Dawn...

[Pigofwar]

...bear with me!

I know Dawn might evoke images of middle-aged women (all of the Dawns I know are in their 40s and 50s) BUT I saw a picture in a magazine this week with of a beautiful sunrise and the word "dawn" and it made me think about the name in a new way. Could it be a new "nature" name along the lines of Willow, Sage, River etc?!

'I know a Dawn, in her fifties, biggest slag that ever walked the earth. She Had to move a couple of times because wives always seemed to catch up with her.'

I'm hearing that in Denise Royle's voice! 😆

Denise Royal is not harsh enough

Needs much more venom.

Sorry Op, it's actually a beautiful name but we do associate names with people.

And your sister is not supposed to strip off and offer herself to your husband ( and any other man with an electric drill and a set of ladders)

I'm getting help for my Dawn issues

Dawn I lovely xxx

Ughh......the arch bully at school was called Dawn. It's quite put me off the name.

(I'm sure you're luvvly, DawnMumsNet ).

I like it :)

I don't think it travels well but it is a lovely name.

Horrible horrible name
It's a real skanger "howya bud" name

'And your sister is not supposed to strip off and offer herself to your husband ( and any other man with an electric drill and a set of ladders)'

Yep getting starkers and offering yourself to your brother in law definitely contravenes sibling rules!

Dirty old Dawn.

WTF Is a skanger?

And what does 'howya bud'mean?

and any other man with an electric drill and a set of ladders... Uhm. What?! :=0

However, trying to have relations with her BIL? That's really awful!

(although still better than my auntie Matilda. Made a bet with her then lover [what's the male version of mistress?] whether he would manage to seduce my mother... She couldn't have been older than 16... He was the age of her father. She's now in a cult or something...)

DD was born at dawn. DH suggested we call her Dawn. I said a definite no: I don't like the aw sound on the middle.

Aw I have always loved Dawn, but didn't like the fact it's so close to Don and other accents would pronounce it weirdly. Only ever known lovely Dawns 😊

How weird. I was thinking about Dawn the other day and wondering why it wasn't having a resurgence. Other names which hard negative connotations have come back in. Maybe we need to wait until the current generation of Mumsnet babies have children.
I have a great niece called Dawn, in her 40s, and as far as I know she is lovely, but it was a name that had a bad press at one point.

Dawn is a beautiful choice,
All of the Dawns I know are great.
It's a strong, confident name.
I like Dawn Porter and Dawn French.

It's not unlike Joan, Marion and Margaret - all of a different era but full of female success and independence.