Is Arrietty a daft name?

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I've fallen in love with it. Knock some sense into me please!

My DP likes this and suggested it for our dd. He had never heard of the Borrowers. It's pretty but I didn't want to use it.

Its definitely daft. borrowers name or not, sorry.

Wow very mixed opinions! Blight her life? She'll almost certainly hate it?! Think that's a tad over the top! And to the pp who said she's not a puppy the dog next door is called Jonathan 😂 Thanks for the other suggestions. Ariadne makes me think of spiders and Harriet is a bit stuffy. We are "alternative" in a lot of people's eyes ( not ours) so loopy is fine! As I hear myself fiercely defend it I think I really love it. Etty for short.

Don't do it.

Like Sassy said, the Borrowers misheard 'human bean' names. So Mary Norton made it up to sound wrong. Which is why, to me, it sounds wrong!

Terrible name. Lovely nickname for a Harriet, which is a nice name, and which can also carry Etty as a nickname.

I think people are a bit potty for being SO anti naming your child after someone in a book, when the name is nice.

I don't get what Pod and Homily are supposed to be in terms of mishearings of names.

This is reminding me of the hens in The Fox Busters who are named after the names on bits and bobs round the farm. IIRC the cockerel was called Massey Ferguson.

I wouldn't.

Wendy existed as a name before JM Barry used it for Peter Pan, he possibly introduced the idea of Wendy being a girls first name, but it existed as a surname beforehand.

Asking -

Pod's full name is Pod Clock. His character traits and skill set always led me to believe that his name was a mis-hearing of padlock. (He is over-protective of Arietty, and he's the only borrower who knows how to open all the gates between their home and the big house.)

A homily is a lecture/sermon, so Mary Norton came up with her name on a day she was feeling less subtle

There was a very successful Japanese anime film of that name, based loosely on the borrowers story. I expect it is very popular amongst anime lovers.

The Borrowers always annoyed me. Creepy little people sneaking out at night to steal stuff.

I love it.

I like it and it's on my list for DD. I asked for opinions on it on here before and another poster suggested Arletty as an alternative which I also love.

Unfortunately DP hates both

why not? if you like it, then use it.

I would't think it was Harriet - I thought of Ariella from Tree Fu Tom! I presume it's pronounced - Arri-etty, not Arriet (to rhyme with Harriet) so why would people think of Harriet?! Am I being dense?!

Pod=Bob, Homily=Emily , I've always supposed. There's also Uncle Hendreary and some other good ones.

Ariette maybe? We know one, always thought it was pretty.

It could be a cute nn. Maybe for a Harriet, Henriette or even Henrietta?

Etty is a very cute name for a little girl.

Arietty is not a very nice name for a 40 year old accountant.

I know an Arietty, nn Ari. Grown woman, occurred to me it wasn't a "real" name.

*Never occurred to me

Arietty is a nice name - but if you are looking for alternatives maybe Araminta?

Wendy is from Gwendoline, even if he did biting it to fame.

Go ahead. I think you're mad, but then I ŵould have thought Mr &Mrs ( or were they Sir and Lady) Nightingale mad for calling their daughters after Italian cities.

Ariadne is similar and beautiful