'Serpent' - Do name meanings matter?

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I have fallen in love with a name, but the meaning of it isn't great... it
means 'serpent' .

What do people think about choosing a baby name which doesn't mean something wonderful, glorious, and perfect etc!?

Does anyone in life really actually care what your name means?

Or would I be jinxing them from birth?!

Name meanings definitely do matter!

I once came across someone who called her daughter, "Antimony", not realising that one of the meanings is 'poison'.
Then of course there's 'Jade'.

What word were you going to use? Ophidia? Please don't, your child is no reptile.

Name meanings definitely do matter

I once met a Candida

Orange was she British out of curiosity?

These name and meanings threads sometimes are full of ignorance when it comes to real,accepted,used "forrin" names.

It means white,pure,innocent. It's common in latin derived speaking countries.

My name means 'horse serpent' but is beautiful and it's never been a problem. To be fair, it sounds as though it means something else and most people probably assume it does. But honestly, no one else is googling the meanings of your children's names.

I once came across someone who called her daughter, "Antimony", not realising that one of the meanings is 'poison'. Then of course there's 'Jade'.

I think there's a difference between using an English word with a negative meaning as a name, and using a name which is derived from a word which has a negative meaning in a dead language such as Anglo-Saxon or Latin or whatever.

My DD’s name means ‘bitter’. She’s the sweetest girl. Of course it’s a load of rubbish

Tanith means snake?? I know a few Taniths myself - had no idea!

Names and there actual meanings/origins ARE important, regardless of what we think. I seem to remember years ago a woman who named her sprog 'chlamydia', because she liked the sound of it..

The serpent name is Linda, or anything including -lind

The horse-serpent one is not widely known to have that meaning. People are more likely to think it's a flowery name

I was at school with a Candida, who is English.

It was a perfectly normal name in Britain, though became considerably less common after about the 1970s

I also know a Fanny who is about my age - but her full name is Frances and she chose her nn completely on purpose

I think it makes a difference whether the meaning is obvious to everybody with half a brain (Chlamydia) or whether it is more obscure than that.

Belinda? Drake? Rosalind?

Names and there actual meanings/origins ARE important, regardless of what we think. I seem to remember years ago a woman who named her sprog 'chlamydia', because she liked the sound of it
That’s nothing like what the OP’s suggestion is. She’s not actually naming her kid Serpent. Just a name that supposedly means Serpent.

Nagini

Also if it’s Rosalind or Drake I like both so crack on

Of course a word that is actually the name of an STI is different from a common name which has an obscure meaning. My middle name, Mary, means "bitter", as do all the variations in different countries, but it doesn't stop it from being a hugely popular name nonetheless. People are thinking of Jesus' mum, not bitterness!

A relative of mine chose a name meaning devil in another language, she was advised not to be she didn't listen

A name we like means ‘foreigner’ ... and we are both British.
It doesn’t mean anything to us... I don’t think people really read into them as much as you would think.

Meh, wouldn't bother me. We're going for Claudia which means "lame" in Latin. Even though I did Latin at school for four years I only knew of the origin because any time it was mentioned on a baby name thread here someone would say "means lame, no thanks".

Meanings also don't seem to have worried all the parents that called their baby girl Amelia- that was really popular for a while.

A relative of mine chose a name meaning devil in another language, she was advised not to be she didn't listen

And? What happened?

Did the kill their pet goat and open a portal to the underworld?

I assume it might be Ophelia. It’s not a name I like - but because of the Shakespeare character, not its meaning. As pp said, names like Mary, Claudia and Cecily are common names, despite their meaning.

Linda means lovely or pretty in Spanish, so if depends what language you are talking about.

StockTakeFucks I assume one of those black dogs with orange eyebrows turned up and their nanny died in mysterious circumstances.

English is however a Germanic language, and the actual roots of the older -lind names and how they came to be used in Albion are definitely scaley!