Velvet for a baby name?

[PlanetMJ]

Hello, I am really loving the name Velvet for a girl. It has lots of lovely connotations for me from childhood being an avid fan of National and International Velvet and The Velveteen Rabbit.

I also love the Pixies song Velouria.

Am I missing something really obvious that will forever condemn future daughter to a life of cringe?

What do you think?

Sorry, but I just think it sounds daft.

Is hideous hth

My friend's grown up dd is called Callico, Cally for short. Lovely name I think. I like velvet as a middle name.

Cromer, I want to have another baby now don't let dh hear that, and call it Callico. Fab name! Maybe I settle for a cat.

Nice as a middle name I think

But it really does conjure up toilet roll or stripper connotations as a first name

Sorry OP

I like it and suggested it to DH when I was pregnant with DD but he was totally against it.

DH also vetoed my middle name choice of Foxglove, which was met with derision when I mentioned it on here before, so maybe he had a point.

I'm sure I read a magazine with someone who had a baby called Velvet in when I was pregnant. DD is 7 now though and I don't know who it was.

Tipping the velvet-a Victorian euphemism for vulva. I personally would avoid.

I know a Velvet and she's lovely. Never heard anyone snigger about her name.

It's not my choice but if you like it OP then why not?

When I was a kid I was going to name my first born child Fuchsia Velvet. I still love it. Firstborn was a boy and so were the next two. I'd forgotten all about the name by the time I got my dd.

But, there is a processed cheese in US called Velveeta cheese. So I'd make sure your surname isn't something like it. Or Curtain.

I don't think any name associated with oral sex is good for a child/human

To me it doesn't sound like a name and I couldn't imagine shouting it across a park to my child without feeling embarrassed or without having a fluffy dog come up to me instead

I know a child called velvet, it's an awful name!! Please don't do it!

I know a Velvet who's about 18 months now. Apart from an initial thought of "that's a bit unusual" I didn't think much of it, apart from it's quite cool. Also unusual without being really out-there (it's an often used word, after all). The only thing odd for me is that her older brother has a very classic, Thomas-the-Tank style name so the two don't really 'match'

Oh dear no.what will velvet do for a living? Doesn't pass the barrister/ builder test

She will be a lesbian stripper serenity. Obvs

It does fall firmly into the 'choose a word, any word at all and it can be a name' category but I still quite like it.

Nicole Kidman got away with Satine - but wasn't that just the name of her courtesan character in Moulin Rouge? So not a name used by her (or her children) in real life....

But Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet was Velvet Brown.

And Martin Freeman in The Hobbit was Bilbo Baggins, that doesn't make Bilbo a good choice for a name.

Michael Jackson got away with Blanket.

And you think that's a good example...?

Also, Blanket's real name is Prince Michael Jackson II

Frankly I'd rather be called Blanket than Prince Michael II.

How about a Vervia OP?

Don't mind Velvet but prefer Violet

I prefer Cushelle. Elle for short.

Going against the majority view - I think it's really, really nice. Pretty and unusual.

I think it's lovely. I was obsessed with anything velvet/velveteen when I was growing up in the 80s - velour track suits anyone? I loved the velveteen rabbit book too, and remember The Chalet School girls wearing velvet frocks?

Velvet is an ace name. Go for it!