Oh please MN...please can I use this name?

[HelloFreedom]

Clementine. NN Clemmie. I love it. This will be last baby (4th) so Iast chance for this.

Trouble is, it has the same number of syllables as our last name. And the last syllables rhyme.

So think 'Clementine Hannodyne' (not our real surname but a close approximation).

So can I? Pretty please?

Honest opinions very much wanted. Be as brutal as you want.

Also as odd as this sounds do a quick check on the internet for song lyrics with Clementine/Clemency etc in.

It sounds so odd but due diligence is always good.

I can think of one but it's super obscure so no sweat there

I'm not a fan of Clementine or Clemmie, too frilly for me.

Personally I wouldn't have a first name that rhymed with the surname, I would automatically think you were high on gas and air when naming her, sorry!

But you could say the same about names I like so it's just personal preference.

Go for it if you like it

@HelloFreedom love your other daughter's names.

Other saints names I think are nice and go are
Camila
Beatrice
Zoe
Celeste

Clemency is a beautiful name, it has a lovely meaning too and the child won't be haunted by 'then I kissed her little sister etc'.The author Susan Hill has a dd with that name.

If you don't much like the '-teen' pronunciation, maybe best to steer away from names which are French or which have equivalent French names. (Like Clementine)
many English speakers would also pronounce these ending in '-teen'.

What about eg 'Valentine' which for most English people will be prn with '-tyne' on the end?

I like Beatrice and Beatrix. But DH does not. He is very fussy.

Maybe the solution is divorce, revert to maiden name. Hey presto! I can have Clementine!

Celeste also pretty. Clemency I love. But maybe too judicial!

And thanks Ginliness 😊

I wouldn't do the rhyming thing, it sounds silly. Also, Evangeline and Clementine are such a mouthful to say together.

I don't really like Clemmie either, too close to 'Phlegmy'. Sorry

Oh Hello I love Beatrix, but I'm a big fan of Beatrix Potter so maybe that's why.

Someone up thread mentioned Clementina which is beautiful too.

love Clementine, Clemency not so much

I think rhymes are fine if it's a pretty name but that might just be me! I'm in a public facing job and I hear quite a few.
If you like them OP there's also Caroline, Coraline, Columbine, (plus Celandine, eglantine, - but these are French or have French equivalents to the Anglicised prn version so it's maybe back to the -teen thing)

@HelloFreedom I feel your pain. We knew instantly with our son and daughter what their names would be. Expecting our second son now and have decided but it has been a headache 😞

Sure you will find something that you love.
Perhaps wait and see what she suits when she is born?

FWIW I think you're right not to go with Clementine with your last name. I think it would have been a hard name to live with!

I really think this website will interest you -
Britishbabynames.com
Have a look at the lists she's compiled. There are lists such as 'saintly and stylish', 'Funky clunky' etc etc

It's like the Wedding Singer film when Julia is planning on marrying a man with the surname Goolia.

Clementine is a gorgeous name though! Could you just call her Clemmie?

Don't know if this will work

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I think it's a lovely name and the rhyming surname is actually quite nice. Makes it easily memorable. I adore Clemmie as a nickname.

Love clementine
It was on our list for dd as was Evangeline.

Wouldn't worry about matching syllables dd's name has 3 syllables for her 1st and 2nd name and 2 in her surname.

Surely if Clementine rhymes with your surname, then Evangeline does too to a large extent? I love Clementine, and Clemmie Valentine or whatever your surname is would be ace.

Not Coraline!

(Clementine is lovely though)

Constance?

I'd go for Clemency too

Can have Clemmie, avoids the rhyming, avoids the teen or tyne ending problems.

I would say go with the name you really love. Otherwise you'll regret it. I absolutely love it. And she really can introduce herself as Clemmie / Minty when saying her whole name of it bothers her. (However as a back up I would offer Cecelia? Obsessed ever since reading / seeing Atonement.)

I would say go with the name you really love. Otherwise you'll regret it.

I agree.

French version could be Clémence which I rather like.