Amberlynn - thoughts?

[GreenStraws]

I think it's the one. Would just like a few opinions first!

I do like Amber though. Amber Leigh is nice as two separate names, as one name Amberleigh, it does sound like Ambulance I'm afraid!

I appreciate that the names may sound different with your accent, but if you're planning to raise your child in the UK, you may want to think about these points.

Anne Boleyn.

I love Amber though.

In many English accents it will sound like 'amblin' ' as in ambling along.

Amber is a good name. It doesn't need a bit adding on.

Sorry it's awful,'like some of the other suggestions though

I don't mind Amberlynn tbh but I really like Amberley / Amber-Leigh, much better imo.

I don't get 'Anne Boleyn' when I say Amberlynn but thats because I don't have a English accent (not American though) so I can see why you don't have an issue with pronunciation, however if your planning on raising your DC in England for the foreseeable future then you make need to decide whether thats an issue for you.

Anne Boleyn here as well. Not a great connection to make in the mind I'm afraid. And a lot of British people will make that connection.

Ann Berlin
Ambling
Anne Boleyn

Sorry. Don't think it would work in the U.K.

Anne Boleyn here too

Anne Boleyn.

DD2's middle names are Lynn Ann so I'm partial to those

American trailer trash...

Why the urge to glue two names together?

I live in the US. I have nothing against 'American' names, but there are several categories of them, and Amber on its own or with anything else is indeed very 'Toddlers and Tiaras'.

Is -Lynn the new -Mae? I think it's going to date horribly.

Amber is a lovely name and nothing wrong with Lynne as a middle name.

Made me thing of Steven Spielberg's Amblin and then on to the opening credits of ET (showing my age)!

It's a bit 'bad country and western singer'. Can you not just give her one name rather than insist on sticking 2 together?

Hi OP, Amber is a lovely, stand alone, name.
I like the suggestion of Amberleigh, as an alternative to Amberlynn.
Over here, Lyn/Lynn/Lynne, isn't particularly popular at present.
However, call your lovely baby, whatever you choose.
Another suggestion is Gracelynn, which was very much liked, on a recent thread.

-Lynn appears to be becoming the new -Mae.

Amberlynn and Amberleigh are both ghastly - Amber as a stand alone first name is lovely.

Amberlynn made me think of Anne Boleyn straight away.

Amberley is the name of a village near me so I'd think of that and think you were a fan of the museum there or she'd been conceived there!

Amber is a lovely name on its own.

Love Amber on its own (makes me think of the beautiful Amber Benson - big Buffy fan ), but I'm another one that straight away heard Anne Boleyn once you put Lynn on the end, sorry.

My ds's names has lots of potential shortenings. One of them I don't particularly like- but it's an easy one to shout, so sports coaches have used it since he was 5. He doesn't mind at all, so it would have been incredibly wanky of me to to ask the coach not to use it. My dd's grandfather (who adored her) used an Irish version of her name from the first time he met he- it just came naturally to him (he was an Irish speaker). Are you really saying it would have been OK to ask him not to use a pet name that had huge resonances for him and which was special to the relationship they had?

Sorry, wrong thread!

It's rotten. Please don't.

It reminds me of the X Files episode where a little girl called Amberlynn was murdered.

A bit like Madeline. Nice name but has bad connotations for me