Nina - negative reaction

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We called our daughter Nina. Most people reacted very positively. However my brother sent a text saying “the other kids have lovely, classic names. Why name this one after an emergency service siren?”

He has shaken our love for the name.

What do others think of Nina?

Nina Simone! Great connotations if you ask me.

1. it’s a lovely name - go for it
2. as PPs said your brother is being a typical brother and messing with your head
3. I would do the exact same and mess with my siblings head regardless of which name they picked - that’s what keeps life interesting 😂

My aunts name.
I find it both classy and beautiful without being in the top 100 list.

I love the name Nina! It's a timeless classic.

Love it.

Your brother is an immature idiot.

Very pretty.
There isn't a name that exists that everyone agrees on. All that matters is your opinion.

Love it. It was on my list too.

It’s such a pretty name! If I had to change my own name, Nina is definitely on my list.

Your brother is just making a childish and mildly amusing joke.
Nina is a great name. I really love it.

I think it's a lovely name. But I also would have laughed at that message. You know him - was he just joking?

LOVE Nina.

I wouldn’t choose it personally but your brother was completely out of order. Unless meant as a joke. Which case, still out of order...

Nina is a lovely name.

I don't think of emergency vehicles because Nina has a short a sound and isn't pronounced Nee-Naaah.

Your brother is just misjudging / overstepping the sibling banter line - has he got kids?

I agree with him. With a London accent it comes out Neenarr

I know he meant it as a joke but when your hormones are going crazy it’s sometimes hard to find humour in a joke at the expense of the first decision you make that will help shape and define your new human!

I will try and lighten up :-)

He’s rude. Nina is a lovely name. I had a friend called this growing up and none of us thought it was unusual or out there at all 🤷‍♀️ I think of it as less common but beautiful, which is a good thing!

I didn’t even make the connection to a siren until I read the posts above me! I thought you’d made a typo for emergency c section

I think you brother just wanted to get his play on words out there. Nina is lovely.

Change your brother, keep the name it’s beautiful.

Love it op!

I only think of ambulances in connection with Nina when I hear the newsreader Nina Nannar's name. I will admit I think it every time though.

It also reminds me of the start of Wigfield's Saturday Night song

Hopes Nina Nannar isn't a mumsnetter. If so, sorry!

Lovely name though OP, congratulations!

Funnily enough Nina was my top choice for a DD until my MOTHER made the same "joke", OP! Still trying to claw back my love for it now... it really can get to you. We must ignore the haters! It's a fantastic name.