Astrid

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Thoughts on this name? DH not a fan but I LOVE it! It sounds strong and feminine. I like the Scandinavian connection to. Interested to hear other thoughts on the name, and if you know any Astrid’s, what her siblings are called?

DH annoyingly thinks the name sounds like ‘asteroid’

It's a lovely name

I think it's unique and a good choice for a name. Very uncommon but rarely beautiful if ever there is such a word. Don't mind your dh as he'll get use to it eventually. :)

Gorgeous! I love names that aren’t too common but aren’t too “out there”

I do like it, but I can’t help hearing Ass-turd when I say it out loud. I know an adult Astrid though and she’s a nice woman. Don’t think of her as an ass-turd!

Beautiful. One of my very favourite names. I've met a few Astrids and they've all been pretty cool.

Astrid is a nice, strong-sounding girl's name. I know of two Astrids. One is English and has a sister called Eva, and the other is Danish and has a brother called Frederik.

I love it. We liked it for DD but it doesn’t work with our surname.

I like it too. It’s strong-sounding, not twee and frilly and I’m guessing, if it’s important, not widely used.

Not for me. Too harsh.

I love it. It was on my list but DH vetoed it.

I see I was beaten to the Ass Turd reference from The Office!

I loved it but that did put me off!

It's lovely but shooting up the charts at the moment if that would bother you.

I'm afraid I don't like it. There was a girl locally called Astrid. I once heard her being called by her father - "Ass! Come here, Ass". It sounded awful.

I have a similar "harsh" sounding Germanic name (recommended by others on this thread) and I always wanted to have a more beautiful name. So I'm a bit biased.