Persephone, ophelia,Titania or Andromeda

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Just musing but which one do you prefer.

Persephone
ophelia
Titania
Andromeda

And about the same number of Penelopes!

I can't use john. But I do like the name

And besides his is my girls name thread!

But I am thinking Fergus or Rupert or if I get really hormonal Dante for a boy

Sorry, I wasn't suggesting you call your dd John! I was just replying to whoever it was said John was really boring and there are thousands of them.

Ophelia goes mad and then drowns herself in Hamlet. At some stage the odds are that her GCSE group will be doing Hamlet.

Persephone is a nice name but I would not call my daughter something commonly associated with "The Rape Of ..." (see also Lucretia).

Andromeda is chained to a rock and sacrificed to Poseidon.

Titania is the best of a bad bunch but still ended up being magically tricked into loving a donkey. And she would need to be nn Annie or Nancy before she stepped foot in a school.

I don't understand why anybody would choose names with such horrible (and for some misogynist) associations.

Horrible associations wouldn't worry me because the vast majority of people wouldn't be aware of them anyway. I like Ophelia but she would probably end up being called Fi. Nothing wrong with that IMHO.
I quite like Persephone too but there isn't an obvious nn for a girl.

I have a friend who chose what a first seemed a dreadful name for her dd (and it wasn't just me who thought so) but as time has gone on and as I've got used to it I've begun to like it a lot. The girl, who is not so little now, is lovely and I couldn't imagine her being called anything else. None of her friends bat an eyelid - it's her name and that's it.

Not sure about Dante for a boy - it's the sound of it that doesn't appeal to me. Fergus would be my favourite. I know a Rupert and he's not very nice, so that has put me off

I know a Dante, it's a bloody great name - he's dark haired and dark eyed and it totally suits him.

The thing is, only the saddest of bastards would look at a tiny baby, hear a name and then think of the Shakespeare character/Greek mythological goddess and whatever demise they met. Honestly, who really doesn't that?

If DP and I have another DC and its a boy Dante is on our short list
I don't think anyone really thinks of the grim associations all that much tbh
I'm gonna vote again for Persephone because I love it but DP would never ever ever let me

Johnny is a cool name

I agree saxons, DS2 is a Johnny!

Ok, probably outing myself totally but Persephone was my first choice if DS had been a girl - Percy for short. It's my favourite Greek myth and I actually interpret the story as her bringing spring to the earth. Ophelia would have been my third choice. Given that we clearly share the same pretentious and awful taste, I present you with my son's name, Cosmo. My Italian husband chose it for family/cultural reasons - FIL is Cosimo and SIL is a doctor (Cosmo is the patron saint of physicians) but I'd imagine people not knowing that assume we chose it to be pretentious.