Remedios

[tspika]

Remedios for a daughter's first name – any thoughts?

It sounds like a Harry Potter spell to me

Sounds like medicine!

One hundred years of solitude

Just no.

Gabriel García Márquez

For indigestion tablets, yes. For a child, no.

I suppose it might be OK if you live in a Spanish speaking country, but it's not one of the nicer Spanish names to an English speaking ear.

Not keen sorry.

Harry Potter spell immediately came to mind too. Not good, sorry.

Thanks, all!

Sounds like remedial. Back in the 1970s when some poor kids were put in the remedial class

Something you'd take for heartburn when on hols in Majorca.

I thought it was Remedy at first, sorry but it's a no from me, it just doesn't sound like a name

I am reassured that I'm not the only one who thought wand-waving.

Sorry, OP, I don't think it works in an Anglophone context.

Portuguese last name.

Sorry medicine or Spanish surname like Hose Remedios xxx

Agree with all the above. 100 Yrs of Solitude (irritating character, like all of his women), a surname, indigestion tablets and the word remedial. There are no good connotations there at all. So no.

TBH, not the best sounding Spanish name to Spanish-speaking ears either. And it does mean 'remedies'. V old-fashioned too but that's by the by.

It doesn't help that the 3 I know are horrible people!

Sorry, OP!

It sounds like a word for medicine.

Thank you, everyone! (None of the concerns you've raised are at all bothersome; it works brilliantly for us.)

It's really ugly, poor child. Not that you probably care as long as its 'yoonique'.

I'm curious why the OP changed her name from tspika to tsipka mid thread.

Don't like it.
Made me think of remedial.
Also is ugly sounding.

RortyCrankle – I definitely don't want anything "yoonique"; I'm not sure where you got that impression. I'm actually only considering names that are very traditional and well established, despite the fact that my friends will almost certainly think us terribly boring.

Regarding screen names, the site had assigned me a username with a number originally, and I decided to get rid of that number the other day. Right after that, I posted this thread…and then immediately noticed the typo I'd just introduced. Sorry; not particularly intriguing.

Remedial. Help.

Just don't.

Horrid.