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Bambi

103 replies

YellowLily17 · 01/05/2017 17:53

For a middle name?

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EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 02/05/2017 18:11

Francesca is beautiful & Bambi is a cute nickname for a baby / toddler.

Even if Bambi had meant baby girl, though, that would be all the more reason not to use it as an actual name.

MollyHuaCha · 02/05/2017 18:59

Nice name, but not great for a child or adult - could you it for a hamster or something?

Bringmesunshite · 02/05/2017 21:18

She won't be a baby girl forever.

Ohyesiam · 02/05/2017 23:29

Bimba is Italian for baby girl. You could use it as a nic name until she's about 2 , but please, never put it anywhere in writing.

Unless you are joking, in which case haha.

NameChanger22 · 02/05/2017 23:36

I like it. There's nothing wrong with cute.

Also, middle names aren't that important, she can easily drop it if she doesn't like it.

Ojoj1974 · 02/05/2017 23:45

No, sounds ridiculous

HarrietVane99 · 03/05/2017 14:18

There's nothing wrong with cute.

Maybe not for a baby or toddler, but that's only about three years out of someone's whole life. For upwards of sixty years, if she lives what is a typical lifespan these days, she'll be a grown woman. 'Cute' is probably not the impression she'll want to be conveying when she gives her name.

HarrietVane99 · 03/05/2017 14:24

And meant to add:

middle names aren't that important

They can be. Where I grew up and lived for as time as an adult, there was someone else with the same (not very common) first and last names as me, but a different middle name. She was born the year before me. At one time we were both attending the same out patients department for similar reasons. Later we both had accounts at the same bank. It was the different middle names that made it clear we were two different people, rather than someone making a mistake with the d.o.b.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 03/05/2017 14:31

What Harriet said.

I'm small and have always looked younger than I am. Getting taken seriously has been hard enough on occasion. If I'd had the added handicap of a "cute" name I'd have changed it as soon as possible.

NameChanger22 · 03/05/2017 20:21

Why be taken seriously? Your lives must be boring.

PurpleDaisies · 03/05/2017 20:23

Why be taken seriously? Your lives must be boring.

I don't know where to start with this ridiculous comment.

You've never wanted to be taken seriously? You don't care if people don't listen to you or care about your opinions?

BertrandRussell · 03/05/2017 20:26

She's a free spirit. No time for us mundanes. That's why her child is called RainbowSparkle.......

teddygirlonce · 03/05/2017 20:34

It sounds like a porn star's name Hmm

NameChanger22 · 03/05/2017 20:40

People who try to be taken seriously mostly look ridiculous. I don't care what other people think of my opinions, they are just opinions.

QuietNameChange · 03/05/2017 20:51

DH has just told me that he likes Hero and "Wolf/Wolfie"... I definitely prefer Bambi. Seeing as this is my DH... I clearly have no business judging anybody's name choices.

Francesca Bambi Lettice. Francesca Bambi Juno. Francesca Bambi Fenella. Francesca Bambi Penelope. Francesca Bambi Apolline. Francesca Bambi Beatrix. Francesca Bambi Bartholomea. Yes, I actually really like it! It's simply lovely.

MikeUniformMike · 03/05/2017 21:36

fine as nn. awful as middle name.

HarrietVane99 · 03/05/2017 21:42

Nothing wrong with Hero for a girl. Classical Greek and Shakespearian. And the name of a Heyer heroine.

Quokka12 · 03/05/2017 21:43

We have Ursula as a middle name as a diminutive of ursus - her dad - so far have avoided Disney connections as she knows it is part of her polish heritage - bambi though if you can't trace linguistic connections is a bit of a stretch!

QuietNameChange · 03/05/2017 22:15

Harriet

but isn't Hero the one that committed suicide after her lover died? (Or am I confusing something)? It's just not a pretty association, is it?

I honestly like Bambi. Francesca Bambi Bartholomea is really lovely imo. Or Louisa Bambi Bartholomea, for example. When I first read the OP I honestly didn't like it. But it's honestly growing on me ;)

HarrietVane99 · 03/05/2017 22:48

Well, you'd never use Cassandra, or Juliet, or Tess, or many other names, if you didn't want names that had any unhappy fictional associations.

QuietNameChange · 03/05/2017 22:51

Harriet

True. But Hero... Idk. I think you're right. I am probably just looking for excuses why we shouldn't consider this name, tbh Blush

Chavelita · 05/05/2017 13:30

Bambi Lettice sounds like something you'd be given at animal feeding time at a petting farm.

I actually knew a Bambi briefly - she was Filipina and the moodiest person I have ever met. Every time I see Cherish Finden ripping the head off some hapless pastry chef on TV because their macaroon wasn't gooey in the middle, her expression reminds me of her.

BastardGoDarkly · 05/05/2017 13:38

NameChanger they are your opinions, that I won't be taking seriously, happy?

No to Bambi here too op, but franchesca is beautiful Smile

QuietNameChange · 05/05/2017 14:11

Bastard

?

BastardGoDarkly · 05/05/2017 15:27

There's a poster upthread, called namechanger22, she thinks people who want to be taken seriously are boring.

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