Cersei

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I have genuinely come across a 3 year (ish) little girl called Cersei today.

Am I correct that the name was founded for Game Of Thrones and didn't exist in its own right beforehand? If I'm incorrect and it has a beautiful meaning I'll get off my soap box.

Cersei Lanister even in the first series of Game Of Thrones was bonking her brother and an all round nasty, murderous piece of work.

The name itself has a nice ring to it I suppose (Sur-cee for those not familiar with the show) but the connotations are terrible. Very dating also.

Thoughts?

@daisypond I have a friend who gave her daughter the middle name Thea. I asked her the meaning and she had no idea... is it not common to choose a name but be aware of its meaning?!

Ok so totally going against the grain here. Big GOT fan here, and Cersei was one of my favourite characters, Lena Headey played that character so well. One of the best ‘badies’ I’ve seen. I actually like the name Cersei but I suppose I wouldn’t consider for a name as the character did some very questionable things. Incest anyone? I think if I wanted to pay homage so to speak I would consider Lena as a name maybe? (Hides under a table )

Circe is a fine classical name

Cersei is not

I know a Circe who is about 10 years old. That name is lovely - read the book by Madeleine Miller, it's great.

I have to say that only having read the books, i assumed Cersei had a hard C (something like Kur-Sey in my head). I’d only hear Circe for the other pronunciation, and as pp said that is not wildly better pronunciation. There are way better bonkers ancient greek sorceresses to choose from.

Where does anyone get the right to bash another’s choice of name? Who gave you the authority to be such a bitch about it??? Every ‘name’ starts out somewhere, so get down off your judgemental little ponies!

@Sessy19 where has the OP bashed the name or been ‘a bitch’?

You sound rather unpleasant and judgemental yourself