Which name is your favourite from my list?

[Aboyce]

So we've decided on a few names, which one do you prefer?

Hallie Evelyn
Remi Evelyn

Darcie Evelyn

Maisie Evelyn

Remi is a well-known boys name in France. It's a short form of a very old male name that means 'oarsman'; not just anyone who rows a boat, but a man who is a rower.

That’s Rémy with a y.

The Remi were the early Belgians in Roman times.

I don’t like it anyway, but that’s the genesis.

No it isn't. Not exclusively.
The Latin word on which the name is based is Remigius = Oarsman. It's later than the name of the possible Blegic tribe.

Yes, there was a Belgic tribe called the 'Remi' in the Roman sources. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi]] It would have been one of many - not the Belgians as you suggest - who the Romans named in their texts. But - alas - for most of the Roman-conquest era, when we come to European tribal peoples, we have only the Roman versions of their names. Those names were spelled in surviving documents according to Roman language principles. We know very little about them from their own sources.

What we do know for sure is that when it comes to naming practices, throughout Europe for the past almost 2000 years these have - like it or not - been guided by the Latinate linguistic principles of the Catholic Church.
For what we know of the Catholic St Remi or Remy - who has influenced over 1000 years of lEuropean naming practices - see here: www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Remigius-of-Reims

Remi Evelyn flows better with the name Evelyn and I love remi ... however Maisie is my favourite name on the list but I personally wouldn't put it with the middle name evelyn xx

Hallie

I like Evelyn but am not as keen on your first names and to my aged ears they feel as if they have a very different style. This doesn't matter if you are choosing Evelyn to commemorate someone rather than just picking it because you like it.
Your first names are sweet for little girls but all look a bit unfinished and sound like nicknames for young children. Purely personal taste, sorry .

Hallie

None...sorry (only my opinion of course)😔

Great, a history lecture via wiki.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove, but you really think I’m going to go into the exact details of Belgae tribes on a baby name forum??

The Belgae is the Roman name for the group of Belgic tribes which includes the Remi.

Darcie

Off your list Hallie is really nice. it's different and to me it's a more strong, rounded, fuller name than the others on the list. I've not heard of and Hallies before, yet it doesn't sound pretentious, common or made-up.

Darcie & Hallie look like spelling mistakes.

Remi is a French men’s name.

By elimination, therefore; Maisie.

Hallie

Darcie.

Or go with Evelyn as a first name.

Evelyn Darcie sounds lovely.

Remi then Darcie. Is Darcy just for boys? I prefer the latter spelling but it could be a P&P thing...

I was not the first to make an historical reference in this thread.
I wasn't trying to 'prove' anything.
Nor was I disagreeing with the fact that there were many tribes in the Belgae confederation, including the Remi.

What I WAS suggesting is that the Remi tribe was not the usually-accepted origin of the personal name Remi /Remigio/ Remy - see The Oxford Dictionary of First Names www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780198610601.001.0001/acref-9780198610601-e-4286?rskey=kWImqE&result=6047

The two words sound the same, but have different origins. (There are quite a few names like that - it would be interesting to make a list.)

For the past 1400 years or so, in Europe, the Church and Christian beliefs have had a very strong influence on naming practices. (I'm not saying that's good or bad; it's a fact. The influence has of course decreased dramatically in the past 100 years.) So people naming their son Remi/Remigio/ Remy would have associated the name with St Remigius (whose name came from the Latin word for oarsman and whose statue was in quite a few churches). Unless they were scholars, they would not even have known about the Belgae tribe.

Today it is very different. We all know so much more. It would, as you suggest, be perfectly possibly for someone to name a child 'Remi' and say 'oh, we named him after one of the Belgae tribes who fought against Julius Caesar. Yes, it sounds just like the traditional French name, but it has a totally different meaning.'

That's all I was trying to say. I wasn't being critical.

Liking the love for Hallie on here, it's our first choice of name for DD :) We're going with Hallie Joy :)

1. Maisie
2. Darcie
3. Hallie
4. Remi