Boadicea

[MrsTweed123]

Hi everyone,
Can I ask for your opinions on the name Boadicea please?

I ran it past my folks at the weekend and they were quite shocked that we were thinking of this name...not the reaction I was expecting!

Do you like it? What is your instant reaction to it? I like the idea of giving my daughter a strong, individual name but not if it is going to have people sniggering behind my back!

Really appreciate your opinions :)

its a friend's dogs name .

sorry posted too soon, I like it but I think the child will have to explain it a lot.

Dont like it. Sorry.

Are you really serious?

anyway, she wasn't called Boadicea, she was called Boudica

I really, really wouldn't.

I don't think it's moved over into the modern selection of names AT ALL.

I think pronunciation will be the tricky thing.

Bow-a-de-sea-a?
Boo-dick-a?

Also, I know a traction engine by that name!

However, I do like it as a name for a strong-willed little woman. Would she be "Boo" (or "Bow") as a nickname?

Yikes. It sound so try-hard.

Boudica is the way forward ;)

My instant reaction is: Wasn't that Mrs Overall's first name, in Acorn Antiques?

DH was desperate to call DD Boudicca.

He lost - and we chose something more classic - but the name would suit DD.

I wish id called DD Boudicca. It would have totally suited her

Not boadicea though, as weve known it was Boudicca for at least 25/30 years now

Is this an actual joke thread?

It's a terrible name, it would work on a celeb baby (marking of a not great name usually).

Boudicca is a lot to live up to!

I have a ridiculous first name and it's a bore explaining, spelling, pronouncing it all the time

She will find it impossible to live up to. And idiots will taunt her about getting a boob out. I can imagine employers rolling their eyes on reading her job applications.

The name is great, and the thought behind it lovely, but unfortunately the reality of the society we live in is that it's not good enough for that name to work well for someone imo.

It's way too big a name for a person to carry. Would be like calling someone Genghis or Cleopatra.

I'm afraid I'd definitely snigger behind your back and roll my eyes too.

Did you ever see the vicar of dibley episode where dawn french's character says her real name is actually Boadicea and everybody laughs at her, and she goes by a totally different name because she can't stand having a name like "Boadicea"? Yeah.

LOVE IT.

But everybody will laugh at you - and this comes from someone who was slated for thinking about using Artemis this week.

I'm not keen. Sorry.

It's not an individual name though. It's the name of AN individual that's so linked to that one person that no one else would ever be able to carry it off. You're naming a baby, not the queen of the Iceni.

I know a young Boudicca, her parents call her Boudi for short.

It's at the top of our list too... although for future family pet names. Sorry, OP.

It's the 'bare-breasted warrior' connotations I'd be a bit nervous about.

And the idea of a bare-breasted warrior bank clerk in her 40s sitting at the local Natwest called "Boadicea" is just hilarious. I would never have been pretty cheesed off to have been given that name. I think the only people who could pull that name off… actually, no, I can't think of anyone.

Sorry, but there is 'out there' and then there is 'a bit cruel'.

Oooh! Ghengis! that's a nice name!

I quite like it if you spell and pronounce it correctly. I also love Artemis.

But then my dd is named after a tank and ds a ninja turtle so you shouldn't listen to me...

Is your DD called Churchill Grantaire