Ianthe, Cicely, Apolline, Paloma, Salome...

[Messalena]

Thoughts please on these names for a girl?

Thank you! Jogs Love your daughter’s name, gorgeous! Does she get mistaken for a Cecily?

Salome is unpopular, then... I think Apolline might be my fave (Polly!)

How would everyone say Ianthe?

Sorry for all the questions!

Eye-anth-ey

Apart from anything else a Salome will be called salami.

Cecile is lovely.

“I think Iseult is a bit pedestrian these days”

Only on Mumsnet would a name currently 4068th in the popularity tables and used 11 times since 2010 be pedestrian

Paloma is the nicest. I wore Paloma Picasso perfume throughout the 90s!

I read on here that the "ine" ending on names is considered very classy in France.

Oh i love Polly as nn for Apolline

I like Ianthe. My dd was nearly Xanthe and I always regret not using it

Only on Mumsnet would a name currently 4068th in the popularity tables and used 11 times since 2010 be pedestrian

Maybe it's where I am, but I know a couple of kids named Iseult. They all turn into Izzy too, which there are definitely a million of!

I massively regret not using cicely it's beautiful!!

Apolline just sounds like Pauline with a funny accent...

Love Cicely/Cecily

❤️ Apolline (Polly). Paloma is lovely, and I like Ianthe.
Dislike Cecily/Cicely, but like Cecelia (CeCe). Not Salome.

I LOVE Paloma. I considered it and then someone told me it can be translated as "pigeon" and it put me off since, but I still think its beautiful.

I love Cicely but I'd go for sp Cecilie.

Salome has been struck off.

I like Isolde but am put off by Izzy (I know tons of them)

I also quite like Antigone (Tiggy) but I’m thinking it’s most likely too too much... thoughts?

Would you really want to name your child after Antigone?

Well Antigone was very brave and a role model! Although she had a horrible end. Exactly like many saints who children have been named after for hundreds of years. Like St Catherine of Alexandria who was tortured to death on a wheel or something horrible like that.

I do think Izzy is a massive downside to Iseult, it’s one of the reasons I decided against not it.

I like Cicely but prefer Cecily. Apolline is also very pretty!

I prefer Cecily to Cicely. Palominos gorgeous too.

it sounds like the cast list to a play about some upper class people down on their luck living in a crumbling stately home and eating beans on toast off the Crown Derby whilst coming up with wheezes to get some cash in. Like Topaz in I Capture the Castle.

Ha ha Iseult, pedestrian! Brilliant!

I would pronounced Ianthe as Eye-annth-ee.

Wtf have I stumbled into a middle class alternate universe. All of these names are horrid

What kind of names do you like Dwangela?

Dwangela, what is horrid about them ?

I think they're beautiful and interesting names.

I don't think they're horrid but they really do sound almost comedically uber-middle-class in a liberal lefty way. I'm sure they are secondaries in Islington and Notting Hill packed to the gills with girls with these kinds of names, all dropping their Hs and listening to grime.

By themselves they're fine, not to my taste but fine, but being hit with a whole swathe like that . . .

Ianthe is nice, not a fan of the others. I just don't find them to be nice sounding. Appolline would be my second choice.

I love Antigone though!