Put me off this name!

[Pleasedontdrawonyoursister]

Imminently due with baby 3, which we think is a girl (didn’t ask at scan, but I saw the lines and certainly no other bits floating around down there!). I love the name Honey, which I wasn’t brave enough to use the last 2 times but this time round I just can’t think of anything else I want to use. My OH is not keen at all, but he hasn’t put forward any suggestions. Help!

I cannot imagine an adult called Honey. Call her something else officially, and use Honey as a nickname?

I teach one who is anything but sweet.

It doesn't go with your other names either.

Isn't one of Jamie Oliver's children called Honey? This would in itself be enough to deter any sane person. Your other girls' names are lovely, though.

Honeybis a nice name, not sure I would want to be called it though. I love the name Bonnie, Minnie is nice too

Don't do it hun

Should add that I wanted to call our third Boodle. This was equally insane. We gave her a proper (albeit uncommon) name, and I am not sorry.

No, don't call her Honey. Really don't. How about Melissa? Or Dulcie (which I think means sweet) - although three names with -ie sounds at the end, presuming that's how you pronounce Esme, may be a bit much.

Imagine condemning someone to a lifetime of Hun?

I think the Oliver DD is Poppy Honey.

It's not too bad as a mn.

How would you feel as an adult introducing yourself in a professional situation as Honey?

Is Honey a name? Without wishing to upset anyone who is actually named Honey, it make me think of Darling in Blackadder.

ie it sounds like a term of endearment.

Male boss to female member of staff "(any sentence at all), Honey"

The thing with Honey is that it sounds like a pets name. It is super cutesy. Remember this is a name you are giving to a person, she has to live with this. The name Honey doesn't conjure up a strong person, but a cutesy little girl. She'll get comments about her name, and some people would probably not take her seriously because of it.
Honey is cute, but as a nickname or even middle name. Don't use it for a first name just because it's a guilty pleasure for you.

I'll put you off it. I hate it as a given name. It's as if you ar epigeon holing a daughter to be 'sweet'. As though that's the highest aspiration you have for her. And it's a general term of endearment, so it will never feel like a name in its own right. Would you call a boy Sweetheart or Babe or Darling? If you'd give him a name with more inbuilt respect, give that to your daughter too.
It's a pretty word but it's a pet name.

Put me off this name! Challenge accepted :-)

Honey- It's not 'a bit stripper' it is very, very stripper. Every single person who meets your daughter is going to have a horrible preconception about what she is like. She will grow to fucking hate you.

Marnie- Worse, much worse. Some people will politely pretend that Honey is a reasonable name. No-one will do that with Marnie. Marnie will grow up too emotionally crippled to hate you- she'll be grateful you talk to her. Unless you are naming a dog, in which case it's fine.

Esme- Oh FFS. Go with Honey.

I've spent a decent percentage of my adult professional life gently dissuading my fellow male professionals from referring to me as "honey" or other similar put downs. How I would have done that if Honey, Love, Petal or worse were actually my name is beyond me. Seriously, just don't.

I may have interpreted OP’s precious post wrong, but I think Esme and Marnie are the names of her other two dc, so we might be a bit late with the critiques

Errmm -- Honey Boo Boo? kid from U.S. reality show .
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Honey_Boo_Boo

donquixote Esme and Marnie are the baby’s living, actual sisters. Actual people.

I also had a hamster called Honey. She bit me, my find swelled up, I fell down the stairs going to show my mum, and it’s been a bit bent ever since. 35 years ago! She was horrible that Honey.

Agh. Cross post.

I just can't get past the way Billy Mitchell
pronounces it "Unny.

Esme and Marnie are cute. Save Honey for a pet and give your DD3 a non-edible name. Hollie? Hebe? Heidi?

donqui Esme and Marnie are OP's children. Both are already named. I'm not mad keen on the names but they are names and they are acceptable.
The new welsh name Cariad makes me want to vomit. It is hideous. The word has lots of meanings (girlfriend/boyfriend/love/sweetheart/darling/charity) none suitable as a first name. OK Charity is a known first name, but Charity doesn't have lots of meanings. With a surname that could be a man's name e.g. Martin, Cariad Martin looks like Martin's Girlfriend.

Anyone who remembers the 1970s will think "Tell them about the honey, Mummy".

Sweet as a child’s name. Imagine going for a job interview though.

Melissa is surely due a revival and means Honey in the original Greek tales.