marrying a footballer? Apols if not

It's still a stonkingly ridiculous set of names to give a child. And I live in Kensington too, so I look forward to seeing little kitto (as I shall nickname her) around the area. No I did not angeltulips* I would appreciate if you would stop posting absolute nonsense and I highly doubt you live in the same street as me, since you think the nickname for Persephone is 'Penny'

Not.critiscizing at all but I think your other middle name choices are a bit long.the last one needs to be one syllable to 'flow' nicely. Are you leaning towards Goddess names all the way through?

Persephone is a beautiful name, the majority of people will know how to pronounce it and, if they don't, you tell them how to. Job done.

How about Persephone Marina Helen Surname-surname. Nice mix of English and Greece, not too much of a mouthful, you can fit the majority of it on forms.. :)

Oh and I.live in a working/LMC area with average education. Most people I know would pronounce it correctly. But the buggers would still shorten it to Percy (but we're quite Northern and that would be normal here x)

But people the health visitor screw up my DD's name and thats short and quite popular. One.extra letter in it and more than one person has called her something completely different.
Some.will.cock up any name whatever it is.

I think some people will inevitably assume it's pronounced 'percy-phone' but I'd be very surprised if it was as widespread as some people are predicting. It's hardly that unusual.

Only if they also pronounced Hermione 'Hermy-own'

In the OP's milieu the name will be absolutely nothing out of the norm.

If I have twins I will call them Percy Phone and Hermy Own.

I don't think anyone should be saddled with such a name. But people can call their chldren what they like. I don't know any. I don't move in those circles.

"...so only uneducated people would make that mistake." Only uneducated people would say "me and my husband" IMO! Interestingly OP considers herself "Upper Class" as per a previous thread she posted on, yet her use of the English language would seem to suggest otherwise. I personally found her remarks a few months ago about the name Millie-Jo, "Sounds like a child from council estate", hugely inappropriate, plus there are many other remarks from her on numerous other posts that make me cringe.

Go and choose whatever names you like OP, why consider the opinions of a bunch of strangers on the internet, many of whom may possibly - God forbid - live on a council estate!