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?

[Vintagejazz]

Sorry, but I just think it sounds daft.

[Daddypigsgusset]

Is hideous hth

[CromerSutra]

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

[MerryMarigold]

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.

[Zara8]

Nice as a middle name I think

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

Sorry OP

[BetweenDogandWolf]

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.

[drudgetrudy]

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

[ShoeWhore]

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?

[UriGeller]

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.

[atticusclaw]

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

[Wheresmypassport]

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

[NorksEnormous]

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

[User54565644578]

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'

[Serenitysutton]

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

[Mylovelylovelyhorse]

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.

[ShadowStar]

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....

[OwlCapone]

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.

[OwlCapone]

Michael Jackson got away with Blanket.

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

[OwlCapone]

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

[squoosh]

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

[watchingtheenglish]

How about a Vervia OP?

[outtolunchagain]

Don't mind Velvet but prefer Violet

[MackerelOfFact]

I prefer Cushelle. Elle for short.

[Uptheairymountain]

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

[mamalino]

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!