opinions on our chosen name: Heavenly Joy

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Just want to run it past a few strangers

Horrendous.

For some reason Evangelina Joy sounds quite nice, despite being drawn from the same sort of origin material..... it offends my sensibilities less

It's awful op sorry.
The poor child will suffer with a name like that.

YY to the Joy of sex!

Heaven just makes me think of death.

Heavenly joy is silly.

I am reminded of heaven Leigh casteel too.

What about Haven?

Haven is a holiday park.

Celeste or Celestine Joy are lovely.

Celeste is ugly and clunky.

Celeste is lovely.

My ds went to school with a Heaven-Leigh, she hated the name and was teased mercilessly as a teen. She chose another name to use as an adult.

Heavenly would be an awful name to be laiden with

I had a still-born named Heavenly. These comments make me sad

I'm sorry for your loss FindingTheRightName. It is a lovely name.

Finding

I love love love it. It's just gorgeous.

Anyway, who cares what we think. If you like it, go for it.

for you Finding.

Finding.

Imagine shouting 'heavenly joy, don't do that' at high volume in the middle of your local supermarket ... maybe better choices out there??

Sorry Finding - didn't see your post before replying. Don't want to come across as insensitive. Really sorry about your loss and please don't be sad because people are questioning the name 'Heavenly'. It was right for you and your little one.

Joy is a lovely name!

Well, I'm in a part of London with a very large Nigerian community, plenty of children called things like Precious, and a lot of biblical names, particularly for boys. So here I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid, and she can always go by Joy if she doesn't like it. Obviously if you're in the sticks it might not be such a great idea, though it's a pity you'd need to take that into consideration. Oh, and Claudia pronounced Cloudier is the German pronunciation.

Wow, a little sad about all these negative comments... I know I asked for it, but I wasn't expecting such a negative response.

I do not have a Nigerian background, but I am in the centre of London. I've come across lots of names - Stone, Blue, Venus, Woody, Princess, Duke, etc.

So I didn't realise it would be so hated

Mine was Heavenly Angel (Angel was the middle name).

She was gorgeous, so I of course love the name. I know the circumstances are different, but I find myself saying her name lots, I talk to her little sister (who I'm pregnant with) all about how she looked, etc.

My family and friends say the name fine too. I think some people even think she is actually still here and called Heavenly, they don't say anything. I have met lots of children with unusual names, or names that they will be teased over. They don't get teased over their name, bullies will find anything.

So many children have unique names, wether that's different cultures, etc.

I work in a school, there are loads of names you'd think children would laugh at, but it doesn't seem to happen and honestly, a child makes the name, not the other way

Op, most of us here will be boring white british who call our kids fairly safe, dull traditionally white british names. If culturally your choice fits for you, then don't duscount it necessarily on mumsnet's say so.

It would only be weird the first few times you hear it, then you would think nothing if it. And we have a solicitor in town called Angel and she advertises under that name.

I think when you use nouns or adjectives as a name an awful lot depends on whether they're familiar in the community you live in.

Just thinking about it, in our circle of school friends and family we have a Daisy, a Poppy, a couple of Lilies, a Hope and a Faith. All lovely names of lovely things - but if they were called, for example, Daffodil, Banana, Happiness and Enthusiasm, they would raise more eyebrows. Its not that rational (and I agree with a pp I rather like Comfort, Precious etc as names)

What about the option of calling her Something Heavenly Joy? You could still call her Heavenly if you wanted to, but you and she would have more options if it became a bit of a millstone in later years.

Possibly the worst name I've ever seen on this Board! Sorry OP but it's a horrible name.