Baby girl Lourdes?

[Wakeupcall2018]

What is your opinion on the name Lourdes? I also like the name Ophelia. What other names may I like?

Other names like it: Ariane, Noelia, Luz, Lorena, Lucila.

I really like Lourdes, though I do think either Catholic or Madonna. So strong and distinctive, though.

How about:

Ines/Inez
Carmen
Fearne
Anais
Briseis
Thais
Rosario
Eloise/Eloisa
Honor
Vivien
Paloma
Arden
Arliss
Maren
Sabine

I really like Lourdes. I prefer the 'Lord-ez' pronunciation, as I have only known one person with this name in RL and thats how she pronounced it. I thought it was beautiful.

Ophelia I think has far worse connotations than Madonna, yet seems to be fairly popular. If you're going to name your child after a Shakespeare character, don't name her after one of the most pathetic (is my opinion!).

I sort of see it as cultural misappropriation unless you're proper Catholic.

Another generation, another time, I know but my aunt (b. 1931...)- mum's sister, called her eldest a very similarly Catholic name in honour of her favourite nun at the school. She, her DD, is now 60. Mum's family weren't Catholic at all but the girls were sent to a convent school anyway. But the issues my cousin had when she had a relationship with a NI Protestant, about 10 years ago- His family couldn't accept that she wasn't Catholic with a name like that........

It'll always be Lourdes, rhymes with floors.

It’s a famous town in France and pronounced Loo-ord (hard to reproduce exactly).

If you were South American you could argue for the Spanish pronunciation.

In the U.K. you’re either stuck with the original French or the British mispronunciation as in Lords the cricket ground.

The Gerrard's ( Steven and Alex ) of football world have a dd called Lourdes.

I wonder how it's pronounced properly...

I expect everyone knows this, but just in case not, Lourdes (and also names such as Dolores, Consuelo etc ) are all short versions of longer names beginning with 'Maria' (ie the Virgin Mary). So
Lourdes = Mary of Lourdes (the town where a young girl was said to have had visions of the Virgin Mary in a grotto)
Dolores = Mary of the Sorrows
Consuelo = Mary of Consolation

and so on, through Luz, Milagros, Paz, Pilar, Rosario etc etc etc
It does seem a little strange to use so very religious a name if you do not follow that religion, but each to their own, I suppose.