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 :)

Sherman?

Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo or Leonardo, Grantaire? (Love Raphael BTW)

Vickers? Challenger?

Artemis is lovely.

I think I know what the tank name is. It's a name I used to think of as being very frilly but I think that less so since hearing about the tank reference.

No, I don't particularly like it and I think its sounds archaic to modern ears.

Its also a hell of a name to live up to! Like naming your DD Cleopatra or your DS John Kennedy (I know one of the latter, btw, and everyone raised an eyebrow when he joined my DS's class).

TBH I'm not surprised your parents were shocked - its not really the first name that springs to mind when you think of a baby girl.

Yes, dd is called Sherman Churchill, YouPoorFuckingChild for short

She is named after the A11 British Infantry Tank (BIT for short? ).

DS is indeed Raphael.

Depends how you want to pronounce it? She will spend a lifetime correcting people. IMO it's too big a name and would make me think the parents were try-hard knobs.

squoosh, it means 'mighty in battle'. I don't think of it as frilly at all but I do think the commonly used abbreviation for it (which I don't like) is v frilly.

And if I don't think of the tank, I think of the bloody awesome Queen.

Bacchus? That's a nice name too
Apollo, Sirius, Thor, Woden????

Do you know it means "the war bringer"?

She's a great gal and all but I wouldn't use it for a child.

Matilda so going tlshes like Mark 1 as the middle name

wtf phone

**so hoping ages Mark 1 as a middle name

fuck it I give up....fuck you autocorrect

i would just want to sing this at her

We do call her Mark 1 as a joke...

I like it, except for the 'dic' in it. And I prefer Boudica. Boo is super cute for a nickname, Bo would suit an adult. It's better than anything in the current top ten.
I also like Nefertiti.
And Cleopatra.

Bodhi is also nice, but I guess more for a boy.

Thank you everyone for your opinions - think we are now going to ditch that name!