Have you ever known a 'Hebe'

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Very unusual but I think it's pretty.

Lots of Mumsnetters do!
@HebeMumsnet (sorry, bet she gets this every time the name is mentioned)

I know one through work; she’s in her 20s. I think it’s pretty too.

Yes, she's in her early 30s now. I didn't know it was a plant so thought it came from heebie jeebies if I'm honest . It's grown on me as a name but maybe because she's a lovely person and the only person I've known with the name iyswim.

@ManlyMenAreWe beat me to it!

One at Oxford. Now in her 40s, astonishingly pretty, willowy classicist. Last time I saw her was in a newspaper, and she was holding up some jewel-encrusted tiara at auction — poss a deceased royal’s stash?

I think it would be a rather harder name to carry off if you were a square-set, ruddy, five foot three.

How is it pronounced? Is it Hee-bee? Reminds me of the word hebejebes - when something freaks you out.

Main character in a story called The Games Board Map

That’s the other problem. For some people Hebe is the goddess of youth and cupbearer to the Olympus gods, or a shrub, but for others, as this thread demonstrates, it recalls only the heebie -jeebies.

And that kind of person will inevitably say ‘Like the heebie-jeebies?’ as if it’s a brilliant and original insight.

It's a lovely name. Reminds me of Friends. 'P as in Phoebe, H as in Hebe, O as in Obie...'

Yes one. She’d probably be 18 now. Her father was insufferably smug and thought him and his wife were some sort of intellectual geniuses for choosing the name

Pretty name though, he just put me off it.

No, and it makes me feel a bit uneasy as it makes me think of "Heeb" - an anti Semitic slur.

I taught one about 4 years ago. I thought it was quite odd but then my dc2 has an unusual name so who am I to judge.

Yes I know a two year old Hebe 😊

I met one years ago and have love the name ever since. Love the plant too!

If you call her that you will have to send her to private school with the Tarquins and Clovises otherwise she will be teased!

She won't be bloody teased fgs.

It's a lovely name Op.

how is it pronounced?

All Hebes are marvellous and charming, therefore it is a great name.

I was at uni with one, fab woman.

@HebeMumsnet, this is where you admit to being a willowy former classicist. Or that you spent your schooldays hiding in the loos and pretending to be called Emma.

Yes one of my daughter's friends. She a Uni student and a part-time model. Also a bit of a party animal. But then so is DD.

I know two - one British and one Chinese. They’re totally different in every way - looks, personality, etc - but it suits them both!

Yep, I know one in her twenties. Always makes me think ‘Heebie jeebies’.