Clementine?

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Is clementine a good name? i love it but am worried others will consider it weird im naming a kid after fruit. I also like the idea of minerva (minnie for short). What are your opinions on these names? any suggestions accepted too

Love it. Song never mentioned it’s hardly a current track is it?! Think I sang it once at guides in 1984. If you reject names on grounds like that you will never find one!

Lovely name. I hadn't connected it to the song until others mentioned it.

If you reject names on grounds like that you will never find one!

We managed it.

“We managed it” you sound rather humourless just a light hearted remark most names even the most innocuous can be linked to something silly/funny/unpleasant

It's a gorgeous name. It has character, class and charm. Love it!

Clementine is too fruity for me. Minerva isn't pretty and looks like the name of a trading estate or something.

Sorry @MsTSwift

We managed it!

Better?

Clementine: the 2001s called & they want their name back

Minerva:ok!

Love Minerva.

Don’t like other eyen or even endings of Clementine, prefer Clemency.

een not even ^^

I quite like both. I do like Clementine - it's pretty but strong at the same time - but I might be concerned that it's a style of name (Victorian/Edwardian florid) that is already perhaps on the wane and might seem a little fussy in a time of simpler names. Minerva is more left field but I like that as well.

A lifetime of people humming "Oh my darling, Oh my darling, Oh my darling Clemintine ..." Nope. Don't do it!

I don't think a child will thank you for Minerva/Minnie either.

Sorry.

I LOVE Clementine, would definitely have chosen it for this baby but having another boy! It’s just gorgeous. Really really dislike Minerva, sorry! To me it’s a drug or sea witch...

Clementine is such a pretty AND unusual name, in that you don't hear it very often. If I was ever having another child id consider it. Very pretty. Minerva......just no, no, no . Sorry but it sounds like a car/ people carrier or a contraceptive. If you like the nickname Minnie, why not just use Minnie? Or if you only want a nickname what about using Miriam and then using the nickname Minnie?

No one has sung that song to us you need to be clear whether you pronounce “teen” or “ine”. We love it more each day was our only name was reading book about winston Churchill when pregnant so kept reading that name over an over again and loved the look of it

Parent of an older teen Clementine (pronounced the English way 'teen like Churchill, not the American way 'tine) and nobody has ever, ever sang the song to her. I doubt she'd be able to sing it herself.

Clementine Churchill was a strong, highly capable and intelligent woman with passion and compassion. I couldn't think of a better namesake.

She was known as Clemmie too.