portia

[Cosycottage4]

Really struggling with names for DD2, DH and I keep coming up with ideas then vetoing for one reason or another.

Portia came up on a thread I read last night and I think it's beautiful. Obv wouldn't want the car connotations but not sure if that's where people's minds would go on first hearing?

What does everyone think?

I really like it. If I have another girl Portia is a strong contender. My dd is Xanthe, I think they work well together although my family will say they are both posh names they think I'm a snob (we're not posh)

It's a beautiful name, I really like it. Would it go with her surname? Portia Smith/Brown wouldn't sound right IMO.

I like it and I quite like the juxtoposition of a long or 'fancy' name with a plain surname.

I like it a lot and it doesn't make me think of Porsche.

I like it. I haven't heard it much at all.

I like it and I quite like the juxtoposition of a long or 'fancy' name with a plain surname.

Me too! I think plain surnames deserve a fancy shmancy first name. Jane Brown sounds a little bit sad whereas Portia Brown sounds marvellous.

I like it, but it does remind me more of John Cleese's snotty, horsy daughter who wants a nose job in A Fish Called Wanda than of Shakespeare's sparky heroine... (And AFCW did have a joke about calling your daughter after a car in it, from what I remember...)

We have a relatively 'normal' surname and it does flow nicely :-)

So glad there are some positive views as well as the negative ones... I know it does have that bratty connotation but I so want to see past that as I just love the name!

Go for it, so - reclaim it from the snotty, horsy girls!

To me it will always be the company who make ring pessaries for uterine prolapse - Sorry!