Crystal

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Opinions? I really love this name, but is it silly? I love the NN Cryssie too!

Funny how christabel is ok but crystal isnt.

I like crystal and would rather have a crystal than yet another charlotte or sophie.

Crystal Gayle! Listening to people sleeping. Retro.

Neon find me an important member of the women's suffrage movement named Crystal and we'll talk.

From Wikipedia: Crystal Eastman

"Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 8, 1928) was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-founder in 1920 of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York."

A4

Touché. Well played

Love it A4

I quite like it and I didn't think 'stripper'. I probably wouldn't choose it though because of crystal meth.

Christelle isn't pretty.

Sorry, I don't like it

Horrid.

Cheap sounding

Well done A4

Although im not sure what suffrage has to do with baby names... Maybe someone could enlighten me? Are female names only acceptable if a suffragette was called it too?

Neon you said 'funny how christabel is ok but crystal isn't.'

The whole business of choosing names is to do with connotations, which will vary for everyone. When posters ask on here if people like a name, respondents will base their judgement at least partly on the connotations that the name holds for them.

I, personally, like the name Christabel. For me, it connotes Christabel Pankhurst and the poem by Coleridge. Crystal is not my cup of tea. I don't especially like the 'stripper' references which are rife on this thread as I think they're reductive but it's clearly a fairly widely-held connotation. If OP decided against Crystal, then she might like a similar alternative, hence my suggestions.

*...the army of women in here who choose hard-to-pronounce-and-spell Irish names"

what army is this then? . Sorry you find Irish names hard to pronounce and spell but, really, what has that got to do with anything? Crystal isn't hard to spell or pronounce... Has someone said that?

Oh and Crystal isn't terrible. It kind of reminds me of Fairy Princesses / Barbie / My Little Pony (don't know why really and it's probably only me, but that's why I don't love it personally).

Balls wrong thread sorry

I know a Chrystal, and she is absolutely lovely, so the name has positive connotations to me. I wouldn't choose it for my own child, as it is not the kind of name I like (list if my DC's had been DD's was Kate, Zoe, Ruth) but I wouldn't think badly of any parents who chose it, any more than I would think badly of them for choosing anything else that is not my style (Annabelle, Victoria, Evie etc etc)

Definitely a stripper vibe.