Thoughts on Quinn

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Do you like the name Quinn for a girl?

Quinn Anne

I only know boys called Quinn. It sounds strong and masculine like Finn or Flynn, definitely not feminine imo!

So yes for a boy!

I really like Quinn.

Joan Didion’s daughter was called Quintana after the island Quintana Roo.

Quinn Anne sounds like a joke version of Queen Anne tho, so I’d go for a different second name.

It’s def a unisex name.

Agree with everyone else. I like Quinn and I like Anne but not together.

How about:
Quinn Amelia
Quinn Alexis
Quinn Alyssa
Quinn Ariadne
Taryn Anne
Jasmine Anne
Fallon Anne
Marin Anne

I really like Quinn. DS goes to nursery with a gorgeous little boy called Quinn and it really suits him.

Quinn Anne doesn't work at all.

But Quinn is a lovely name. It needs a longer middle name:
Quinn Elizabeth
Quinn Alexandra
Quinn Amelia
Quinn Genevieve
Quinn Emmeline
Quinn Arabella
Quinn Josephine
Quinn Lillian
Quinn Evangaline
Quinn Juliet
Quinn Leonora
Quinn Madeleine
Quinn Seraphina
Quinn Tabitha

Something like that.

I don't usually say "they'll get teased" but there is a real risk a girl named this would be referred to as Quim.

We were going to call our son Quinn. Never occurred to us to use it for a girl.

Being halfway through homeland I like the name Quinn but not sure if I like it for a girl!

I had to google quim as I'd never heard of it! So not sure it'd be a problem in the playground but perhaps not the best as an adult. I'd think it was a male and don't think it goes with Anne and Annie is worse! I automatically thought banana 😳

It also made me immediately think of quim and I watched Glee and Homeland.

Honestly you can't call your child something that at a glance looks like the word quim

Quinn is lovely, someone I know has a baby Quinn

I’m a bit on the fence with Quinn. After Glee I definitely think of it as a girl’s name not a boy’s as some posters have suggested. I do quite like it on it’s own but I think it sounds awful with practically every middle name as it sounds like Queen {insert middle name here}; Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth etc.

I like Quinn but as others have said it reminds me of quim. A big problem with that being it was in one of the Marvel avengers movies recently so a lot more people have heard the word and know it's meaning.

Quinn is awful, sorry. I don't much like surnames used as first names, but particularly not for girls.

And of course it doesn't go with Anne, surely that's obvious.

Sorry, not keen at all. Quinn just sounds like such a blah name imo, and the fact that it looks like quim at first glance... a no go.

How about using Quinn as a middle name? I think that there would be too many 'n's to have Anna Quinn, but if you had a second mn such as Anna Jo Quinn or Anna Elizabeth Quinn, it would sound lovely.

Another no vote I'm afraid.

There is a trend on mumsnet recently of the most commonly-used Irish surnames morphing into first names, seemingly randomly assigned to boys and girls - Quinn, Reilly, Rafferty, Rooney, Brady, Duffy, Kennedy, even Murphy and Murray, all of them ten-a-penny family names in any Irish town. I can't for the life of me fathom where it has come from, and it sounds really odd to me. But I guess what is exotic and unusual for me is boring and everyday to someone else.

I do like that it's a strong sound, with none of the frilliness you get with lots of fashionable girls names right now. But I just know it far too well as a surname to make it work. Plus I'd hate to have Q as initial, for no logical reason.

Ok thank you mumsnet

Quinn = Quim

Is enough to put me off

I have a Quentin so quin gets the thumbs up from me.

I like it. I know one.
It is short for Harlequin.

DS has a friend at Nursery called Quinn, I've always thought it's a lovely name and really suits her.

Quinn written looks far too like Quim for me ever to find it useable.

But I definitely see it as a boys name (my Homeland crush is shared by others on this thread!) and in general I think surname names only really work on boys.

I hate it

Come on folks, get with the programme - Starlord is Peter Quill, not Quinn!

Quinn is great, and why not stick Anne with it? All this angst about the flow of middle names, when no one uses them on a day to day basis, and when you do it’s to help someone fill in a form, so it’s not like you elide the names anyway. As for the quim thing, meh, so what? Shall we stop calling people William because they might get called Willy?

Sorry, not keen.