Blakely Rose

[cammylou]

Don’t be too harsh please. I have a very different taste to many of you on here... for example Elizabeth, Eleanor, Genevieve etc aren’t for me at all. If it’s horrendous please tell me, without the patronising comments.
Tia

I like it, agree with others that Briar Rose is another good option.

Isn't Briar Rose the name of a book and perhaps something else as well? It certainly rings a bell. Not many people will make the book connection but I'd double check it isn't anything too weird or uncomfortable. I'm sure there was a poster who wanted to call her daughter Lolita until she was informed of the literary connection... Then again Lolita is a much more infamous book 😂

Sleeping Beauty in the Disney film, no?

Kokeshi

Are you thinking of Briar Rose maybe?

No

Blakely sounds made up and too try hard.

Yes, previous posters suggested "Briar Rose" which is what I was referring to.

Aaaah, sorry missed that post!

Yes i think Briar Rose is the Disney princess!

If you like unusual B names, how about Biba?

Reads like something on a sign - 'Blakely Rose welcomes careful drivers'.

The thing about naming is that it's not actually about the person choosing the name. You may love it now, but will it carry your daughter through hopefully 80+ years? It's very of a certain current trend (surname-like/masculine-sounding names for girls) but may well not be durable.

If I met a child of that name, of course I would pass no comment whatsoever, but tbh I would be feeling rather sorry for her, that, with so many lovely girls' names to choose from, that was what she got.

Sorry but I hate it. I’m trying to be tactful but it’s the kind of name that for many people will immediately pigeon hole her as from a certain kind of class/background...wrong to be judgemental I know but ultimately people get an immediate impression from a name and that name gives a bad one. Put it this way, if she wants to be taken seriously in a professional job it will go against her. Similarly to something like Crystal...just not a classy name.

Blakely is hideous, not to mention desperately try hard.

If you have already asked people not to be too harsh in your original question it would suggest that you know the name is going to provoke some negative reactions. There are many wonderful unusual names out there - this isn't one of them. It's highly likely to embarrass your child at some point. Why would you want that to happen?

A gentle 'not keen' from me too. It's one of those names that no one will ever be confident they've got right ("is it Blake? Or Blake Lea? Or Blakeley?")

Sorry OP it's awful

And hasn't a Z list "celebrity" - the one who is always pictured in the daily mail looking like a beached whale one minute and then releasing a fitness DVD the next got a son called Blakely

Blakely is horrible. Hard to say, doesn't look like a name and autocorrect thinks it's a mistake.

There’s an Instagram influencer with twins Blakely and Tatum. Such ugly try hard names for girls.
Blake or Blair would be better. I love the name Blair.

Can I just also say, please not Paisley?! I imagine most people from Scotland and anyone over the age of 30 from NI would understand why .

One of the previous big brother women has a son called Blakely

Sorry I think it’s awful

Can I just also say, please not Paisley?!

For similar reasons, not Blair!

sum.

But, for some reason, Cameron is a perfectly lovely name 🤔! Even though I'm not a fan of DC.

Ha, that's true! I suppose it's because it's always been a more common name than Paisley or Blair perhaps. I don't suppose anyone will be calling their DC Farage anytime soon though.

Trump and Johnson don't sound good either...

One is slang for flatulence in the UK and the other is slang for penis in the US. Can't be coincidence... just saying...

It's like 'On the Buses'

Blakely sounds too much like bakery and Berkely for it to sound like a legitimate name for me.

How about;

Marnie Rose
Kailyn Rose
Tinsley Rose
Mackenna Rose
Courtney Rose
Alyssa Rose
Brianna Rose?