Ok, is this my hormones talking?

[PassportBridgetPants]

It occurs to me that Conifer sounds quite pretty for a girl. Nn Connie. Am I mad? I mean, Rowan is a name and that's a tree. And Jennifer sounds similar.

But Conifer isn't equal in unsuitability to Stinkweed
Connie vs Stinky
You can't really compare

I’d just use Connie. I’m not sure Conifer works as a name.

Although I suppose Hazel, Holly, Rowan are used. And I know a boy called Bay.

FWIW - I liked ‘Gethsemane’ as a name. But I didn’t actually inflict it on DD.

Lots of words sound like they'd make good girls' names like Chlamydia and Areola but seriously, the actual problem with the name is that conifers are the hedges that neighbours have wars over and everybody hates.

If you like Connie which has a sensible long version already, there's absolutely no need to saddle the poor girl with a made up comedy name.

Ok Polly but Conifer means “cone bearing” from conus and ferre. It’s not a really great meaning.

The Rowan means “to redden” (as in the berries) and Rowan trees have all sorts of great mythology surrounding them particularly for the Scots.

I know Pine trees have interest mythology too but a majestic Scots pine isn’t really what's brought to mind by Conifer (even if they are the same family).

Conifer - as in plantation?

They're not native to the UK, are grown mostly as a commercial crop, because they're so fast growing, and acidify the soil.

There are very few native British evergreens. Two of them offer better naming possibilities for a child:

Juniper
Yew
Scots Pine
Box
Holly

At a push, Connie could be short for Cornelia. Or how about Callie or Cassie?

I suspect “Box” may be rather problematic as a potential name choice lottie...

Well maybe. Though I quite like Yew; 'Hey, Yew! Yes you, I mean you Yew!'

Quite.

Yew is also possibly a little close to “Eeuww” so probably best avoided.

yep, it's hormones. Conifer is not a human's name.

Constance is a lovely name, I think.

Conifer? Conifer?

It's your hormones, definitely.

Connie short for Constance is gorgeous.

Connie is lovely. Conifer is not.

I would name my next girl constance as i love that. Conifer? No.

I love it!

But then I wanted to call dd Anemone. MN talked me out of it

Damn. Thought I'd maybe come up with something genius there. Still not sure it's objectively bad though...? Maybe the world just isn't ready for it

she'd get the p taken out of her at school...as an aside, I knew someone whose friend had a child called box

Conifer?

Is it even a word?

Just call the baby privet

I love it.

I liked Meg but my husband didn't like Megan so suggested Nutmeg.

OP, I definitely don't think it's the worst name suggestion I've ever heard on Mumsnet. I think it's a nice sounding name, as a sort of mashup between Constance and Jennifer. However, the wider connotations are less good. Yes, conifers are trees. They aren't always the prettiest trees and they also aren't specific kinds of trees. It's a bit generic. Like calling a child 'Bird' rather than 'Robin'.

The more I think about it the more I like it. Conifers are not all Leylandii hedges. Think about the beauty of the cedars of Lebanon, the giant redwoods of North America, the pine forests of Scandinavia, the Italian Cypress groves of Tuscany...

Agree with whoever mentioned Juniper above. Lovely name. And actually a name for a person.

Yeees, MadMary but in the UK they are overwhelmingly 'forestry plantation'.

Oh yes and, I just have to throw in, that Box was of course Pandora's nickname in the Adrian Mole books!

Still not sure it's objectively bad though...?
It's not objectively horrible, I agree. It's not my cup of tea but there is certainly worse.

Cornel nn Connie (like the cherries) might work?

Coral / Coralie nn Corrie?