Sloane?

[Liliannna1]

Overheard name in supermarket yesterday and thought it was unusual but pretty? Thoughts?

Sorry OP but I don't like it on many levels.

I don't (for unfathomable reasons admittedly) like the sound or spelling.

It just screams a name that tries too hard to be interesting, but just isn't

Very much not my thing. I don't like "surnamey" names much anyway, and I'm old enough to remember when a Sloane was common slang for an upper-class, and usually rather smug, sort of person. I'm particularly surprised that people see it as more of a girl's name because I can't see anything feminine looking or sounding about it at all - if you put a gun to my head and made me use it, I'd use it for a boy.

I absolutely love Sloane. Probably wouldn't use it, but love it anyway

I read somewhere that lots of negative words start with sl, like slime, slither, slob, slattern, etc etc. I don't like the name, sorry.

Sloane is an unsult!!

Was considered by DH and I for DS2 before we knew he was a boy, along with Greer.

I really liked it, but I know a couple of Aussie women with the name so I don't associate it with braying twats, only with extremely cool, surfing women!

I think its without exception the worst naming suggestion I've heard on here.

Sloane Ranger not necessarily kind 1980s slang word, for young, wealthy, upper class people. Kind of predecessors to Tara P-T etc.

I always read the name as if it rhymes with Joanne, no idea why!

Ooh I like it! Never heard it as a first name. Can be used for either too.

FloralTribute then you haven't read enough posts